Supporting Public Square Amplified

Free and local press plays a critical role in maintaining our democratic society as well as amplifying the voices and stories or our community. Today, we invite you to materially support our newsroom, which delivers fair and accurate information to the city of Newark, state of New Jersey as well as our national and international readers.

Your donation to the Public Square Amplified 501(c)(3) will ensure our team continues the work of examining the issues that most impact working people in and out of New Jersey. We deeply appreciate your support, whether it's through sharing our stories, offering words of encouragement on social media, or making a donation. Together, we're making a difference.We accept donations, grants, and sponsorships from individuals, organizations, and foundations to help with our general operations. Our reporting is independent and not influenced by donors. We do not give supporters the rights to assign, review or edit content.

We will make public all donors who have given $1,000 or more. We will not accept anonymous donations, and we will not accept donations from government entities, political parties, elected officials or candidates actively seeking public office. We will not accept donations from sources who, deemed by our board of directors, present a conflict of interest with our work or compromise our independence.

We welcome your donation via our Donorbox page, which accepts all electronic payment types. We can also accept donations by check. Please make checks payable to Public Square Amplified and mail to: Public Square Amplified Attn: Josie Gonsalves 375 Mt. Prospect Ave Suite 5B Newark, NJ 07104. Please note our EIN for your records, 87-3566999.


Grant Foundation/Fund Support

Prudential Foundation (2024)

Solutions Journalism Northern New Jersey Media Collaborative
(NNJMC) project (2022 - 2024)

NJ Civic Information Consortium (2022, 2023, 2024)

DEI Fund: Democracy Fund (Newsmatch: 2021, 2022, 2023)

DEI Fund: Meta Journalism Project (Newsmatch: 2021, 2022, 2023)

DEI Fund: The Walton Family Foundation, Knight Foundation, and
the Heising-Simons Foundation (Newsmatch: 2021, 2022, 2023)

Newsmatch (2021, 2022, 2023)

NJ Civic Information Consortium Matching Fund (Newsmatch: 2023)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2023)

Google News Equity Fund (2022)

Google News Initiative (2022)

Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) Implementation Grant (2021)


Our Donors

($5000+)

F. Carlson

($1000+)

 Nara St. Hil 

Emma Uk

Linda Carter

Josie Gonsalves