The ASBPE Educational Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization, supports education and excellence in the B2B media industry. For more information on donating to the ASBPE Foundation, please use our contact form to email the Foundation president.

Donate to the ASBPE Educational Foundation

The ASBPE Educational Foundation is able to continue its mission because of the support and generosity of B2B publishers, member journalists and others with a stake in the profession’s continuing excellence. By making a tax-deductible contribution to the Foundation, you’ll help ensure that our work continues. Programs created or supported by the Foundation include scholarships, journalism awards, and educational programming dedicated to advancing the quality of B2B journalism.

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Foundation Mission Statement

The practice of business-to-business journalism is undergoing enormous change. Business editors are the key to the continued free flow of news, best practices and technical research within an industry. As trained and experienced communicators for their specialized audiences, B2B journalists must strive to stay at the center of the editorial process as content is developed for new media platforms. Meanwhile, the country’s journalism schools have been slow to recognize the key role of B2B media as a major entry point for journalists, as well as a permanent career home for many.

Through its nationwide network of professional B2B publication editors, ASBPE is ideally suited to champion educational programs that serve the B2B editing profession, and to raise the profile of the B2B journalism specialty in the media world. No other organization in the United States today focuses exclusively on the professional development of B2B editors. Seeing this need, the board of ASBPE established the ASBPE Educational Foundation as a platform for encouraging tax-deductible contributions from B2B publishers, member journalists and others with a stake in the profession’s continuing excellence. Programs created or supported by the Foundation include scholarships and journalism awards dedicated to advancing the quality of B2B journalism.

Foundation Programs

To create pathways for the continuing mastery of content delivery by B2B editors, the foundation takes a range of educational approaches. The Foundation is seeking additional funding to help ASBPE launch more programming, including mentorship and digital credentialing programs.

The ASBPE Educational Foundations current and previous programs include:

1. ASBPE Foundation Business Journalism Scholarship:  To support our educational mission, the ASBPE Foundation maintains a scholarship fund for students in the B2B graduate journalism program at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.
2. Young Leader Scholarship:  To help young editors, freelancers, designers and videographers who are just starting their B2B media careers, the ASBPE Educational Foundation sponsors the annual Young Leaders Scholarship. The scholarship assists younger professionals who might otherwise be unable to attend ASBPE’s National Conference by covering registration, in-conference meals and hotel room costs.
3. The Stephen Barr Award:  The Stephen Barr Award, originally endowed by Stephen Barr’s family and administered through the Foundation, is one of very few ASBPE honors presented to an individual journalist and is presented for the “best in show” among the Azbee Awards’ feature-writing categories. Now ASBPE continues the tradition of the Stephen Barr Award to encourage continued excellence in feature writing and journalism of the highest quality within B2B media.
4. The Journalism That Matters Award:  Inspired by ASBPE’s book of the same title, the Journalism That Matters Award was launched by the ASBPE Educational Foundation to honor individual journalists, editorial teams from B2B publications, or their publishing companies for impactful journalism that leads to changes in law, regulation, policy or business practice, directly or indirectly. Now maintained by ASBPE’s Awards Committee, recipients of the JTMA are honored, when selected, during ASBPE’s National Conference and Azbee Awards presentation.

Foundation Board

News

2022, August 25: Paul J. Heney Becomes New President of the ASBPE Educational Foundation

2022, June 21: ASBPE Foundation Business Journalism Scholarship Awarded to Emily Dreibelbis

2022, May 13:  The 19th Annual Stephen Barr Award for Feature Writing Goes to Megan Gates

2022, April 21:  Courtney Bublé Selected for 2022 Young Leader Scholarship

2018, July 20:  ASBPE Foundation Establishes Graduate Scholarship at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications

2018, March 1:  The ASBPE Foundation Announces Plans to Award VTDigger and Its Editor with the 2018 Journalism That Matters Award

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