The Denver Voice, a monthly newspaper focused on serving the city’s homeless population, has rallied donors to fund its operations through 2024, after announcing in September that it was temporarily shutting down.
“We really hoped our closure would be short-term, and today we are happy to announce that we are not shutting down permanently,” Robert Davis, president of the nonprofit paper’s governing board, said in a news release. “The support we’ve received from our community has been overwhelming.”
The newspaper previously posted on Facebook that it would be suspending operations for at least one month, as it was unable to pay staffers, cover expenses or support its vendor program, which provides free and discounted copies of the paper to homeless Denver residents, and those at risk of losing their housing, to sell.
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According to the news release, after the paper made its financial woes known, individual donors along with the Denver Foundation and the Cranaleith Foundation stepped up and contributed $50,000 to sustain operations through the end of the year.
“Our priority was to ensure the continuation of our monthly newspaper so that the individuals who sell it would not lose their primary source of income. We have also been able to pay our staff and catch up on overdue bills,” volunteer and Denver Voice journalist Giles Clasen said in the news release.
The paper’s office at at 989 Sante Fe Drive will operate one day per week as publication resumes. Managing editor Elisabeth Monaghan also wrote in an email to The Post that the organization is working on a strategic plan “to ensure we don’t find ourselves in this situation again.”
The Denver Voice began as a grassroots operation founded by homeless people and has printed on and off since 1996 and continuously since 2007, according to the newspaper’s website.
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