We’re celebrating Thank-a-thon!
Together, we made the 2025-26 school year a chapter to celebrate
We simply want to say thank you to our supporters for being such an important part of the News Literacy Project’s story. Your generosity is helping shape the next generation and strengthen the news literacy movement for years to come.
Thanks to you, our 2025-26 school year was an incredible chapter!
You helped us reach 1.45 million students through our District Fellowship program — students like Hailey Hans in West Virginia are gaining lifelong skills through news literacy education:
“We need media literacy, and we need news in classrooms… We need to be told how to look at a story and tell what’s biased, what’s fake.”
Your support helped us deliver resources to 22,800+ educators — like Christine Ledgerwood-Flores in California and Tracy Raasch in Wisconsin.
“In an information environment full of AI slop, our kids deserve to learn how to separate fact from fiction and make up their own minds about important issues,” Ledgerwood-Flores said.
“News literacy education helps students discern fact from opinion, avoid the spread of misinformation, and empowers teens to think critically about the content they consume and how it can shape the future of society,” Raasch said.
And you helped us roll out new resources and offerings, like our Scroll Smarter newsletter geared toward families.
“I appreciate the message of optimism, that we can, with a little effort and time, train ourselves and our children to navigate the digital media environment in a healthier and more intelligent way,” one Scroll Smarter subscriber told us in a reader survey.
See what you helped make possible
More Classrooms Reached
Timely Tools for Today
Our educator hubs covered the topics that teachers request the most.
Expanded Access & Lasting Change
Our District Fellowship program now delivers news literacy to
Investing in the Future
Every dollar is fueling our momentum toward 2028 and beyond, helping us reach millions more students with essential news literacy skills for life.
Dedicated support from donors made this work possible. Longtime donors continued to show up for NLP and the students and educators we serve. And we were excited to welcome new supporters into our community, too.
“I believe that helping even one child understand how to look out for bias still makes a huge impact on the community,” said Ridley Mentzer, a 14-year-old student from California and a new NLP supporter.
A new school year means new opportunities to give even more young people news literacy skills they’ll carry for life. We’re grateful to be entering this year with so much momentum, and we’re excited for what we’ll do together next!
If you’d like to help, your support makes our continued progress possible.
