TEGNA Foundation Awards Grants to Address Critical Community Needs

TEGNA Foundation, the charitable foundation sponsored by TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA), in partnership with its local stations, today announced it awarded 242 Community Grants to address critical community needs and initiatives. A summary of TEGNA Foundation’s 2023 Community Grants is available on the Foundation’s website.

In 2023, TEGNA stations continued to serve the greater good of their communities by supporting a variety of local causes, including programs focused on workforce development and economic mobility, and promoting diversity and inclusion.

The majority of 2023 Community Grants support the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs): Good Health and Well-Being (59%); Quality Education (21%); and Zero Hunger (13%).

“Our stations partner with their local communities to help nonprofits build on their mission not only through TEGNA Foundation grants, but also through station fundraising efforts and storytelling,” said Dave Lougee, president and CEO, TEGNA. “It is a privilege to work with our stations and employees to collaborate with organizations that are making a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals and families within our communities.”

Within the UN Sustainable Goal framework, several grants stand out as areas particularly significant to the local communities served, including:

• Good Health and Well-Being (59%)
  
  WUSA in Washington, D.C., focused the majority of their Community Grants on Good Health and Well-Being, including support for STRIPES, an afterschool LGBTQ+ alliance for low-income youth of color at Latin American Youth Center; support for Step Sisters to provide patient care bags to veteran breast cancer patients at Ft. Belvoir; and support for the Dental Service Project at The Arc of Prince George’s County, which allows individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to receive extensive and deferred dental care they are otherwise not able to afford.
  

• Quality Education (21%)
  
  WKYC in Cleveland, the “Education Station,” focused their Community Grants on pressing education needs in their local community. Recent grants include supporting education programs at the Cleveland Public Theatre; supporting the AARP Foundation’s Experience Corps, which provides trained volunteers aged 50 and older to tutor first through third graders in reading with Greater Cleveland Volunteers; and supporting the recruitment and training of tutors to work with students at Seeds of Literacy.