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Photo: Bill Marsh
Photo: Bill Marsh

Support IndyKids! Our budget is small, so your donation makes a big difference in the life of IndyKids. Think about the impact you can make. Every $50 contribution pays for nearly 600 additional newspapers. That’s 600 more kids who you help to reach with a fuller understanding of the news and the world.

Become a Monthly Sustainer to ensure that IndyKids can keep doing its great work! Sign up to donate $10 a month – it will be automatically deducted from your account.

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Or, make a one-time donation to IndyKids for any amount.

To give a tax-deductible donation, please write a check to the IndyKids fiscal sponsor, the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, and mail it to IndyKids. Just make your check payable to “UC-IMC” and mail it to:

IndyKids
P.O. Box 2281
New York, NY 10163


10 Reasons Why You Should Donate to IndyKids Today!

  1. Many kids’ classroom exposure to current events comes through corporate-owned publications such as Time for Kids and Junior Scholastic, which make profits by delivering corporate advertising and product placement along with educational resources to classrooms across the country.
  2. IndyKids is an advertising-free, fiscally sponsored nonprofit that relies on donations and support from the public to survive.
  3. All of IndyKids’ writing, editing, illustration, design, organizing and distribution work is carried out by a volunteer staff of dedicated teachers, parents and journalists, and one part-time coordinator who handles administrative tasks.
  4. As the nation’s ONLY progressive current-events newspaper for kids, IndyKids brings kids a diversity of perspectives from grassroots organizers and movements for social justice around the world.
  5. IndyKids helps kids understand they can participate in struggles for social justice by highlighting the opinions of kids in every issue.
  6. IndyKids is part of a growing movement of progressive educators working to make change through education.
  7. Instead of sanitizing global events, IndyKids explains complex political and social issues to kids in way that engages and informs them.
  8. IndyKids is dedicated to remaining a free online and low-cost print resource for teachers and parents.
  9. IndyKids has 15,000 readers in 30 states across the country and aspires to reach thousands more next year.
  10. IndyKids relies on donations from individuals like you to survive.