Your support ensures that information empowers communities—and that students learn journalism not as a product, but as a public good.
Supporting our work helps students graduate with skills, purpose, and experience, and it helps communities get information and services they can use.
*For specific directions, read below
To donate, click the “Donate Now” button above:
1. Select to support “Other” in the “I want to Support” box.
2. Type in “Communities of Hope” into the “Specify Area of Support.”
Those boxes should look like the example shown on the right.
Supporting Communities of Hope Civic Media strengthens both our communities and the people learning to serve them
We provide information that people can actually use
We keep essential journalism independent and accessible
We investigate solutions, not just crises
Our journalism helps residents understand systems, access services, and participate in decisions that shape their lives, particularly where information gaps cause real harm.
We prioritize public service over clicks, ensuring stories reach the right people across platforms, languages, and levels of access.
Your support sustains long-term reporting that tracks what communities are trying, what works, where it is being done better, and what needs to be held accountable.
We create shared value
We invest in the next generation of civic leaders
Community-centered reporting improves public understanding while providing students with meaningful, career-defining learning experiences and lifelong ethical and critical-thinking skills.
Students learn by doing real journalism and real engagement for real communities, gaining practical skills, ethical grounding, and firsthand experience with equity-driven public service.
Supporting Communities of Hope Civic Media means investing in meaningful education with real public impact.
Students learn by serving real communities
Learning happens in real-world conditions
Ethics and impact come first
They don’t practice on simulations; they produce journalism that people rely on to understand systems, access services, and participate in civic life.
Students gain hands-on experience in reporting, research, data, audio, video, technology, and collaboration, preparing them for professional and civic leadership upon graduation.
Students learn journalism as a public service, grounded in accuracy and trust, accountability, care, and responsibility to the communities they serve.
Education and community benefit are inseparable
Your support expands opportunity
Our work creates value for Rhode Island communities while providing students with rigorous, applied learning they cannot gain in a traditional classroom alone.
It ensures students from diverse backgrounds can participate in high-impact learning experiences while strengthening trusted local journalism.