AllSides Education Fund
AllSides Education Fund strengthens our democratic society by increasing access to balanced news, media bias ratings, diverse perspectives, and real conversation.
About the AllSides Education Fund
AllSides Education Fund was founded in 2015 as a joint nonprofit initiative of AllSides (news literacy and media bias), Living Room Conversations (fostering conversation and nurturing relationships across difference), and the Mediators Foundation (our nonprofit fiscal sponsor).
AllSides Education Fund was created as a response to the needs of educators and community leaders who seek to address a double crisis in the classroom and civic spaces of decayed media literacy skills and atrophied abilities to communicate outside of the safe filter bubbles people had created for themselves in person and on social media.
Educators across the country are already taking advantage of the AllSides School Memberships and Living Room Conversations topic guides. AllSides Education Fund supports greater access to these services. Teachers, schools and other social-good organizations can apply for an AllSides Education Fund scholarship or funds to access services and products in order to broaden the knowledge, skill sets and experiences to better understand and appreciate each other, especially across differences.
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Programs funded by AllSides Education Fund
Explore our current projects and learn how you can support expanding access to diverse perspectives in your community.
News Literacy
Schools across all 50 states already use our balanced newsfeed, bias ratings and dialogue tools. Thanks to generous support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Stone Family Foundation, AllSides Education Fund is embarking on a two-year pilot with Project Look Sharp and a group of 20 teachers and librarians from across the country to add a “news literacy layer” to AllSides.
Visit AllSides for Schools➜
Roundtables
Roundtables splits thousands of people into small-group, guided video discussions of 4-6 participants. They invite people with differing political views to engage respectfully on meaningful topics from Living Room Conversations.
Participants receive a summary of perspectives and opportunities to further engage. Organizers receive a dashboard of insights including survey results, breakdown of perspectives and analysis, and emails for follow-ups.
Participate in a Roundtable➜
Mismatch
This joint project “mismatches” classrooms across the country. Students break out of filter bubbles, explore multiple viewpoints, and invest in critical skills like listening, curiosity, and communication.
Sphere Education Initiatives (Cato Institute) partnering on a pilot engaging 60 educators and 180 students for inter-classroom dialogue on topics ranging from Media and Polarization to Belonging.
Explore Mismatch➜
