It's time for North Star to step up a gear, and we need your help. From today, July 29, to September 20, we're running our first crowdfunding campaign. This is a turning point in the development of our media: it's the moment for us to start becoming a professional newspaper that can make its mark in the media arena.

Here's the link to make a donation: A professional journalist for North Star—La Ruche

In return for your donation, you can get...

• For $10: a button featuring the North Star logo;
• For $25: an exclusive campaign poster by our cartoonist Zol;
• For $50: a magazine containing a selection of our best analyses and interviews since our launch;
• For $65: a one-year subscription to North Star for a young person aged 15 to 29 (our subscription service will be launched in the fall);
• For $75: a North Star cap and button;
• For $100: a magazine and a poster;
• For $150: a large poster of a Zol cartoon created exclusively for you;
• For $500: we'll come to your place of study or community to hold a workshop.

The money raised will enable us to hire a journalist to coordinate the media's activities, cover the news with greater responsiveness than our volunteer teams, and organize people's journalism education workshops for workers and youth (as well as certain other expenses for these activities).

In addition, the journalist's responsibilities will include helping to revamp our website and developing more sustainable fundraising methods, which will enable us to hire not just one journalist, but soon two, three and more, in different parts of Canada.

Every donation will bring us closer to our goal. Whether it's $10 or $100, we know that if our readers get involved, we can reach our goal very quickly. And every donation you make until we reach our goal will be doubled by the Fond Mille-et-Un, through a partnership with the crowdfunding platform La Ruche.

So your $10 becomes $20, and your $100 becomes $200! But for that to happen, we have to reach our goal. If we don't, even by a few dollars, we won't get the promised funding. So now is the best time to support us.

Help us develop popular information and do real journalism against the tide!