An Update on the Collected Giving Pledge

When we founded Collected in 2023, we made a pledge to donate 1% of our pre-tax profits to worthy causes every year. We do this as part of our core value of Community, and we try to support our community on several levels, from causes that are near and dear to our colleagues to organizations that work to better our neighborhood in New York City and the world beyond.

We continued that tradition in 2025, maintaining our focus on fostering a strong, free press. A free press has never been more important, nor more threatened, which is why we are proud to maintain our support of ProPublica, an organization that produces sophisticated, in-depth and nonpartisan journalism to effect real-world change. We also turned our eyes toward the future, supporting three organizations that are investing in the future of journalism. Press Pass NYC provides faculty training and operational resources to help students start school papers in NYC public schools. The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY helps the next generation of journalists serve the public interest by teaching storytelling, entrepreneurial and technological skills alongside reporting, writing and ethics. And finally, we support the Daily Orange, the independent, non-profit student newspaper of Syracuse University, which is a training ground for many of the country's best journalists.

We are proud to continue our support of City Harvest, a vital organization that rescues food from restaurants and delivers it to food insecure neighbors in our community, and the Madison Square Park Conservancy, the organization responsible for the operations and 100% of the operating costs of the beautiful park around the corner from our current (and future!) offices.

We were also fortunate to be able to expand our support in 2025 to several additional organizations, including the ASPCA, Community Access, JFS of Greenwich and the GBS/CIDP International Foundation, each of which has a meaningful connection to a member of the Collected team.

All of us at Collected Strategies hope that you, and all of the communities you call home, are off to a happy and successful start to 2026!