Company Profile

Company Description:

Shelterforce is the nation's leading source of reporting on the community development field. Launched in 1975, Shelterforce publishes a quarterly print magazine, a web publication, and a weekly e-newsletter. A nonprofit 501(c)3 independent media organization, Shelterforce’s mission is to realize a society where everyone is able to live in a healthy, just community with access to sufficient opportunity to realize their potential. Shelterforce supports those working toward healthy, just communities by publishing independent media content that informs them, challenges them, connects them, inspires them, and advocates for their work to others.

Shelterforce has a devoted readership and is supported by grants, advertising, subscriptions, and individual contributions. Our readers primarily come from the worlds of affordable housing, community organizing and planning, and community economic development, and they include community leaders, nonprofit staff, policymakers, researchers, and professionals with a wide range of interests, from housing to arts and culture to health care. But they are all working in some way to create healthy, just communities.

Shelterforce began as a media organization and remains so. Our website, on which we publish new content almost daily, has about 62,000 page views a month. Our weekly e-newsletter has over 11,350 subscribers and has an open rate of 35+ percent. Shelterforce has two special desks—one focused on health and one focused on arts, culture, and community development.

Shelterforce has a small, diverse, talented staff, who are devoted to the mission and deliver excellent and effective journalism. The office culture is inclusive, family-friendly, pet-friendly, creative, and results-focused, and it values and supports a healthy work/life balance. The office is in Montclair, New Jersey.

For more information on Shelterforce, see shelterforce.org.