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The Dick Goldensohn Fund
A Salt Lake Tribune investigation ties the death toll in Chinese factories to ...
Cuban migrants who set foot on American soil get to stay as refugees. But thos ...
The Dick Goldensohn Fund
Posted October 22nd, 2007 by Carrie Ching
The Dick Goldensohn Fund was established in 1986 by friends and family shortly after Dick died of a heart attack at age 39. Since he had been a fearless investigative reporter, the Fund makes small grants covering research, reporting and travel costs to freelance journalists working on international stories.
 |  Just after the U.S. took Baghdad in 2003, the Green Berets began training young Iraqis with no prior military experience in the desert of Jordan. The resulting brigade—the Iraq Special Operations Forces—was a deadly, elite, covert unit, fully fitted with American equipment, that would operate for years under U.S. command and be unaccountable to Iraqi ministries and the normal political process. Shane Bauer reports for The Nation. Support was provided in part by CIR's Dick Goldensohn Fund.  |
 |  Elizabeth Rubin spent much of the fall of 2007 with Battle Company of the U.S. 173rd Airborne Brigade in northeastern Afghanistan. The Americans and the Taliban have been locked in a dead heat in the Korengal Valley for over three years. In 2007, Rubin went on a six-day mission with a platoon into the mountain hideouts that resulted in the death of three soldiers. Rubin returned to Korengal in the summer of 2008. Both times, she took a video camera.  |
 | Lawlessness and sectarian violence quickly engulfed Iraq after the fall of Saddam, leaving women vulnerable. Incidents of rape have increased, and by Iraqi tradition the victims are shunned and sometimes murdered by family members in "honor killings." Correspondent Anna Badkhen and photojournalist Mimi Chakarova visit a secret women's shelter in Baghdad to speak with rape victims and war widows and document their stories. |
 |  War correspondent Anna Badkhen recently returned to Iraq—her 10th trip since 2003—and wrote a series of journals for The Muckraker. During her month there, Badkhen met the wives of detained Iraqis, followed soldiers out on home searches, and witnessed the challenges American troops face maintaining order in a society that still condones "tribal justice"—vengeance killing.  |
 | The U.S. protects American factory workers from occupational illness and injury, but such protections seldom extend to Chinese workers who now make most U.S. goods. In a four part series, reporter Loretta Tofani reveals how Chinese workers are dying slow, difficult deaths, caused by the toxic chemicals they use in manufacturing. This series was partially funded by CIR's Dick Goldensohn Fund. |
 |  Cuban migrants who actually set foot on American soil get to stay as refugees. Anybody caught at sea is sent home. So, many migrants no longer take a boat to Florida. Lygia Navarro reports for Marketplace on what they're doing now. This project was partially funded by CIR's Dick Goldensohn Fund.  |