• Learn how your business can benefit the NIE program and local students by becoming a corporate sponsor; download the NIE sponsorship package (3.5 MB PDF download). Donate from $250 to $2,500 by filling out the sponsorship form.

• Become an individual sponsor and mail your donation to Newspapers in Education, The Island Packet, P.O. Box 5727, Hilton Head Island, SC 29938;

• Fill out the NIE donation amount on your Island Packet or Beaufort Gazette subscription renewal form; or

• Make a vacation donation -- if you are leaving for vacation of any length of time, instead of stopping your subscription, you can donate it to the Newspapers in Education program. Contact the circulation department at (843) 706-8222 to arrange a vacation donation of The Packet or The Gazette.