Visual Editors Foundation http://www.visualeditors.org A 501(c)(3) non-profit charity Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:24:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en About the audience http://www.visualeditors.org/2007/charity/06/about-the-audience/ http://www.visualeditors.org/2007/charity/06/about-the-audience/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:53:41 +0000 admin http://visualeditors.org/2007/06/26/about-the-audience/ Millions of page views
Millions of pages, frequent and focused visitor traffic.

Visual Editors serves hard to reach editorial executives and creative leaders in newsrooms around the world.
The audience composition is focused and egaged.
The numbers show heavy usage from core members and considerable strength in time spent at the site and in return visits.

Contact us about reaching this well-defined audience.

]]> http://www.visualeditors.org/2007/charity/06/about-the-audience/feed/ Request a sponsor packet http://www.visualeditors.org/2007/charity/06/request-a-sponsor-packet/ http://www.visualeditors.org/2007/charity/06/request-a-sponsor-packet/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:10:11 +0000 admin http://visualeditors.org/2007/06/26/request-a-sponsor-packet/ Request a sponsor packet to be e-mailed to you.
International Sponsors: You will receive a report formatted for Euros or Pounds Sterling.

The eight-page report details the Visual Editors audience, mission and a range of donor packages and sponsorships.

Recent sponsors of Visual Editors have included Topix.net, The Orlando Sentinel, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Font Bureau. Gifts are tax deductible and some of the specific packages that sponsors can target include:

1) The endowment fund
2) Annual fundraiser lunch (2007 will be in Boston, proceeds benefit a journalism scholarship)
3) Special event coverage blogs (e.g. Custom Video blogs)
4) Job Board
5) The Redesign blog (e.g. Currently Font Bureau is a sponsor)
6) The Home page
7) Discussion topics

]]> http://www.visualeditors.org/2007/charity/06/request-a-sponsor-packet/feed/ Educational purpose http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/11/educational-purpose/ http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/11/educational-purpose/#comments Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:58:57 +0000 admin http://visualeditors.org/2006/10/25/educational-purpose/ The Visual Editors charity provides free learning opportunities to students and the public through online forums, journalism critiques, and seminars. The Visual Editors peer-to-peer education concept helps student journalists and also helps make journalism practices more transparent to lay people.

Visual Editors provides message boards, blogs and multimedia journalism learning tools for students.

]]> http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/11/educational-purpose/feed/ What do donations pay for? http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/what-do-donations-pay-for/ http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/what-do-donations-pay-for/#comments Sat, 28 Oct 2006 07:03:34 +0000 admin http://visualeditors.org/2006/10/25/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.

]]> http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/what-do-donations-pay-for/feed/ Gifts are tax-deductible http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/gifts-are-tax-deductible/ http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/gifts-are-tax-deductible/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:04:40 +0000 admin http://visualeditors.org/2006/01/25/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.

]]> http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/gifts-are-tax-deductible/feed/ Are the board members paid? http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/are-the-board-members-paid/ http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/are-the-board-members-paid/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:04:10 +0000 admin http://visualeditors.org/2006/10/25/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.

]]> http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/are-the-board-members-paid/feed/ Used by students, journalists and educators http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/used-by-students-journalists-and-educators/ http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/used-by-students-journalists-and-educators/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:01:39 +0000 admin http://visualeditors.org/2006/10/25/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.

]]> http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/used-by-students-journalists-and-educators/feed/ Promotes the study of visual journalism http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/promotes-the-study-of-visual-journalism/ http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/promotes-the-study-of-visual-journalism/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:01:39 +0000 admin http://visualeditors.org/2007/01/25/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.

]]> http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/promotes-the-study-of-visual-journalism/feed/ An interactive, online learning laboratory http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/an-interactive-online-learning-laboratory/ http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/an-interactive-online-learning-laboratory/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:01:07 +0000 admin http://visualeditors.org/2007/01/25/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.

]]> http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/an-interactive-online-learning-laboratory/feed/ Digital classrooms that never close http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/digital-classrooms-that-never-close/ http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/digital-classrooms-that-never-close/#comments Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:00:06 +0000 admin http://visualeditors.org/2006/10/25/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.

]]> http://www.visualeditors.org/2006/charity/10/digital-classrooms-that-never-close/feed/