Above: Shaka Senghor, a member of BMe’s Local Engagement Team This spring, Knight Foundation will be running several open challenges across a variety of program areas. Here is an update on each of them. Knight Arts Challenge: Seeks the best ideas that enrich and engage communities through the arts. The challenge is currently operating in: […]
Article · January 15, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
A recent series of events highlighted the best of Miami’s startup, tech and creative scene. The first ever Innovate MIA week discovered innovative ideas taking place both in Miami and around the world. About the city’s emerging tech space, Wilfredo Fernandez, co-founder of the LAB Miami, which recently received support from Knight, says: “The talent […]
Article · January 14, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Portlandia, color us flattered. Earlier this week, Knight Foundation got a shout out and mock appearance on the IFC’s original short-based comedy series (a communications staff favorite). During last Friday’s episode Spike, (played by one of the show’s creators, writers and stars Fred Armisen) finally decides to buy a TV at a local thrift shop […]
Article · January 8, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
From better designed trash cans to apps that help parents track their kids’ school buses, community-centered technologies are being developed in cities across the country. In Boston, a civic innovation incubator is working to better design and deploy these types of technologies to more effectively address community needs. Nigel Jacob and Chris Osgood co-founded the Mayor’s Office of […]
Article · January 7, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Each year, News Foo gathers people in the digital news space to talk about an agenda created on the spot. Below, three participants offer their reactions and insights to this year’s conference, sponsored in part by Knight. “Fix foreign news, make it awesome,” by Lara Setrakian, foreign correspondent The round of us who made it […]
Article · January 3, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
The following is crossposted from the Communications Network’s blog. Whether intended to expand the audience for a small discussion or curate content from a large conference, live-tweeting events is becoming the norm in philanthropy. Too often people see it as an add-on, or even a hassle in the flurry of putting on an in-person event. […]
Article · January 3, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Knight Foundation enters 2013 with two new vice presidents, both promoted following the retirement of chief administrative officer Belinda Lawrence. Jorge (George) Martinez was promoted to vice president/chief technology officer. Martinez joined Knight in June 1996 as manager of IT and recently served as the department’s director. On the program side, Martinez leads the foundation’s universal broadband […]
Article · January 2, 2013 by Elizabeth R. Miller
At NewsFoo, Knight’s Journalism Program Associate Chris Sopher offered insights about young people’s engagement with news and information. In the video above, find out why age is just a number and not necessarily an indicator of people’s behavior when it comes to consuming news. Sopher shares the Newspaper Association of America‘s research indicating that people’s news consumption habits are […]
Article · December 19, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Video produced by March Blake Media. Knight Foundation is bidding farewell to longtime board member Rolfe Neill, and honoring his legacy with a $50,000 grant to the Salvation Army of Greater Charlotte. Neill, a former chairman and publisher of The Charlotte Observer, served 22 years on Knight Foundation’s board. During that time, he served as chair […]
Article · December 10, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Update: On Dec. 12, 2012, some 4,992 people helped raise $1.2 million for 300 nonprofits in the first ever Give Miami Day. As the year comes to an end, community foundations across the country are seeking to boost local fundraising efforts through Giving Days – 24-hour online fundraising marathons that bring communities together around causes. By […]
Article · December 7, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Paul Salopek is about embark on a journey – a seven year, 39 country voyage to retrace the footsteps of ancient humans and chronicle it through new storytelling methods. Salopek, a Pulitzer Prize winner and a National Geographic fellow, will walk the route from Africa to South America, collecting video, audio and narratives along the way. The Out […]
Article · December 6, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller