Support your favorite charity on Giving Tuesday

By Charlene Bisson
Mail | X: @charlene_bisson

It's Giving Tuesday, and there's many worthwhile charities that could use your support throughout Arizona. 

After donating to your favorite nonprofit organizations, you may want to consider supporting your local Independent newspaper.  yourvalley.net/support-us/

We hope you agree that our dedication to covering nonpartisan, community news is making a difference in perserving local democracy. Your donation will  help with our journalistic mission in providing a variety of local news from school board and city council coverage to promoting your favorite charities and businesses. 

We are blessed to have loyal readers who continue to help us grow into new communities in Arizona where it is essential to have watchdog journalism. 

Research shows a community without a devoted newspaper loses social capital and connections between citizens and civic groups. Everything we do is aimed at reinforcing and strengthening the bonds that connect our readers and our communities.

We appreciate your donation.  Contributors donate solely to support local journalism, and do not influence our journalism or operations. Donors share our belief that good journalism must be independent, civil and unbiased. 

For more information on the worldwide Giving Tuesday effort that was founded in 2012, visit givingtuesday.org.

Charlene Bisson
President & CEO

Cbisson@iniusa.org

Meet Charlene
Charlene Bisson joined Independent Newsmedia, Inc., USA, in 1999, starting her career as a journalist in Glendale, then covering Surprise a year later. She became publisher of the West Valley during the Great Recession and later promoted publisher of the Arizona group in 2018.  In January 2022, she was promoted to President & CEO of INI.

Community: She serves on the Arizona Media Association Board of Directors, The Phoenix Children’s Hospital West Valley Board, and the Liberty Lions Baseball Booster. She also supports the Peoria Diamond Club as a member.

Education: Arizona State University with a BA in Journalism and Mass Communications, with a minor in Business. 

Random Fact: She hiked the Grand Canyon twice from top to bottom in one day.  

Hobbies: Writing fiction and playing the piano for fun. Hiking, swimming, and working out at the gym.