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    Asian Arts Initiative presents “Marvels & Monsters”

    Published February 16, 2012 by

    Knight Arts Challenge Finalist Asian Arts Initiative currently has on display “Marvels & Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics 1942 – 1986”. Curated by Jeff Yang, the show is a collaboration with the Asian / Pacific / American Institute at NYU, which presents the vast comic book collection of...
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    New site amplifies role of young people to create positive social change

    Published February 16, 2012 by

      Today, a new website is launching to provide a common platform for youth to share, learn and amplify the role of young people in creating positive social change.   YouthMovements.org features a map to display events, organizations and projects across global issues areas allowing young people to discover more about the opportunities to get involved in their own communities or about global developments across the issues that matter to them. The knowledge hub collects information tool kits and best practices to allow new projects to benefit from the successes and lessons learned from previous efforts of youth organizers.   The new site will also help organizations effectively share information about their projects, to promote projects and initiatives collaboratively, and to help track and celebrate the collective progress being made worldwide to tackle the world's most challenging issues.
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    Using online forums to boost deep dish pizza sales – and engage people least likely to participate online

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    By Steven Clift, founder and executive director of E-Democracy.org Do you have a “go to” place online where you connect with your neighbors?  A place where you can get to know people who live near you with incredibly different backgrounds, cultures and interests? Isn’t it awesome? I think so. In my own neighborhood of Standish and Ericsson in Minneapolis, I am digitally surrounded by almost 1,000 of my neighbors - about 20% of the households in my area - on a public online “neighbors forum.” In just the last few weeks, we sent deep dish pizza sales through the roof at a new pizza delivery place struggling to get established, generated local elected officials’ help to take on the FAA over surprise airplane route changes rattling windows, directed neighbors to local Girl Scouts for cookies, and helped a mom find out how to request a new stop sign at a dangerous intersection after she posted saying, “I want my children alive.” Last fall when I started a topic about what are we thankful for, a Dakota neighbor spoke of traditional Native American sites walking distance from all of us.
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    Media books in a networked, digital journalism universe, Part 3

    Published February 15, 2012 by

    Jeff Jarvis, along with students and faculty at the opening of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism in New York City. Over the past week, I've written about the steady stream of books written by Knight journalism and media innovation partners. Here’s the third and for the time being final batch of highlights: ·       Jeff Jarvis chronicles in Public Parts how sharing in the digital age improves the way we work and live.  Says the USA TODAY review: “Jarvis offers a persuasive and personal look at why sharing things publicly on the Web should become the norm. It makes us better and makes the Web more usable, he argues.” Jarvis directs the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism, where the nation’s first master’s degree in entrepreneurial journalism is offered.
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    For community foundation media projects: Rules of the road for partnership

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      Related  "Collaboration and Connection: How Foundations Partner Effectively to Address Their Community’s Information Needs" by FSG Social Impact Advisers in Publications As community foundations become active leaders in local news and information, many are learning they don’t need to go it alone. A variety of different partnership models are emerging and they are detailed in a new report by FSG for Knight Foundation.  The report is aimed primarily at foundations entering the news and information field, but other players, such as traditional news organizations, nonprofit community media organizations, and universities are prominent members of an emerging constellation of potential partners. Foundations, the report says, are learning that, “Partnerships are vital to their success, whether they are developing online platforms for community dialogue, financing new online professional news outlets or otherwise providing venues for community engagement about important issues affecting residents’ lives. “ For example, community media organizations may have more experience than the foundations in creating news content, while established news organizations can add reach as distribution partners. University partners might help with technology or students may help create content. Community nonprofits may bring valuable experience with community outreach.
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    Do you like gospel? Do you have talent?

    Published February 15, 2012 by

    By Adrienne Arsht Center Staff The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County is looking for you! As part of its Free Gospel Sundays program sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Arsht Center is conducting a New Gospel Talent Search. Wanted: Miami’s...
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    What’s new in a fair

    Published February 14, 2012 by

    This will be a bit of an experiment: the inaugural edition of the Art Wynwood International Contemporary Art Fair, to be held in a 100,000-square-foot tent in Midtown. Opening up on Thursday night and...
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    How and why community and place-based foundations are becoming players in the news and information field

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      Community and place-based foundations are playing a growing role in addressing their community information needs. They see their funding of information and media as helping them make an impact on the issues they care about, tied to their philanthropic leadership and likely to increase in the future. These were the key findings from our recently completed State of Information and Media Funding Survey. Of the 162 community and place-based foundation respondents, more than half report funding information and media-related projects in the past year, with a median contribution of just under $100k. Forty-nine percent of foundations supporting information and media have seen their funding in this area increase in the past three years, and 38% expect it to increase further over the next three years. The survey also confirmed what we’ve been hearing in the field: that most foundations are funding information and media to make progress on issues that matter to them, in areas such as education, health, civic engagement and nonprofit capacity building.  As one foundation explained: “We realize that public awareness, engagement, and mobilization are critical components to get civic leadership […] to take decisive action.”
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    “Doing Time | Depth of Surface”

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    In the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design there is a project on display, courtesy of Philagrafika by Spanish artists María Jesús González and Patricia Gómez, entitled “Doing Time | Depth of Surface,” which will be on display through March 17. The installation of photos, videos and large-scale...
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    The Charlotte Symphony Presents Carmina Burana

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    By Eva Lewis, Charlotte Symphony It is both sacred and profane. It is of romantic love and carnal desire. Primitive, passionate and powerful, the Charlotte Symphony will present Carl Orff’s ecstatic piece of love, springtime and passion. On February 24th and 25th at 7:30 p.m. listeners will enjoy in the...
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    The Borscht Film Festival heads to South by Southwest

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    The Borscht Film Festival, a Knight Arts grantee, is heading west next month as four of its shorts were selected for the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival. The Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke (Narrative Shorts competition), Reinaldo Arenas (Narrative Shorts competition), I Am Your Grandma (Midnight Shorts...