CoPress

Starting a business, even as a non-profit, can cost some money—or so we’ve learned here at CoPress.

Our hosting project is aimed at giving schools fast, reliable service on a well-supported open source platform. We’re doing this because we see a distinct need in college media to move online in a meaningful fashion and we believe that many current solutions are poor.

It’s our thinking that a centralized place to share resources among many newsrooms can benefit everyone, and apparently we were right. There is a very widespread need for services just like these, and we’ve been growing a lot faster than we had anticipated. While this makes us ecstatic, it also means that we don’t currently have the money to support the growth on our own.

CoPress is a non-profit initiative that has thus far been funded entirely out of our own pockets. We’ve come to realize that our small group of college students alone isn’t capable of raising the money necessary to do all that we want to do, however, so we’re asking for your help.

We’d like to offer you this challenge: the next time you go to buy a soft drink, a bag of pretzels or think about super-sizing that burger, pocket the cash and pledge it to helping us. We could really use the extra dollar.