Partnerships and FundersPartnerships and Funders
Download the KQED Education Annual Report for school year 2024-25.
KQED partners with education agencies, organizations with educator networks, and public media stations to provide educators around the Bay Area and across the country with classroom resources and professional development opportunities to make media literacy learning relevant to students.
Types of Partnerships
- Educator Professional Development: KQED partners with educator professional development networks and education agencies to support educator use of KQED Youth Media Challenge and professional development opportunities.
- Distribution: KQED partners with public media stations and other organizations to distribute student-produced media published to the KQED Youth Media Challenge.
KQED Professional Development Services
KQED is proud to partner with schools, districts and county offices of education to provide a safe space for educators to increase media literacy skills and competencies and collaborate with other professionals to create a set of best practices for integrating media literacy skills and practices into classrooms. Through school and district implementation, KQED professional development supports are customized and curated to meet school district goals and objectives.
More information for school and district leaders is here.
Interested in Partnering?
If you are interested in partnering, please contact Almetria Vaba, director of partnerships, at avaba@kqed.org.
About Our Philanthropic Partners
KQED’s education services are funded by generous philanthropic partners committed to elevating diverse youth voices and helping students and educators thrive in 21st-century classrooms. Is your organization interested in supporting our work? Please contact Danielle Horcabas, education grants manager, at dhorcabas@kqed.org to learn more.
Programmatic Partners
826 National, Bay Area Writing Project, Beyond100K, Boys and Girls Club of San Leandro, PORTS (a project of California State Parks), CiviXNow Coalition, Community Resources for Science, Facing History and Ourselves California, GBH, Jefferson Public Radio, National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE), National Writing Project, News Literacy Project, Oakland Goes Outdoors (a project of Oakland Unified School District), PBS, PBS News Student Reporting Labs, Bay Area school districts and Bay Area County Offices of Education, Math for America, Public Media Stations across the country as well as our technology partners, Adobe, Soundtrap and WeVideo
Philanthropic Partners
Bowes Foundation
Crescent Porter Hale Foundation
Gayle McKinney Peterson
Raab Foundation
Sato Foundation
Stuart Foundation
Susan and Thomas Harrington
Members of KQED