Knight Foundation donations made (filtered to cause areas matching Technology)

This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2024. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.

Table of contents

Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._and_James_L._Knight_Foundation
Facebook username knightfdn
Websitehttps://knightfoundation.org/
Donations URLhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants
Twitter usernameknightfdn
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://knightfoundation.org/about
Grant application process pagehttps://knightfoundation.org/apply/
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/knight-foundation

This entity is also a donee.

Donor donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 902 100,700 292,123 0 26,000 35,000 35,000 50,000 100,700 196,000 245,000 250,000 565,000 6,000,000
Technology, Journalism 472 195,000 402,874 0 15,000 50,000 89,874 125,750 195,000 225,000 250,000 300,000 1,000,000 6,000,000
Technology 366 35,000 165,915 0 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 150,000 250,000 400,000 3,016,000
Technology, Communities, Arts, Journalism 1 16,028 16,028 16,028 16,028 16,028 16,028 16,028 16,028 16,028 16,028 16,028 16,028 16,028
Technology, Communities, Journalism 31 104,000 243,532 20,000 20,000 35,000 49,585 52,000 104,000 134,900 202,000 250,000 302,000 3,200,000
Journalism, Technology 20 50,000 97,500 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 200,000 250,000 250,000
Arts, Technology 10 150,000 146,213 100,000 100,000 100,000 148,800 150,000 150,000 150,000 150,000 155,000 173,329 185,000
Technology, Arts, Journalism 1 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000
Technology, Communities 1 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792 1,535,792

Donation amounts by cause area and year

If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.

Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.

Cause area Number of donations Number of donees Total 2019 2017 2016 2015
Technology (filter this donor) 366 303 15,376,568.00 35,000.00 7,542,000.00 6,352,568.00 1,447,000.00
Technology, Journalism (filter this donor) 472 256 2,008,000.00 0.00 2,008,000.00 0.00 0.00
Journalism, Technology (filter this donor) 20 20 1,950,000.00 0.00 1,700,000.00 250,000.00 0.00
Arts, Technology (filter this donor) 10 10 1,462,129.00 0.00 1,462,129.00 0.00 0.00
Technology, Arts, Journalism (filter this donor) 1 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Technology, Communities (filter this donor) 1 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Technology, Communities, Arts, Journalism (filter this donor) 1 1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Technology, Communities, Journalism (filter this donor) 31 30 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 902 558 20,796,697.00 35,000.00 12,712,129.00 6,602,568.00 1,447,000.00

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Donation amounts by subcause area and year

If you hover over a cell for a given subcause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.

For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.

Subcause area Number of donations Number of donees Total 2019 2017 2016 2015
Technology 30 29 15,376,568.00 35,000.00 7,542,000.00 6,352,568.00 1,447,000.00
Technology, Journalism 1 1 2,008,000.00 0.00 2,008,000.00 0.00 0.00
Journalism, Technology 20 20 1,950,000.00 0.00 1,700,000.00 250,000.00 0.00
Arts, Technology 10 10 1,462,129.00 0.00 1,462,129.00 0.00 0.00
Classified total 61 58 20,796,697.00 35,000.00 12,712,129.00 6,602,568.00 1,447,000.00
Unclassified total 0 0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 61 58 20,796,697.00 35,000.00 12,712,129.00 6,602,568.00 1,447,000.00

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Donation amounts by donee and year

