Please consider a donation
Dear Community Partner,
As 2025 draws to a close, the Arizona Latino Media Association (ALMA) invites you to stand with us in our mission to uplift and empower Latino media professionals across Arizona, by making a one-time monetary, tax-deductible contribution before the end of 2025. For nearly three decades, ALMA- a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has served as a vital network for journalists, communicators, and storytellers who reflect the diverse voices of our communities. Through mentorship, scholarships, professional development, and advocacy, we help ensure that Latino perspectives are not only represented—but celebrated—in newsrooms and media platforms throughout the state.
This work is more important than ever. As the media landscape evolves, so too must our efforts to support the next generation of Latino journalists and communicators. But we cannot do it alone. We are reaching out to corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, and service organizations like yours to ask for your financial support. Your contribution—no matter the size—will directly fund programs that foster equity, opportunity, and excellence in Arizona’s media industry.
One of our immediate goals is to provide ALMA members with the opportunity to attend the 42nd Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism early next year. This prestigious event, hosted by the Cronkite School at Arizona State University, honors outstanding contributions to journalism. This is the first time the award will honor Latino journalists. Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos will be in Phoenix in February to accept the award. We are seeking support to help fill seats at this event so that our members—many of whom are early-career journalists or students—can experience this celebration of journalistic excellence firsthand.
We hope you will consider making a tax-deductible year-end donation to ALMA. Your support is not just an investment in our organization—it’s an investment in the future of inclusive, representative media in Arizona.
Thank you for your time, your partnership, and your belief in the power of diverse voices.
With gratitude,
The Arizona Latino Media Association (ALMA) board of directors.
Legacy Donor
The Phillips-Green Family, through the Paul C. Phillips Trust, provides financial support to organizations dedicated to the education and well-being of children, women and families. The Phillips-Green Family is thrilled to support ALMA, the Arizona Latino Media Association, and its focus on education, as their purposes are so well aligned.
Paul C. Phillips valued education and opportunity above anything else. Born in Cheyenne in 1927 and raised by a single mom, he joined the US Navy at the very end of World War II. The GI bill gave him the opportunity to attend the University of Wyoming. After university, and before becoming a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, Paul worked at the Denver Post, where he was editor of the paper’s Sunday magazine.
Paul knew that his world expanded with each story, each flight, with each class, with each military posting he had around the world. He embraced the idea that we all need to challenge ourselves and then challenge those coming behind us. He believed that education and strength of character go hand in hand, values he passed on to each of his four children.
After a full career in the Air Force, Paul went on to work at the University of Maryland, teaching military personnel around the world, opening up new borders not just physically, but mentally as well. He valued his travels, which allowed him to teach, to learn, to share.
Paul enjoyed visiting his daughter, Robin, who lived in Arizona for many years. When Paul lost his battle with dementia in 2017, he left a gift for his children to distribute. His only instructions were that his money be used to help children and families. And Robin and her wife, Susan Green, were determined that her father's memory be kept alive by keeping alive dreams and opportunities of the scholars and young journalists of ALMA.
Thank you, Phillips-Green Family and the Paul C. Phillips Trust.