Session 1: Five Things You Need to Know To Get Started Facilitators: Eric Newton, Senior Advisor to the President, Knight Foundation; Michele McLellan, Circuit Rider, Knight Foundation Scribe: Heidi Williamson, Vice President for Grantmaking and Communication, Berks County Community Foundation “Ideas are easy. Doing stuff is hard.”  — Dan Gillmor Community information projects range from […]

Breakout Session 5: How do we strengthen our capacity as a foundation? Facilitator: JoAnn Turnquist, President and CEO, Central Carolina Community Foundation Scribe: Carolyn Torgersen, VP for Marketing and Communications, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry Introduction The large question of “how do we build and leverage our capacity as a convener?” was posed to the […]

Breakout Session 6: How Do We Measure Audience, Engagement and Revenue  Facilitator: Michael Maness, VP for Journalism and Media Innovation, Knight Foundation Scribe: LuAnn Lovlin, Director of Communications, The Winnipeg Foundation Facilitator Michael Maness helped the group look at some of the innovative ways tools people are using to find out who is on their […]

Session 9:  Developing a pool of donors:  Funding in the information arena Facilitator:  Emmett Carson, CEO, Silicon Valley Community Foundation Scribe:  Angelle C. Fouther, Senior Communications Officer, The Denver Foundation Emmett started by sharing his observation that there are two major strategies to developing a pool of donors for information projects: Strategy 1:  You have […]

Breakout Session 10: New election year tools and techniques Facilitator:  Rod Petrey, civic activist Scribe: Donna Jolly, V.P. for Communications and Marketing, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Election Process TurboVote The founders of TurboVote wondered why the Internet revolutionized everything except government services. According to The Circle, research center at Tufts, 62 percent of students […]

Breakout Session 7: Experiments in Sustainability: Who’s Doing What? Facilitated by Susan Mernit, Circuit Rider Scribe: Roberta King, Vice President, P.R. and Marketing, Grand Rapids Community Susan is a circuit rider with Knight. She has worked with over 70 projects that have been funded by the foundation and she’s the force behind the hyperlocal site […]

Breakout Session 4: How do we develop/strengthen partnerships? Facilitated by Michael Marsicano – President and CEO, Foundation for the Carolinas Scribe: Susan Knudten, Senior Communications Officer, Rose Community Foundation Michael began with a short presentation containing data from several sources, which will be posted at a later date. What brought you to this session? Q: A […]