October 16, 2013
Lipscomb Working to Save ‘Contributor’
By Jennifer Johnson Alumni from Lipscomb University (Nashville, TN) helped create The Contributor, a “street newspaper” sold by the homeless in the city to provide a source of income for themselves and a source of information on homelessness to the public. Recently, Lipscomb alumni, administration, faculty, staff and students came together to save it. In September, The Contributor “announced that unless enough money could be raised in the next month, the September issue would be its last,” Lipscomb writes. The college community raised more than $5,000 and LU president Dr. Randy Lowry provided a matching gift, making the total donation over $11,000. “Contributor vendors sell about 50,000 newspapers each week,”
