Added incentive

All contributors to the crowdfunding campaign before Saturday June 14  at 12:01am will get a free neighbourhood button from Jelly Bros.

Make your contribution today to take advantage of this limited time offer!

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Why Crowdfunding?

Being funded by the community enables journalism that is focused upon building a better community by providing the information for us to effective engage in our civic affairs. 

Our journalism focuses upon all of Hamilton's communities, is accountable to the community, and is local - this is made possible because it is supported by the community.

Crowdfunding enables watchdog journalism that covers every meeting at City Hall, can be in the community for meetings across Hamilton, and can be there for you when you need to know what's happening in your community.

It may be a meeting at 9am in City Hall, or at 8pm on a Friday night of a long weekend - by supporting our journalism, you can be there on your smartphone, laptop, or any other device. This crowdfunding campaign is to support continuing coverage of civic affairs,

Crowdfunding makes high quality journalism that matters possible for you and available to everyone.

This campaign will fund:

(Our Desk at The Seedworks)

I'm committed to continuing to cover Hamilton in the coming years, and to building a sustainable public-interest media outlet that is reader supported and accountable.

Your support of this crowdfunding campaign will achieve the following:

• Continuing coverage of every meeting at City Hall, including the review of agendas cover-to-cover, and monitoring to ensure the information you need is known.
• Coverage of every candidate and campaign during the 2014 Municipal Election, including interviews with every candidate, and livestreamed debates in every Ward across our City.
• The tools you need to make an informed choice for the future of our City on election day in October.
• The funds to host live events with subject matter experts to focus on the issues that we need to understand to cast an informed ballot. 
• Continuing operating costs of Hamilton's more comprehensive civic affairs coverage.
• Events in The Seedworks includingsupport of other independent media.
• Continued expansion of coverage.

The Benefits to All

Your support enables everyone to:

• Benefit from a more informed community conversation;
• Accurate, Responsible real-time reporting;
• Access to public information that no other media outlet releases.

Every City Council meeting, every City Council committee, every City Council sub-committee, School Board meetings, Public meetings, Local Events, Art Crawls, Town Halls, and more - that's the journalism your contribution supports.

300 contributors at $30 will reach the goal. Even if you can contribute a small amount, it helps.

Other Ways You Can Help

Please help spread the word about the campaign: .

• Share on your Facebook, Twitter, Blog, and other sites

Participate:

• Watch the livestreams;
• Join the Twitter conversation;
• Become engaged during the 2014 and Have An Impact on the Future of Our City!

Thank You!