Welcome to the first issue of Your Foundation, the newsletter that will keep you updated on the world of the Thomson Reuters Foundation. We’ve designed it to be a quick, fun way of telling you about our work.

Stories from our frontline staff, latest developments on our pioneering new projects, eye-opening facts about the issues we care about - you’ll find it all here. Subscribe now to get it once a quarter.

As you may have seen from my memo on theLink, this first issue coincides with a week on our expanded Foundation. Have a look at www.trust.org, our new portal, which will be fully developed by year’s end.

Thank you for your support.

Monique Villa, CEO

Did you know that:

• May 11 marked the launch of Trust.org, a new portal bringing together all of the Foundation’s activities and providing a place for people to get involved
  
  
• Our soon to come TrustLaw initiative will create a global hub connecting those who need legal expertise with those who can provide it for free
  
  
• The Foundation’s new Emergency Information Service will use everything from megaphones to SMS messaging to deliver critical and actionable information to survivors of big natural disasters
  
  
• AlertNet, our humanitarian news service, covers more than 80 different emergencies around the globe, including many that rarely make mainstream headlines
  
  
• The Foundation, working with local Iraqi journalists, set up Aswat al-Iraq, Iraq’s first independent news agency after the fall of Saddam
  
  
• We provide core funding to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, helping it explore the future landscape of the media industry
  
  
• Three Chinese journalists who covered the 2008 Sichuan earthquake had received training from us just months earlier on how to report natural disasters
  
  
• Our Trust Media team provides free training to journalists from developing countries in areas as diverse as business news, sports, governance, HIV/AIDS, conflict reporting, climate change and digital photography
  
  
• The Foundation’s Aidfund has provided rapid cash grants to relief agencies working in 15 major natural disasters.
  
  
• 27 people, from 17 different countries, with backgrounds as diverse as the United Nations, finance and Hollywood movie production, work for the Foundation