The deadline is approaching soon for the Knight Community Information Challenge, offering matching funds to community and place-based foundations supporting news and information projects. So we thought we’d round up information that may help you brainstorm ideas and formulate your application before July 1.

First, we have a few posts on how community foundations are:

• Discovering that good information promotes social change;
• Opening up data to local residents, and
• Experimenting with mobile projects.

We also have a slide presentation and post on the challenge’s new focus for 2013, and case studies that look at how four community foundations took their projects from idea to reality. Earlier this month, we hosted a webinar to answer questions, and posted the recording. Apply Now!

The challenge this year is putting a priority on Open Government projects that help improve the way citizens and governments interact. Today, at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, the Knight Digital Media Center is hosting a session on Open Government, Open Data and Civic Participation: Five Projects Any Community Can Try. There’s still space left, so feel free to join in the conversation.

And as always, there are plenty of other resources (and a link to the application, hint hint) at informationneeds.org.

Best of luck! If you have a question that’s not answered in our FAQ, you can always e-mail us at [email protected].

By Marika Lynch, communications consultant at Knight Foundation