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Last year, Payday Report received a short-term, one-year COVID-related $10,000 grant that helped us expand our strike-tracking capabilities. However, this grant has recently expired.
With this grant, we expanded our work and staff capacity, and dramatically pushed our abilities to publish a newsletter, on average, three times a week.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in March of 2020, we have also tracked over 1,500 strikes. In addition, in 2020 alone, we published 142 stories and newsletters.
Our grantors were very happy with our work and were even willing to recommend us for future funding.
You can see why.
We’ve had a massive impact on how the media has covered the growing strike wave. Major publications in the U.S., like NPR, and foreign publications like The Economist and The Sydney Morning Herald, have cited Payday Report’s strike numbers. In addition, many academics and researchers have used the Strike Tracker for their work.
Film director Boots Riley, who directed “Sorry to Bother You,” praised us on the podcast “Bad Faith” for our work tracking the strike wave.
“You could count on one hand the number of outlets, whether they’re mainstream or radical that pushed this fact,” Riley said of our work tracking more than 1,300 strikes since the beginning of the pandemic.
In the past year, our work on everything — from the Amazon union drive in Alabama to minor league baseball unionization to uncovering sexual misconduct in the NewsGuild — has been praised and cited by various publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, ProPublica, The New Yorker, and others.
Our work on CNN’s W. Kamau Bell’s special “Where Do We Even Start with White Supremacy?” even garnered an Emmy nomination.
In the past year and a half, we have also doubled our recurring donor base from 300 recurring donors in February of 2020 to 615 recurring donors in September of 2021. Thank you to all those who joined in to support us!
We’ve made enormous progress as you can tell.
But our short-term, one-year grant…it expired.
Losing a $10,000 grant is going to make things tough for us. So, this Labor Day week, we’re preparing to raise $10,000 directly from our readers to make up for the expired grant.
We want to raise $10,000 by the end of November to replace the money and continue pushing our work.
In addition, we’re seeking money from foundations and institutions to expand our labor reporting capacities even more.
Last year, we brought in $97,000, with approximately 85% of our donations coming from readers. Given that our funding model is sustainable and reader-based, we are a good investment for any foundation. However, we are based in Pittsburgh and aren’t very connected to the world of foundations.
If you can assist us in seeking grants, let us know and email melk@paydayreport.com.
In the interim, we want to keep raising money and building a solid publication. We hope you’ll support us in our mission. We’ve always been a scrappy, reader-driven publication, and that’s enabled us to get the stories that no one else gets.
And the best way to help us is to sign up as one of our 615 recurring donors today.
Thanks again for the support that keeps us going – Donate Today!
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Love & Solidarity,
Melk