Donee Cause area Metadata Total 2019 2017 2016 2015
CODE2040 (filter this donor) 3,016,000.00 0.00 3,016,000.00 0.00 0.00
Democracy Works (filter this donor) 2,516,000.00 0.00 2,516,000.00 0.00 0.00
Crisis Text Line (filter this donor) 2,516,000.00 0.00 0.00 2,516,000.00 0.00
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (filter this donor) 2,245,589.00 0.00 2,008,000.00 237,589.00 0.00
Project TF dba CODE2040 (filter this donor) 1,200,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,200,000.00
Community Partners (filter this donor) 1,101,730.00 0.00 0.00 1,101,730.00 0.00
StoryCorps (filter this donor) 600,000.00 0.00 600,000.00 0.00 0.00
Hollaback (filter this donor) 516,000.00 0.00 0.00 516,000.00 0.00
Center for Technology and Civic Life (filter this donor) 508,000.00 0.00 508,000.00 0.00 0.00
Data & Society Research Institute (filter this donor) 500,000.00 0.00 250,000.00 250,000.00 0.00
Brooklyn Public Library (filter this donor) 393,249.00 0.00 0.00 393,249.00 0.00
The Steve Fund (filter this donor) 313,000.00 0.00 0.00 313,000.00 0.00
Foundation Center (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 300,000.00 0.00 0.00 300,000.00 0.00
Shift Design (filter this donor) 250,000.00 0.00 250,000.00 0.00 0.00
mRelief (filter this donor) 250,000.00 0.00 250,000.00 0.00 0.00
Emblematic Group (filter this donor) 250,000.00 0.00 250,000.00 0.00 0.00
Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (filter this donor) 250,000.00 0.00 250,000.00 0.00 0.00
Quartz (filter this donor) 250,000.00 0.00 0.00 250,000.00 0.00
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (filter this donor) 250,000.00 0.00 0.00 250,000.00 0.00
Richland County Public Library (filter this donor) 247,000.00 0.00 247,000.00 0.00 0.00
Govloop (filter this donor) 247,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 247,000.00
Code for Science & Society (filter this donor) 200,000.00 0.00 200,000.00 0.00 0.00
Rhizome Communications (filter this donor) 200,000.00 0.00 0.00 200,000.00 0.00
Pérez Art Museum Miami (filter this donor) 185,000.00 0.00 185,000.00 0.00 0.00
Akron Art Museum (filter this donor) 173,329.00 0.00 173,329.00 0.00 0.00
The Barnes Foundation (filter this donor) 155,000.00 0.00 155,000.00 0.00 0.00
Mint Museum of Art (filter this donor) 150,000.00 0.00 150,000.00 0.00 0.00
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (filter this donor) 150,000.00 0.00 150,000.00 0.00 0.00
The Detroit Institute of Arts (filter this donor) 150,000.00 0.00 150,000.00 0.00 0.00
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (filter this donor) 150,000.00 0.00 150,000.00 0.00 0.00
Minneapolis Institute of Art (filter this donor) 148,800.00 0.00 148,800.00 0.00 0.00
Peer 2 Peer University LLC (filter this donor) 135,000.00 0.00 0.00 135,000.00 0.00
Museum of Arts & Sciences (filter this donor) 100,000.00 0.00 100,000.00 0.00 0.00
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (filter this donor) 100,000.00 0.00 100,000.00 0.00 0.00
DocumentCloud (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Veracity.ai (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Joostware AI Research Corporation (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Bad Idea Factory (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
University of Washington (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Trustees of Boston University (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Politifact (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Univision Communications (filter this donor) Tw WP Site 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Periscopic (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Monday Note SAS (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
University of California, Santa Cruz (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
KQED (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Hamdan Azhar (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Max Ogden (filter this donor) 50,000.00 0.00 50,000.00 0.00 0.00
Southwest Harbor Public Library (filter this donor) 35,000.00 0.00 35,000.00 0.00 0.00
Temple University School of Media and Communication (filter this donor) 35,000.00 0.00 0.00 35,000.00 0.00
President and Fellows of Harvard College (filter this donor) WP 35,000.00 0.00 0.00 35,000.00 0.00
The Free Library of Philadelphia (filter this donor) 35,000.00 0.00 0.00 35,000.00 0.00
Dartmouth College (filter this donor) 35,000.00 0.00 0.00 35,000.00 0.00
Bouldin Labs (filter this donor) 35,000.00 35,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Singularity Education Group (filter this donor) 35,000.00 0.00 35,000.00 0.00 0.00
Center for Rights in Action (filter this donor) 35,000.00 0.00 35,000.00 0.00 0.00
Wesleyan University (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Kavya Sukumar (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
New York University (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
University of Miami (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Catherine Bracy (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Community Foundation of New Jersey (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The Miami Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Orbmedia (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Open Contracts (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Institute for Nonprofit News (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
This American Life (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Satchel LLC (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Curators of the University of Missouri (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
City of Raleigh (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Invisible Institute (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
CEL Education Fund (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Maxwell Galka (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Beneficent Technology (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
City of Charlotte (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
U.S. Open Data (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
U.S. Vote Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Argo Labs (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Simiary (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Cleargov (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
ARE.NA (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Prometheus Radio Project (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Vermont Journalism Trust, LTD (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
National Public Radio (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
University of Texas at Arlington (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Centro de Investigacion y Politica Publica (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Emerson College (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Run Hop (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
DailyCloudt (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Code for Charlotte (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Community Initiatives (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Humantarian Open Streetmap Team (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Vocativ, LLC (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Wikimedia Foundation (filter this donor) WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Northeastern University (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Syracuse University (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Fair Elections Legal Network (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Carnegie Mellon University (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Anchorage Public Library and Code for Anchorage (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Emerson Engagement Lab (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
University of Texas at Austin (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Bocoup LLC (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Highest Common Denominator Media Fund (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
API Evangelist (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
IIT Institute of Design (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Soapbox Systems (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Digital Democracy (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
E.thePeople (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Rhode Island Department of State (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
University of Wisconsin-Madison (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
University of Florida (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
MapLight (filter this donor) WP 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Center for Responsive Politics (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Investigative Reporters and Editors (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The Des Moines Register (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Marshall-Wythe School of Law Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The Associated Press (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Long Distance Voter (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Internet Archive (filter this donor) WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Jefferson Center (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Orlando Sentinel Communications Company, LLC (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Urban Affairs Coalition / Youth Outreach Adolescent Community Awareness Program (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Free Law Project (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
District of Columbia Board of Elections (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
New York Public Radio (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Johnson County Election Office (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Datascope Analytics (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Sunlight Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Heather Bryant (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
MIT Media Lab (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Media Public (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
DataMade (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
West Virginia University (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Digital Public Library of America (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Dance Heritage Coalition (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Contextly (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Perceptoscope (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Futurism (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Samaruddin Stewart (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Allied Media Projects (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Harlo Holmes (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Alamo Public Telecommunications Council dba KLRN (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Aecosoft Corp. (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Open Media Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The Lens (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
WeVote LLC (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
CTY (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Arizona State University News Games Project (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Metropolitan Area Planning Council (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Railroad Project (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Chicago Public Media (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Michelle Ferrier (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
PRX (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Union Capital Boston (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
National Institute on Money in State Politics (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
R.J. Steinert (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Cloudstitch (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Erin Polgreen (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Andrew Lih (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Seth Vincent (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Xavier Damman (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Make it @ Your Library (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Bibliocommons (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The Seattle Public Library Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
San Jose Public Library (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Library For All (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Metropolitan New York Library Council (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Marshall University (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Gluejar (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Kent State University (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Alison Macrina (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
American Friends of Concordia University (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Digital Village Associates (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
District of Columbia Public Library Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Evenly Distributed (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
City of Boston (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Friends of the Miami-Dade Public Library (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
California State Library (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
University of Colorado Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
saambaa (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
MuckRock.com (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Fergus Pitt (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Radio International (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
University of Maryland (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
How Wrong You Are (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Internews Network (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
New America Foundation (filter this donor) WP 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
CommunityRED (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Texas Christian University (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
National Freedom of Information Coalition (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Creative Commons (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
SciStarter LLC (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Naytev (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Gimlet Media (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Ushahidi (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Pop Up Archive (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Infogram Software (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Participatory Politics Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
American Society of News Editors Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
OpenGov Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Friends of WLRN (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Newsela (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Meedan (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Threshold Future (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Veritza (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Rutgers University Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Endaga (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Patients Like Me (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The Center for Public Integrity (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
WGBH Educational Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public Media Company (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Grist Magazine (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Tal Achituv (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Market Atlas (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Open Technology Institute at New America (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Guardian Media (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Salak TeleSystems (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Electronic Frontier Foundation (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
New America Foundaton (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Journalism Development Network (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Univ of Kansas (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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UK Citizens Online Democracy (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Aspen Institute (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Middle Georgia Regional Commission (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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North Central Texas Council of Governments Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Globe Newspaper Company (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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University of California, Berkeley (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Forty Ninth Parallel (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Mapbox LLC (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
WIRED / Advance Magazine Publishers (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Amplify Labs (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Captricity (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Sourcemap (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Atavist (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
University of Nebraska Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Jefferson Institute (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Americas Business Council Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Behavio (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Peepol.tv (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
PolicyMic (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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MPT Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Duquesne University (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
World Wide Workshop for Children's Media Technology & Learning (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Commons Labs (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Northwestern University (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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The Institute On Higher Awesome Studies (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Adaptive Path (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
NextDrop (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
NewsCloud (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Media Development Loan Fund (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Mercer University (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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International Research and Exchange Board (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Learning Matters (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Queens University of Charlotte (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Stroome (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Arizona State University (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Wiki Spot (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Society Technologies Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
SnagFilms LLC (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
International Center for New Media (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Palo Alto Unified School District (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Patchwork Nation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Personal Democracy Forum (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Asian American Journalists Association (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Free Press (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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National Constitution Center (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Channel One Network (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
World Press Freedom Committee (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Native American Journalists Association (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Journalism and Women Symposium (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Miami Dade College (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Area/Code Entertainment LLC (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Citizens Union Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Boston Cyberarts (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Stony Brook Foundation (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Pacific News Service (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Scoop Media (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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George Washington University (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
St. Louis Beacon (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Chi-Town Daily News (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Georgetown University (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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UNITY: Journalists of Color (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Digital Innovations Group (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
President and Trustees of Colby College (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Associated Students UCLA (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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WNYC Radio (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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GuideStar (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Independent Television Service (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Philadelphia's Children First Fund (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
North Carolina Open Government Coalition (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Louisiana State University and A & M College (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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New York Academy of Medicine (filter this donor) FB Tw WP Site 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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Regents of the University of Minnesota (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (filter this donor) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
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DoneeAmount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 902)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Bouldin Labs (Earmark: IdeaMapr)35,000.005902019-02-28Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6899-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping communities collaborate with local government on complex civic decisions by developing an online tool that guides people through the decision-making process and creates a map of conversations that charts questions, ideas, and pros and cons.
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Earmark: Knight Projects in News Innovation)2,008,000.00292017-11-15Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8067-- Grant period: 02/01/2018 - 01/31/2023; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To prepare journalists for the transformational wave of technologies creating vast changes in the profession and in civic life.
Shift Design (Earmark: Taking Historypin’s Storybox to Scale with Public Libraries)250,000.001762017-11-15Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8071-- Grant period: 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2018; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To scale Knight’s existing Storybox grant which will promote story sharing programs in libraries that aim to strengthen communities through increased empathy, understanding and personal connections.
Code for Science & Society (Earmark: The Dat Project)200,000.003142017-11-15Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8073-- Grant period: 01/01/2018 - 02/28/2019; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To increase the impact of Dat’s decentralized technology by establishing data services for academic and government institutions.
mRelief (Earmark: Benefits Information Project)250,000.001762017-11-15Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8069-- Grant period: 01/01/2018 - 01/31/2020; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To improve the delivery of government services to people in poverty by facilitating the process.
Data & Society Research Institute (Earmark: Disinformation Action Lab)250,000.001762017-11-15Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8070-- Grant period: 01/01/2018 - 12/31/2018; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To analyze unfolding propaganda and disinformation threats in concert with a range of partners in the research, Internet platform, and civil society communities, resulting in a set of testable interventions that address these threats.
DocumentCloud (Earmark: DocumentCloud as a Platform)50,000.005162017-11-15Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8072-- Grant period: 12/01/2017 - 11/30/2018; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create new, innovative tools for journalists by opening DocumentCloud’s platform to a select number of contributors, in a program they are calling the News Nerds in Residence.
Emblematic Group (Earmark: Reach: Spaces for Stories)250,000.001762017-11-15Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8068-- Grant period: 11/30/2017 - 11/15/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: We will design and build REACH, a platform for hosting and distributing high-resolution 3D photogrammetry models of evergreen locations, which will allow journalists to advance innovative storytelling by embedding their own interviews and multimedia material using a step by step online guide.
CODE2040 (Earmark: Capital Growth Campaign)3,016,000.00112017-10-02Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8066-- Grant period: 12/31/2017 - 12/31/2020; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To promote opportunities for underrepresented minorities in the technology industry by supporting the operational growth and sustainability of Code2040.
StoryCorps (Earmark: StoryCorps Technology Infrastructure)600,000.00782017-09-19Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8047-- Grant period: 10/01/2017 - 11/01/2019; goal: To support the collection, preservation and sharing of community history by supporting the ongoing development and sustainability of StoryCorps’ technology.
Center for Rights in Action (Earmark: Anti-Censorship Alert System)35,000.005902017-08-30Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6440-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/23/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To allow the public to see a blocked website by launching a series of tools, including an index and shareable website widgets, that enable the distribution and decentralization needed to provide local access to proxies and mirrored versions of the sites.
Veracity.ai (Earmark: Veracity.ai - Disrupting Ad-Supported Online Misinformation)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8019-- Grant period: 08/01/2017 - 04/30/2018; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping to curb the financial incentives of creating misleading content with automatically-updated lists of “fake news” websites and easy-to-deploy tools that allow ad buyers to block, in bulk, the domains where misinformation is propagated.
Joostware AI Research Corporation (Earmark: Who Said What)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8020-- Grant period: 08/01/2017 - 04/30/2018; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping people more easily fact-check audio and video news clips with a search tool that annotates millions of these clips and allows users to explore both what is said and the identity of the speaker.
Bad Idea Factory (Earmark: The Glorious Contextubot)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8010-- Grant period: 08/01/2017 - 04/30/2018; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The Glorious ContextuBot will help people become better consumers of online audio and video content through a tool that provides the original source of sound bites and when they have been covered on the news.
University of Washington (Earmark: Calling Bullshit in the Age of Fake News)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8006-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Our intent is to develop a curriculum and set of tools for combatting misinformation and fake news—with a particular emphasis on data, figures, visualizations and statistics.
Trustees of Boston University (Earmark: Social Media Interventions)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8018-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Experimenting with the effectiveness of combatting the spread of misinformation through real-time online interventions, such as direct messages to users who post or share false information.
Politifact (Earmark: Facts Matter)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8007-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping to improve trust in fact-checking, particularly among people who identify as conservative, through experiments including in-person events; a mobile-game that tracks misconceptions about specific facts; diverse commentators who would assess fact-checking reports; and a study of the language used in these reports to determine their effect on perceptions of trustworthiness.
Univision Communications (Earmark: Immigration Lab)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8011-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: This project aims to devise a comprehensive engagement plan for undocumented immigrants and the local community in Gainesville, Georgia. And to create alternative, more effective ways to reach them and to provide a reliable and fact-checked information source on critical issues, with an emphasis on immigration and national security policy.
Periscopic (Earmark: ChartCheck)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8008-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Addressing the spread of misinformation through charts, graphs and data visualizations by fact-checking these resources and publishing results. The team will also build tools to evaluate the spread of these charts on social media and the Internet.[RD1][RD1]Not in fluxx.
Monday Note SAS (Earmark: News Quality Score Project)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8015-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Creating a tool to surface quality journalism from the web, at scale and in real-time, through algorithms and machine learning. The tool will evaluate and score content on criteria ranging from the notoriety of authors and publishers to an analysis of various components of the story structure.
The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Earmark: Putting Civic Online Reasoning in Civics Class)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8017-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Creating professional development resources for teachers to become better consumers of digital content, in addition to classroom-ready materials that they can use to help students find and assess information online.
University of California, Santa Cruz (Earmark: Breaking Filter Bubbles in Science Journalism)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8004-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: We will test the hypothesis that we can improve the reach of accurate science journalism by using decision science and digital platforms to tailor content to diverse communities.
The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (Earmark: NewsTracker.org)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8016-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and other sources to help journalists and others better understand the scale, scope and shape of the misinformation problem. The tool will enable content analysis by gathering data about what is being written, by whom, where it is distributed, and the size of the audience consuming it.
KQED (Earmark: Improving Youth Civic Engagement through KQED Learn)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8013-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Encouraging young people to ask critical questions that deepen learning and improve media literacy through KQED Learn, a free online platform for students and teachers that reveals ways to ask good questions, investigate answers and share conclusions.
Hamdan Azhar (Earmark: News Inequality Project)50,000.005162017-06-22Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/8014-- Grant period: 06/19/2017 - 06/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Developing a web-based analytics dashboard to help media organizations and community organizers understand how – and how often – different communities are covered in news outlets over time.
Mint Museum of Art (Earmark: Interactive Staircase)150,000.003822017-05-16Arts, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7948-- Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 08/15/2018; goal: To develop the Interactive Staircase at the Mint Museum Uptown—an architectural installation at the entrance to the building that will utilize technology to increase visitation and enhance the visitor experience.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Earmark: Coyote Treasure Hunt)150,000.003822017-05-16Arts, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7952-- Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/0218; goal: To build on the Museum of Contemporary Art’s visual description software, Coyote, to include a digital scavenger hunt that will encourage museum visitors to locate artworks based on texts.
Museum of Arts & Sciences (Earmark: The Macon Fulldome Film Festival)100,000.004532017-05-16Arts, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7953-- Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/2018; goal: To launch the FullDome Festival in partnership with the Macon Film Festival at The Museum of Arts and Sciences (MAS)—an effort to introduce filmmakers to the technological possibilities of the planetarium and present new artistic works in the fulldome medium.
