Thank you for your generous personal donation via the Local Media Foundation to support the Henrico Citizen’s COVID-19 coverage. We are sincerely grateful for your commitment to helping our local news team in this time of crisis.

Please keep this written acknowledgment of your donation for your tax records. (The Local Media Foundation, tax ID #36‐4427750, is a Section 501(c)(3) organization and is eligible to accept charitable contributions.)

Your support comes at a critical time for our operation and helps us keep our small team working tirelessly to cover the impacts of COVID-19 and other news throughout Henrico County. Though we already had shifted significant resources into our digital platforms several years ago, our twice-monthly print publication had continued to serve as our primary source of advertising revenue, which has allowed us to remain free for readers both in print and online since our inception in September 2001.

But the pandemic caused us to halt print production indefinitely, since many of our distribution spots are closed, the state is under a stay-at-home order through June 10 and several of our largest advertisers have had to stop their advertising campaigns.

So, we’ve doubled down on our digital coverage, posting articles and updates daily and working to keep readers updated through our social media channels, our daily email updates (sign up here) and our daily weekday podcast (listen here). There’s much important reporting to be done, but it requires time and resources to do it right. Your support and that of others will allow us to continue our efforts.

I invite you to contact me anytime at tlappas@henricocitizen.com or 804-262-1700, ext. 1 with feedback – positive or negative – thoughts or ideas for future coverage that may be important to our community.

Once again, thank you for your support!

Respectfully,

Tom Lappas

Publisher

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The Henrico Citizen - COVID-19 Local News Fund is a program administered by Local Media Foundation, tax ID #36‐4427750, a Section 501(c)(3) charitable trust affiliated with Local Media Association. LMF is raising funds for educational activities; specifically, to educate the public on COVID-19 issues. LMF is providing funds to this news organization and many others to support this important educational project. All money raised by this effort will go directly to support COVID-19 reporting, to make sure the public has essential facts on this important topic.

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