We’re officially down to the final week in our crowdsource campaign and we’re almost halfway there. It’s going to be a nailbiter.

With a VIP list of America’s most powerful civil rights, civics education, journalism and journalism education groups officially endorsing the Tinker Tour, we’re hopeful we can raise the final $25,000.

While not all have been able to chip in financially, we want to take this opportunity to thank those who have endorsed our nationwide free speech/civics education bus tour:

• American Civil Liberties Union
• American Society of News Editors Youth Journalism Initiative
• Associated Collegiate Press
• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
• Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools
• Center for Scholastic Journalism
• Close Up Foundation
• College Media Advisers
• The First Amendment Center
• The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
• Journalism Education Association
• Junior National Young Leaders Conference
• Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• National Coalition Against Censorship
• National Constitution Center
• National Council for the Social Studies
• National Scholastic Press Association
• Newseum
• Poynter Institute
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier
• Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law
• Society of Professional Journalists (In addition to their endorsement, SPJ also wrote this very kind letter in support of the Tinker Tour: SPJ Tinker Tour Endorsment)
  
• Street Law
• Student Press Law Center
• Teaching for Change