Minneapolis Institute of Art (Earmark: Open Source Storytelling for Museums)148,800.004122017-05-16Arts, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7947-- Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/2018; goal: To expand and improve the digital storytelling platform Griot, of The Minneapolis Institute of Art — an open sourced software that allows users to explore works of art in the collection on any device.
The Detroit Institute of Arts (Earmark: The Lumin Experience)150,000.003822017-05-16Arts, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7945-- Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/2018; goal: To support the Detroit Institute of the Art’s launch of Lumin—a mobile tour of the art museum that relies on augmented reality technology.
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (Earmark: Enhancing the Vizcaya Visitor Experience through 3D Technologies)100,000.004532017-05-16Arts, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7956-- Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/2018; goal: To connect visitors with inaccessible museum holdings at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens through the use of 3D modeling and printing techniques, making visible via technology what would be physically impossible.
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Earmark: Muse: Your Friendly Cultural Companion)150,000.003822017-05-16Arts, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7944-- Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/2018; goal: To support Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh’s development of Muse, a new visitor-facing mobile experience that engages museum visitors through fun and informative SMS chatbot messaging.
Richland County Public Library (Earmark: Customer Engagement and Participation Tracking)247,000.002672017-03-29Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7929-- Grant period: 02/01/2017 - 02/01/2018; goal: To help public libraries better measure and use their program attendance data to more effectively design library programming by supporting the development of a patron engagement program designed to build more loyal and engaged customers.
Pérez Art Museum Miami (Earmark: Augmented Reality: Bringing Art to Life)185,000.003662017-03-23Arts, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7955-- Grant period: 04/01/2017 - 05/01/2018; goal: To support the use of technology to engage PAMM visitors with the collection by creating augmented reality experiences accessed through a mobile application.
Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (Earmark: Creating a Civic Destination)250,000.001762017-03-23Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7925-- Grant period: 03/01/2017 - 06/30/2017; goal: To support the design and visioning process for transforming the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library into a world leading example of an 21st century urban public library.
Center for Technology and Civic Life (Earmark: General Operating Support for Center for Technology and Civic Life)508,000.00972017-03-15Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7918-- Grant period: 04/03/2017 - 04/02/2019; goal: To promote civic engagement and provide voters with better information by renewing support to the Center for Technology and Civic Life to train municipal officials to use digital tools for community outreach and elections planning.
Akron Art Museum (Earmark: Building Data Capacity)173,329.003732017-03-15Arts, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7942-- Grant period: 02/28/2017 - 02/28/2018; goal: To help Akron Art Museum visitors better understand artwork in the permanent collection by supporting the research, development and implementation of technology that puts the knowledge of the curator at visitors’ fingertips.
The Barnes Foundation (Earmark: Visual Collections Browser)155,000.003792017-03-15Arts, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7943-- Grant period: 02/10/2017 - 03/01/2018; goal: To develop technology that allows online visitors to browse works of art by visual characteristics.
Singularity Education Group (Earmark: Open Source Virtual Research Assistant for Writers and Journalists)35,000.005902017-03-13Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6941-- Grant period: 02/02/2015 - 09/15/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping content creators discover relevant information faster and more efficiently through a tool that will filter data from news feeds, extract information from metadata and keyword use, and condense it into article summaries.
Max Ogden (Earmark: Dat)50,000.005162017-03-11Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6001-- Grant period: 06/23/2013 - 01/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Dat seeks to increase the traction of the open data movement by developing better tools for collaboration.A great model of this idea working in a different space is GitHub, which lets software developers find code written by others, adapt it for their own use and make improvements. In a similar fashion, Dat will be a set of tools to store, synchronize, manipulate and collaborate on data in a decentralized fashion, enabling a platform analogous to GitHub to be built on top of it.
Southwest Harbor Public Library (Earmark: Relationship Builder for Omeka)35,000.005902017-01-26Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7930-- Grant period: 01/26/2017 - 10/31/2017; goal: To make the collections of local libraries more accessible through the creation of library software that reveals connections between digitized images and articles.
Democracy Works (Earmark: Democracy Works)2,516,000.00172017-01-23Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7917-- Grant period: 01/02/2017 - 01/07/2020; goal: To improve Americans’ access to information about elections by building digital tools for employers, universities and election administrators to enable voters to more capably participate in our democracy.
Community Partners (Earmark: OpenNews Transition)1,101,730.00552016-12-12Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7907-- Grant period: 01/01/2017 - 01/05/2018; goal: To support the transition of OpenNews, a successful network of technologists working in journalism, to become an independent organization and to continue to build infrastructure for technologists in journalism.
Peer 2 Peer University LLC (Earmark: Expanding the learning circle program)135,000.004212016-11-23Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7928-- Grant period: 11/15/2016 - 12/31/2017; goal: To provide follow-on funding for Peer 2 Peer University, a previous Knight News Challenge on Libraries winner, to scale and expand their “learning circle” program to 10 cities, 6 of which will be Knight communities.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Earmark: Public Library Innovation Exchange)250,000.001762016-11-15Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7927-- Grant period: 11/01/2016 - 04/02/2018; goal: To promote innovation in public libraries through a residency program at the MIT Media Lab that will enable libraries and technologists to collaborate on potential model projects.
Quartz (Earmark: Quartz Bot Studio)250,000.001762016-11-04Journalism, Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7845-- Grant period: 11/01/2016 - 12/31/2018; goal: Quartz, a division of The Atlantic Monthly Group, will experiment with new ways to create and deliver news and information using bots, natural-language processing, artificial intelligence, and related technologies.
The Steve Fund (Earmark: Operational and Programmatic support of The Steve Fund)313,000.001572016-09-20Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7729-- Grant period: 10/01/2016 - 09/30/2018; goal: To support the mental and emotional well-being of young people of color by conducting research and outreach in collaboration with Crisis Text Line, a service providing crisis counseling to teens via SMS.
Crisis Text Line (Earmark: Young People of Color Mental Health Initiative)300,000.001602016-09-20Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7728-- Grant period: 09/30/2016 - 08/31/2018; goal: To conduct research and expand the capabilities of Crisis Text Line, a service providing crisis counseling to teens via text message, to better assist racially diverse populations.
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Earmark: Security Force Monitor)237,589.002822016-09-20Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7142-- Grant period: 12/08/2015 - 04/30/2018; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Informing and advancing journalism, human rights and other public interest work by compiling and structuring public data on police, military and other security forces.
Brooklyn Public Library (Earmark: TeleStory: Library-Based Video Visitation for Children of Incarcerated Parents)393,249.001292016-09-09Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7714-- Grant period: 06/23/2016 - 06/23/2017; goal: Increasing childhood literacy by offering video story time and visitation services for children of incarcerated parents in the trusted space of public libraries. To increase childhood literacy and provide a trusted environment in which children can connect with their incarcerated parents and other family members, Brooklyn Public Library will offer free, quality library-based video visitation services in 12 branches for families who wish to read books, sing songs, visit and stay connected. By providing multiple library access points across the area, the library will help separated families easily and frequently visit and read together, creating a bridge back to the community.
Temple University School of Media and Communication (Earmark: Future-proofing Civic Data)35,000.005902016-09-09Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7707-- Grant period: 06/23/2016 - 12/20/2016; goal: Exploring ways libraries can support preservation and long-term access to open civic data through community information portals such as OpenDataPhilly.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Can I Fair Use It? Crowdsourcing Fair Use Knowledge)35,000.005902016-09-09Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7712-- Grant period: 06/23/2016 - 12/20/2016; goal: Enabling people to share information on questions of copyright and fair use by exploring existing gaps and opportunities, and testing a new approach for libraries to connect patrons with subject experts.
Foundation Center (Earmark: Visualizing Philanthropic Funding for Libraries)300,000.001602016-09-09Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7715-- Grant period: 06/23/2016 - 06/23/2017; goal: Helping libraries find funding opportunities, increase understanding of funding sources, and track funding trends through a data visualization tool and capacity-building training. While there is a long history of philanthropic funding for libraries in the United States, most public libraries rely on government funding for financial support. Local funding accounts for nearly 85 percent of public library funding, and state funding has decreased nearly 43 percent over the past decade. Foundation Center will develop a data visualization and mapping tool, along with training, for libraries to find and track funding opportunities and increase understanding of funding for both libraries and library supporters. The tool will allow users to search and see funding sources at the national, state and local levels and answer key questions about regional funding trends. Data visualizations such as maps, network connections and partnership pathways will highlight key networks of funders and recipients as well as individual grants. Foundation Center will also deliver grant-seeking training, in-person and online, to build libraries’ capacity to effectively tap new funding sources. Foundation Center will partner with the Digital Public Library of America to leverage its extensive combined national networks to disseminate this tool and training.
The Free Library of Philadelphia (Earmark: Free Library of Philadelphia Cultureshare)35,000.005902016-09-09Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7708-- Grant period: 06/23/2016 - 12/20/2016; goal: Advancing local engagement and strengthening community connection to untapped library collections and new work from local artists by introducing subscribers to librarian-curated digital content on a monthly basis.
Dartmouth College (Earmark: Unlocking Film Libraries Through Discovery and Search)35,000.005902016-09-09Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7713-- Grant period: 06/23/2016 - 12/20/2016; goal: Making film and video housed in libraries more searchable and discoverable by testing software that will annotate speech, objects and actions in film.
Hollaback (Earmark: Heartmob)516,000.00952016-09-08Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6810-- Grant period: 06/09/2015 - 06/05/2018; goal: To promote free expression on the Internet by developing HeartMob, a platform to provide those experiencing online harassment with a safe way to report incidents and to receive support from volunteers.
Rhizome Communications (Earmark: Webrecorder)200,000.003142016-09-06Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7846-- Grant period: 10/01/2016 - 09/30/2018; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To promote the preservation of born-digital information by providing follow on support for the development of Webrecorder, a tool for archiving dynamic web content by individuals, journalists, and cultural preservation institutions.
Crisis Text Line (Earmark: Crisis Text Line Phase Three Growth)2,216,000.00272016-08-31Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7706-- Grant period: 06/23/2016 - 06/22/2019; goal: To promote a new model for digital engagement by continuing to support the growth of Crisis Text Line, a successful Knight News Challenge grantee that provides text messaging support services for individuals in crisis.
Data & Society Research Institute (Earmark: Empowering the Public to Understand the Societal Implications of Data-Driven Technologies)250,000.001762016-08-31Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7716-- Grant period: 04/15/2016 - 04/15/2017; goal: To educate the public on the societal implications of data-driven technologies by supporting Data & Society, a research institute focused on studying the social issues arising from technology, to fund media training and outreach efforts.
Project TF dba CODE2040 (Earmark: CODE2040)1,200,000.00502015-12-15Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7683-- Grant period: 01/11/2016 - 02/14/2018; goal: To support professional development for Black and Latino media entrepreneurs and innovators working in the technology industry.
Govloop (Earmark: GovLoop Academy)247,000.002672015-08-04Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7675-- Grant period: 08/17/2015 - 12/31/2016; goal: To support innovation in government through the expansion of GovLoop Academy, a free online training academy for federal, state, and local government employees on topics ranging from technology to procurement to leadership.
Wesleyan University (Earmark: Wesleyan Media Project)45,000.00578--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7145-- Grant period: 02/18/2016 - 11/29/2017; goal: To enhance transparency in elections by supporting the Wesleyan Media Project, which will track and analyze broadcast ads aired in the 2016 campaigns.
Kavya Sukumar (Earmark: Chitram)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6939-- Grant period: 02/09/2016 - 07/09/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making it easier for anyone to create data visualizations through an open source tool that creates animated video snippets of graphs and charts from datasets.
New York University (Earmark: RevEx: A Data Visualization Tool To Find Stories in Millions of Internet Reviews)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6945-- Grant period: 02/01/2016 - 07/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping journalists explore millions of online reviews to create stories about how people interact with professionals, institutions and businesses.
University of Miami (Earmark: Open Privacy Project)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6943-- Grant period: 02/01/2016 - 08/01/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Encouraging more transparency around the use of personal data with free tools that provide simple, standardized ways to to simplify and visually describe privacy policies thereby informing users how their data is collected, used and protected.
Catherine Bracy (Earmark: Spectrogram Tool for Public Input)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6953-- Grant period: 02/01/2016 - 07/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Promoting more representative public decision-making processes through a digital platform that government officials can use as a tool to turn citizen opinion into actionable and more transparent data.
Community Foundation of New Jersey (Earmark: Legislation Tracker: Beyond the bills)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6949-- Grant period: 01/26/2016 - 06/24/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Bringing more accountability and transparency to state lawmaking by creating a tracking tool for all major bills passed in New Jersey that would provide information on whether the law was enforced and milestones were met.
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: Excellence In, Excellence Out - Data Quality Uplift for Government)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7138-- Grant period: 01/26/2016 - 07/25/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The goal of the project is to improve, significantly, the quality of one impactful government data set. First the team will identify a suitable government partner and data set; then they will improve the quality of the data set, tracking the costs and the benefits.
Orbmedia (Earmark: Weighing the Wisdom of the Crowd)450,000.00112--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6936-- Grant period: 01/25/2016 - 01/25/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Enabling anyone to survey the crowd and share reliable, credible results through the use of easy-to-use online tools that allow users to create more scientifically sound surveys.
Open Contracts (Earmark: Visible Contracts)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6940-- Grant period: 01/19/2016 - 07/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making Philadelphia’s procurement data more transparent and easy to understand by using the city’s open data to build online interactive visualizations.
Institute for Nonprofit News (Earmark: One-liner)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6942-- Grant period: 01/19/2016 - 07/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping newsrooms improve website performance and better understand the privacy implications of third-party services (analytics tools, advertising networks, social gadgets, etc.) through a dashboard that allows them to manage and evaluate these tools.
This American Life (Earmark: This American Life Audioshare Tool)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6956-- Grant period: 01/19/2016 - 07/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping people share and discover audio stories more easily with a tool that will allow users to easily capture a short selection of a podcast or other audio, convert it into a video with word-for-word transcription and share it to social media.
Satchel LLC (Earmark: Satchel)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6954-- Grant period: 01/19/2016 - 07/09/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making podcasts easier to find through a platform that will allow location-based searches and allow people to share content through an embedded player on social media.
Curators of the University of Missouri (Earmark: Access Missouri)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6938-- Grant period: 01/15/2016 - 07/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making it easier for journalists and others to access and find accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date information about Missouri legislation, lawmakers and their influencers.
Data & Society Research Institute (Earmark: Could your data discriminate?)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6946-- Grant period: 01/04/2016 - 07/04/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping people identify and fix hidden biases in their data and learn about data discrimination through a website that will allow people to test data for bias and experiment with public data to determine what may result in such bias.
City of Raleigh (Earmark: Democratizing Data through Visual Search Results)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6950-- Grant period: 01/01/2016 - 07/01/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making it easier to access and use public data through an open source project that will present data in a more visual and relevant manner through search results. For example, a search for “budget” on raleighnc.gov would yield intuitive, attractive graphs and charts.
Invisible Institute (Earmark: Citizen's Police Data Project)400,000.00122--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6935-- Grant period: 01/01/2016 - 01/01/2018; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Building an online toolkit for reporting, tracking and analyzing allegations of police misconduct and their investigations in Chicago that will serve as a national model for transparency.
CEL Education Fund (Earmark: Coworker.org: Civic Infrastructure for Workers)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6947-- Grant period: 01/01/2016 - 05/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Enabling workers to improve their jobs by creating tools that allow them to connect, as well as provide, share and acquire data about work issues and conditions.
Maxwell Galka (Earmark: FOIA Mapper)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6951-- Grant period: 01/01/2016 - 07/01/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The goal is to build an open source 'FOIA map,' which will comprise: a catalog of government information systems, semantic descriptions of the records they contain, and relational schema / documentation describing how the records are stored.
The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Earmark: Law, Order & Algorithms)310,000.00158--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7141-- Grant period: 01/01/2016 - 07/01/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Increasing transparency and accountability in law enforcement by compiling, analyzing and releasing a data set of more than 100 million highway patrol stops throughout the country.
Beneficent Technology (Earmark: Authenticon)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6944-- Grant period: 01/01/2016 - 06/29/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Supporting digital privacy through a free, open source tool that makes it easier to verify a person’s cryptographic or secure online identity.
University of Washington, Computer Science and Engineering (Earmark: SeaGlass: Bringing Transparency to Cell Phone Surveillance)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6948-- Grant period: 01/01/2016 - 07/01/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping communities maintain their privacy by building a community-driven, open data service to detect cellphone surveillance and produce high-quality cellular network data for research.
City of Charlotte (Earmark: Charlotte ZipBus)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6952-- Grant period: 01/01/2016 - 07/01/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Using real-time data via a mobile platform to transform an existing call-based transit service into an enhanced service that allows customers to schedule transit to meet their personal needs.
mRelief (Earmark: Documents Empowerment Project)250,000.00176--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7140-- Grant period: 01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping low-income Americans prove their eligibility for public benefit programs by scaling a benefit program document database and discovery platform.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: All the Places Personal Data Goes)440,000.00118--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/7143-- Grant period: 01/01/2016 - 01/01/2018; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Making it easier to find out how your personal data is being shared between companies by creating a crowdsourced resource that documents and visualizes these data sharing arrangements.
U.S. Open Data (Earmark: PublicBits: Breaking down open data silos)420,000.00119--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6933-- Grant period: 12/08/2015 - 12/31/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Developing a search engine that makes it easier for users to find and collect data from multiple sources and receive notifications when the data is out of date.
Project TF dba CODE2040 (Earmark: CODE2040)1,200,000.0050--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6920-- Grant period: 12/08/2015 - 01/11/2018; goal: To support diversity in the innovation economy through the work of CODE 2040, a nonprofit that promotes professional development for black and Latino media entrepreneurs and innovators in the technology industry.
U.S. Vote Foundation (Earmark: Local/ Municipal Election Dates and Deadlines Data Management System and API)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6896-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping to increase voter engagement by creating a nationwide system to collect, maintain and distribute information on upcoming local election dates and deadlines.
Argo Labs (Earmark: Street Quality Identification device (SQUID))35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6903-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping city agencies make better decisions on street maintenance by creating a low-cost sensor platform that collects and analyzes data through street surface imagery.
Simiary (Earmark: Pteraform)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6914-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping users learn more about places around the world and how a particular topic varies geographically through an open platform that uses an interactive world map to chart search results. The project is a follow-up to Frankenplace.
Cleargov (Earmark: ClearGov)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6898-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping citizens better understand local government finances through a website, which will include easy-to-understand infographics and benchmarking data that allows them to compare these finances to similar towns. The site will also serve as a platform for local governments to engage with citizens and improve transparency.
ARE.NA (Earmark: Pilgrim)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6908-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 04/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping researchers find related articles, images, academic papers, text and more through an open-source, intelligent web-crawler that gathers this online data.
Prometheus Radio Project (Earmark: LPFM Radio Impact Maps)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6910-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping radio stations understand and better engage with audiences, funders and volunteers by creating software that maps interference and population demographics for low-power FM (LPFM) radio stations in an inexpensive and straightforward way.
Vermont Journalism Trust, LTD (Earmark: Catamount plugin for Wordpress)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6913-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping journalists provide their readers with more meaningful information by building a Wordpress plugin that automates integration between news stories and datasets with contextual and historical details; for example, a story about a politician could provide a link to their top donors.
Quartz (Earmark: Mapquery)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6915-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making the creation of geographic maps easier and more accessible by creating a system for finding, merging and refining geographic data.
National Public Radio (Earmark: Carebot)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6895-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Changing how newsrooms measure and celebrate success by measuring the things that actually matter: Did people complete the story? What proportion shared it? Did we make them care?.
University of Texas at Arlington (Earmark: ClaimBuster)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6905-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 04/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping journalists fact-check statements made by politicians in real-time using a machine-learning tool that automatically identifies factual claims likely to be important to the public.
Centro de Investigacion y Politica Publica (Earmark: Municipal Financial Index Puerto Rico)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6906-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Providing people with straightforward information on municipal finances through an interactive user-friendly graphic interface that people can use to assess the fiscal condition and spending priorities of their city.
Emerson College (Earmark: @Stake)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6911-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Increasing civic engagement through a role-playing game that fosters democracy, empathy, and creative problem solving for civic issues.
Run Hop (Earmark: Hudson App)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6897-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making it easy and fun to discover things to read, watch and listen to through an app that sources from social signals and curated channels. Join the beta at gethudson.com.
DailyCloudt (Earmark: Billcam)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6909-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 04/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Adding transparency to the legislative process through an embeddable, shareable legislative tracking tool that connects federal and state bills and corresponding community annotation with relevant news articles, information, topical blogs and more.
Code for Charlotte (Earmark: CityGram)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6900-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making it easier for local governments to connect with citizens by creating a notification system that allows users to receive information from the government by selecting a geographic area, category and delivery method for the notifications.
Community Initiatives (Earmark: Canaree.io)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6901-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 04/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Simplifying government data requests through a web-based application that helps startups navigate law enforcement requests for consumer data and protects user privacy.
Humantarian Open Streetmap Team (Earmark: Open StreetMap Data Quality Analysis Tool)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6902-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping journalists, humanitarians, academics, government officials and others determine the quality of data in the OpenStreetMap database for a user-defined area, depending on the topic of interest.
New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (Earmark: Together We Listen)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6907-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 10/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making digital audio collections from libraries and public media organizations more accessible by combining the auto-transcription services of Pop Up Archive with a community engagement model that will involve the public in updating and enriching these collections.
Vocativ, LLC (Earmark: Dataproofer)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6912-- Grant period: 11/01/2015 - 04/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping data journalists and others check whether a dataset is accurate or contains errors through an app that lets users assess the quality of their data before they begin reporting, analyzing, or visualizing it.
Crisis Text Line (Earmark: Crisis Text Line)100,000.00453--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6879-- Grant period: 09/28/2015 - 05/24/2016; goal: To improve the responsiveness and availability of mental health support resources for young people of color by expanding the counseling programs of Crisis Text Line, a text messaging support hub for individuals in crisis.
Wikimedia Foundation (Earmark: Knowledge Engine By Wikipedia)250,000.00176--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6865-- Grant period: 09/01/2015 - 08/31/2016; goal: To advance new models for finding information by supporting stage one development of the Knowledge Engine by Wikipedia, a system for discovering reliable and trustworthy public information on the Internet.
Northeastern University (Earmark: Public Access to Pricing Personalization)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6846-- Grant period: 08/07/2015 - 02/07/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype a website that will enable the public to view personalized and non-personalized versions of common retail websites, and will deliver a consumer report on which websites are engaging in price discrimination or price steering.
Syracuse University (Earmark: SpeakEZ)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6851-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 07/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype SpeakEZ, an open source interactive voice response (IVR) platform, for the textually-illiterate Burmese Karen refugee population in Syracuse, New York with a mobile phone-based voice interface to facilitate one-stop access to a range of resources and services necessary for successful resettlement.
Fair Elections Legal Network (Earmark: Vote Worker Data Project)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6860-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 03/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype the Vote Worker Data project, which will use open data to address the lack of diversity among poll workers by transforming the process of recruitment.
Carnegie Mellon University (Earmark: Terrapattern Mining Tool)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6855-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 06/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Enabling journalists, citizen scientists, humanitarian workers and others to detect “patterns of interest” in satellite imagery, through an open-source tool. For example, users could use the tool to identify destroyed buildings in conflict zones.
