A highlight of the Feb. 15 ONA Annual Meeting was Ken Douthit’s announcement that the Foundation’s recent capital campaign has exceeded it’s goal of $300,000 with pledges now confirmed at $303,000! Titled “Securing Our Future,” the primary purpose of the campaign is to expand the Foundation’s scholarship program and to further underwrite the newspaper staff training calendar, a program that has grown in popularity since its inception in 2000.

Douthit further announced that the Foundation has already added three new university journalism scholarships for 2008. Those scholarships of $1,500 each will be awarded this spring. Applications for all of the Foundation’s scholarships are currently being accepted, with a deadline of March 31.

We gratefully acknowledge these contributors who have made five-year pledges to the Foundation’s capital campaign:

Dispatch Printing Company
The (Toledo) Blade
Akron Beacon Journal
Record Publishing Co.
Gazette Publishing Co.
Lake County News Herald
Mount Vernon News
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Dix Communications
(Carrollton) Free Press Standard
Fremont News-Messenger
Sandusky Register
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer
Delphos Herald, Inc.
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Frost Brown Todd LLC
Bowling Green Sentinel Tribune
Findlay Courier
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram
Wapakoneta Daily News
Defiance Publishing Co.
Norwalk Reflector
Shelby Daily Globe
Archbold Buckeye
Cox Ohio Publishing
Newark Advocate
Douthit Communications, Inc.
Gazette Printing Co.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Welch Publishing
Wooster Daily Record
Medina County Gazette
Sugarcreek Budget
Chillicothe Gazette
Gazette Newspapers

Posted: 02|22|08 at 2:49 pm. Filed under: Foundation.