(Above) Knight News Challenge: Elections reviewers meet at the Knight Foundation offices headquartered in Miami. Photo by Jessica Hodder.  Nineteen advisers have joined us in Miami this week to review the 46 semifinalists in Knight News Challenge: Elections.

The challenge closed on March 19 with more than 1,000 entries to the question: How might we better inform voters and increase civic participation before, during and after elections?

The advisers, who specialize in areas including open government, journalism, civic tech, audience engagement and voting rights, will help us identify a group of finalists that will then be submitted to Knight Foundation’s board of trustees for approval. The winners will be announced in July. Winners will receive a share of $3 million for their projects.

If you are one of those finalists, you can expect to hear from us next week. We will also send out formal declinations to semifinalists who will not be moving on. We may also follow up separately if we believe a proposal is better suited to another funding option at Knight, such as our Prototype Fund.

We’d like to thank the following people who have taken the time to join us this week:

• Adam Abrogi / Democracy Fund
• Jim Amoss / The Times-Picayune
• Kelly Born /The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Catherine Bracy / Code For America
• Brian Carovillano / Associated Press (Carovillano will recuse himself from conversations involving his proposal)
• Gabriel Dance /The Marshall Project
• Matt Ericson / The New York Times
• Erika Franklin Fowler / Wesleyan University
• Tom Glaisyer / Democracy Fund
• Chris Hughes / The New Republic and  Knight Foundation trustee
• Sara Just / “PBS NewsHour”
• Jonathan Kartt / Rita Allen Foundation
• Mindy Marques / The Miami Herald
• Amalie Nash / The Des Moines Register (Nash will recuse herself from conversations involving her proposal)
• Mirta Ojito / Telemundo
• Ahmed Shibab-Eldin
• Matt Thompson / The Atlantic
• Marilyn Thompson / Politico
• Yuri Victor / Vox Media

We would also like to thank our partners in this challenge: the Democracy Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Rita Allen Foundation.

The Knight News Challenge is one of the funding opportunities available from Knight Foundation. Browse other opportunities that are currently open for entries here.

Jessica Hodder is the digital communications associate at Knight Foundation. Email her at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @jessicahodder.