Why Your Support Matters
The ways people create, receive, and share information continue to change. Students encounter media across classrooms and digital platforms. Families navigate social media and changing communication technologies. Educators seek useful ways to strengthen critical thinking. Communities need opportunities for lifelong learning. Artificial intelligence is creating new questions about authorship, evidence, authenticity, representation, and responsibility. Media literacy provides a foundation for responding thoughtfully to these changes. Supporting DIMLE helps strengthen an organization committed to making media literacy education relevant across generations and changing media environments.
Help Expand Media Literacy Education
DIMLE is building a foundation for educational work that can grow over time. Support can help DIMLE develop and strengthen work involving: Media-literacy educational resources Resources for students and educators Community and lifelong-learning materials AI and emerging-media literacy Research and publication Public education and awareness Partnership development Digital access to media-literacy information and resources As DIMLE develops these areas, our goal is to expand opportunities for people to engage with media more thoughtfully and responsibly.
Media Literacy Across Generations
Media literacy is not only for students. Children, college students, educators, families, working adults, older adults, and community members all encounter media and information in different ways. Supporting DIMLE contributes to an approach that recognizes media literacy as a lifelong practice—one that can evolve as people's information needs and communication environments change.
Support Thoughtful Human Judgment
DIMLE does not exist to tell people what to think. Our educational approach encourages people to observe carefully, ask questions, examine evidence, understand context, evaluate sources, consider different perspectives, create responsibly, and reflect on their conclusions. The objective is not agreement. It is thoughtful, evidence-informed judgment. Supporting DIMLE helps sustain an educational mission centered on strengthening people's capacity to think for themselves.
Ways to Support DIMLE
Make a Donation
Make a Donation Financial contributions can help DIMLE continue developing the organizational and educational foundation needed to advance its mission. Use the secure donation option on this page to make a contribution to DIMLE.
Partner With DIMLE
Partner With DIMLE Organizations can also support media literacy through collaboration. Schools, colleges and universities, libraries, community organizations, media organizations, educators, researchers, and others interested in shared work can explore opportunities to partner with DIMLE. Partner With DIMLE
Share DIMLE's Work
Share DIMLE's Work Helping other people discover credible media-literacy education can also support the mission. Share DIMLE and its educational resources with educators, students, families, libraries, organizations, and others who may benefit from them.
Building for the Future
DIMLE's work is intended to grow carefully and responsibly. That means developing useful educational resources, strengthening organizational capacity, building appropriate partnerships, expanding access, and responding thoughtfully as media and communication technologies continue to change. Support today can help provide the foundation for that continued development.
Support Media Literacy Education
Media literacy gives people tools for asking better questions—not predetermined answers. Your support can help DIMLE continue building educational resources and opportunities that encourage curiosity, critical thinking, responsible communication, and thoughtful human judgment.
