Rewards! Gift subscriptions! Journalism! All that and more as the Blade launches its winter fund drive so we can keep bringing you the independent journalism our city deserves
Season’s greetings, readers. Since our founding last year, the Asheville Blade has brought in-depth journalism, hard-hitting investigations, sharp perspectives and more to the people of our city. Without ads or corporate backers, the Blade relies on its readers to support our work, both in the form of monthly subscriptions and donations. You are the ones who make this possible. Your support has already allowed us to accomplish some great things, and going forward into the coming year we’d like do a lot more: something that’s only possible with your help.
We also like to show our appreciation for our readers, so right now for our winter fund drive we have two great rewards you can win:
1) A $100 gift certificate to Bouchon, Creperie Bouchon or Lafayette. Perfect for a night out with an excellent meal or as a holiday gift.
2) A $50 tab at the Crow and Quill, purveyors of fine cocktails and other tasty beverages.
How might one win these? We’re giving you an opportunity to give this season too. While we deliver much of our work to the public for free, our subscribers get additional content, regular updates, free admission to events (like our Birthday Bash and our City Worth Fighting For reading) and other rewards.
Usually a subscription costs at least $3 a month or an equivalent donation amount. But right now you have the opportunity to gift a subscription, for a whole year, for just $10.
Just donate here, and leave a note specifying who you’d like the gift subscription to go to. For each $10 you donate, we’ll give a year-long subscription to someone of your choice. Also, for each $10 you donate we’ll also enter you to win one of the prizes above.
We’ll send the lucky recipient of a gift subscription a welcome letter and they’ll get all the rewards and perks our subscribers receive. This is a great gift for news-watching friends or family or for an active community member in need.
You can also sign up here as a monthly subscriber and we’ll enter you to win one of these prizes. If you’re already a subscriber and you raise your subscription — by any amount — you’ll also get a chance to win. If you double it (from $3 to $6, for example), we’ll give you two chances to win.
You can also shoot us an email if you’d like to make a donation another way.
We’ll hold the drawing at 7 p.m., Dec. 20.
Happy Holidays from the Blade. Thank you, Asheville, for your generosity this season and we look forward to the coming year.
Best,
David Forbes
Editor