Marian Liu helps lead the Online News Association South Florida chapter. She is the online entertainment editor at the Sun Sentinel based in Broward County. I’ve attended 39 journalism conventions—from the Asian-American Journalists Association to American Society of News Editors to UNITY: Journalists for Diversity, but as a veteran convention-goer I consider the annual Online News Association […]
Miami and Charlotte skylines by Michael Bolden and James Willamor on Flickr. The Charlotte (North Carolina) Chamber of Commerce brought its annual Inter City Visit to the Knight community of Miami June 22 to 25, hoping to build off the entrepreneurial and startup energy of the Magic City. The tour, an annual event by the […]
Photo by Dave Johnson on Flickr. Last night, pajamas-clad 22-year-old Tessa Shapiro spent four hours curled up on her couch, computer on her lap, a pot of tea and snacks at arm’s reach, texting with strangers. She’s part of the volunteer army at Crisis Text Line, a former Knight News Challenge winner that Knight Foundation […]
Today, Knight Foundation is announcing 17 winners of the Knight News Challenge on Data at a convening at Civic Hall in New York. Each of the winners will receive a share of $3.2 million to develop their project, which seeks to answer the question: How might we make data work for individuals and communities? As […]
Neha Singh Gohil is a senior media fellow at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Photos by SVCF from a reporter training at Overfelt High School in San Jose, California. In October 2014, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation partnered with New America Media on a nine-month project to support ethnic media outlets in education reporting. Our goal […]
Forget the magic wand: Reaching out to diverse donors takes less pixie dust and more customized outreach and relationship building, philanthropy experts said last week during a Knight Foundation webinar on how to increase minority participation in Giving Day campaigns. While many minority communities have traditions of institutional giving, they aren’t particularly familiar with the […]
Photo courtesy of Soofa. Most ordinary benches just sit in parks or alongside city streets, providing a space for people to rest and watch the world pass by. But what if those benches had a more profound purpose: to connect the people who use them to the surrounding environment. Soofa, a Knight Enterprise Fund portfolio […]
“Your elected representatives at all levels are no better or worse than you deserve,” said Jack Knight in 1946. “It is depressing to hear citizens say they’re too busy for politics and then express disgust at the outcome of an election. Just who is supposed to make that fight for them?” At Knight Foundation, we […]
Need inspiration for your Knight News Challenge: Elections application? Watch this video and others in our Knight News Challenge: Elections Mixtape. Martin Kaplan is the Norman Lear Professor of Entertainment, Media and Society at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and founding director of the Norman Lear Center. Below he shares […]
By Abdo Sayegh Rodríguez, TU Dance TU Dance, the acclaimed Minnesota-based dance company led by Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands, returns to the Cowles Center for Dance as part of its 11th annual performance season. On stage at 8pm on Friday-Saturday, April 17-18, and 2pm on Sunday, April 19th at the Cowles Center in downtown […]
By Philly Pigeon co-founder Jacob Winterstein With support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation The Philly Pigeon was able to fly five poets and a coach to the National Poetry Slam (NPS) in Oakland California From August 5th-9th. A poetry slam is a competition between poets performing original work judged by five […]
The nine fellows who will deploy the Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s “Silicon Valley Stories” program. From left to right: Celina Rodriguez, David Wang, Giang Phan, Harvey Barkin, Henrietta Burroughs, Lisa Tsering, Melissa Hernandez, Rian Dundon and Veronica Taylor Avendano. This post is one in a series on what four community and place-based foundations are learning by funding […]
Terry Mazany of the Chicago Community Trust and Neha Singh Gohil of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation take part in a design thinking session for their projects. Increasingly, community foundations are playing a role in meeting the information needs of their cities. Over the next year, KnightBlog will follow four of these projects funded by […]
By Laura Bruney, Arts & Business Council of Miami ABC: What role do see the arts playing in Miami’s growth as a global community? The arts are the core of what started the growth of Miami as we know it today. When I first moved here in the late 80s I came to such an […]
