My Nonprofit Reviews
Robert McClure
Review for Institutes For Journalism & Natural Resources, Madison, WI, USA
As a reporter covering the environment, it was a little intimidating to leave my lifelong home in Florida at mid-career to attempt to cover a whole new ecosystem, region and set of issues. Fortunately, I heard about IJNR's Pacific Northwest Institute, which equipped me as no other learning experience I could have hoped for, and did so within a few months of my arrival in the Northest.
I learned about salmon and dams and old-growth forests and spotted owls and on and on -- all from scientists, business people, activists and others who deal with those issues on a daily basis. I still call contacts I met on that trip a dozen years ago.
The backgrounding provided by IJNR armed me to do five in-depth environmental projects at the Seattle Post-Intelliencer, plus years of running coverage of the issues I first learned about through IJNR. I continue to follow these topics today at Seattle-based InvestigateWest. I am in the debt of IJNR, as are news consumers all over the Northwest and all over the nation.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
The invaluable backgrounding provided by IJNR that helps me to serve citizens interested in environmental news.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Double their staff and budget.
