Funding Partners

Sponsors help put our newspapers into your classroom

Thank you to all of our community partners!

The News In Education program is made possible through the support of our generous community partners. While NIE supplies free curriculum guides and supplementary teaching materials, the discounted-rate newspapers and e-editions are sponsored by local businesses and organizations that "adopt" classrooms and by subscribers.

Why become an "Adopt-A-Classroom" partner?

"Adopt-A-Classroom" sponsorships directly support literacy and civic education in southwestern Michigan. Students who read at a young age are more likely to make a habit of it for the rest of their lives. National research has shown that regularly reading newspapers in class dramatically raises students reading and comprehension levels.*

Corporate partners have the option of sponsoring specific curriculum in the paper as well as individual classrooms. Partners are recognized in the newspaper and thanked in supplementary materials provided to NIE classrooms.

For more information on sponsorship opportunities, please e-mail Lori Cook at lcook@grpress.com or Ann Marie Keeler at nie@kalamazoogazette.com.

* Students who regularly read newspapers in class, scored an average of 10 to 29 percent higher on standardized tests than their peers who did not read newspapers. (Measuring Success, NAA Foundation, 2001.)

Subscribers can help, too!

As a Grand Rapids Press, Kalamazoo Gazette or Muskegon Chronicle subscriber, you have the opportunity to support literacy and civic education locally. When you are away from home and have your newspaper delivery temporarily stopped, you may donate the value of your missed papers to NIE. The cost of one regularly priced newspaper provides three discounted-rate newspapers to area schools. Donations are collected all year long and are used to purchase discounted newspapers during the school year and during summer school programs.

For more information please visit:
The Grand Rapids Press
The Kalamazoo Gazette
Muskegon Chronicle