TurboVote

To support TurboVote's deployment, testing, and expansion on college campuses in Miami

CommonPlace

To build a web platform for local community engagement in Akron that uses trained community organizers and creates a local online sharing network for neighbors and civic leaders to connect

Favortree

To launch a "play it forward" favor-trading game that allows neighbors to engage offline by sharing goods and services with each other to strengthen social capital and trust

Community PlanIT

To implement Community PlanIT, an online tool that enables engagement in local community planning efforts, in four Knight communities: Detroit, Akron, San Jose and Philadelphia

KaBOOM!

To support an expanded KaBoom! model to include expanded training for volunteers and capacity building for the local sponsoring nonprofit in nine playgrounds builds in Akron, Miami and Detroit

Engagement Commons

To support the development of a digital platform for civic discourse

Code for America

To support our strategy of investing in citizen-centered solutions in three Knight communities by piloting the Code for America model, which deploys technology professionals to develop original solutions that engage citizens in community challenges

Do Something

To support the development of an SMS-based mobile platform designed to increase the number of teenagers engaged in community service and to keep them active and engaged

KaBOOM!

To fund the 2,000th KaBOOM! community-built playground at Imagine Southeast Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. in June 2011

CitizenshipWorks Innovation Fund

To create the CitizenshipWorks Innovation Fund to invest in new tools and technologies that help legal permanent residents become U.S. citizens

Code for America

To build an online catalog of applications that local governments and community leaders can use to locate, understand and deploy the best available tools for community engagement

Detroit4Detroit / Philly4Philly

To help Citizen Effect, a young nonprofit based in Washington DC, expand its innovative philanthropy model -- connecting 'citizen philanthropists' directly to projects they care about in their communities