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Program Overview for Potential Participants
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Please Support AFPF Today!
Since Alfred and Jean Friendly began this program in 1983, the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships has provided developing world journalists the opportunity to work as reporters at American newspapers for five months. In the last five years we have refined the program for increased journalistic and cross-cultural impact by expanding the enrichment activities we offer to our foreign Fellows, creating partnerships, hosting forums, sending American journalists overseas to conduct training and requiring the Fellows to conduct journalism seminars upon returning home. Click here to learn more about our current work. Through the years AFPF has received generous financial support from individuals, businesses, host and sending newsrooms, and foundations. We invite you to make a U.S. tax-deductible donation that will support our work. Donations made between August 8, 2007 and August 7, 2008 will be matched 100 percent by the Challenge Fund for Journalism – a consortium of the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, Ford Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and McCormick-Tribune Foundation. Learn more about the Challenge Fund for Journalism by clicking here. Here’s how we might use your gift:
Every gift matters and every giver makes a positive difference. Please make a donation today! There are several ways to lend your support: Donations from the United States
1. Check in U.S. Dollars. AFPF receives every penny when you send a check in U.S. Dollars, made out to the Alfred Friendly Foundation, to our new office at: 1100 Connecticut Ave., NW
3. Network for Good. Make a credit card donation through Network For Good. Please note that in order to donate through Network for Good, your billing address must be in the United States. Network For Good keeps 3-4% of the donation as their fee.
Donations from outside the United States
1. Check in U.S. Dollars. AFPF receives every penny when you send a check in U.S. Dollars, made out to the Alfred Friendly Foundation, to our new office at: 1100 Connecticut Ave., NW
3. Send AFPF your credit card details and authorization. We will manually enter them into Click and Pledge which keeps 4.75% of the donation as their fee. 4. Wire Transfer. Please contact AFPF Executive Director Susan Albrecht at salbrecht(at)pressfellowships.org for the bank details. Other Ways to Contribute to AFPF
1. Web Design Help. We want to undertake a re-design of our site. Help with conceptualization to final product would be great.
2. Laptop computers. We are looking for laptop computers for our Fellows to use while in the United States. Additional laptops will be sent home with the Fellows for use in their newsrooms in developing countries.
3. Digital cameras, digital recorders, cell phones. For use by Fellows when they are in the United States. Digital equipment will be donated to the Fellows’ home newsrooms. Cell phones will be reused the next year by additional Fellows.
4. Projector. We seek a projector that our trainers can use in sessions with the Friendly Fellows.
5. Stamps. We send lots of letters and could use stamps of any denomination!
6. Frequent Flier Miles. One of the largest expenses of the program is flights. Consider donating your frequent flier miles to AFPF.
7. GoodSearch and GoodShop. Another way to help AFPF is by conducting online searches and doing your online shopping through GoodSearch.com—a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Simply go to GoodSearch.com and enter “Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships” in the space that asks “who do you GoodSearch for?" GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your favorite cause! Hundreds of great stores including Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy’s and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop and every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting AFPF. Simply go to GoodShop.com and enter “Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships” in the space that asks “who do you GoodShop for?”
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