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Elizabeth R. Miller

  • Communities

    Exploring a sustainable business model with PublicStuff

    Discover PublicStuff for Your City from PublicStuff on Vimeo. In the emerging field of tech for engagement, there’s a hunger and need to explore sustainable business models. Organizations and startups alike are looking for ways to derive revenue from sources other than their users. PublicStuff is one startup exploring the possibilities. Funded by the Knight Enterprise Fund, its app […]

    Article · November 26, 2012 by

  • Communities

    Building Philly’s open data movement

    If you had the keys to your city’s data, what would you do? Mark Headd, Philadelphia’s first chief data officer, is in that enviable position. Formerly the lead of government relations at Code for America, Headd now works directly with agencies and departments on the standards and procedures by which they release their data to the public. We talked […]

    Article · November 19, 2012 by

  • Communities

    Engaging Minnesota donors on Give to the Max Day

    Thursday was Give to the Max Day at www.GiveMN.org and Minnesotans indeed gave to the max: collectively the community raised $16.3 million for more than 4,000 nonprofits across the state. Some 53,339 individuals donated via GiveMN.org, an innovative online resource seeking to change the way Minnesotans give and help create a stronger nonprofit community.  Now in its fourth year, GiveMN.org uses a […]

    Article · November 16, 2012 by

  • Communities

    @chrishughes: entrepreneurship hits at the core of America’s character

    One idea in America we really get right is the near universal respect for the entrepreneur, Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s co-founders told the abc* Continuity Forum in Miami this week. “It gets to the core of not only our economy, but who we are as a country.” He cited his involvement with the birth and explosion of […]

    Article · November 15, 2012 by

  • Communities

    Innovative approach to evaluation recognized

    Hershey Cause Communications and Knight Foundation were recently recognized for an innovative approach to evaluating social impact games. The publication, Social Impact Games: Do They Work? explored two real-world games funded by Knight: Macon Money, which brought people together from different backgrounds to help catalyze economic impact in Macon, Ga., and Battlestorm, which focused on hurricane preparedness in Biloxi, […]

    Article · November 14, 2012 by

  • Communities

    Igniting new thinking about the future of philanthropy

    Knight Foundation and several of its partners will be at the Independent Sector’s annual conference starting this Sunday in San Francisco. Over several days, the conference will feature game changing people, events and ideas to ignite new thinking on the future of charitable sector.  Sunday’s luncheon plenary conversation will focus on what lies ahead for America after the […]

    Article · November 9, 2012 by

  • Arts

    New series celebrates Miami as an international center of art

    Artist-to-Artist: Conversations at MOCA from MOCA North Miami on Vimeo. While headlines focus on Art Basel Miami Beach each December, a new mini-series will feature the local artists who have steadily built the region’s reputation as an international art center. Debuting Sunday in South Florida, the Artist-to-Artist series will feature artists like Daniel Arsham, whose […]

    Article · November 2, 2012 by

  • Communities

    Awards recognize South Floridians using tech to increase access to info

    Tonight the Universal Access Awards will recognize South Floridians making a positive impact by using technology to increase people’s access to information. The awards are designed to bring greater recognition to the community’s innovators who support enhanced connectivity. Specifically they celebrate ways that groups, companies and governments are using broadband and other forms of technology […]

    Article · November 1, 2012 by

  • Communities

    Apps for engagement and innovation

    Since its launch, the Code for America Commons has grown from a small collaborative experiment in civic innovation to a thriving database with almost 620 apps being used in 242 cities. Supported by Knight, its goal is to become the first stop for city officials, community leaders and civic hackers who want to find out what civic […]

    Article · October 29, 2012 by