Denver Press Club

A nonprofit organization

$4,257 raised by 46 donors

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$10,000 Goal

Giving to the Denver Press Club encourages the growth and strength of journalism in Colorado and beyond. The Denver Press Club helps support student journalists; provides workshops, speakers, and forums; encourages meaningful journalism and writing that affects the world through our awards; provides space to journalistic organizations to educate the public, advances the journalistic profession through education; and provides a gathering place for the exchange of ideas.         

Your donation provides scholarships to support student journalists, mission-based programing to build and educate the community, professional development and awards to encourage ethical journalism, and maintenance for our historic home that serves as a hub of advocacy for ethical journalism.

Testimonials

The scholarship helped me in a couple of different ways. First, the obvious--receiving a financial award right before graduating from college is hugely helpful given the dismal world of student loan debt most graduates, including myself, face today. It's encouraging to think that writing could be financially rewarding, and that's a feeling few student journalists get to experience. On that note, receiving the scholarship also made me realize that there were still organizations actively promoting aspiring journalists in the field, as well as supporting working journalists. It was my first exposure to the Denver Press Club, and I was pretty inspired by breath of fresh air, so to speak, that it gave me on the state of journalism.

Best,
Sam Schanfarber 

2}It's important to support the Denver Press Club. We need that strong bond to keep it going -- to keep journalism going. I want journalism to continue. I want people to work in journalism. I just think it's a great place that all of us can come together and have it's own little community. All of us do share that special bond there.
Alyson McClaran, Runyon scholarship winner, 2016


Giving Activity

Mission

To facilitate conversations about the issues of the day; to nurture the growth of aspiring journalists through our annual scholarship program; to provide professional development to journalists and students; and to help the public understand the world around them.

The historic Denver Press Club is the oldest press club in the nation, founded in 1867, with a 501(c)3 non-profit mission of building engaged communities by promoting the pursuit of ethical journalism. We do this by nurturing the growth of aspiring journalists through our annual scholarship program, facilitating public conversations about the issues of the day, providing professional development to journalists and students, and preserving our historic building to facilitate our work.

The historic Denver Press Club was founded in 1867 with a mission of building engaged communities by promoting the pursuit of ethical journalism. We do this by nurturing aspiring journalists through our scholarship program, facilitating public conversations, providing pd, and preserving our home.

Background Statement

This statement comes from the preamble to the original 1905 Denver Press Club bylaws. It was re-affirmed as a mission statement during a board retreat in 1996.

"To further the ethics and ideals of journalism. To assist in the training of promising young women and men for the news gathering/reporting profession, by courses of lecture or otherwise. To stimulate the intellectual life of the community by bringing to Denver notable writers and thinkers from other parts of the country. To assist sick or distressed journalists, their spouses, survivors and orphans, and to cooperate in other worthy and charitable causes. All to the end that the exchange of ideas may be promoted and a spirit of fellowship and civic responsibility may be fostered and developed within the news gathering/reporting profession in Denver and the vicinity."

The Denver Press Club is the oldest press club in the United States. Denver journalists met as "a press club" in 1867 and incorporated as "the Denver Press Club" in 1877, a year after Colorado became the 38th state. Ardent political and professional rivals in print, the editors still found time to tap into the barrel of "Taos Lightening," discuss events of the day and play a little poker.

Membership soon outgrew the basement of Wolfe Londoner's grocery store on Larimer Street and the club held court at a variety of Denver hotels including the prestigious Brown Palace Hotel, and the DPC purchased its present home in 1925 and has been its sole occupant.

The DPC soon acknowledged the need to act for the community it served and to help ensure the strength of the profession. As such, it focused on the education of journalists and the public and the welfare of its community. The DPC continues on under that tradition and vision. We believe that a strong 4th Estate is imperative to the survival of democracy and that the free press is essential for the freedom of a nation's people.

Among the distinguished visitors (some before1925, some after): Ulysses S. Grant, President Theodore Roosevelt, President William Howard Taft, President Woodrow Wilson, President Warren G. Harding, Sen. John McCain, Sen. Bill Bradley, Sen. George McGovern, and Secretary of State Madeline Albright among other. Our current members include governors, reporters, editors, communications professionals, council members, lawyers, students and folks from all walks of life. While it is a community full of differing ideas and ideals, we are all believe in the importance of journalism's survival.

Giving to the Denver Press Club encourages the growth and strength of journalism in Colorado and beyond. Our club, helps support student journalists; provides workshops, speakers, and forums; encourages meaningful journalism and writing that affects the world through our awards; provides space to journalistic organizations to educate the public, advances the journalistic profession through education; and provides a gathering place for the exchange of ideas. We believe this is unique in Colorado and across much of the nation. Please consider donating to the Denver Press Club.

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Denver Press Club

other names

DPC

Year Established

2001

Tax id (EIN)

84-1510637

Category

Arts, Culture & Humanities

Organization Size

Small Organization

Address

1330 Glenarm Pl
Denver, CO 80204

Service areas

Denver County, CO, US

Phone

303-571-5260

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