Anchorage Public Library and Code for Anchorage (Earmark: Collective Development)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6856-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 06/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a participatory system where residents are not the library's audience, they are its makers. People will propose a project, workshop, class, event, etc. Others will indicate their interest. When a critical mass forms around any given proposal, the library will facilitate. We want the library to function as a democratic platform to allow the public to self organize and program the library.
Emerson Engagement Lab (Earmark: DataBasic)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6839-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 06/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype DataBasic, a suite of data visualization tools for designed for people with little to no background in programming, to learn how to leverage data to better tell their stories.
University of Texas at Austin (Earmark: Virtual Reality for Journalists)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6842-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 02/26/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype an open-source virtual reality publishing framework for journalists who lack the engineering skills to publish their own VR content.
Bocoup LLC (Earmark: Voyager)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6862-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 10/30/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To improve Voyager, an open source tool for open-ended data exploration which provides recommended visualizations, ranked by both data properties and perceptual principles for public use.
Highest Common Denominator Media Fund (Earmark: CrowdVoice.by)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6843-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 08/01/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype CrowdVoice.by, an open source tool to help journalists efficiently collecting and disseminating crowdsourced news and data.
API Evangelist (Earmark: Federal Agency Dataset Adoption)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6850-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 06/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making it easier to access federal data for wider use by the public by processing the more than 5,000 datasets available at 22 federal agencies; the project will be driven by Github, the software hosting and collaboration platform.
IIT Institute of Design (Earmark: Visualizing Thick Data)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6864-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 06/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping researchers and others visualize qualitative data through an easy-to-use, Web-based application designed for fast, efficient data exploration. Nineteen is a simple, web-based application designed to help qualitative researchers visualize their data without being programmers or subscribing to expensive analysis software. This project seeks to advance the existing software prototype to the next level of usability. Notably, it would like to address requests from users that enable Nineteen support collaboration and communication of data.
Soapbox Systems (Earmark: Ombuds)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6844-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 01/28/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping to preserve and protect free speech online through software that lets activists, journalists, and others working in conflict zones record statements through a peer-to-peer microblogging platform which is backed by a public record.
Digital Democracy (Earmark: OSM Lite)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6854-- Grant period: 08/01/2015 - 06/30/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype a simple, lightweight stack for managing small-to-medium custom databases compatible with existing OpenStreetMap tools so that organizations and individuals can rollout their own geodatabase.
E.thePeople (Earmark: Informed Voting From Start to Finish)200,000.00314--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6823-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 01/11/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping build a more informed electorate and making the voting process easier by combining the voter services of TurboVote,which helps people register to vote,request and absentee ballot and receive election reminders,with local guides and candidate information from E.thePeople. The Center for Responsive Politics wants to help journalists and the public better understand who is funding campaigns and the sources of so-called “dark money,” the funds that certain nonprofits can spend to back candidates and issues without having to reveal where the donations are coming from. In fact, the amount of dark money in campaigns has grown exponentially – from $6 million in 2004 to $309 million in 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The center has developed a system for tracking and processing information on these donations from difficult-to-access IRS 990 forms, and matching this information with Federal Elections Commission data. With new funding, the center will partner with GuideStar to retrieve greater volumes of this information more quickly and comprehensively, and create a database that any journalist can access.
Rhode Island Department of State (Earmark: Rhode Island Civic Fellowship)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6835-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 12/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Encouraging more millennials to vote through a statewide civic fellowship program designed to inspire, recruit and train them to get involved in shaping voting and elections in their communities.
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Earmark: Silent Targeting, Loud Democracy)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6836-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 01/22/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Promoting transparency in elections by prototyping an investigative service that tracks political ads that use online microtargeting to reveal how political action committees, parties and candidates target individual voters based on their personal information.
University of Florida (Earmark: Accessible Voting for Everyone)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6838-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 01/21/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Making voting easy and accessible to all through an open source electronic voting system that allows citizens,including those with disabilities,to cast ballots by actions such as tapping a touchscreen or speaking into a microphone.
MapLight (Earmark: Voter's Edge)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6841-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 12/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Providing in-depth voter information that is easily accessible, neutral and factual on one platform; the mobile-optimized guide provides voter information on federal, state and local elections, including endorsements, candidate biographies, ballot measure summaries, top funder lists, videos, news, and more.
Center for Responsive Politics (Earmark: Prompt Data Query)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6847-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 12/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Bringing more transparency and accountability to elections, through an automated, interactive tool that will give users access to real-time campaign finance data.
Investigative Reporters and Editors (Earmark: California Civic Data Coalition)250,000.00176--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6869-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 08/16/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Making it easier to track money in California politics with an open-source tool that will help journalists, academics and others mine campaign finance data. Campaign finance data in statehouses across America is hard to organize, access and understand. Making it easier to find and use this raw, machine-readable data can help to hold politicians accountable and enable deeper analysis of the influence of money in politics. The California Civic Data Coalition will engage data journalists from The Los Angeles Times, Stanford University, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Center for Investigative Reporting to lead an open-source effort to refine this raw data into an easy-to-use product. The work will serve as a model for other states and join an ongoing effort to consolidate money-in-politics data from statehouses across America.
Center for Responsive Politics (Earmark: Inside the 990 Treasure Trove)525,000.0094--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6820-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 04/13/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping voters and journalists better understand who is funding campaigns by partnering with GuideStar to unearth more comprehensive data on the sources of so-called 'dark money.' The Center for Responsive Politics wants to help journalists and the public better understand who is funding campaigns and the sources of so-called “dark money,” the funds that certain nonprofits can spend to back candidates and issues without having to reveal where the donations are coming from. In fact, the amount of dark money in campaigns has grown exponentially – from $6 million in 2004 to $309 million in 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. The center has developed a system for tracking and processing information on these donations from difficult-to-access IRS 990 forms, and matching this information with Federal Elections Commission data. With new funding, the center will partner with GuideStar to retrieve greater volumes of this information more quickly and comprehensively, and create a database that any journalist can access.
The Des Moines Register (Earmark: The Iowa Electorate)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6848-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 12/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Engaging young voters in the Iowa caucuses by sponsoring a series of public events and initiatives that use social media to draw millennial attention to issues and candidates.
Marshall-Wythe School of Law Foundation (Earmark: Revive My Vote)230,000.00285--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6818-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 11/22/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping Virginians with prior felony convictions restore their voting rights by organizing local law students to help remotely process rights restoration applications and lessening wait times for those who have applied; an outreach platform will also be developed to motivate and inform prospective applicants. Virginians with felony convictions face real obstacles in restoring their right to vote. Those who have already applied to restore voting rights face a severe backlog of applications. In addition, reaching out to those who have not yet applied is very difficult since Virginia maintains no comprehensive contact list of eligible citizens. Revive My Vote seeks to address both obstacles. To reduce the backlog, the group will organize and train local law students to remotely process these applications, speeding the process. In addition, the project will create a digital platform where successful applicants will inspire prospective applicants with success stories and information about rights restoration will be disseminated.
The Associated Press (Earmark: The Next Generation Beyond Exit Polls)250,000.00176--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6819-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 11/16/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Providing less expensive,more accurate alternatives to exit polling by working with survey firms to develop new ways to gauge voter preferences in real time. For years, the media, academics and the public have relied almost exclusively on exit polls to explain voter behavior and declare winners on national election nights. But with the growing number of early voters – and well-publicized recent errors in candidate estimates – many have questioned their accuracy. The Associated Press, in partnership with two national polling firms, is looking to develop less expensive methods to more accurately measure voter views. Two recent experiments have used online, probability-based panels to gauge voter sentiments in real time. The AP is looking to publicize the results, refine its methods and ultimately share new tools with other newsrooms.
Long Distance Voter (Earmark: Vote-by-Smartphone)325,000.00153--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6822-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 01/17/2018; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Making it easier to vote by mail by using mobile technology to allow voters to request absentee ballots with their smartphone. Long Distance Voter wants to increase voter turnout by making it possible to sign up for an absentee ballot using smartphones. According to the Pew Charitable Trusts, more than 25 percent of all ballots were cast by mail in 2014. Three states, Oregon, Washington and Colorado, have transitioned to a standard vote-by-mail system, with all three experiencing higher turnout and lower election administration costs. Voters in other states currently need to print and mail their forms in order to submit absentee ballots, which is difficult for many in an increasingly digital age. Long Distance Voter will use DocuSign’s electronic signature technology to enable citizens to complete, sign and mail their absentee ballots directly from their smartphones.
Internet Archive (Earmark: 2016 Political Ad Tracker)200,000.00314--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6817-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 11/16/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Bringing accountability to the voting process by creating a public library of TV news and political advertising from key 2016 primary election states,paired with nonpartisan fact-checking and additional analysis from PolitiFact,the University of Pennsylvania's FactCheck.org,The Center for Public Integrity and others. Voters are exposed to large amounts of campaign advertising, especially in key swing states. Though these ads are designed to influence and sway votes, little information is provided about their background and accuracy. To hold candidates accountable and bring more transparency to the voting process, the Internet Archive, with the world’s largest open archive of TV news, will create a public library of TV news and political ads from key 2016 primary election regions. The library will be paired with nonpartisan fact-checking and other analysis from PolitiFact, the University of Pennsylvania’s FactCheck.org, The Center for Public Integrity and others. Ads will be tracked along with facts about their accuracy, source, frequency and context. These widely distributed library resources will provide voters with trustworthy information and encourage greater participation in the political process.
New York University (Earmark: Lenses)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6824-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 02/19/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Enabling journalists and other storytellers to transform and visualize data to build interactive election stories through an open-source,mobile-friendly tool.
Jefferson Center (Earmark: Up for Debate Ohio!)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6826-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 01/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Increasing political knowledge in Ohio through community deliberation, online engagement and the media to provide citizens the opportunity to discuss issues and campaigns thoughtfully and civilly.
Orlando Sentinel Communications Company, LLC (Earmark: Tabs on Tallahassee)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6828-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 12/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Fostering government transparency by creating a searchable database of the voting records of Florida lawmakers for newsrooms across the state.
Center for Technology and Civic Life (Earmark: Civic Engagement Toolkit for Local Election Officials)400,000.00122--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6830-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 01/17/2018; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping local governments more easily engage with communities by developing a civic engagement toolkit for election offices,including website templates,icons and illustrations that provide visual guides for information seekers,wait-time calculators and other tools. Local governments produce information that is important to voters. However, there are few communications avenues for people to access this information and engage with their local governments to help shape policy and decision-making. To tackle this issue, the Center for Technology and Civic Life will develop a civic engagement toolkit, designed in concert with local election officials. The kit will include a set of tools for election offices such as an election website template, visual icons and illustrations, resource allocation calculators, and other tools. It will help local officials identify how to best use communication tools, and measure the reach and impact of the information they are sharing.
Urban Affairs Coalition / Youth Outreach Adolescent Community Awareness Program (Earmark: Sharp Insight)250,000.00176--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6816-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 11/22/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Engaging black men in elections by recruiting barbers in predominantly African-American communities to disseminate nonpartisan information and resources on voting. While barbershops have long been trusted spaces in the African-American community, this project seeks to build on that stature by recruiting barbers as voting advocates. The Youth Outreach Adolescent Community Awareness Program and its partners will recruit Philadelphia barbers, educate them on rights restoration and other voting issues, and ask them to help disseminate voting information. The program will provide barbers with incentives for getting their male customers to take surveys, read nonpartisan election information and continually discuss the importance of civic participation. The barbers who enroll will have their names listed on a radio partner’s website, with a special radio promotion going to the shop that disseminates the most information.
Free Law Project (Earmark: OpenJudiciary.org)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6825-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 12/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping to make judicial elections more transparent by creating online profiles of judges that show campaign contributions,judicial opinions and biographies.
District of Columbia Board of Elections (Earmark: Erase the Line)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6827-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 12/31/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping election officials improve the voting process by creating a digital platform that will document wait-time information at polling places across the nation.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Earmark: Campaign Hound)150,000.00382--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6829-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 05/19/2016; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping to hold politicians more accountable through a searchable archive of campaign speech transcripts that provides customized alerts to keep voters informed about candidates and allows journalists and others to monitor political speeches remotely. Few citizens have direct contact with their candidates and elected officials. As such, the media and other sources are what keep them informed about politicians both on the campaign trail and once they are in office. To give citizens more information and help journalists improve their political coverage, the Reese News Lab will create a searchable archive of campaign speech transcripts that provides users with customized keyword alerts. It will use crowdsourcing and computer natural language processing to gather recordings of speeches and generate transcripts, enabling subscribers to search for exact words spoken by politicians. Users can also monitor political speeches remotely, providing easy access. In addition, it will alert subscribers when custom keywords are spoken on the campaign trail. The archive will be piloted in North Carolina.
New York Public Radio (Earmark: Judge Your Judges)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6833-- Grant period: 07/22/2015 - 02/20/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Enabling people to make more knowledgeable decisions about judicial elections through a tool that will provide key information,insights and context about candidates,their views and the court system.
Johnson County Election Office (Earmark: User-Friendly Application for Election Data)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6857-- Grant period: 07/20/2015 - 01/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype a data-driven application that will compile election-related information for the public and election professionals with the goal of making data-related processes much more efficient.
Data & Society Research Institute (Earmark: Data Privacy Project)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6849-- Grant period: 07/15/2015 - 01/11/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype the Data Privacy Project, an online technical support network that will make it easy for libraries to set up secure digital services and better educate individuals and communities about the challenges of always-on, networked, and easily surveilled lifestyles.
Datascope Analytics (Earmark: scrubadub)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6863-- Grant period: 07/15/2015 - 01/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype Scrubadub, a tool that will enable FOIA officers to de-identify unstructured text to rapidly accelerate the process of releasing documents while maintaining privacy for individuals.
Sunlight Foundation (Earmark: Real-Time Foreign Lobbying Mashup)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6853-- Grant period: 07/15/2015 - 01/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To improve foreign.influenceexplorer.com, a Sunlight Foundation tool that uses Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) data to surface interesting connections between foreign clients and their U.S. agents, helping journalists write stories about countries influencing US policies.
Data & Society Research Institute (Earmark: Network Geography 101)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6866-- Grant period: 07/15/2015 - 01/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype Network Geography 101, a curriculum and toolkit of digital and analog resources for teaching people about the physical realities, hardware, and power dynamics of the internet.
Heather Bryant (Earmark: Project Facet)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6837-- Grant period: 07/14/2015 - 01/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Helping newsrooms plan and coordinate coverage across publishing platforms through an editorial workflow management app that fosters collaboration across teams and with outside partners. Note: also known as Bly.
MIT Media Lab (Earmark: Placelet)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6840-- Grant period: 07/14/2015 - 01/14/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places. The physical sensor network collects movement, audio and air quality data with the goal of better correlating physical conditions and activity to the invisible economic and social patterns that shape the public realm at the scale of a single urban block or streetscape.
Media Public (Earmark: Media Public)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6859-- Grant period: 07/13/2015 - 01/13/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Media Public will create a platform that will allow public media organizations to recruit participants to help station staff with various activities, and receive membership in return. The platform will also serve as a repository for stations to share information with each other and with the public.
DataMade (Earmark: Your Next Representative)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6858-- Grant period: 07/09/2015 - 01/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Expanding YourNextMP.com, a crowdsourcing website for gathering and sharing key information on election candidates, to the United States and Argentina; the project is a collaboration with Argentina-based Congreso Interactivo.
West Virginia University (Earmark: Reed College of Media Innovator-in-Residence Program)200,000.00314--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6598-- Grant period: 07/01/2015 - 06/30/2017; goal: To support an innovator-in-residence program, which embeds two innovators from national and regional media organizations into the classrooms at West Virginia University, exposing students and professors to emerging technology and innovation practices.
Digital Public Library of America (Earmark: Extending the Digital Public Library of America's National Network to Uncovered States)1,535,792.0040--Technology, Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6736-- Grant period: 06/25/2015 - 12/31/2017; goal: To expand the Digital Public Library of America into all unserved states or regions, adding new hubs with unique items from these communities into DPLA's collection.
StoryCorps (Earmark: StoryCorps App Development)600,000.0078--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6809-- Grant period: 06/09/2015 - 06/14/2017; goal: To support the development and sustainability of StoryCorps' technology with a focus on the StoryCorps app, which allows anyone with a smartphone to record interviews that collect, preserve and share the stories of our lives.
Dance Heritage Coalition (Earmark: Culture Conversations)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6781-- Grant period: 04/30/2015 - 11/30/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To help the San Francisco art community preserve digital arts criticism related to dance through a tool that will make these stories fully searchable using descriptive metadata and linking it to streaming dance videos.
Contextly (Earmark: Metadata beyond the Open Graph)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6775-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 11/19/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype Contextly, a tool to help journalists get better metadata into their stories and provide context while they write, as part of an effort to accelerate and learn from early-stage media and information projects.
Perceptoscope (Earmark: Perceptoscope)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6780-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype Perceptoscope, a set of augmented reality coin-operated binoculars to help civic institutions publicly present site-specific media, as part of an effort to accelerate and learn from early-stage media and information projects.
Futurism (Earmark: Futurism.co 2.0)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6782-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Futurism.co 2.0 will be prototyping a web based evolving knowledge system (Smart Feed) that aggregates the top relevant science and technology stories from hundreds of journals and publications and ranks them based on keyword usage, source credibility, and social virality metrics.
Samaruddin Stewart (Earmark: Verified Pixel Project)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6791-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The Verified Pixel Project proposes to build a service that will unify several popular existing verification tests in one workflow tool using original code and layered API calls. We feel our unique technical approach will help demystify verification, allow it to scale to demand, and open up verification capability to a larger and broader audience.
Allied Media Projects (Earmark: The Ripple Mapping Tool)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6796-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The Ripple Mapping tool collects and visualizes the outcomes of an event or program. It meets the need expressed repeatedly by non-profit organizations, foundations, social entrepreneurs and others for new ways of measuring the ever-multiplying outcomes that may emerge from a single training, grant award, or other discrete interaction.
Harlo Holmes (Earmark: Unveillance)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6807-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Unveillance is a library that combines the best aspects of friend-to-friend file sharing, machine learning, and if-this-then-that-style programmability. The platform is architected to quickly facilitate Rube-Goldberg-esque explorations of data sets.
Alamo Public Telecommunications Council dba KLRN (Earmark: KLRN Virtual Classroom)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6789-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype the KLRN Virtual Classroom, a tool that will enable students and parents to access PBS educational resources online in a safe environment, with moderated supervision. KLRN San Antonio has been a trailblazing public television station for over 50 years. We have provided not only educational and cultural television, but public services like our proposed KLRN Virtual Classroom across the South Central region. As a PBS member station, we have made it our mission to enrich the lives of people throughout South Central Texas through the power of communication -- providing quality programs and services that advance education, art and culture, and community. KLRN Virtual Classroom will be partnered with a network of homeschooling parents, Gifted Homeschool Forum, which has more than 25,000 members who will be involved in the development of curriculum topics for us to design talking points and extra resources. With this collaboration, we will be able to know instantly what we can improve on as the program expands.
Aecosoft Corp. (Earmark: OpenPermit)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6776-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 11/24/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype a tool to help citizens and businesses more easily access permitting information, as part of an effort to accelerate and learn from early-stage media and information projects.
Open Media Foundation (Earmark: She said, he said)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6777-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 10/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype She Said, He Said, a tool to for searching videos of public meetings for moments when a specific government official is speaking, as part of an effort to accelerate and learn from early-stage media projects.
The Lens (Earmark: Semantic timeline maker)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6787-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The world's data is expanding very quickly. Journalists need new tools to make sense of it. We're working on one such program, which extracts a timeline of events from a large amount of natural-language text. We are applying for Knight Prototype funding to improve this timeline maker so that journalists might be able to use it in real-life reporting.
WeVote LLC (Earmark: Ballot)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6803-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Ballot is a web and mobile app that helps voters navigate their ballot, review political candidates, and learn about the voting process. Our goal is to improve the voting experience and increase voter turnout by making useful info readily accessible. The key feature is a political quiz that will recommend candidates based on political compatibility.
CTY (Earmark: Numina)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6778-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 10/30/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Numina is a data collection tool to create analytics for places. We will deploy plug-and-play, machine learning-based sensors in high-risk neighborhoods for evaluation by the City of St. Louis Health Department. The resulting real-time pedestrian counts will help assess local physical activity interventions and inform recommendations for St. Louis' new Complete Streets initiative.
Arizona State University News Games Project (Earmark: Playable Stories)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6783-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The Playable Stories Wordpress plugin and a mobile friendly Playable Stories Wordpress theme to allow journalists to rapidly design and produce interactive narrative mobile-ready news experiences based on the best principles of games and journalism.
Metropolitan Area Planning Council (Earmark: Neighborhood Drawing Tool)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6790-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The Neighborhood Drawing Tool is a web tool that will allow users to define their neighborhood boundaries and find data aggregated to that geography. Our goal is to build a working prototype so that users can pull the data they need at the geography they want easily and quickly so they can spend more time advocating for change in their neighborhood or informing discussion at a public meeting.
mRelief (Earmark: mRelief)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6804-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: We plan to secure accurate data more efficiently by developing a real-time interface for non-technical government actors to easily update changes to eligibility requirements for public assistance. Efficient eligibility screening helps beneficiaries access public assistance by reducing wait times. mRelief screening forms reduced eligibility determination time by 75 percent from 16 to 4 minutes.
Railroad Project (Earmark: Railroad)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6779-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 10/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype Railroad, a communications tool that captures user reactions to video messages, as part of an effort to accelerate and learn from early-stage media and information projects.
Chicago Public Media (Earmark: Metadata Graphing Interface)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6786-- Grant period: 04/29/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Chicago Public Media (CPM) will create a data storage container capable of housing a large volume of complex data relationships and an application powerful enough to analyze and render those connections in various user-facing interfaces in a way that web publishers may create richly described content graphs simply by drawing the known connections between entities referenced in the content itself.
