Endowment

Thanks to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism has a wonderful opportunity to create a sustainable funding pool. The foundation has issued us a challenge grant to help build an $800,000 endowment by the year 2010. For every three dollars we raise toward the endowment, the Knight Foundation will award us an additional dollar — up to an amazing $200,000 in matching funds! We need your support to meet this exciting, but challenging, goal!

Learn more about us here.

Once complete, the endowment will be used to:

Support scholarships for students and professional journalists.
Increase training and education opportunities through the development of online courses.
Conduct outreach and research efforts that will improve the quality of environmental journalism.

The Knight Center for Environmental Journalism is also helping to present Green on the Big Screen: An environmental film festival and fair at MSU. Help us with this important, exciting event by sponsoring, reserving a booth at the fair or donating. For more information visit the film festival website here. Also, see sponsors of the event so far here.

Your financial support, in any amount, will surely help us meet this goal. Please consider giving online today! Or, print out this form and mail it with your contribution to:

Knight Center for Environmental Journalism Endowment
Knight Center for Environmental Journalsim
382 Communication Arts and Sciences
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1212

Feel welcome to contact the center with any questions.

Gifts to the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism are tax deductible as provided by law. Please check your financial adviser on how your gifts may affect your tax situation.

Here's what environmental journalism students say about the Knight Center:

matt

"The education and resources provided by the Knight Center and Michigan State University gave me the ability to work for a conservation organization, a federal science organization, a research team studying endangered birds on the Hawaiian Islands and the opportunity of being published numerous times in several publications during my time here."- Matthew Cimitile, class of '09

anisa

"The Knight Center at MSU is one of a kind because it brings my two passions together- journalism and the environment. Having this educational background helped land me an internship at National Geographic Television and allowed me to hone skills in all types of media." - Anisa Abid, class of '09

"The Knight Center gave me the experience and skiils needed to succeed in environmental journalism, a field growing in importance in every facet of our society."—Hannah Northey,
class of '07