The AOJ Foundation is the lifeblood of the Association of Opinion Journalists. The Foundation funds a wide range of professional development programs and activities for AOJ members. The Foundation supports everything from The Masthead, the organization's online professional journal, and publication of "Beyond Argument," a handbook for professional opinion writers and editors, to the ongoing Minority Writers Seminar, which introduces minority journalists to the opinion writing and editing crafts. The Foundation funded the NCEW-AOJ website's 2009 upgrade.

While the Foundation receives some outside funding, it depends on the generosity of AOJ members for its ongoing viability. Donations can be made for general support or for specific support for one of the Foundation's endowment funds such as the Minority Writers Seminar.

(online donations work during a time of transition; you might see reference to NCEW, LisaS, Pa-news, opinionjournalists or AOJ Staff)

Please mail your tax-deductable donation to:

AOJ Foundation
2301 Vanderbilt Place
VU Station B 351669
Nashville, TN 37235-1669

For questions about Foundation donations during spring-summer 2014, contact its president, Lois Kazakoff lkazakoff@sfchronicle.com

(updated 2014-05-22 and 2014-05-30-12:31 p.m. cdt)