Michelle Ferrier (Earmark: TrollBusters)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6797-- Grant period: 04/14/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: TrollBusters is an online and mobile service to address online cyberbullying using positive messaging and targeted services.
Crisis Text Line (Earmark: Crisis Text Line)1,308,000.0046--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6713-- Grant period: 04/03/2015 - 09/14/2017; goal: To promote a new model for digital engagement through mobile devices and the creation of broadly distributed crisis data by growing, Crisis Text Line, a text messaging support line for individuals in crisis.
PRX (Earmark: Reimagining Radiotopia)1,008,000.0058--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6721-- Grant period: 04/03/2015 - 07/18/2017; goal: To promote a sustainable model for original public media creation in the digital age by supporting PRX's Radiotopia podcast network.
Union Capital Boston (Earmark: Community Resource Aggregator)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6784-- Grant period: 03/30/2015 - 12/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: UCB is an approach to overcome the poverty trap for individuals, families, and communities. Our mobile-based loyalty program for low-income families provides social and financial service rewards in exchange for community involvement in schools, businesses, health centers, and civic programs.
National Institute on Money in State Politics (Earmark: Follow the Money)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6683-- Grant period: 02/09/2015 - 08/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Establishing a database of election campaign finance and lobbying information to help journalists and the public see connections between political donors and elected officials.
Center for Technology and Civic Life (Earmark: Online Toolbox for Local Election Websites)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6684-- Grant period: 02/09/2015 - 08/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Creating an online-learning toolbox for local election administrators, to complement a previously created website template, allowing them to more easily share information with citizens and improve transparency.
R.J. Steinert (Earmark: Open Pipe Kit)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6692-- Grant period: 02/09/2015 - 08/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Creating a tool that will help data journalists and civic hackers collect data without a programmer’s assistance or proprietary software.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies (Earmark: PolitiFact plug-in)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6691-- Grant period: 02/09/2015 - 08/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Designing a fact-checking plug-in for Web browsers that will allow people to request a fact-check of Internet content from PolitiFact staff; users will be able to vote on fact-check requests and make comments on flagged content.
Cloudstitch (Earmark: Cloudstitch)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6681-- Grant period: 02/09/2015 - 08/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Developing a Web platform to help journalists easily create interactive, data-driven content without help from programmers.
Erin Polgreen (Earmark: Ketla)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6682-- Grant period: 02/09/2015 - 08/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Developing a mobile app to help content creators make news accessible to many different languages and literacy levels through visual tools that merge comic books, journalism and user-friendly delivery strategies.
Andrew Lih (Earmark: Wikipedia Space)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6687-- Grant period: 02/09/2015 - 08/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Establishing a visitor and discovery center at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C., where the public can learn about Wikipedia and free culture.
Seth Vincent (Earmark: Flatsheet)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6677-- Grant period: 02/09/2015 - 08/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype Flatsheet, a tool to help newsrooms and others collaboratively curate data in real time, as part of an effort to accelerate and learn from early-_stage media and information projects.
Xavier Damman (Earmark: Tipbox)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6689-- Grant period: 02/09/2015 - 08/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Establishing a unique and private Web address that journalists can share with potential sources to receive anonymous tips securely and privately through encrypted emails.
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Earmark: CAT (Conflict Analysis Toolbox))35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6696-- Grant period: 02/09/2015 - 08/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Creating a toolbox to simplify satellite data collection and interpretation, allowing journalists, urbanists, humanitarian agencies and others to glean valuable information from satellite imagery during urban conflicts or natural disasters.
Make it @ Your Library (Earmark: Maker Tool Circulating Kits)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6675-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Sharing the tools and technology of the maker movement by prototyping an equipment lending system - a process for sharing maker kits between libraries - that builds on existing interlibrary loan frameworks.
Bibliocommons (Earmark: Making the Invisible Visible)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6678-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Prototyping an app to give patrons a deeper library experience based on the user's location, interests and actions in the library.
The Seattle Public Library Foundation (Earmark: Your Next Skill)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6679-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping people acquire new skills or expand their knowledge by creating a librarian-led, referral service that connects users with materials, classes and instructors that will help them meet their goals.
San Jose Public Library (Earmark: Privacy Literacy)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6680-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Developing online tools which will help individuals understand privacy in the digital age and make more informed decisions about their online activity.
Internet Archive (Earmark: Internet Archive)600,000.0078--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6712-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 02/06/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping people create and share global collections of cultural treasures on the Internet Archive, one of the world's largest public libraries. The Internet Archive is one of the world’s largest public digital libraries, with an extensive collection of human culture: 2 million books, 430 billion Web pages, 3 million hours of television and more. However, the archive’s users upload only a small percentage of these materials and to preserve the world’s knowledge the public should be encouraged to contribute. The archive is embarking on a project to make the archive.org site more community-driven by improving the tools that allow people to upload, describe and organize items. With these new tools, the Internet Archive hopes to democratize knowledge by giving global communities the ability to save, manage and share their cultural treasures for free. What Wikimedia did for encyclopedia articles, the Internet Archive hopes to do for collections of media: give people the tools to build library collections together and make them accessible to everyone.
Library For All (Earmark: Digital Library for the Developing World)265,000.00172--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6714-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 02/06/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To promote responsive digital solutions for low-bandwidth communities by scaling a digital library platform that makes robust educational content available for libraries and schools in the developing world. Many developing countries continue to struggle with limited access to information and educational resources, leading to challenges with literacy, civic participation, knowledge building and progress. To address this issue, Library for All will expand its Digital Library, uniquely designed to work in low-bandwidth environments, making educational content available for libraries and schools across the developing world. The platform will leverage mobile technology and be accessible on all devices, including low-cost tablets and $30 feature phones. Content will be culturally relevant and available in local languages.
New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (Earmark: Space/Time Directory)380,000.00130--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6715-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 02/06/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Working with local communities and technologists to turn historical maps and other library collections into an interactive directory for the exploration of New York across time periods What if we could search a city’s past as easily as we search its present? What if we could explore forgotten neighborhoods, look up long-ago vanished buildings and streets, and discover the history around us? Libraries hold the records of evolving urban landscapes, but historic data that charts these changes is not easily accessible. To increase access and public exploration of this data, the New York Public Library will create a free, historical mapping service: the NYC Space/Time Directory. Using data from the library’s map collections and other sources, the directory will be a searchable, digital atlas and database of historical places, allowing scholars, students, journalists and enthusiasts to explore the city across time periods. It will be open source and community-built, engaging local museums, historical societies, universities, citizen cartographers and the New York tech community to help gather data, and to contribute code and expertise.
Metropolitan New York Library Council (Earmark: Culture in Transit)330,000.00150--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6716-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 02/06/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping more communities share their histories online by creating a mobile kit that will scan and digitize print materials for public archiving in partnership with Brooklyn Public Library and Queens Library. Many communities are excluded from the nation’s digital cultural memory because they lack the equipment and technical support to contribute their history to local and national archives. To bridge that gap, two New York public library systems and a citywide libraries and archives membership organization will create a mobile kit, with scanners and cameras, that libraries will take to city branches, so that residents are able to record their historical items. Each item will not only be housed in local digital archives but in the Digital Public Library of America and other large-scale initiatives such as Internet Archive, providing worldwide access to local treasures. While these events provide educational and community-building opportunities, they also democratize the process of history-making — allowing people to contribute to and help define their local history. The partners include the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Library, which designed the project together after meeting online via the newschallenge.org platform.
Marshall University (Earmark: This Place Matters)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6674-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Exploring the potential of a location-aware mobile application to share African American history and link to library resources.
Gluejar (Earmark: GITenberg)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6685-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Exploring collaborative cataloging for Project Gutenberg public-domain ebooks using the Web-based repository hosting service GitHub.
Kent State University (Earmark: Information for Innovation)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6686-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Exploring ways to provide information services to local entrepreneurs and business counselors, to see what services they might need to reach their goals.
Alison Macrina (Earmark: The Library Freedom Project)244,700.00273--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6693-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 02/06/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Providing librarians and their patrons with tools and information to better understand their digital rights by scaling a series of privacy workshops for librarians. Private companies and the government increasingly control a large part of online communications, and as a result, society is facing a new set of challenges around privacy, surveillance, censorship and free speech. As stewards of information and providers of Internet access, librarians are in a prime position to educate patrons about their digital rights. The Library Freedom Project aims to make real the promise of intellectual freedom in libraries by bringing together a coalition of librarians, technology experts and lawyers to scale a series of privacy workshops for librarians. The workshops will provide librarians and their patrons with tools and information to better understand technology, privacy and law related to use of the Internet.
Curators of the University of Missouri (Earmark: Journalism Digital News Archive)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6671-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Ensuring access to digital news content through development of a model for archiving and preserving digital content that can be used across the country.
American Friends of Concordia University (Earmark: Indie Games Licensing)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6672-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Prototyping models for the licensing and circulation of independent video games at libraries.
Brooklyn Public Library (Earmark: BklynShare)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6673-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Enabling people to learn new skills through a service that connects knowledge seekers with experts in their own neighborhood.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Book a Nook)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6676-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Activating library public spaces for diverse community uses by testing a software toolkit that streamlines the exploration and reservation of physical library spaces.
Digital Village Associates (Earmark: White Space 101)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6688-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Creating learning materials for libraries to explore and implement TV White Space networks to support remote library Internet hotspots that will give people wider broadband access, especially in crisis situations.
District of Columbia Public Library Foundation (Earmark: The Community Resource Lab)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6694-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 04/29/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Advancing the library as the primary anchor of an open information system that connects residents to essential health, human and social services.
Evenly Distributed (Earmark: Measure the Future)130,000.00425--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6709-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 02/06/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Helping libraries better manage one of their greatest assets - the building itself - by using open hardware to track data about its public spaces. While libraries in recent years have created makerspaces to provide access to open technology, this project will help libraries use open hardware devices to improve their own services. Librarian Jason Griffey, a former Knight Foundation Prototype Fund grantee, will train librarians to use open source hardware to better understand the library building itself, one of a branch’s most important assets. The hardware will measure a variety of factors in each room, so that libraries can make better, data-driven decisions on how to use their public spaces.
City of Boston (Earmark: Open Data to Open Knowledge)475,000.00108--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6711-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 02/06/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Turning Boston's open data collection into an accessible resource by working with Boston Public Library to catalog it and introduce it to the public. Boston, like many cities, has published a collection of “open data” that includes everything from building permits to a list of urban farms. The data tells a story about government and city life. Public interest in the data is clear -- with more than 14,000 views so far of neighborhood pothole data alone. But as with many forms of knowledge, making something available isn’t the same as making it useful. Through this project the city of Boston will work with local libraries to create a digital data catalog that will make it easier for residents, researchers and public employees to navigate. Once developed, the city and libraries will work together to introduce people to the resource, through, for example, introductory classes or data challenges where people are encouraged to analyze and visualize the data.
Friends of the Miami-Dade Public Library (Earmark: Co-working at the Library)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6719-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 05/01/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology, Knight News Challenge; goal: Providing freelancers, entrepreneurs and innovators a collaborative space for co-working in Miami-Dade libraries.
Peer 2 Peer University LLC (Earmark: Online Learning @ The Public Library)152,000.00381--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6710-- Grant period: 01/30/2015 - 02/06/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Making open online courses easier to access and complete for diverse members of the community by organizing in-person study groups for patrons in Chicago Public Library branch libraries Online courses can offer people free access to useful content and knowledge, as well as education opportunities. However, the lack of peer-support and face-to-face learning options are often a barrier to successful participation, especially for newcomers. To address this issue and increase access to information and education, Peer 2 Peer University, with Chicago Public Library, will organize in-person study groups for patrons to support their free online learning experience. The project will assist participants through the library’s familiar resources and leverage Peer 2 Peer University’s experience in building online communities; it will also include reinforcement and feedback from fellow learners. Study groups will be held in local branch libraries.
California State Library (Earmark: Data Equity for Main Street)470,000.00109--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6934-- Grant period: 01/26/2015 - 01/26/2017; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Promoting data literacy by training librarians and community members how to find, use and give advice on the power of open data.
University of Colorado Foundation (Earmark: Quantified Self Data Experience: Understanding your data and the world it creates)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6957-- Grant period: 01/12/2015 - 07/12/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Informing people about digital privacy, data sharing and the future of our data-driven society using performance, interactive art, digital education, data toolkits and public discussions.
Democracy Works (Earmark: Scaling Democracy Works)1,008,000.0058--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6566-- Grant period: 01/09/2015 - 12/01/2016; goal: To promote open information systems by scaling two voting information tools, while engaging government and nonprofit partners with technology that adds transparency to the voting process.
saambaa (Earmark: saambaa)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4998-- Grant period: 10/19/2014 - Invalid date; goal: Saambaa enables newsrooms to publish local information and entertainment content on a branded mobile app that helps them generate revenue and connect with a younger audience.
Rhizome Communications (Earmark: Colloq)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6574-- Grant period: 10/15/2014 - 04/14/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Colloq is a tool for creating contextual archives of online practices such as social media interactions, due to the difficulties involved in archiving them. Rather than treating them as static objects to be crawled, or big data sets, Colloq treats conversations as highly specific events, understood in context. It offers users a tool to archive behaviors for later micro-level research and citation.
MuckRock.com (Earmark: Connections: Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding via a mobile game)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6604-- Grant period: 10/15/2014 - 04/14/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: With Connections, MuckRock will be a mobile app and task management server that helps distribute large scale distributed investigative projects, helping not only tackle the editorial problems big data presents but also helping involve a more diverse, more mobile, and increasingly connected audience into newsgathering.
Fergus Pitt (Earmark: Journalism in Virtual Reality)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6612-- Grant period: 10/15/2014 - 03/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: This grant will prototype an innovative live-action interactive journalistic use of virtual reality-delivered over on the Occulus Rift. It will also document the processes creative, editorial and technical lessons. The result will be a full 5-10 minute experience that viewers will interact with using the virtual reality headset to immerses themselves in a 360-degree, 3D visual and audio space.
Public Radio International (Earmark: StoryAct)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6579-- Grant period: 10/15/2014 - 03/14/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: PRI seeks to develop StoryAct, a Drupal-based module to give people clear options to act on news stories. Shaped by journalists, StoryAct will display relevant user-actions within the story, integrating them into the body copy where it contextually makes sense. Our goal is to increase the number of people who engage and get involved in the news by streamlining the process of taking action.
University of Maryland (Earmark: CommentIQ)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6582-- Grant period: 10/15/2014 - 07/14/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To promote journalistic excellence by prototyping Comment IQ, a tool to help newsroom moderators surface interesting or constructive comments.
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Earmark: PARK (Parcel Analysis Resource Kit))35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6573-- Grant period: 10/15/2014 - 06/15/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The project will develop a toolkit that allows communities to study the land use possibilities of vacant parcels in their neighborhoods. Using publicly available data, we will build a series of GIS-based tools for measuring fitness criteria of available land resources, which will be shared with community land access projects and published as an open source code library.
How Wrong You Are (Earmark: New features for How Wrong You Are)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6576-- Grant period: 10/15/2014 - 04/14/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To add two new features to How Wrong You Are: (1) an embeddable How Wrong You Are quiz format where we focus on a specific topic, and (2) functionality that enables people to participate in our project by adding their own questions.
Internews Network (Earmark: Digital Security Training Co-Pilot)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6585-- Grant period: 10/15/2014 - 04/13/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The Digital Co-Pilot will be a prototype of an easy to use, small form-factor, open source tool that will allow a digital security trainer to simulate a variety of hostile digital environments, such as a censoring firewall or a surveilling ISP, in one click.
New America Foundation (Earmark: Real World Testing of Circumvention Tools / OpenITP)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6595-- Grant period: 10/15/2014 - 04/14/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: We're going to automate testing of censorship-busting tools so we can test them in hard places in real time. Then we'll know which tools work in times of urgency.
CommunityRED (Earmark: ADAPT game)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6570-- Grant period: 10/01/2014 - 03/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: We are building an open-source, mobile game application that teaches journalists how to assess digital threats, risks, and vulnerabilities for themselves and their sources. As journalists and citizen journalists report from contentious settings, they face a myriad of security issues and increasing digital risks. This tool teaches critical thinking skills to mitigate those risks.
Texas Christian University (Earmark: Photostreamer)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6571-- Grant period: 10/01/2014 - 04/01/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To promote journalistic excellence by prototyping Photostreamer, an open source device to stream photographs to newsrooms as they are taken.
National Freedom of Information Coalition (Earmark: Open Government Mobile Transparency Training and Support)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6572-- Grant period: 10/01/2014 - 06/01/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Create and maintain a new service offering of mobile apps and professional support to train state and local government employees/agencies in their state Open Records/Open Meetings/FOI laws and regulations.
Creative Commons (Earmark: The List)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6578-- Grant period: 10/01/2014 - 09/30/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To promote open systems by prototyping a mobile application to help non-profit and journalism organizations create calls for Creative Commons licensed images from amateur photographers.
The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Earmark: Stanford d.school)3,698,000.008--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6507-- Grant period: 09/26/2014 - 10/27/2014; goal: To expose media and civic organizations to Stanford University's d.school's human-centered design methods and tools, developing transformational leaders who can advance their field.
SciStarter LLC (Earmark: A citizen science data broker)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6567-- Grant period: 09/22/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: A matchmaking service where people who observe and record things of interest connect with people who need their observations, through a map-centric mobile and web app. Data collectors define their interests and locations and share observations with project managers who specify where they need data, (via a simple form) and tag their project with a vocabulary we design to facilitate matching.
Naytev (Earmark: Naytev)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5014-- Grant period: 09/16/2014 - 09/16/2015; goal: Social media headline optimization for media and brands. Naytev A/B tests how content appears on social media (the images and text that show up on Facebook or Twitter) when people share, and improves engagement by prioritizing the top versions of a message. We currently working with some top publishers in the industry to boost social traffic, and are expanding into ecommerce, social gaming, and political communication.
Gimlet Media (Earmark: Startup)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5015-- Grant period: 09/16/2014 - 09/16/2015; goal: Podcasting production and distribution.
Ushahidi (Earmark: PingApp)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6577-- Grant period: 09/15/2014 - 04/15/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: We propose to build PingApp which is basically a binary, multichannel check-in tool for groups during a crisis or a disaster. The idea is that families and organizations could use this for quick head counts on how everyone is, and then use it as an on-ramp into a Red Cross missing persons index or something like Google's People Finder app.
Pop Up Archive (Earmark: Pop Up Archive)0.00866--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5013-- Grant period: 09/12/2014 - 09/12/2015; goal: Organizing sound and making it searchable, so journalists and scholars can tell stories better. Pop Up Archive makes sound searchable. Media on the web is opaque and hard to discover. Pop Up Archive takes sound from anywhere and automatically creates timestamped transcripts and keywords, indexed so search terms play back exactly where they are found in the audio. Pop Up Archive's smart transcription tools are built on unique language models from audio collections across the U.S. The Pop Up Archive web application helps media companies monetize content by optimizing audio and video for search engines and audience engagement.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Time Capsule Encryption)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6569-- Grant period: 09/09/2014 - 03/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: We propose to build a time capsule encryption service for archivists, scholars, and journalists. Time capsule encryption is a way to securely send a message into the future, so it cannot be read until a certain date or event. Time capsule encryption is necessary to preserve important cultural records that would otherwise be deleted or forgotten.
Infogram Software (Earmark: Jifo And Bad Data)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6586-- Grant period: 09/08/2014 - 11/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To promote data literacy by prototyping an educational mobile game to help children learn about data visualization and critical thinking in the digital age. Jifo and Bad Data (JABD) is an educational game that teaches children data literacy, data visualization and even some critical thinking. Aimed at children aged 5-7, it will be developed in cooperation with child psychologists and game designers with experience of the age group. JABD keeps children entertained and engaged with an original story and an original character, Jifo. Infogr.am's core business is in data visualization, but our social mission is promoting data literacy globally.
Participatory Politics Foundation (Earmark: AskThem.io)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6568-- Grant period: 09/08/2014 - 11/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: PPF will develop digital tools for media publishers that enables visitors to their websites to ask questions, push for public responses, and share answers. These tools will allow visitors to stay on the media websites, but publish questions through to the AskThem.io platform for further reach. PPF will conduct user research on types of questions that online public seeks to ask and have answered.
American Society of News Editors Foundation (Earmark: Digital Outreach Initiative)85,000.00485--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6505-- Grant period: 09/01/2014 - 09/01/2017; goal: To support journalism excellence to accelerate adoption of digital tools and techniques in traditional newsrooms.
OpenGov Foundation (Earmark: Madison Project)750,000.0070--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6518-- Grant period: 09/01/2014 - 09/30/2016; goal: To support The OpenGov Foundation's work making state and local codes, laws and policymaking accessible to the public through open data and technology.
Friends of WLRN (Earmark: WLRN Human-Centered Design)200,000.00314--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6008-- Grant period: 09/01/2014 - 09/01/2015; goal: To support WLRN's use of human-centered design methods to improve its journalism, through staff training and a design engagement with MAYA Design. Through the project, WLRN staff will be trained in human-centered design, an approach that incorporates feedback from users when developing new ideas, so audience needs are built into the innovation process. Staff will learn to use these techniques in their work and apply them to content creation and delivery. At the same time, MAYA Design, a design consultancy and research lab, will use market research and analysis gathered from WLRN audiences to recommend new ideas for the newsroom.
Newsela (Earmark: Newsela)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5011-- Grant period: 08/26/2014 - 08/26/2015; goal: News repurposed to promote reading education and literacy. Newsela unlocks the written word by publishing daily news articles at five reading levels to engage students in grades 3-12 in high-interest topics from immigration and diplomacy to drones and animal extinction. Students who read Newsela articles and take Common Core-aligned quizzes develop the critical thinking and nonfiction literacy skills needed for academic and professional success. When every student, regardless of reading level, is able to participate, teachers can engage the whole class in conversations about complex issues. Launched in 2013, Newsela has been one of the most quickly adopted educational technologies in history.
The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (Earmark: Public Database of Massachusetts Court Records)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6421-- Grant period: 08/15/2014 - 01/15/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To allow journalists and the public to better monitor court cases through an online filing and database system for Massachusetts court records. MassINC and its partners will create an online filing and public database system for Massachusetts court records that includes an electronic copy of each source document inside the docket, as well as docket metadata. This product is for journalists and the general public interested in monitoring court cases. Digital access will increase newsrooms' capacity to report on legal proceedings.
