What do donations pay for?
Visual Editors serves tens of thousands of unique users each month. Sponsor support makes possible the research, digital learning environment, programming and seminars Visual Editors develops to provide students with a wide range of scholastic resources.
Gifts are tax-deductible
Visual Editors received official 501(c)(3) status by the Internal Revenue Service allowing contributions from donors to qualify as tax deductions. According to IRS rules, contributions dating back to the founding in 2004 qualify for tax exemptions.
If you prefer to make a donation by check, it should be made payable to Visual Editors, NFP and mailed to 931 W. 75th St., Room 221, Naperville, IL 60565, Attention: Support Director. If you would like to make a donation in some other form, or have questions about your donation, please contact us for additional information. Visual Editors, NFP has been incorporated and is operated as a public charity. It has received official IRS recognition of its tax exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Our federal ID number is 34-2015808. Donations will be tax deductible and disclosed to the IRS. Privacy Policy: If you choose to make a donation to visual Editors, your credit card information will be used only for this transaction through our secure online payment system. Visual Editors does not retain card information.
Are the board members paid?
No. The private donations the charity collects are used to develop and operate the educational activities, learning tools and resources for the Visual Editors web site and seminars. Board members serve one-year terms and the officers volunteer their time and expertise.
Used by students, journalists and educators
Visual Editors documents feedback from high school and college students students who are studying journalism using our teaching tools. Educators also use Visual Editors’ virtual classroom resources to research current journalism issues for their own classrooms. Students on Visual Editors are able to study the latest reporting, editing and design techniques, story forms, media trends, and interactive strategies.
Promotes the study of visual journalism
Visual Editors brings to the vanguard leading scholarly topics, journalism case studies, interviews, and media developments of interest to students of journalism.
An interactive, online learning laboratory
The not-for-profit offers interactive teaching tools to help high school and college students and teachers study and share state-of-the-art journalism techniques. Top media professionals from the world’s newsrooms volunteer their time in Visual Editors learning laboratories.
Digital classrooms that never close
The charity provides online educational resources, programming, podcasts, video lectures, and other instructional media to students and the public through online forums, journalism critiques, and seminars. Visual Editors, NFP provides the majority of these classrooms and research materials for students in electronic form for free at www.visualeditors.com.
Visual Editors raise $600 for visual journalism scholarship
At the Visual Editors fundraiser lunch in Orlando members raised $600 in cash that will be donated to the Visual Journalism scholarship at Eastern Illinois University. Recipents normally receive $400 from this scholarship but thanks to generous supports, next year that student will get $1,000.
Sponsors for the lunch event were the Font Bureau and Topix.net. Next year’s annual ‘lunch’ event is in Boston at the Society of News Design conference.