Thermometer IRE's endowment stands at $3.75 million in donations and firm pledges.

IRE's Endowment Drive

IRE seeks the aid of all audiences that value quality investigative journalism and recognize its importance in keeping the public informed and governments, businesses and individuals accountable.

IRE launched its $5 million endowment drive, called Breakthroughs, in order to provide increased financial stability for the organization. Our goal is to ensure that IRE's independent voice, state-of-the art training, up-to-date resource library, and vast array of networking possibilities for journalists continue well into the 21st century. Year after year, IRE offers quality education and guidance for reporters, editors, producers, professors, students, freelance writers and book authors through resources and services that uphold high professional standards and instill a passion for public service journalism.

We need the help of every dedicated journalist to help us reach our goal. If you have attended one or more of the 70 conferences and seminars we conduct annually, then you know we charge the lowest conference fees and membership dues of any journalism organization our size. A strong endowment will help us maintain these low fees to provide every journalist an opportunity to attend our training.

For more information on Breakthroughs, please contact Jennifer Erickson, IRE's development officer, at 573-884-2222 or

If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to the IRE Breakthroughs Endowment Drive, follow these easy directions:

To contribute by check, please mail your donation to:

Investigative Reporters and Editors
Attention: Heather Feldmann Henry, Fiscal Officer
138 Neff Annex
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, MO 65211

To make your donation by credit card, or to download a donation form, please visit our contributions page: http://www.ire.org/endowment/contribution.html

Thanks to the Knight Foundation

IRE would like to thank the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for its generous support of IRE programming and the IRE endowment fund. To read more about IRE's Knight Foundation challenge grant that ended on Sept. 30, 2008, please click here.

The $25 club

The $25 club recognizes that not everyone can make million-dollar contributions to IRE's endowment fund, but every dollar counts.

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