Meedan (Earmark: CheckDesk)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6412-- Grant period: 08/01/2014 - 07/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To help journalists quickly verify the accuracy of online media–whether it’s a video, photo or a tweet through a digital tool–in deadline situations.
Threshold Future (Earmark: Threshold)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6414-- Grant period: 08/01/2014 - 01/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To make it easier for open Internet projects to find funding by creating an open Internet-themed virtual currency as a way to build a community of interested supporters.
Veritza (Earmark: Veritza)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6413-- Grant period: 08/01/2014 - 01/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To automate the discovery of story leads from public records by scraping, ingesting and aggregating data, and analyzing it for patterns and anomalies. The system will ultimately allow users to create alerts on public records and will deliver auto-generated statistical summaries and infographics that are easy to share and embed.
Rutgers University Foundation (Earmark: Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6457-- Grant period: 08/01/2014 - 08/30/2015; goal: To support journalism excellence through diversity by contributing to the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies to examine and advance women's participation in media, especially at the decision-making levels.
Endaga (Earmark: Endaga)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5010-- Grant period: 07/29/2014 - 07/29/2015; goal: Endaga empowers anyone, anywhere to run their own cellular networks and brings connectivity to the billion people internationally without it.
Patients Like Me (Earmark: Patients Assemble)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6298-- Grant period: 07/15/2014 - 01/15/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To help people with chronic illnesses interact with policymakers through open-source collaborative tools that will allow users to provide feedback and shape issues that are important to them.
The Center for Public Integrity (Earmark: Global I-Hub ICIJ)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6433-- Grant period: 07/15/2014 - 01/15/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To make collaboration on cross-border investigative stories easier by providing a secure, easy-to-use platform for reporters to communicate through Facebook-like status updates, threaded communications on specific topics, individual messaging and file sharing. ICIJ proposes to build a secure, easy-to-use platform that will make collaboration on cross-border investigative stories easier by providing a one-stop-shop for reporters to communicate through Facebook-like status updates, threaded communications on specific topics, individual messaging and file sharing - with several levels of security depending on the nature of the communications.
Wesleyan University (Earmark: Wesleyan Media Project videos)30,000.00803--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6395-- Grant period: 07/14/2014 - 12/05/2014; goal: To further support the Wesleyan Media Project with a short video and a 30-second public service message to help raise awareness about the growth of negative television advertising in political campaigns.
WGBH Educational Foundation (Earmark: Short-form Frontline)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6404-- Grant period: 07/10/2014 - 08/08/2015; goal: To support WGBH develop and test a short-form digital Frontline series to engage a new audience of millennials with quality journalism.
Trustees of Boston University (Earmark: WBUR BizLab)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6450-- Grant period: 07/10/2014 - 08/14/2015; goal: To launch the WBUR BizLab, a free-standing team to experiment with new revenue strategies to increase WBUR's future sustainability and share findings with the public media community.
Public Media Company (Earmark: Channel X Online Marketplace)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6472-- Grant period: 07/10/2014 - 08/14/2015; goal: To develop functions and services specific to news content at Channel X, an online marketplace that helps public TV and radio broadcasters discover, buy and license content aimed at a young and diverse audience.
StoryCorps (Earmark: DIY Storycorps)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6428-- Grant period: 07/01/2014 - 12/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build a prototype StoryCorps mobile app that allows people to record, upload and share do-it-yourself StoryCorps interviews. The app will be an extension of StoryCorps' do-it-yourself program, diy.storycorps.org, which will be redesigned before National Day of Listening (Nov. 28) 2014. We would first like to offer the app in iOS and Android versions.
Grist Magazine (Earmark: New Engagement Tools for Media)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6418-- Grant period: 07/01/2014 - 12/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To allow newsrooms to better measure audience engagement, beyond clicks and page views, by creating an open-source WordPress plugin that will measure “attention minutes” to determine how long users are interacting with content.
Tal Achituv (Earmark: Public Record (Advanced Emergency Radio Scanner & Repository))35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6439-- Grant period: 07/01/2014 - 01/09/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To provide newsrooms with a better tool to be aware of current events, and also a better tool for investigation of past events.
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism (Earmark: Knight Innovation Awards)216,000.00303--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6399-- Grant period: 07/01/2014 - 07/30/2017; goal: To support three years of the Knight Award for Media Innovation, celebrate news innovators and encourage others to innovate in journalism. VICE Media co-founder and CEO Shane Smith will receive the Knight Foundation’s 2014 Innovation Award on Dec. 1 at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism — and leading technologists and entrepreneurs from outside of the media industry will present their ideas for how journalism needs to evolve. More.
Market Atlas (Earmark: Market Atlas)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6417-- Grant period: 06/30/2014 - 08/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To scale a data provider network that allows citizens to collect and share microeconomic data from countries in Africa that lack financial infrastructure; providing reliable, consistent financial data should encourage greater investment in the area. Market Atlas is like 'Bloomberg for Africa' We aim to improve access to financial data in emerging markets for private equity and social impact investors. With Knight's support, we're scaling a data provider network where citizens collect and share micro-economic data from countries that lack financial infrastructure. Our goal is to encourage investment, which will create jobs in these regions.
Hollaback (Earmark: Report-a-Troll)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6437-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a platform where victims can safely report online harassment—including violent threats, stalking and racial epithets—and volunteers can respond.
CODE2040 (Earmark: CODE2040)400,000.00122--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6698-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To ensure the future of the Internet as a diverse, inclusive public resource by opening more pathways for underrepresented minorities to top jobs in technology and bolstering professional support networks to sustain their success. A diverse community of people working on strengthening the Internet is an important part of ensuring its future as a public resource. While black and Latino students currently earn nearly 20 percent of computer science degrees, they make up only 9 percent of the technology industry and less than 1 percent of technology company founders. CODE2040 seeks to strengthen the Internet by opening more pathways for people of color to top jobs in technology and bolstering professional support networks to sustain their success. The core component of this initiative will be a new iteration of the CODE2040 Fellows Program. The program matches black and Latino software developers with internships at tech companies to which they would not usually have access and supports them with a robust leadership development curriculum. Lessons from the Fellows Program will also be applied to develop a curriculum for thousands of computer science students of color nationwide.
Open Technology Institute at New America (Earmark: Global Censorship Measurement)350,000.00139--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6700-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To work in support of Measurement Lab, a collaboration and research platform that hosts a suite of tools for assessing the openness of the Internet. Private telecommunications companies control the majority of Internet traffic and can potentially exert significant control over what Internet users see and how they see it. However, little is known about how they exercise this control. New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute works in support of Measurement Lab, a collaboration and research platform that hosts a suite of tools for assessing the openness of the Internet through metrics such as connection speed and blocked sites. They will work to make the software and data more accessible and provide journalists and policymakers with information about Internet openness.
Guardian Media (Earmark: Swarmize)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6419-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To allow journalists to conduct research with the help of readers by creating a platform to improve data collection, analysis and distribution of crowd research.
Salak TeleSystems (Earmark: Poking the Bear)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6423-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/23/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a new family of tools that can detect and prove network neutrality violations even when it occurs within mobile network operator networks.
Digital Public Library of America (Earmark: Getting it Right on Rights)300,000.00160--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6699-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a simplified and more coherent rights structure for content collections from libraries, museums, archives and other sources, along with best practices that institutions can use to safely make more content available to the public. Huge collections of content from libraries, museums, archives and other sources are freely accessible on the Web through the Digital Public Library of America, Europeana, Trove and other organizations. However, these collections lack consistency on people’s usage rights and are further weakened by inconsistent copyright law and aversion to risk by nonprofit institutions. Getting it Right on Rights will create a simplified and more coherent rights structure, along with best practices that institutions around the world can use to safely make more content available to the public. The project will include two international summits to convene experts in the field, from museum leaders to intellectual property lawyers and policymakers, the creation of a new digital rights standard and production of a best practices guide.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (Earmark: Online Censorship.org)250,000.00176--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6702-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To collect information about online censorship incidents to explore concerns about censorship and preserve freedom of expression. As private Internet companies handle a growing amount of online communication, society faces a new set of challenges about censorship and free speech: When should governments and companies be able to remove content from a private Internet service? What policies should companies follow when dealing with copyright or censorship requests? The Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the country’s leading advocates for an open Internet, will further develop OnlineCensorship.org. Co-founded by Jillian York and Ramzi Jaber, the project collects information about online censorship incidents. The Electronic Frontier Foundation will make use of this data to explore concerns about censorship and map a better way forward for freedom of expression online.
New America Foundaton (Earmark: Ranking Digital Rights)300,000.00160--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6703-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop a system for benchmarking and ranking the world’s most powerful tech companies on how well they protect the free expression and privacy of users. While private companies have the potential to exert a growing amount of control over the public’s use of the Internet, little is known about how that control is exercised or how companies’ practices compare. To bring this issue to light, the Ranking Digital Rights project at the New America Foundation is developing a system for benchmarking and ranking the world’s most powerful tech companies on how well they protect the free expression and privacy of users. The ranking and its underlying data will help journalists and investors encourage companies to improve their practices.
Journalism Development Network (Earmark: Who are the Gatekeepers?)200,000.00314--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6704-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To examine the gatekeepers of Eastern Europe’s digital infrastructure, by analyzing the ownership and connections of Internet service providers and cable and satellite operators Cable and Internet providers control much of the public’s communication, but in many countries there is little public knowledge about those companies. This project will examine the gatekeepers of Eastern Europe’s digital infrastructure, by analyzing the ownership and connections of Internet service providers, and cable and satellite operators. The project will ask a series of questions: Who controls access to TV stations, the Internet, online news outlets and other forms of information? How transparent are these groups? Are they connected to political parties, public officials or organized crime? The project will then visualize and map the information and conduct an advocacy campaign to bring it to the attention of relevant organizations.
Univ of Kansas (Earmark: CertiDig)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6706-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To provide a seamless, secure method for authenticating information and data sources online while maintaining the privacy of the identity of sender and receiver.
Tibet Action Institute (Earmark: Safe Travels Online)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6707-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To help people avoid cyberattacks, malicious software and digital surveillance, by testing and improving resources that allow users to safely navigate the Internet. The resources were initially designed for high-risk communities in Asia subject to strict controls on freedom of expression and other human rights.
Whirl-i-Gig (Earmark: Inquisite)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6416-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To promote collaboration among researchers on complex investigative projects across disciplines through an online hub. By combining an open sharing, visualization and publishing platform with mobile data gathering tools, researchers can use the hub to contribute media and data, and share projects.
Swell Creative Group (Earmark: Breedrs)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6432-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a platform for parents so they can better understand the apps, games and technology that kids buy, use and learn with.
Chicago Public Library Foundation (Earmark: Internet to Go)400,000.00122--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6701-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To offer Chicago residents Wi-Fi hotspots for up to three weeks at a time, in addition to one-on-one digital literacy and skills coaching and access to online tutorials. To increase engagement with the Internet in communities with extremely low Internet use, Chicago Public Library will test Wi-Fi hotspot lending from six neighborhood libraries in combination with robust digital skills coaching. Laptops and tablets will also be available. Devices will be loaned for three weeks, and digital and information literacy services will be made available to patrons at checkout. Internet to Go will allow the library—already the city’s largest provider of free Internet access—to test the idea, refine it and ultimately expand the project.
New York Public Library (Earmark: Check Out the Internet)500,000.0099--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6697-- Grant period: 06/23/2014 - 06/22/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To bridge the digital divide by allowing New York residents with limited broadband access to borrow portable Wi-Fi hotspot devices for up to a year. In a city where 27 percent of households don’t have access to broadband, The New York Public Library will expand its efforts to bridge the digital divide by allowing the public to borrow portable Wi-Fi hotspot devices for up to a year. Through its pilot project launching in September, the project seeks to reach 10,000 households, providing 24/7 quality access to people whose current access to the Internet is limited to 40-minute, once-a-day time slots, available on a first-come, first-serve basis in one of the library’s 92 branches. Providing continuous access will expand their ability to participate fully in the modern economy and allow them to continue to learn, work, explore and create after the library’s doors have closed.
Catchafire (Earmark: Catchafire)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5009-- Grant period: 06/20/2014 - 06/20/2015; goal: Platform connecting professionals with nonprofit volunteer opps.
Public Good Software (Earmark: Do Public Good Button)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6422-- Grant period: 06/15/2014 - 01/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To work with bloggers and media organizations to include a capability to take action ('Do Public Good') in the context of news articles. For example, someone reading an article about a shooting could click a button and be connected with charities working on the problem in the reader's community. The reader could then support the charities through a variety of actions.
Ben Connors (Earmark: The Last Graph)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6427-- Grant period: 06/10/2014 - 01/09/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To building a tool that empowers audiences to engage with the subject of the news. With the tool, audiences literally change the narrative by taking part in relevant, journalist-curated actions, which are captured in a feedback loop. During the grant they will release a beta, work with journalists and readers to refine it and publish datasets and lessons learned to the public.
Humantarian Open Streetmap Team (Earmark: OpenStreetMap Plugin for Open Data Kit)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6463-- Grant period: 06/10/2014 - 01/09/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To allow easier collection of open geographic data, even in places with connectivity issues, by combining Open Data Kit’s data collection with OpenStreetMap’s data community. Currently Open Data Kit(ODK) is a great solution for mobile data collection and OpenStreetMap(OSM) is an excellent place for collecting geospatial information. By combining the power of ODK's easy data collection and the great data community of OSM communities can better map themselves.
Will Knight (Earmark: Facto_Bot)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6436-- Grant period: 06/10/2014 - 01/09/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop software that aids the correction of misinformation on social media, primarily twitter. It would automatically identify stories that have been corrected, and help alert those who tweeted, or retweeted, links to those stories that the picture has changed.
New York Public Radio (Earmark: Talk Box)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6431-- Grant period: 06/10/2014 - 01/09/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To involve the community in news stories by repurposing phone booths in specific neighborhoods that will provide residents with a direct, two-way line to the New York Public Radio newsroom; a “Talkbox” can help with engaging new audiences or to get information in a neighborhood where a reporting project is taking place.
The Virginian-Pilot (Earmark: Pilot for School)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6420-- Grant period: 06/06/2014 - 01/09/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop a digital system that aligns current and archived content from The Virginian-Pilot with Virginia's Standards of Learning to complement K-12 instruction. The system will be searchable - by keyword, tag, grade and subject - and let teachers share content that illustrates specified SOLs. It will help students apply academic concepts to what's happening in their community.
Bay Area Video Coalition (Earmark: Open Source Capture Software for Video Archivists)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6430-- Grant period: 06/05/2014 - 09/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To design and build an open source, cross platform video digitization application that sharply reduces barriers in cost and skills required to enable more organizations to preserve their audiovisual collections. This project builds upon QCTools (http://www.bavc.org/qctools), an open source quality control software project developed by BAVC's Preservation Department.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Earmark: FilmSync)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6415-- Grant period: 06/02/2014 - 01/09/2015; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create an app that will connect people who are watching a news story or documentary on television with related content through a second screen app on their smartphones.
The Paley Center for Media (Earmark: Public forums on secrecy)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6265-- Grant period: 05/01/2014 - 05/30/2015; goal: To support a series of public forums examining government secrecy and threats to privacy and the role of media in challenging government on those issues. The Nov. 6 installment of The Paley Center for Media’s Next Big Thing series will explore these questions. A “state of the union” will help us take stock of what’s working and the new initiatives that are accelerating success. A “reality check” conversation will explore the question of how citizen interaction and experience with government is kept center stage. Pitch sessions and Q&As with leading technologists will look at core plumbing solutions and innovative citizen engagement initiatives.
Wesleyan University (Earmark: Wesleyan Media Project)74,851.00499--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6364-- Grant period: 05/01/2014 - 05/30/2016; goal: To support the Wesleyan Media Project, which will track and analyze broadcast ads aired in the 2014 election campaigns to enhance transparency in elections. Transparency and government responsiveness depend critically on real-time publicly available information disclosing efforts to influence elections. The Wesleyan Media Project tracks and analyzes all broadcast advertisements aired by or on behalf of federal and state election candidates in every media market in the country. Since the 2010 election cycle, we have been providing real-time information on the extent of corporate and union spending in federal election campaigns across the country, who specifically is doing that spending and which candidates are benefiting.
Vidpresso (Earmark: Vidpresso)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5008-- Grant period: 04/29/2014 - 04/29/2015; goal: Social media tools for television.
Disaster Accountability Project (Earmark: SmartResponse.org)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6317-- Grant period: 04/15/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To improve transparency around the funding and local capacity of disaster recovery organizations.
Mike Tigas (Earmark: Tabula)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6323-- Grant period: 04/15/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create and test user interface enhancements for Tabula, a PDF data-scraping tool.
Activity-based News, Chaki Ng (Earmark: Whilecard)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6313-- Grant period: 04/15/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a prototype of an activity-based news recommender system in order to gain a better understanding of the potential of personalized news presentation based on user context. Creating a tool that recognizes user preferences for news and information based on their activities (i.e. world and sports in the morning, and stocks and tech when working).
Evenly Distributed (Earmark: Library Box)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6359-- Grant period: 04/15/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To improve and internationalize LibraryBox, a device that provides digital access to information in areas and situations with limited Internet connectivity.
Beacon Reader (Earmark: Beacon Reader)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5007-- Grant period: 04/11/2014 - 04/11/2015; goal: Beacon Reader enables people to fund journalism and subscribe to writers directly. Beacon, an independent platform for journalism based in Oakland, California, was founded in 2013. Over the past year, it has paid out over $600,000 to journalists and has over 250 writers using the platform. It works with publications to get the word out about those projects, and to help their stories reach a wider audience. Past projects done in partnership with publications include “The Net Neutrality Battle,” where Techdirt raised nearly $70,000 through crowdfunding on Beacon to support its coverage of the net neutrality fight in Washington, D.C. In August 2014, The Huffington Post crowdfunded over $40,000 on Beacon for a fellowship that will allow a journalist to remain in Ferguson, Missouri, and cover the ongoing protests and their aftermath for one year. In the spring, Climate Confidential, a team of six climate and environment reporters, raised over $46,000 through crowdfunding on Beacon to create a micro-publication devoted to climate issues. And, most recently, The Texas Tribune crowdsourced funding for a 15-part series of stories on how the shale boom is changing Texas, the end product of which earned praise from The New York Times this week.
Mikva Challenge Grant Foundation (Earmark: Expunge.io)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6310-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 09/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a prototype version of Expunge.io, a mobile app designed to aid juvenile offenders in navigating the legal process.
LoudSauce (Earmark: Louder)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6324-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To test the use of crowd-funded advertising through the Louder platform in order to extend the reach of journalism that is important to audiences.
Solution Beam LLC (Earmark: Geo Data App)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6326-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a Git-based collaborative platform to produce, review and publish geo datasets.
American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio (Earmark: Everybody at Once)42,325.00580--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6348-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 04/30/2015; goal: To train American Public Media producers in innovative social strategies to better engage audiences.
KQED (Earmark: Uncovering Cost, Examining Impact)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6307-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To test the journalistic uses of a crowdsourcing tool for consumer health costs.
Govloop (Earmark: GovLoop Academy)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6314-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create two online courses as a pilot of GovLoop Academy, an online learning platform for civil servants.
MLRun (Earmark: MLRun)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6306-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 09/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype the use of new machine learning algorithms to discover patterns in documents and networks.
Marie-Catherine Beuth (Earmark: NOD: News on Demand)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6312-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype News On Demand, a system to provide curated news to readers based on their available time and attention.
Natalie Cadranel (Earmark: PressSecure)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6327-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a prototype version of PressSecure, an application to securely archive citizen media, while preserving metadata needed for authentication.
Philadelphia Public Interest Information Network (Earmark: Open Data Philly)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6304-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To improve the usability of the OpenDataPhilly data catalog and create instructional materials on the usage of the site's resources.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Earmark: Capitol Hound)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6309-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype Capitol Hound, a searchable audio archive and alert system for N.C. General Assembly sessions.
Minezy (Earmark: Minezy)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6311-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: Minezy is a tool that will allow journalists to deduce social relationships, hierarchical structures and topical importance from email archives. The goal of the prototype will be to allow journalists to quickly use the structured data contained within Microsoft Outlook archives to create a rudimentary analysis of a target subject social, political and/or business network.
World Wide Web Foundation (Earmark: Tipsy)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6329-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build and test Tipsy, a data format and prototype software for audience microdonations to content providers in order to experiment with ways to reduce the friction required for small donations.
Spark Camp (Earmark: Spark Tracks)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6340-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 04/30/2016; goal: To grow Spark Camp's themed tracks, turning relationships developed at the event into sustained partnerships for innovation in journalism and technology.
Matthew Terenzio (Earmark: Project Fission)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6308-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 10/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build a prototype application to test the use of small, structured information units in narrative storytelling.
The New School (Earmark: Journalism + Design)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6337-- Grant period: 04/01/2014 - 04/30/2016; goal: To pilot Journalism + Design, a new bachelor's degree and minor, at The New School that will teach journalism through a design methodology and mindset.
Obvious Engineering (Earmark: Seene)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5006-- Grant period: 03/19/2014 - 03/19/2015; goal: Seene app enables 3D photography from mobile phones. Seene 2 offers photography fans an alternative to Lytro and Google Camera for creating realistic depth­of­field effects such as lens blur and tilt­shift that can be interactively applied to refocus the image after it’s been taken. Seene uses computer vision algorithms to understand the world in 3D. The app has been downloaded 1.5 million times since its launch in October 2013. Our goal is to become the universal way people capture 3D content and put the data to work. We have offices in London and San Francisco.
MinnPost (Earmark: Knight Local Media Initiative)600,000.0078--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6291-- Grant period: 03/01/2014 - 03/31/2016; goal: To support a joint project between MinnPost and Voice of San Diego to develop and share new ways to engage and monetize membership, as part of the Knight Local Media Initiative.
Civic Industries (Earmark: Civic Insight)220,000.00300--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4987-- Grant period: 03/01/2014 - 03/01/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Providing up-to-date information on vacant properties so that communities can find ways to make tangible improvements to local spaces Neighbors, cities, non-profits and businesses all have an interest in seeing vacant properties become productive again. However, a lack of public access to information about these properties makes it difficult for groups to work together on solutions. By plugging directly into government databases, Civic Insight provides real-time information on vacant and underutilized properties, enabling more collaborative, data-driven community development. With Civic Insight, journalists and residents can search for a property on a map and learn about its ownership, inspection and permitting history, and subscribe to receive real-time notifications about changes. Civic Insight grew out of a successful pilot in New Orleans called BlightStatus, which was created during the team’s 2012 Code for America fellowship. It is now available for licensed use by cities nationwide. Knight Foundation’s support will help the team expand the software and test new use cases in more communities.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: Chicas Poderosas)37,531.00586--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6219-- Grant period: 03/01/2014 - 09/30/2014; goal: The grant will support a Chicas Poderosas gathering in Miami to increase the number of women working in newsroom technology.
voiceofsandiego.org (Earmark: Knight Local Media Initiative)600,000.0078--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6290-- Grant period: 03/01/2014 - 03/31/2016; goal: To support a joint project between MinnPost and Voice of San Diego to develop and share new ways to engage and monetize membership, as part of the Knight Local Media Initiative.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (Earmark: New digital tools to help veterans)500,076.0098--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6280-- Grant period: 03/01/2014 - 03/01/2015; goal: To support new data tools and mobile technology for informing veterans and the public about veterans' issues.
