It is dedicated to developing tomorrow’s readers by encouraging them to acquire and value information from newspapers and other media. The Foundation achieves these objectives by:

• Operating programs that promote newspaper use by young people.
• Forming strategic alliances.
• Making targeted grants to leverage its resources.
• Improving youth literacy through family and community initiatives.

The Foundation’s programs are targeted to students in elementary school through early college. These programs emphasize the use of newspapers by young people, but also include use of and facility with other media. Foundation programs are concentrated in three major areas:

• Newspaper In Education: NAA Foundation provides resources and training to newspapers and educators on the use of newspapers in schools; helps newspapers develop strategic plans for promoting and marketing their NIE services; and represents newspapers with a broad variety of education partners.
• Newspaper Content for Youth: The Foundation serves as an information clearinghouse on youth readership initiatives by newspapers and will help newspapers plan and evaluate youth features and other content for young readers and their families.
• Student Newspapering: The Foundation provides information and resources to newspapers, educators and young people to support the publication of school newspapers.