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Mission: The Florence Fund seeks to invigorate public debate by making grants to help public interest groups publicize their messages and work products through paid media and marketing strategies. In addition, the Fund promotes public interest groups , their ideas, their work, and their leaders in its own publication, TomPaine.com, an Internet magazine.
Programs: TomPaine.com. The Florence Fund publishes TomPaine.com, an Internet journal of opinion that seeks to enrich the national debate on public affairs by featuring ideas, opinions, facts and figures overlooked by mainstream media outlets. TomPaine.com is a venue for fresh voices and perspectives in the public discourse, and in particular, for members of the public interest community and public-spirited journalists. Issue Advertising. Nearly every week, The Florence Fund runs a TomPaine.com "op ad" (opinion advertisement) on the op-ed (opinion-editorial) page of The New York Times. Each ad educates the public about a specific targeted issue and direct readers to more information available online at TomPaine.com. Grants. The Florence Fund makes grants to local, regional and national groups and causes for the retention of public relations professionals, and the design and implementation of paid advertising and promotional efforts related to the organizing and public education work of the group or coalition of groups involved. Unsolicited funding requests are not accepted.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.