Catalytic Diplomacy (Earmark: I.F. Stone and journalistic independence)25,000.00813--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6282-- Grant period: 02/28/2014 - 02/27/2015; goal: To support a short, high-quality, 8-minute video on journalistic independence, introducing a new generation to the iconic investigative journalist and author I.F. Stone.
Poetica (Earmark: Poetica)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5004-- Grant period: 02/18/2014 - 02/18/2015; goal: Poetica is a seamless way to get feedback on anything you've written, from friends, colleagues or anyone else who can help improve your words. Upload your text to Poetica's browser-based editor and give and receive feedback as if you'd printed your writing off and marked it up with a pen.
Tab Media (Earmark: Tab Media)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5003-- Grant period: 02/12/2014 - 02/12/2015; goal: Online news by, about and for university students.
Community Foundation of New Jersey (Earmark: Knight Local Media Initiative)300,000.00160--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6252-- Grant period: 02/01/2014 - 02/28/2016; goal: To support business development at NJ Spotlight, enabling strategic investment towards sustainability and journalistic excellence, as part of the Knight Local Media Initiative.
The Tor Project (Earmark: The Tor Project)30,000.00803--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6256-- Grant period: 02/01/2014 - 03/30/2014; goal: To support the online security training of journalists at the annual Tor Developers meeting.
American Documentary (Earmark: POV Digital Initiatives Project)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6263-- Grant period: 02/01/2014 - 02/28/2015; goal: To support the POV Digital Initiatives Project to help documentary filmmakers experiment with digital/mobile storytelling. Building on POV’s digital track record, $75,000 of the Knight Foundation funding will go to two promising media projects that push the boundaries of nonfiction media in the digital age. The projects will receive technical and creative support to take them from idea to prototype to a finished product. With the balance of the support, POV will offer a yearlong fellowship to a technologist and continue its nonfiction media hackathon labs. The chosen fellow will develop digital and mobile tools for nonfiction media makers. Since 2012, the POV Hackathon labs have gathered media makers and technologists to collaborate and develop new innovations in documentary for the Web. In 2014, POV will organize two labs in New York and for the first time hold a lab in Los Angeles.
Hampton University (Earmark: Center for Digital Media Innovation)245,000.00271--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6237-- Grant period: 02/01/2014 - 08/30/2016; goal: To create a pilot of the Center for Digital Media Innovation to expose minority students to new journalism practices and make them more attractive to employers.
Wildwood School (Earmark: Global Sensor Web)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6211-- Grant period: 01/15/2014 - 07/15/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a prototype of Global Sensor Web, an online platform for aggregating geo-tagged data sets from both public data sources and from the onboard sensors of mobile phones. The Global Sensor Web (GSW) is an online platform for aggregating geo-tagged data sets from both public data sources and from the onboard sensors of mobile phones. Members of the public can use this framework and the open data set it supports to report, query, analyze, and visualize their environment. GSW will enable environmental monitoring, citizen science projects, and educational activities.
Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers (Earmark: Camden Health Explorer)450,000.00112--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6244-- Grant period: 01/14/2014 - 08/13/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop Camden Health Explorer, a dashboard that combines individual and aggregate health information to help policymakers and stakeholders understand and act on local health data In Camden, New Jersey, as in many U.S. cities, 30 percent of healthcare costs come from just 1 percent of patients. Many of these patients arrive in emergency rooms seeking care for easily treatable or preventable conditions; they are often faced with a fragmented, uncoordinated and expensive health care system. The Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers is addressing this problem by sharing data between the city’s hospitals and providers to better target resources and proactively tackle patient health issues. The Camden Health Explorer is the next step in this effort. The Explorer, built in partnership with BlueLabs, an analytics, data and technology firm, will aggregate anonymized individual health and medical claims data, then display and map the results by demography and geography. Camden Coalition staff will work with local stakeholders, including hospital administrators, providers, and policymakers, to ensure the data is used to make Camden’s healthcare system more efficient and ultimately make patients healthier. The dashboard will be open source and available to other communities.
The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (Earmark: Homebrew Sensing Project)350,000.00139--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6246-- Grant period: 01/14/2014 - 08/13/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To build Homebrew Sensing Project, a set of low-cost hardware and free software tools community members can use to measure local health data, such as air and water quality. Communities are increasingly concerned about the array of hazardous chemicals that surrounds us - from formaldehyde in building materials to fumes from industrial sites - and their long and short term health impacts. To address this problem, the Public Laboratory wants to provide more low-cost chemical analysis tools, including simple devices that can be plugged into smartphones and laptops, so residents can measure the effects themselves instead of relying on costly labs. With its community of over 3,500 active members, Public Lab raised $110,000 in 2012 through Kickstarter to use DIY spectrometry tools to identify petroleum in sediments in coastal Louisiana and monitor emissions from oil refineries, among other projects. Challenge funding will allow the lab’s Homebrew Sensing Project to not only expand but improve its hardware, software and interface with citizens to collect data that empowers communities.
Code for America Labs (Earmark: Ohana API)210,000.00304--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6247-- Grant period: 01/14/2014 - 08/13/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To extend and publicly launch Ohana API, a tool for organizing and publishing databases of social services available in a particular community. Launched in beta in San Mateo County, Calif., this Code for America project connects the public with community resources through one centralized database. Need help paying for food, finding affordable healthcare or connecting with a social worker? Ohana, an open source project functioning much like a 2-1-1 service, can help people locate the services they need, display them on a map and make them easily printable. This database unites information on health, human and social services that are often kept in separate silos, making localized results difficult to find. Exposing the data through a web API, the tool allows users to quickly access targeted community information through applications like search engines, smart phones, or SMS. With challenge funding, Ohana will enhance its service to build and host an easy-to-implement tool.
Principled Strategies (Earmark: SafeUseNow)208,000.00306--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6250-- Grant period: 01/14/2014 - 08/13/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To scale SafeUseNow, a technology and training product that helps doctors identify and reduce prescription drug abuse; the team will provide the service for free to a nonprofit healthcare provider in California. Since the 1990s, prescription drug abuse has significantly increased in the United States. However, a lack of actionable information about prescription drug abuse risk, despite the increase of state monitoring programs, makes it difficult to combat the problem. SafeUseNow; aims to reduce abuse by making prescribing safer and more effective. The tool uses data to identify combinations of prescribers, patients, and pharmacies who may be contributing to the problem. This information helps healthcare stakeholders educate prescribers to more effectively and safely treat patients. It also allows them to monitor prescribing patterns for changes in trends and behavior. A successful pilot with one health plan provider achieved a significant reduction in key risk factors. With Knight Foundation funding, the team will scale the project for use by Medicaid plans in California and around the country.
Do Something (Earmark: Crisis Text Line)350,000.00139--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6245-- Grant period: 01/14/2014 - 08/13/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To scale Crisis Text Line, a service providing crisis counseling to teens via SMS, by launching nationwide and aggregating anonymized data to increase understanding of teen crisis across the country. Now in beta, Crisis Text Line provides youth with free counseling via text message, and so far has helped teens in crisis with more than 10,000 text conversations. Created by one of the largest organizations for teens and social change in the country, DoSomething.org, Crisis Text Line provides intervention and referral services from live, trained counselors, reaching teens through their preferred means of communication: SMS. With challenge funding, Crisis Text Line will both launch the service nationally and create what they expect will be one of the largest database on teens in crisis in the country. The anonymously aggregated data could be used to inform academic research, test new approaches and measure the effectiveness of mental health interventions.
PersonalGenomes.org (Earmark: Open Humans Network)500,000.0099--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6248-- Grant period: 01/14/2014 - 08/13/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To design and launch Open Humans Network, an online system that helps match people willing to share their health data with researchers who would benefit from access to more information, all with a focus on exploring new standards for open health data. While people now have greater access to their own medical records, sharing personal information about their health is difficult—limiting the use of this data to advance medical research. To break down silos, the Open Humans Network will create an online portal to connect people willing to publically share data about themselves with researchers. The portal will include three components: a personal page that will allow participants to set up their data profile; a public data explorer enabling people to explore and use data compiled from participant profiles; and a set of design guidelines for researchers looking to use a collaborative data sharing model.
Forest Giant (Earmark: LouLoops)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6215-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create LouLoops, a mobile app for bicycle route mapping and also a data collection and analysis tool, enabling more informed bike infrastructure planning by local officials.
Proton Factory LLC (Earmark: MoNeCa Core)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6238-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a prototype version of MoNeCa Core, an open source code library to capture multimedia content by citizen journalists in mobile apps.
Texas Tribune (Earmark: Texas Tribune Kickstarter project)10,000.00854--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6275-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/01/2014; goal: To support the results of Texas Tribune's Kickstarter campaign to livestream the 2014 elections in Texas.
Civic Ninjas (Earmark: Sitegeist Health)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6202-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a prototype version of Sitegeist Health, an application to present health data in a localized, accessible format.
Silent Spring Institute (Earmark: Data Experiences)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6218-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create prototype Data Experiences, multi-sensory, immersive, and aesthetic interactions that make data tangible, using environmental health indicators. The project will be done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab.
Smart Chicago Collaborative (Earmark: Chicago Food)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6206-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop strategies to engage with targeted communities currently being missed through Chicago's Twitter-based food poisoning incident detection system.
Brown Bag Software LLC (Earmark: Transit Authority)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6210-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a game-like simulation app that allows users to model transit and land-use programs.
Robot Robot & Hwang (Earmark: Restatement)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6233-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop a prototype version of Restatement, a system for the creation and parsing of machine-readable legal text.
Bocoup LLC (Earmark: Data Visualization on Mobile Devices)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6212-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To conduct a survey of existing approaches to mobile data visualization, identify patterns and best practices and produce a guide summarizing our findings. As part of the work we will explore solutions using Open Web technologies such as d3.js.
Telepaz LLC (Earmark: Keepr)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6229-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop Keepr, an open source data mining tool for journalists to track breaking news stories.
Institute for Nonprofit News (Earmark: INNovation Fund)1,000,000.0060--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6235-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 01/31/2016; goal: To establish the Knight INNovation Fund to support innovative projects by non-profit news organizations as part of the Knight Local Media Initiative. The Knight INNovation Fund is a partnership between Knight Foundation and the Investigative News Network (INN), a nonprofit collaborative organization made up of more than 90 nonprofit investigative journalism outlets. The Investigative News Network will select the recipients and manage the program. The $1 million will support around 30 projects during the next two years with micro-grants of around $35,000. Applications will be open to nonprofit online news outlets and public media across the United States. Recipients will use the funding to explore new innovations and revenue sources, while developing audience engagement techniques and stronger business models. The INNovation Fund is part of a $5 million Knight Local Media Initiative that aims to help nonprofit news organizations establish long-term sustainability.
Public Science (Earmark: Argos)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6193-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build a prototype of a news aggregation application, Argos (formerly Seer), which intelligently gathers the context of new stories and present news backgrounders in a concise, digestible form.
The Center for Rural Strategies (Earmark: Automated Data Reporting for Small-Market Media)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6221-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To test and refine a data-reporting method that other media and organizations can use to localize national stories to the county level.
Institute for Nonprofit News (Earmark: Knight Local Media Initiative)500,000.0099--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6234-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 01/31/2016; goal: To support the Investigative News Network, as part of the Knight Local Media Initiative.
Center for Investigative Reporting (Earmark: FOIA Machine Kickstarter Campaign)10,000.00854--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6276-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/01/2014; goal: To support the results of the Center for Investigative Reporting's recent Kickstarter campaign to fund development of FOIA Machine, a tool for filing freedom of information requests.
Sexual Health Innovations (Earmark: Private Results)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6191-- Grant period: 12/31/2013 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build an API for Private Results, an STD test result delivery service. This API will allow for easy sharing of aggregate STD data among clinics, health departments, and the CDC.
Ben Fry LLC (Earmark: Data to Table)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6194-- Grant period: 12/31/2013 - 07/03/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create Data to Table, a website that will visualize details of Boston's new rezoning ordinance for urban farming to test approaches to make complex zoning data digestible and actionable for the public.
One Degree (Earmark: One Degree)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6213-- Grant period: 12/31/2013 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop a prototype version of One Degree, a web and mobile platform to help people discover, track and share their experiences about social services.
HabitatMap (Earmark: Kids Making Sense)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6204-- Grant period: 12/31/2013 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype the next version of Kids Making Sense, a complete measurement sensing system and curriculum that empowers youth to build hardware devices and measure air quality and physiological parameters.
Michigan Nonprofit Association (Earmark: Data Driven Detroit / ConCENSUS)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6208-- Grant period: 12/31/2013 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To research the data needs of Detroit citizens and develop a prototype of an interactive tool that helps individuals discover and use relevant data.
The Curators of the University of Missouri (Earmark: Arduino Noise)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6196-- Grant period: 12/31/2013 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a Arduino-based noise measurement device and software for data journalism projects informed by community hacking events and prototype tests.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: !nstant mobile app)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6207-- Grant period: 12/31/2013 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create !nstant, a mobile app designed to verify and provide context to breaking news on social media.
Artefact (Earmark: Civic IQ)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6216-- Grant period: 12/31/2013 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build a prototype, Web-based online deliberation tool that drives consensus decision making amongst a group of diverse strangers. Advancing civic engagement by creating Civic IQ, a Web-based deliberation tool that uses design strategies to promote problem solving and drive consensus among a group of diverse strangers.
Zago LLC (Earmark: Reportable)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6217-- Grant period: 12/31/2013 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop and test Reportable, a mobile app to facilitate secure data sharing between reporters and their newsrooms.
Change.org (Earmark: Change.org)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4999-- Grant period: 12/27/2013 - 12/27/2014; goal: Change.org is the largest online empowerment platform in the world, with 75 million users in 196 countries. The company is a "social enterprise," and a certified B- Corporation, using the power of business for social good. The Change.org mission is to empower people everywhere to create the change they want to see.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Earmark: Livingston Awards for Young Journalists)450,000.00112--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6104-- Grant period: 12/10/2013 - 07/31/2017; goal: To extend the digital reach and overall impact of the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists while a permanent endowment is assembled.
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: Knight Local Media Initiative)2,000,000.0030--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6227-- Grant period: 12/09/2013 - 03/30/2016; goal: To establish a donor advised fund that will provide grants to local, non-profit online news organizations giving them some additional operational support and enable strategic investment toward sustainability and journalistic excellence, as part of the Knight Local Media Initiative.
Farmers Market Coalition (Earmark: Market Metrics)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6192-- Grant period: 12/04/2013 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To research user needs and create the initial data model and templates for Market Metrics, a web application allowing farmers' markets to easily and effectively collect, store, and report data about the health impacts of their markets.
CCTV Center for Media & Democracy (Earmark: Civic Cloud)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6201-- Grant period: 12/02/2013 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a prototype rollout and governance model for the Civic Cloud Project, a cloud computing infrastructure utilizing Burlington, Vermont's public gigabit network for non-commercial Internet applications. The Civic Cloud will provide tools for innovative community organizers, nonprofits and civic hackers in Burlington, Vermont. The Civic Cloud will build on Burlington’s fiber-optic gigabit network which provides Internet speeds of over 100 times the average national broadband speed. The Civic Cloud will be available for the community to use as a platform for public, non-commercial Internet applications and digital creative works. Several applications will be deployed during an initial prototyping phase of the Civic Cloud. High-definition live streaming will be provided for community media outlets to webcast live public meetings and cultural events. WordPress websites will be hosted for several Vermont nonprofits including rescue squads, food shelves, job banks and historical societies. A collection of volunteer-developed applications and a state-of-the-art website deployed to the Civic Cloud will help Big Heavy World preserve and promote Vermont-made music. Lakecraft, an educational multi-user game, aimed at youth and adults that gamifies the Lake Champlain Basin will also be one of the first applications to run on the Civic Cloud.
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (Earmark: Grantmakers for Effective Organizations)11,580.00852--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6178-- Grant period: 12/01/2013 - 11/30/2014; goal: To support the work of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations.
Florida International University Foundation (Earmark: Knight Innovator in Residence Program)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6141-- Grant period: 12/01/2013 - 07/01/2016; goal: To establish Knight Innovator in Residence program at Florida International University to work with students and faculty to develop innovative digital media projects and inspire new courses and research.
National Public Radio (Earmark: NPR One - On-demand digital listening platform)2,000,000.0030--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5818-- Grant period: 12/01/2013 - 02/28/2016; goal: To support the enhancement of NPR's on-demand digital listening platform for news and other public radio programming. NPR will significantly expand its capacity to deliver in-depth coverage of news and culture and reimagine the public radio experience for digital listening. This grant will both deepen and extend NPR’s coverage of key issues – education, global health and development, and race, ethnicity and culture – and fund NPR and six Member Stations – KPCC, KQED, MPR, WBUR, WHYY and WNYC – in the creation of a seamless local-national listening platform, helping deliver the work of NPR and stations to tens of millions of Americans everywhere they want it, in words, images and sound. (Originally 'Project Carbon', now 'NPR One').
New Michigan Media (Earmark: Detroit Journalism Cooperative + NMM)30,000.00803--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6224-- Grant period: 12/01/2013 - 01/31/2015; goal: For New Michigan Media to join the Detroit Journalism Cooperative, developing and sharing stories aimed at helping find solutions to the city's fiscal crisis.
University of Florida Foundation (Earmark: The Innovators)113,140.00445--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6161-- Grant period: 12/01/2013 - 12/31/2015; goal: To develop 'The Innovators,' a two-year speakers series at UF's College of Journalism and Communications.
Vizzuality (Earmark: Odyssey map based storytelling tool)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6200-- Grant period: 12/01/2013 - 02/14/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build an open source tool that allows a user to quickly turn data, maps, and other content into interactive stories for online publication.
The Center for Michigan (Earmark: Detroit Journalism Cooperative + Center for Michigan)110,000.00446--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6185-- Grant period: 11/04/2013 - 12/01/2014; goal: For a news-sharing project to infuse data-driven, solutions-oriented journalism into the coverage of Detroit's bankruptcy and related state policies.
Center for Investigative Reporting (Earmark: Experiments with Umbel)24,000.00823--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6140-- Grant period: 11/01/2013 - 10/31/2014; goal: To support experimentation with Umbel, an analytics tool for understanding audience, to help inform journalism coverage and business development.
PBS MediaShift (Earmark: Journalism Education #edshift blog)95,000.00475--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6156-- Grant period: 11/01/2013 - 11/02/2015; goal: To ignite journalism education reform efforts with an outreach campaign on the MediaShift blog on PBS.org.
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: CollabMatch)49,000.00571--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5999-- Grant period: 10/14/2013 - 10/14/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: This project will facilitate connections between journalists. CollabMatch is a platform that will help journalists use their existing LinkedIn profile to connect with others based on location and/or expertise.
Department of Better Technology (Earmark: Procure.io)460,000.00110--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4989-- Grant period: 10/03/2013 - 11/07/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Making government contract bidding more transparent by simplifying the way smaller companies bid on government work The government procurement process can be both highly complicated and time-consuming - making it difficult for small businesses to discover and bid on contracts and for journalists and transparency advocates to see where public money is going. As White House Presidential Innovation Fellows, Clay Johnson and Adam Becker built a simple tool for governments to easily post requests for proposals, or RFPs. Based on its early success at the federal level, the team is planning to expand the software to help states and cities. In addition, they will build a library of statements of work that any agency can adapt to their needs. The goal is to bring more competition into government bidding, as a way to both reduce costs and ensure that the most qualified team gets the job. Note: Grant ID 2013-45680.
Auricle Communications (Earmark: WMFU Visual Radio Tools)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6098-- Grant period: 10/01/2013 - 03/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To test new approaches to engage live radio audiences with visual media.
Reframe It (Earmark: Deliberative Polling)167,960.00374--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6132-- Grant period: 10/01/2013 - 10/31/2014; goal: To test a new journalistic approach to covering policy and legislation by using Deliberative Polling, a special research method, in concert with reporting, to cover technology issues and policy.
New Leaders Council (Earmark: NLC Miami)22,000.00826--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5892-- Grant period: 10/01/2013 - 06/16/2015; goal: To support NLC Miami which aims to empower and root young civic leaders in Miami by providing mentorship, a skills building curriculum and connections.
Online News Association (Earmark: Teaching Hospital Experiments)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6124-- Grant period: 10/01/2013 - 05/02/2016; goal: For a funders collaborative to encourage the digital transformation of journalism education through 'teaching hospital' experiments.
Access Now (Earmark: HowSecureAmI.org)35,000.00590--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6088-- Grant period: 10/01/2013 - 03/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build HowSecureAmI.org, a digital security risk assessment tool that will provide journalists, producers of citizen media and civil society actors with security advice based on their current use of the internet and their own security practices.
Waldo Jaquith (Earmark: U.S. Open Data Institute)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6102-- Grant period: 10/01/2013 - 07/01/2014; goal: To rapidly prototype and deploy a U.S. Open Data Institute, to improve the uptake of open data standards by businesses and government, and to facilitate the free flow of information and the creation of a vibrant business sector based on that data.
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: Library Acts of Culture)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6154-- Grant period: 10/01/2013 - 09/30/2014; goal: To support 'Library Acts of Culture' -- an initiative that will stage a series of artistic interventions in every library branch in all eight Knight resident communities.
Council of Michigan Foundations (Earmark: Council of Michigan Foundations)4,650.00865--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6188-- Grant period: 10/01/2013 - 09/30/2014; goal: To support the work of the Council through annual membership.
Public Allies (Earmark: Diverse Homegrown Leadership Development)75,000.00491--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6128-- Grant period: 09/01/2013 - 08/31/2014; goal: To support the creation of a new strategy to develop diverse homegrown leadership for greater national and local impact.
Rochester Institute of Technology (Earmark: Digital Journalism Incubator)148,171.00413--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6133-- Grant period: 09/01/2013 - 08/31/2015; goal: To support the multidisciplinary “Digital Journalism Incubator” and to develop a model for co-teaching, co-listing and co-learning for journalism education.
PRX (Earmark: Radiotopia)200,000.00314--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6089-- Grant period: 09/01/2013 - 08/31/2014; goal: To pilot the PRX Podcast Network (Radiotopia), a program to develop new public radio programming with Internet distribution and fundraising model. Knight Foundation support will help PRX develop new audience engagement and revenue growth techniques toward a sustainable model for “born digital” audio programming public radio shows. With Radiotopia, PRX will expand beyond its current distribution platform to create original podcasts programming, as a testing ground for talent development and new ways to attract listeners. The network will also experiment with tools like crowd-funding, subscriptions and other strategies to discover new opportunities to help independent producers discover ways to sustain digital programs over the long run. generate income.
MIT Media Lab (Earmark: Dog Programming Language)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6093-- Grant period: 09/01/2013 - 02/28/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create an alpha version of Dog, a programming language that makes it easier for non-programmers to write code, and a set of example applications to demonstrate it. Dog is a new programming language that makes it easy and intuitive to create social applications. Dog focuses on a unique and small set of features that allows it to achieve the power of a full-blown application development framework. One of Dog’s key features is built-in support for interacting with people. Dog provides a natural framework in which both people and computers can be given instructions and return results. It can perform a long-running computation while also displaying messages, requesting information, or even sending operations to particular individuals or groups. By switching between machine and human computation, developers can create powerful workflows and model complex social processes without worrying about low-level technical details.
OpenPlans (Earmark: Plan in a Box)620,000.0077--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6007-- Grant period: 09/01/2013 - 09/01/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Making it easier to discover information about local planning projects, by creating a tool that governments and contractors can use to easily create websites with updates that also allow public input into the process Local planning decisions can shape everything about a community - from how residents get around, to how they interact with their neighbors and experience daily life. Yet information on projects - from new plans for downtown centers to bridge replacements - is often difficult to obtain. This project will be an open-source web-publishing tool that makes it easy to engage people in the planning process. With minimal effort, city employees will be able to create and maintain a useful website that provides information that citizens and journalists need while integrating with social media and allowing for public input.
National Urban Fellows (Earmark: Development of Minority & Female Leaders)37,500.00587--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6114-- Grant period: 09/01/2013 - 08/31/2014; goal: To develop minority and female leaders for the government and nonprofit sector through the sponsorship of a class of 2014 Fellow to be placed with the City of Philadelphia in the Managing Director's Office.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: Fiscal agency)29,900.00809--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6174-- Grant period: 08/01/2013 - 01/31/2015; goal: To support the fiscal agency and administration of two international Knight News Challenge grants, RootIO and WeFarm.
