Guess who's starting a nonprofit weekly newspaper to uplift and enlighten New Orleans East?! ME! Guess who I'm counting on to help fund it?! YOU! My initial goal is modest. Just enough to get some equipment I'll need so I can populate the site and to also pay for some admin things like securing the 501(c)(3). Once I'm able to do that, I'll get a quick run of copies printed so I can bring them to show potential donors, as a prototype.

Initial Funding Needs 🌞

💛 New-to-me laptop. Mine is from 2019 and lags too much for a project like this.
🧡 Cloud or physical storage
❤️ New-to-me camera
💜 Gas for all the back and forth driving in the East
💗 Dining fund to write about restaurants, ethically
💙 501(c)(3) filing

If you're seeing this now, you're someone I trust and someone I know sees the vision. THANK YOU! Still, I've addressed some potential concerns below. 💛

Megan, I thought you were happy getting wined and dined and flewed out as a freelance journalist with coveted bylines?

Papers are closing every day, and here you are trying to (checks notes) start a whole nonprofit one? How the kids say? "Crazy work."

Why not just, like, make a TikTok or start some other social media thing? You are, after all, an influencer!

I thought you were a journalist. What you know about layout, securing advertisers, graphic design?

OK yeah but there's nothing in the East. My auntie best friend neighbor cousin, she told me to run red lights at night because it's so bad. She moved to Slidell.

Getting enough money for an initial run sounds doable, especially for a great community fundraiser such as yourself, but how can this be sustainable and scalable?

Fund a New Orleans East Weekly Newspaper!

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