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.

Every level sustains the work. Choose where you stand.

$1,000

Sustains our day-to-day reporting and the trust it takes to earn it.

$2,500

Funds a full As-Told-To story from first interview to publication.

$5,000

Underwrites a reporting series or a sustained beat for a full season.

$10,000

Anchors the Witness Circle and shapes the year ahead alongside our editors.

Other amount

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.

“You don’t fund news.
You make it real.”

– Witness Circle Donor

Stay close to the work.

As a Witness Circle member, you sit closer to the journalism than anyone outside the newsroom.

  • Editorial briefings with Borderless journalists, two to three times a year. Hear what they’re reporting, what they’re finding, and what questions are shaping what comes next.
  • Intimate gatherings with reporters and editors — small dinners, conversations, evenings built around the work.
  • Early access to our printed annual reports from the newsroom, written for you
  • A direct line to our development team for questions, introductions, or ways to go deeper.

Who we are

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].

Prefer to mail a check? Borderless Magazine NFP, 4733 N. Broadway, 2nd Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60640.