The FXBG Advance Sustaining Member Program
The Advance has earned a reputation for stellar reporting, insightful analysis, and in-depth investigative reporting.
Now into our third year, the Advance is poised to make a significant leap forward. To do that, we need your support. The new Sustaining Members program if for people will to contribute between $50 and $100 a month. These gifts will not only provide a significant boost to the Advance’s reporting capabilities, but they will also provide access to thank you gifts that can only be earned by becoming a Sustaining Member.
What’s included? Here are the perks by giving level:
For Members Contributing at $50/Month
Signed Edition of Adele Uphaus’ First Book – History Thursdays: A Journey through Downtown Fredericksburg’s Homes and Past. This book collects Adele’s popular History Thursday columns into one collection, and it includes an Introduction by the editor-in-chief of the Advance.
Invitations to Monthly Breakfast-with-the-Editor meetings – Come and enjoy a light breakfast with coffee and tea and talk about the stories that defined the previous month, as well as the stories ahead. It’s also an opportunity to suggest things that you’d like to see the Advance cover. Editor-in-Chief Martin Davis will attend all meetings, with Advance reporters and freelancers joining throughout the year.
Access to a Special Monthly Column – Written by Martin Davis exclusively for our Sustaining Members, this column will go in-depth on data that defines our region and gives us insights into the future.
For Members Contributing at $75/month
Adele’s Signed Book
Invitations to Monthly Breakfast-with-the-Editor Meetings
Access to a Special Monthly Column
A Pen with a Custom-turned Barrel Bearing the Advance’s Logo – This keepsake item is made by a local artisan who created the pens specifically for supporters of the Advance. The barrels are custom-turned from wood native to the Fredericksburg area.
For Members Contributing at $100/month
Adele’s Signed Book
Invitations to Monthly Breakfast-with-the-Editor Meetings
Access to a Special Monthly Column
A Pen with a Custom-turned Barrel Bearing the Advance’s Logo
Invitation to a Special Spring Dinner at a Local Restaurant – Join Martin, Adele, and the Board of Directors for an evening meal with a special guest speaker.
This holiday season, join the Advance as a Sustaining Member. In so doing, you play a critical role in ensuring that the reporting this community depends upon for deep insight into the area’s most-pressing problems will continue to be there in the years to come.
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Support Award-winning, Locally Focused Journalism
The FXBG Advance cuts through the talking points to deliver both incisive and informative news about the issues, people, and organizations that daily affect your life. And we do it in a multi-partisan format that has no equal in this region. Over the past year, our reporting was:
First to break the story of Stafford Board of Supervisors dismissing a citizen library board member for “misconduct,” without informing the citizen or explaining what the person allegedly did wrong.
First to explain falling water levels in the Rappahannock Canal.
First to detail controversial traffic numbers submitted by Stafford staff on the Buc-ee’s project
Our media group also offers the most-extensive election coverage in the region and regular columnists like:
And our newsroom is led by the most-experienced and most-awarded journalists in the region — Adele Uphaus (Managing Editor and multiple VPA award-winner) and Martin Davis (Editor-in-Chief, 2022 Opinion Writer of the Year in Virginia and more than 25 years reporting from around the country and the world).
For just $8 a month, you can help support top-flight journalism that puts people over policies.
Your contributions 100% support our journalists.
Help us as we continue to grow!
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