Funding
We are committed to transparency in every aspect of funding our organization.
Accepting financial support does not mean we endorse donors or their products, services, or opinions.
We accept gifts, grants, and sponsorships from individuals, organizations, and foundations to help with our general operations, coverage of specific topics, and special projects. As a collective of the Open Collective Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that operates as a public trust, we do not pay certain taxes.
Our news judgments are made independently—not based on or influenced by donors or any revenue source. We do not give supporters the right to assign, review, or edit content.
We make public all revenue sources and donors who give $5,000 or more per year. As a news nonprofit, we avoid accepting charitable donations from anonymous sources, government entities, political parties, elected officials, or candidates seeking public office. We will not accept donations from sources who, deemed by our advisory board, present a conflict of interest with our work or compromise our independence.
Our finances are fully transparent and available on the Open Collective platform.
Editorial Independence
We subscribe to standards of editorial independence adopted by the Institute for Nonprofit News:
Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and business interests of our organization. We maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and sources of all revenue. Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services, or opinions.
We accept gifts, grants, and sponsorships from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.
Our organization may consider donations to support the coverage of particular topics, but our organization maintains editorial control of the coverage. We will cede no right of review or influence of editorial content nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.
Our organization makes public all donors. We will accept anonymous donations for general support only if it is clear that sufficient safeguards have been put into place that the expenditure of that donation is made independently by our organization and in compliance with INN’s Membership Standards.
Governance
Pasquines is primarily governed by its Code, which serves as the organization’s articles of incorporation. Pasquines will be governed by this Code, on advisement from its advisory board, which will work to ensure the operations, strategy, and content align with the organization’s purpose, mission, and vision. The advisory board will be composed of the Editor in Chief, the organization’s publisher and chief executive officer, and all other officials named to the board by the Editor in Chief.
Advisory Board
- William-Jose Velez Gonzalez
Editor in Chief at Pasquines - Eduardo Soto
Principal at The Raben Group - Lycia Ortega
Partner and Vice President of Strategic Communications at Thunderbird Strategic - Patrice Brown
Chief Operating Officer at The Leapfrog Group - Amaziah George
Founder and Product Manager at State of the Territory News
