Dear RIAS Berlin Commission alumni and friends of RIAS,
We’ve a really busy year with 92 participants on six transatlantic exchange programs — including 30 Americans on our first big group alumni program in Berlin in November as well as four standard two- to three-week programs, and a three-week student program in Germany. We hope to have another busy and successful year in 2020 with seven programs on the schedule: the four standard programs plus the US student program in Germany and a new three-week program for German students in the USA (financed thanks largely to an ERP grant from the German government and the students’ own 500-euro contributions) as well as a one-week alumni program in October in Washington DC – which is also possible thanks to cost sharing from alumni.
To make all these programs a success, we could really use your help with donations. We can promise you that every euro or dollar you donate to RIAS will go directly and entirely to adding more participants to the 2020 programs. Right now we only have enough funding for about 40 journalists on the four standard programs but would like to take 50 to 56 – and that will only be possible with your help. Unfortunately, the decline in investment income has forced us to trim the length of the programs but we have tried to make up for that with intensity and enthusiastic guest speakers everywhere we go. If you had a good experience with RIAS and remember how much the program may have changed your outlook or even your life, please keep that in mind and your tax-deductible donations will help make the program possible in 2020 for at least one more journalist. You really can make a difference. Thanks for thinking of RIAS! And please do call or write with any ideas on suggestions on how we can make RIAS better.
Here is the link for tax-deductible donations in the USA:
https://rtdna.networkforgood.com
(Please scroll down to “The RIAS program” )
Here is the RIAS Berlin Commission account for tax-deductible donations in Germany:
RIAS Berlin Commission, IBAN: DE72 1005 0000 1160 0155 50, Kennwort: “Spende”
