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Inside Philanthropy highlights Broad Foundation award to News Literacy Project efforts in LA

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News literacy efforts in California schools received a boost from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation in the form of a $1.15 million grant. The funds will support a partnership between the News Literacy Project and Los Angeles Unified School District through NLP’s News Literacy District Fellowship program. “Students are at a civic disadvantage if they aren’t taught how to be news literate and to engage with the news and information that they come across every day,” said Charles Salter, NLP president and CEO. Helping make it happen is California philanthropist Melanie Lundquist, an LAUSD grad and NLP board member.

Read the Inside Philanthropy piece here. Read more about the Broad Foundation’s support for the News Literacy Project’s work with LAUSD here.

 

 

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