This post is one in a series on what four community and place-based foundations are learning by funding media projects that help to meet their local information needs. All are funded through the Knight Community Information Challenge. “‘They’ to ‘Me’ to ‘We.’” Is this the future of informed communities? This evolution describes how community members […]
Article · April 28, 2015 by Steve Outing
New Brunswick Today team member Kaila Boulware works an outdoor event in February 2015, part of a crowdfunding campaign to support the local watchdog-journalism website and newspaper, which is being supported by the Dodge Foundation. (Photo courtesy of New Brunswick Today) This post is one in a series on what four community and place-based foundations are […]
Article · March 25, 2015 by Steve Outing
This post is one in a series on what four community and place-based foundations are learning by funding media projects that help to meet their local information needs. All are funded through the Knight Community Information Challenge. Great storytelling ability typically isn’t a top skill found among managers and staff of community foundations. But, of […]
Article · March 12, 2015 by Steve Outing
This post is one in a series on what four community and place-based foundations are learning by funding media projects that help to meet their local information needs. All are funded through the Knight Community Information Challenge. Prior to 2000, Wisconsin Rapids (population 18,000) and surrounding south Wood County were at the pinnacle of prosperity: Consolidated Papers Inc. had its […]
Article · January 21, 2015 by Steve Outing
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 […]
Article · December 17, 2014 by Steve Outing
Developer Fernando Diaz (at laptop) tests his food inspection site with three residents attending a CUTGroup meeting at a Chicago branch library in 2013. Photo by Flickr user Daniel X. O’Neil. This post is one in a series on what four community and place-based foundations are learning by funding media projects that help to meet their local information needs. […]
Article · December 10, 2014 by Steve Outing
Justin Auciello was honored in 2013 at the White House as a Champion for Change for his work during and after Hurricane Sandy. Photo via NJ News Commons. RELATED LINKS “Foundations take on projects to improve local news and information” by Steve Outing on Knight blog, 10/30/14 “Small news startups try to survive and cover […]
Article · November 19, 2014 by Steve Outing
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 […]
Article · October 30, 2014 by Steve Outing