by Andrea Peirce | Dec 22, 2022
I’m thrilled to announce the winners of the Neal Peirce Foundation’s 2022-23 journalism travel grants! Our support of up to $1,500 each will enable seven journalists to go out on the road, as my father did for so much of his career, to report stories about how cities...
by Andrea Peirce | Dec 27, 2021
Today, on the second anniversary of the death of my Dad, Neal Peirce, I keep thinking about how he was always home for the holidays — and how this stood in contrast to the rest of the year, when he was always on the road. As a kid, the sight of Dad’s leather suitcase...
by Andrea Peirce | Dec 12, 2021
On a bright afternoon in October, I telephoned three journalists to let them know that our brand new foundation — started in memory of my dad, Neal Peirce — was giving each of them a travel grant of up to $1,500. I was delivering good news… so why were my hands...
by Andrea Peirce | Jul 26, 2021
When my Dad died in December 2019, two thoughts overwhelmed me. One was that he’d had a wild ride in life, a grand time. He shared this with me on the porch overlooking his beloved Newfound Lake one glorious August afternoon, the sun at his back. “If I died now,...
