Many of the big decisions that impact your pocketbook, your family and your community get made in planning committees, school board meetings and State House hearing rooms across New Hampshire. And sadly, those decisions are often made in front of empty rooms, save for a lone local news reporter.

National and cable news are not going to cover these decisions. You won’t know about them without local news reporters.

Local journalism is a critical part of the civic infrastructure holding up democracy. Like solid roads and water pipes in your neighborhood, our local information systems need to be strong and sustainable.

In New Hampshire, we are proud that local news outlets are working closely together to keep that infrastructure strong.The local news partners in the Granite State News Collaborative have set aside generations of deeply ingrained competition to focus on the shared belief that our communities will not thrive without trusted information. 

On Giving Tuesday, we are pleased to introduce the New Hampshire Community News Fund. It is a way for you to make a donation to strengthen local journalism and increase the number of reporters here in the Monadnock region and across the state. 

Through the Community News Fund, you can donate to the Monadnock Ledger-Trancript, other participating media outlets, the Granite State News Collaborative or a combination. Your donation will directly support news operations and strengthen the connections local news fosters in our communities. 

To donate, go to bit.ly/NHCommunityNewsFund or to collaborativenh.org/support-the-gsnc and use the Donate Now button.

Donations may be eligible for a match through Newsmatch, a national fundraising campaign. 

The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript is part of a family-owned news group focused on the communities we cover. We want to make sure you have more information you can trust, not less, well into the future. Make a donation, and make a difference. We are here, working for you.

Thank you. We appreciate your generous support.

Granite State News Collaborative partners include: 603 Diversity Magazine, The Berlin Sun, Business NH Magazine, The Business Journal of Greater Keene, Brattleboro and Peterborough, The Concord Monitor, The Conway Daily Sun, The Eagle Times, The Eagle-Tribune, The Keene Sentinel, The Laconia Daily Sun, Manchester Ink Link, The Marlin Fitzwater Center at Franklin Pierce University, The Nashua Telegraph, NH Bar News, NH Business Review, New Hampshire Press Association, New Hampshire PBS, New Hampshire Public Radio, The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Seacoast Media Group and The Valley News.