Sponsor our nonprofit magazine
Double Issue is a nonprofit annual print magazine and community founded by four friends in San Francisco. All of us have day jobs and this is the passion project we've worked on every night and weekend for the last year.
Each issue of the magazine covers a wide social issue – equality, food, immigration, conservation. Unlike articles you read in other news outlets, the stories in Double Issue come in arcs of time. That's because the way we fight for issues that matter to us is the same today as the way we fought for them 100 years ago. You can recreate a protest poster from the 1950s and carry it to the Women's March or a Black Lives Matter rally and no one in the crowd will notice the difference.
Our aim is to look at causes through both the past and the present so that in some small way, we inspire the future of the movement.
A closer look inside the magazine >>
It's a microcosm. The Bay Area is home base to every story in the magazine. So many issues feel too big to fix when you see them in macro, scattered around the country and world. We think that's a problem. By zooming in on one place, change doesn't seem as far out of reach.
It's on paper you'll want to keep. Although many of our stories will appear on this site, we believe in the power of print. There's a proud tradition of printing presses, social zines, and hand-painted signs making a mark on society that we want to carry forward with a community of passionate writers, artists, and activists.
It's full of smart, thoughtful, beautiful stories. For our first issue – Personal Freedom – we've commissioned and collected work from a handful of talented people whose writing and art has appeared in Lucky Peach, Refinery29, Afar, Saveur, SF Chronicle, San Francisco Magazine, Out, and on the walls of SFMOMA.
Who will read Double Issue >>
We're growing a small community with dedicated readers. Our first print run will be 2,500 units. We'll sell about 1,000 through stores in SF, LA, Portland, DC and NY and the other 1,500 directly to our community. We'll also have a monthly community email and events in key cities.
The readers we hope to reach are progressives who live in San Francisco and beyond. Many work in advocacy, philanthropy, and service organizations. Others are nurses, teachers, or techies who care about social issues and their neighbors. They vote and pay attention to the news but at the end of the day, they want to put their phone away and get together with the people (and pets) they care about.
How sponsors can help >>
We are nearly ready to print our first issue. To help us get off the ground, we need some sponsors to help cover the early costs of paying our contributors. We'll be running a Kickstarter as well to support the printing costs but we need $5,000 to pay our artists and writers asap.
We have 501(c)3 nonprofit status. We are a fiscally sponsored project of SOMArts – the same fiscal sponsor as McSweeney's – which means that all contributions to Double Issue are charitable tax deductible. Every dollar we earn will be used to pay our contributors and allow us to print the next issue.
Sponsorships start at $500. We'll publicly show our gratitude with a simple 1-page spread in the center of the next issue that has your logo and a description of your organization. That description could also connect to your work or views on Personal Freedom, the theme of our first issue.
For more info about sponsoring Double Issue, contact eske@doubleissuemag.org.