The Witness Circle is a community of people who sustain Borderless Magazine with annual gifts of $1,000 or more. Your gift funds the time it takes to tell immigrant stories with the care they deserve.
When trusted reporting disappears, rumors fill the gap. Communities lose access to the facts they need. Families make decisions based on fear instead of information.
Your support changes that.
Borderless is one of the only newsrooms in the country that lets immigrants tell their own stories in their own words.
Our signature format is called As-Told-To. A reporter sits with a person over weeks, sometimes months. Builds trust across languages and fear. Helps them tell their story — not a summary, not a quote pulled for a headline — the whole thing, in their voice.
Each story requires hours of recorded interviews, professional translation, and careful editing that preserves how the person actually speaks. Each one can cost thousands of dollars to produce. Most newsrooms can’t justify that time.
Your gift buys the time.
Not a general fund. Not overhead. The next person who sits across from a reporter and trusts them enough to say what happened.
Sustains our day-to-day reporting and the trust it takes to earn it.
Funds a full As-Told-To story from first interview to publication.
Underwrites a reporting series or a sustained beat for a full season.
Anchors the Witness Circle and shapes the year ahead alongside our editors.
Any gift of $1,000 or more qualifies for Witness Circle membership.
Is the Witness Circle not the right commitment for you at this time? Consider a gift of any size on our donation page.
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As a Witness Circle member, you sit closer to the journalism than anyone outside the newsroom.
Borderless Magazine is a nonprofit newsroom in Chicago covering immigration from inside the communities living it. Our reporters are immigrants, children of immigrants, and journalists who’ve spent years earning trust in the neighborhoods they cover. We produce the kind of reporting that takes months, not days — because the people in our stories deserve that time.
We are independent, immigrant-led, and built to outlast the news cycle.
Borderless Magazine NFP is a Section 501(c)(3) charitable organization, EIN 83-1266434. Your gift is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Questions? Contact CJ Ortuño at [email protected].
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