For Members

If you are one of the primary contacts for your organization’s INN membership, follow these instructions to log into the INN Member Portal to renew your organization’s membership or update your profile on FindYourNews.org. If you experience trouble accessing your organizational account, please contact login@inn.org.

If you work for an INN member organization, you can create an individual account in order to  access discounts on member events, opt into members-only communications and share your contact information in the peer-to-peer directory. Visit the INN Member Portal, click ‘Signup/Join’ and create an account using your work email address. Use our Cheat Sheet / Individual Profile for tips.

The INN staff is here for you. To find the person best positioned to answer your specific question, please view our Office Hours with INN Staff page, where you can sign up for meetings or email one of us directly.

Visit the INN Resources Database to search available tools, services, and other resources available to INN members. You’ll find highly valuable benefits like wealth screening services, fiscal sponsorship, internship placement, and more. See a broken link or have an idea for a service we should add? Email services@inn.org with your suggestions.

Check out scheduled member events and webinars on the inn.org Events calendar. If you are logged into the INN Member Portal, you can also browse there for events of interest.

If you work for an INN member organization, you have access to a broad array of benefits. We invite you to take full advantage of your relationship with INN by:

• Creating a profile on the INN Member Portal and going to member communications in the “My Info” section of your profile. Select yes for member newsletters & opportunities. See here for help.
• Requesting access to the members-only listserv and to a variety of Slack channels organized around topics. 
• Subscribing to our Friday INNovation newsletter featuring research, insights, and updates from INN, its members and the field of public service journalism

Ask questions, share opportunities and discuss ideas with people at all of INN’s member organizations via our email listserv. For more targeted communications, try INN’s peer communities on Slack. To be added to the listserv, submit your contact info. 

Users of the INN listserv agree to build environments that are welcoming, supportive and free of harassment. Review our Community Terms of Use here.

Want to talk with people who have similar jobs or work at organizations that are similar to yours? Join INN’s peer community Slack channels. 

• Dos Mundos: Newsrooms publishing or producing content in Spanish or bilingually
• Local Focus: Newsrooms covering their local community
• Midwest: Members in the great Midwest
• New Members: New member organizations, or individuals who are new to an INN Network organization
• Business Operations: Chief Operations Officers and other masters of operations
• Photography: Photographers, photo editors and staffers hoping to boost their skills
• Rural: Newsrooms covering and reaching rural communities
• Single-Topic Newsrooms: Newsrooms focused on one subject, i.e. environment, health, education
• Startups: Newsrooms in the early stages of development (0 – 3 years)
• Statehouse: Newsrooms focused on covering their state government
• Tech Stars: Tech-minded and tech-curious members
• News Discovery Studio: Newsrooms collaborating on efforts to find new audiences

Users of INN Slack channels agree to build environments that are welcoming, supportive and free of harassment. Review our Community Terms of Use here.

Through INN’s Career Center, members can post a job for free. Log into the INN Member Portal, select “Career Center” and use the drop-menu to  click “Post a Job.” Once you publish the description, we’ll keep it up for 30 days and promote it in our INNovation newsletter that reaches about 7,000 people interested in nonprofit news.

To suggest content, please share your news and we’ll try to mention it in one of our newsletters or INN’s social media platforms.

Let your audiences know that you are a member of INN!

The INN Network Member Badge helps your organization show audiences and funders that you uphold INN’s high standards of journalistic quality, editorial independence and transparency.

Display the badge in your website’s footer (recommended) or About section, linking it to our Nonprofit News & the INN Network page, where supporters can learn more about the values you share with your peers.

Use our free, adaptable Google Slides presentation with key messages and data points designed to raise awareness and engagement with nonprofit news. Fill out the form to access.

Apply for a travel stipend to support member attendance at INN Days or Nonprofit News Awards attendance. How to apply: Log into the INN member portal. Click the ‘Product’ tab in the navigation bar during open submission periods. Select ‘Apply for a travel stipend’, and submit the application when complete.