WNA Foundation

Our Mission

The Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation promotes newspaper readership in the state, develops the industry’s future workforce and advances awareness and exercise of the public’s First Amendment rights.

The Foundation supports specialized educational and career programs for students at primary, secondary and post-secondary levels – the newspaper readers and journalists of the future.

The Foundation supports programs to increase public awareness and appreciation of the place of newspapers in our society, including efforts to defend and advocate First Amendment rights in the public marketplace of ideas.


The Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation is a not-for-profit organization created in 1980 to support programs that foster excellence in journalism, engage current and future newspaper leaders and invest in our communities. The foundation solicits, manages and disburses funds and other resources for the benefit of Wisconsin’s newspaper industry.

Wisconsin Newspaper Association