The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (Earmark: Infragram)16,000.00844--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6057-- Grant period: 08/01/2013 - 11/30/2013; goal: To support the results of Public Lab's Kickstarter campaign for Infragram, a cheap, DIY near-infrared camera for use in data collection such as monitoring vegetation health.
ProPublica (Earmark: The Intern Economy)5,000.00857--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6173-- Grant period: 08/01/2013 - 11/30/2013; goal: To support the results of ProPublica's Kickstarter campaign for Investigating the Intern Economy, a journalism project looking at unpaid internships.
Illinois Institute of Technology (Earmark: Oyez Project)600,000.0078--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5921-- Grant period: 08/01/2013 - 08/01/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Making state and appellate court documents freely available and useful to journalists, scholars and the public, by providing straightforward summaries of decisions, free audio recordings and more The activities of courts across the country are often hard to access and understand. For the past 20 years, the Oyez Project has worked to open the U.S. Supreme Court by offering clear case summaries, opinions and free access to audio recordings and transcripts. With Knight Foundation funding, Oyez Project will expand to state supreme and federal appellate courts, offering information to the public about the work of these vital but largely anonymous institutions. Beginning in the five largest states that serve over one-third of the American public, Oyez Project will work with courts to catalog materials and reformat them following open standards practices. In conjunction with local partners, Oyez will annotate the materials, adding data and concise summaries that make the content more accessible for a non-legal audience. Oyez will release this information under a Creative Commons license and make it available online and through a mobile application.
LISC Chicago (Earmark: Open Gov for the Rest of Us)350,000.00139--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5945-- Grant period: 08/01/2013 - 08/01/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Providing residents in low-income neighborhoods in Chicago with the tools to access and demand better data around issues important to them, like housing and education Open Gov for the Rest of Us is seeking to engage neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side in the Open Government movement. The three-stage campaign will connect more residents to the Internet, promote the use of open government tools and develop neighborhood-driven requests for new data that address residents’ needs. Building on the success of LISC Chicago’s Smart Communities program and Data Friday series, the project aims to spread a culture of data and improved use of digital tools in low-income neighborhoods by directly involving their residents.
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: Queen City Soup Micro-Grants)16,000.00844--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6116-- Grant period: 08/01/2013 - 07/31/2015; goal: To support Queen City Soup – a micro-grant program for emerging artists and arts organizations in Charlotte, NC.
Media And Place Productions (Earmark: Zeega Development & Partnership)12,000.00851--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6069-- Grant period: 07/31/2013 - 12/01/2013; goal: To support community development and partnerships at Zeega, a nonprofit that produces interactive media projects and runs a platform for creating interactive content.
Minnesota Council on Foundations (Earmark: Minnesota Council on Foundations)6,750.00856--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6091-- Grant period: 07/30/2013 - 12/31/2013; goal: For 2013 membership to support the community work of St. Paul program director, Polly Talen.
OpenGov Foundation (Earmark: Project Madison)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5808-- Grant period: 07/11/2013 - 06/10/2014; goal: To support the testing and scale of Project Madison, an open source platform for public document creation and discussion. Project Madison, a project of the OpenGov Foundation, will test and customize its open-source platform at the state and municipal level, with $200,000 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The platform enables users to comment on, propose changes to and share opinions on draft policy and legislation. With Knight funding, the OpenGov Foundation will combine the web-based tool with in-person events to rally discussion and action around a specific local policy issue in two U.S. communities where the foundation invests. The locations will be announced in coming months. In addition, Project Madison will expand its recent work on MarylandCode.org, a user-friendly, searchable publication of Maryland state laws. The local version of Project Madison will allow people to contribute to the lawmaking process in Maryland and Baltimore. Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, OpenGov Foundation founder, launched Project Madison in 2011, to involve the public in the debate over online piracy. Issa successfully used Project Madison to get input on the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN Act), an alternative to the proposed laws known as SOPA and […].
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: Knight Donor Advised Fund)23,450.00825--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6027-- Grant period: 07/02/2013 - 07/31/2013; goal: For the balance of fiscal agency fees due.
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: 'Among Friends' by Cesar Trasobares)20,000.00827--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6022-- Grant period: 07/01/2013 - 06/30/2014; goal: To support Cesar Trasobares in researching, writing and editing a book based on the lives of three acclaimed Cuban-born artists, emphasizing the impact that Miami had on their practice.
MIT Media Lab (Earmark: Innovators Guild: Detroit)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6125-- Grant period: 07/01/2013 - 11/30/2013; goal: To engage MIT Media Lab students, faculty, and member companies to work on developing a long-term relationship between Detroit communities and the MIT Media Lab community, benefiting both groups academically, technically, and socially. The Innovators Guild: Detroit is a new collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, the design firm IDEO, and Detroit-area social change agents. The guild's mission is to use design to solve social problems. The project launched in October 2012.
Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (Earmark: Inter American Press Association)225,000.00290--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5822-- Grant period: 07/01/2013 - 07/31/2014; goal: To support the Inter American Press Association’s development of a strategic plan focusing on impact and sustainability.
Miami Childrens Museum (Earmark: MiChiMu Expansion Plan)60,000.00508--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5909-- Grant period: 07/01/2013 - 06/30/2014; goal: To support a collaborative development process with NorthStar Advisors that will result in a strategic five-year expansion plan for Miami Childrens Museum.
Next City (Earmark: Shared City)75,000.00491--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6020-- Grant period: 07/01/2013 - 01/31/2014; goal: For an online daily column and three in-depth stories in Next City that illuminate the issues associated with the Shared City and its possible future implications for cities and citizens.
GitMachines (Earmark: GitMachines)500,000.0099--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5922-- Grant period: 06/24/2013 - 06/24/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Supporting government innovation by creating tools and servers that meet government regulations, so that developers can easily build and adopt new technology Governments are often reluctant to adopt new software and technology because of security and compliance concerns. GitMachines allows developers doing civic innovation to easily build new technology governments can use faster, by offering a grab-and-go depot of accreditation-ready servers that support their projects. Unlike traditional servers that can take hours or days to set-up, GitMachines can be up and running in minutes and are pre-configured to meet government guidelines. This makes it easier for governments to adopt open source software, and will help government agencies adopt new technology more quickly in the future.
Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (Earmark: Open Source Election Results Reporting Service)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6003-- Grant period: 06/23/2013 - 02/28/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: In order to increase transparency in elections, this project will implement new data standards with an open API to provide for near real-time election data access and reporting. Currently, election data is produced in many different ways, and delivered unevenly. The service will create a visual scoreboard for use in any community that provides a wider array of information - going far beyond precinct winners and losers to include a breakdown of ballots by type and demographics.
Michigan Suburbs Alliance (Earmark: OnBoard Prototype)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6004-- Grant period: 06/23/2013 - 02/28/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To help diversify participation on city boards and draw in more millennials, OnBoard will create a database and website that makes opportunities for public service easy to find. The site will include information on local boards, committees and commissions, and the application and appointment process. OnBoard will be piloted in metro Detroit.
Fireworks Film LLC (Earmark: Data Docs)46,700.00576--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6006-- Grant period: 06/23/2013 - 01/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To enhance web video as a compelling storytelling tool, Data Docs will incorporate data and interactivity into the video experience through features like live charts and location-based personalization. In the process, Data Docs will maintain the videos’ aesthetic and narrative flow.
Outline.com (Earmark: Outline.com)0.00866--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6240-- Grant period: 06/23/2013 - 06/23/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Launching a public policy simulator that helps people visualize the impact that public policies like health care reform and school budget changes might have on local economies and communities Outline.com is developing an online public policy simulator that allows citizens and journalists to visualize the impact that particular policies might have on people and their communities. For instance, with Outline.com, a household can measure how a tax cut or an increase in education spending will affect their income. The project builds on the team’s award-winning app Politify, which simulated the impacts of the Obama and Romney economic plans during the 2012 campaign. The Outline.com simulator uses models developed by a team of economists, backed by open data on American households from the IRS, the Census Bureau and other sources. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has hired Outline.com to develop an official pilot. The team is a part of the accelerator TechStars Boston.
GreenInfo (Earmark: Get Outside Prototype)47,700.00573--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6002-- Grant period: 06/22/2013 - 01/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge, Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To help citizens discover the recreational activities that surround them, GreenInfo Network will build an open source template that parks departments can use to create a “What’s Nearby” map. Residents will be able to search by activity, amenity and location. In support of ongoing work to build a nationwide database of parks and recreational opportunities, GreenInfo's approach will include a process by which park agencies can easily create and share data in a standardized format.
MIT Media Lab (Earmark: MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6094-- Grant period: 06/22/2013 - 12/31/2013; goal: To support the 2013 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference at the MIT Media Lab.
596 Acres (Earmark: 596 Acres)40,000.00582--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5904-- Grant period: 06/21/2013 - 01/21/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: 596 Acres, in partnership with the New Orleans Food & Farm Network, will build an online vacant lot finder, Living Lots, to be prototyped in New Orleans. The platform will connect citizens with land-use data and offer an organized approach to engage with government processes.
Open Counter Enterprises (Earmark: OpenCounter)0.00866--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4988-- Grant period: 06/21/2013 - 06/21/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Making it easier for residents to register and create new businesses by building open source software that governments can use to simplify the process While entrepreneurs may have market-moving ideas, very few can expertly navigate the local government permitting process that allows them to open and operate. Whether it’s a startup, boutique or restaurant, OpenCounter helps to simplify this interaction with city government. It collects and sorts data on existing regulations while providing running totals of the costs and time involved in setting up shop. A team of Code for America fellows developed and piloted OpenCounter in Santa Cruz, Calif. during 2012. Knight Foundation funds will support OpenCounter's expansion to new communities, including several 2013 Code for America cities. OpenCounter was piloted through Code for America’s fellowship with the City of Santa Cruz in 2012. Note: Fluxx ID 201448095.
American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio (Earmark: APM Audio Search Prototype)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5820-- Grant period: 06/20/2013 - 04/16/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The American Public Media (APM) Audio Search prototype will determine whether it is possible to provide full-text search of audio files, using open source software to automate the creation of text transcriptions of APM digital audio. Providing a full-text search of audio files using open source software so that public media organizations can have access to a large archive of audio material through search engines.
Chicago Public Media (Earmark: WBEZ's Curious City Prototype)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5914-- Grant period: 06/19/2013 - 01/18/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop Curious City, an online system for community-driven story creation, as open source software and methods replicable at other radio and news organizations As a co-production of Jennifer Brandel, AIR and WBEZ, Curious City originated as part of AIR's Localore effort to lay the groundwork for a more inclusive public media. Curious City now has a permanent home at WBEZ (Chicago Public Media). The project is an experimental model for journalistic content creation that originates from the community it serves; the public (not editors) suggest and determine the stories covered as well as participate in reporting. With this grant, Curious City will develop their online platform into an open source system that can be replicated at other media organizations.
Raleigh Public Record (Earmark: Raleigh Public Record – DocHive)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6000-- Grant period: 06/19/2013 - 01/16/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build a tool to extract structured data from image-based PDF files The Record will release a new open-source program to help journalists turn PDF files into structured data. The new software will enable reporters to take an image containing data — say a scanned campaign finance return — and turn that into a spreadsheet. This may sound boring, but it’s a problem that we at the Record have been trying to overcome for more than two years. The story started with Wake County campaign finance returns. The returns are filed as paper, and staff at the Wake County Board of Elections scan them in and put the images online. The problem is, the only way to view the data is to look at it page by page, and the only way to analyze it is to go through by hand and enter the data into a spreadsheet one row at a time. We’re a small news organization; we don’t have the staff to do data entry for hundreds of pages of campaign finance information. We also don’t have the budget to hire some unfortunate college students to do it for us. Edward Duncan, my brother and a full-time programmer, […].
Atlantic Public Media (Earmark: Transom Online Workshop)47,600.00574--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6005-- Grant period: 06/19/2013 - 01/16/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To help public radio project Transom create and test Transom Online Workshops to teach radio and multimedia storytelling.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Earmark: Project Liberty)345,000.00145--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5895-- Grant period: 06/17/2013 - 07/01/2016; goal: To expand Project Liberty, a Philadelphia-based digital media incubator. A project of Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Project Liberty launched in 2011 to build a community of startups in Philadelphia and foster newsroom innovation. Since then, Ben Franklin has supported eight startups along with Interstate General Media LLC (IGM,) publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com. Project Liberty was the first incubator in the nation to reside within a traditional media company, a model now followed by The New York Times, The Boston Globe and other media outlets. Housed amid the company’s newsrooms, Project Liberty is designed to promote innovation and adoption of new technologies as a way to provide communities the information they need. Participating startups receive six months of rent-free space, mentoring, equipment and technical and administrative support. Companies also receive access to Philly.com, Inquirer.com and PhillyDailyNews.com as a platform for launching their new products. Knight Foundation supported the initial launch of the incubator to test the effectiveness of the model. The new funding will help Project Liberty attract both talented entrepreneurs and new funding from public and private sources. The incubator will also expand its applicant pool and provide incumbents with more […].
The Pew Charitable Trusts (Earmark: Facebook and the News)240,000.00279--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5929-- Grant period: 06/03/2013 - 12/31/2013; goal: To study how people consume news on Facebook, produce a report on “Facebook and the News,” and conduct a feasibility study of a new digital tracking tool.
Michigan Corps (Earmark: Promoting Detroit Entrepreneurs)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5829-- Grant period: 06/01/2013 - 06/30/2015; goal: To mobilize hundreds of residents to fund and champion Detroit entrepreneurs.
Hypothes.is (Earmark: Hypothes.is)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5749-- Grant period: 06/01/2013 - 06/30/2014; goal: To scale the existing prototype of Hypothes.is, an open source tool and community for annotating content across the internet. The nonprofit Hypothes.is will use the funding to test its open annotation tool, which adds a layer of public feedback to web pages, so that people can get deeper insight into the information they browse. The tool is grounded in an emerging web standard called open annotation, currently being developed under the W3C, which aims to standardize the structure and exchange of annotations across digital content.
Public Interest Projects (Earmark: InsideClimate News)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5934-- Grant period: 06/01/2013 - 06/02/2014; goal: To diversify revenue sources for InsideClimate News ICN is the third web-based news organization to win national reporting honors, and the smallest among a trio that includes ProPublica and Huffington Post. See more here.
Institute for Nonprofit News (Earmark: Mentoring Online News Publishers & CJET Effectiveness)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5906-- Grant period: 05/31/2013 - 05/31/2014; goal: To provide business education and mentorship to online news publishers and assess the impact of the Community Journalism Executive Training (CJET) program.
Tapad (Earmark: TapAd)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4993-- Grant period: 05/29/2013 - 05/29/2014; goal: TapAd enables publishers and brands to serve ads to the same users across devices (for example from web to mobile), increasing the value of mobile and web ads for publishers.
Upworthy (Earmark: Upworthy)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4994-- Grant period: 05/29/2013 - 05/29/2014; goal: Upworthy is an online media company built on curating and sharing viral content that underscores meaningful causes, and encouraging users to spread the word.
Zeega (Earmark: Zeega)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4995-- Grant period: 05/29/2013 - 05/29/2014; goal: Zeega enables the easy creation of multimedia content allowing seamless mashups of video, sound, gif, picture and text content from across the web.
Matt Singer (Earmark: Videolicious)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4990-- Grant period: 05/29/2013 - 05/29/2014; goal: Videolicious makes an app that allows users to easily create videos from their mobile phones. From TechCrunch: [Videolicious] has raised $2.25 million from investors that include Washington Post Company, Amazon.com, and the Knight Foundation. The round was led by Venture51 and Social Leverage, and includes existing investors such as Joanne Wilson, Trestle Ventures, and Quotidian Ventures. The company has now raised more than $4 million to date. The funding comes as Videolicious has placed a big bet on getting journalists to sign up and use the app, a bet that seems to be paying off. More than 100 newspapers, magazines, and TV stations have signed up in the last few months, getting their journalists to use the app to quickly create video news reports while out in the field. The Washington Post, for instance, was one of the first news organizations to begin using the app, and now has 30 reporters on the app.
Senzari (Earmark: Senzari)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4991-- Grant period: 05/29/2013 - 05/29/2014; goal: Senzari’s open graph technology enables content recommendation across media. Publishers can use this technology to drive audience engagement by better integrating music and videos.
Search for Common Ground (Earmark: Outreach at Nexus Global Youth Summit)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5764-- Grant period: 05/01/2013 - 11/30/2013; goal: To support the Nexus Global Youth Summit, with the goal of engaging more wealthy young people in media and community information philanthropy.
DataKind (Earmark: Datakind)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5915-- Grant period: 05/01/2013 - 04/30/2014; goal: To support better use of data by nonprofit organizations, through three activities: 1) DataCorps consulting for nonprofits; 2) DataDive hackathon events, 3) setting up local DataKind chapters. DataKind connects leading volunteer data scientists with social organizations to effect positive action using data science. Using a combination of “DataDives” and “DataCorps,” the organization promotes a collaborative approach to problem-solving. Through DataDives, weekend events that bring the data science community together with nonprofits, the groups tackle tough social issues. Similarly, DataCorps projects call on specialized teams of data scientists to work on more in-depth projects for organizations including governments, foundations or non-government organizations (NGOs) These involve three- to six-month collaborations to clean, analyze, visualize and apply data to address more pervasive challenges.
Do Something (Earmark: Crisis Text Line planning grant)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5824-- Grant period: 04/12/2013 - 03/31/2014; goal: To support the planning for the establishment of a Crisis Text Line to assist teens in crisis.
Emerson Engagement Lab (Earmark: New Urban Mechanics Collaborative)145,000.00415--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5687-- Grant period: 04/12/2013 - 03/31/2014; goal: To support the implementation of community-driven technology programs developed through a collaborative of Knight grantees and the Harvard Kennedy School. What is New Urban Mechanics? New Urban Mechanics is an approach to civic innovation focused on delivering transformative City services to residents. While the language may sound new, the principles of New Urban Mechanics - collaborating with constituents, focusing on the basics of government, and pushing for bolder ideas - are not. In fact, Boston’s Mayor, Thomas M. Menino, who is known as the Urban Mechanic, has been preaching this mantra for years. Through the pairing of big ideas and the knowledge of constituents’ specific interests, Menino has become Boston’s longest serving mayor, and the city has become one of the most envied in the country. Likewise, in Philadelphia, Mayor Michael A. Nutter has built a strong reputation by improving education and safety and strengthening partnerships with neighborhood organizations as he leads the nation’s fifth largest city. To speed the rate of municipal innovation in their respective cities, Mayor Menino, in 2010, and Mayor Nutter, in 2012, created Mayor’s Offices of New Urban Mechanics. Part of the local government, this office serves as each City’s innovation incubator, building partnerships between […].
UK Citizens Online Democracy (Earmark: Assistance for Miami & San Jose Tech. Communities)199,700.00359--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5766-- Grant period: 04/12/2013 - 11/30/2014; goal: To support the Miami and San Jose tech communities by providing technical assistance and creating new tech models for those engaging with government for the first time. At present, UKCOD's main activity is running the mySociety project. mySociety builds websites which give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. It also aims to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to use the internet most efficiently to improve lives. The current flagship projects are:.
MIT Media Lab (Earmark: Arts & Design Festival)100,000.00453--Technology, Arts, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5912-- Grant period: 04/01/2013 - 03/31/2014; goal: To launch a new arts and design festival at the MIT Media Lab that celebrates creativity and innovation, merges art, design and technology in new ways, and sets a model and methodology for future festivals.
Hyperaudio Incorporated (Earmark: Hyperaudio Pad Development)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5864-- Grant period: 04/01/2013 - 10/31/2013; goal: To develop and deploy Hyperaudio Pad, an open source tool for editing audio and video content by editing a precisely matched text transcript.
Cinequest (Earmark: Cinequest Film Festival)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5825-- Grant period: 04/01/2013 - 03/31/2016; goal: To provide audiences with a new way of experiencing the Cinequest Film Festival through social media, online journals, touch-based interactions, video content, online ticketing and more.
Internet Archive (Earmark: Archive.org TV News Search & Borrow)1,000,000.0060--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5817-- Grant period: 04/01/2013 - 03/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To support the expansion of the Internet Archive's TV News Search & Borrow, a digital library database of television news content. The Internet Archive, one of the world’s largest public digital libraries, will expand its research library to make readily available hundreds of thousands of U.S. television news programs, with $1 million in support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. “TV stations capture some the most important news events in a format that is too often locked away. This project with the Internet Archive makes these important stories accessible to journalists, researchers and the pubic through a deep, user-friendly site,” said Michael Maness, vice president for journalism and media innovation at Knight Foundation. With this funding, the archive will expand its TV News Search & Borrow service, which now includes 400,000 broadcasts dating back to June 2009. The aim is to help strengthen the work of journalists, scholars, teachers, librarians, civic organizations and others. The service uses closed captioning to allow users to search, quote and borrow U.S. TV news programs. Available at no charge, the public can use the index of searchable text and short-streamed clips to explore TV news. In this way, they can discover […].
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism (Earmark: Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism)62,800.00504--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5889-- Grant period: 04/01/2013 - 12/31/2013; goal: To launch the Knight Award for Media Innovation at CUNY’s Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism.
Akron Development Corporation (Earmark: BioMedical Corridor Development)74,000.00500--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5828-- Grant period: 04/01/2013 - 03/31/2014; goal: To develop a strategy that engages business and non-profits in greater Akron around the creation and implementation of a BioMedical Corridor. The Akron BioMedical Corridor, located in downtown Akron and established in 2006, brings together three nationally known hospitals (Akron General Medical Center, Akron Children's Hospital and Summa Health System), the unique Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron (ABIA), the Northeast Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) and a world-leading biomaterial center at the University of Akron. The Corridor also hosts the Akron Global Business Accelerator, the winner of the 2008 National Business Incubation Association Incubator Innovation Award, which provides low cost space coupled with effective, hands-on, business development support, including: business planning, networking with key collaborators and customers, access to legal and accounting services as well as access to capital. A key component of the Corridor is the Akron BioInvestments Funds, which provides access to grants and loans to appropriate companies.
Aspen Institute (Earmark: FOCAS 2013-14)500,000.0099--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5799-- Grant period: 03/30/2013 - 12/31/2014; goal: To support the 2013-14 Forum on Communication and Society at the Aspen Institute, focused on the the theme of open government.
Appfrica Labs (Earmark: Abayima)150,000.00382--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5785-- Grant period: 03/21/2013 - 03/20/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: For content distribution and publishing via SIM cards for sharing information in technologically-limited or high-risk situations The majority of mobile phone users around the world use simple feature phones which, unlike smartphones, do not have advanced storage or secondary communication options like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Abayima wants to build an open source application that people can use to store information to SIM cards – effectively turning the cards into storage devices and their mobile phones into e-readers. This app is particularly useful for sharing news and information in countries where communication networks are unsafe to use due to surveillance or where authorities or other circumstances have shut off access to the Internet altogether. The team has successfully piloted a program with Ugandan activists during the country's 2011 elections, while all SMS traffic in the country was monitored for voices of dissent. With challenge funding, Abayima plans to build the kit as an open source, full service, easy-to-use platform which enables publishing to SIM cards.
Wikimedia Foundation (Earmark: Wikipedia Mobile)600,000.0078--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5790-- Grant period: 03/21/2013 - 04/20/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: For creating tools to deliver Wikipedia for free to users in the developing world As mobile technology is increasingly the primary opportunity for billions of people around the world to access the Internet, the Wikimedia Foundation is working to remove the two biggest hurdles to access free knowledge: cost and accessibility. News Challenge funding will help create software to bring Wikipedia to lower-end, more basic phones - the kinds the majority of people use to access data outside of the West. Specifically, efforts will be focused in three areas: developing features to improve the mobile experience regardless of how feature-rich the device is – including new ways to access Wikipedia via text; increasing the number of languages that can access Wikipedia on mobile; and improving the way feature phones access the platform.
Hollaback (Earmark: iHollaback Prototype)40,000.00582--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5798-- Grant period: 03/03/2013 - 08/03/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop a pilot of a mobile application designed to allow individuals to report street harassment. Piloting a mobile app that allows people to report street harassment directly to their cities. It is being developed in partnership with the New York City Council.
Learning About Multimedia Project (Earmark: The LAMP Prototype)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5801-- Grant period: 03/01/2013 - 08/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build an online video editor for use in media criticism and education. Building an online video editor that allows students to remix and respond to copyrighted materials as part of a media literacy class. The project will be piloted in New York City schools.
The Associated Press (Earmark: Geomancer Prototype)28,000.00810--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5794-- Grant period: 03/01/2013 - 08/01/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create a prototype system to allow journalists to easily combine datasets based on geographic information. Seeking to make newsrooms more efficient by creating a tool that enables journalists to easily combine data for their stories with geographically related data sets, a task that currently represents a significant technical hurdle for many reporters on deadline.
Guide (Earmark: Gui.de)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4985-- Grant period: 02/05/2013 - Invalid date; goal: Gui.de is a new engaging format for online news that gives all publishers, from bloggers to large news companies, the ability to offer their audiences a video experience Guide is a software company focused on turning online news, social streams and blogs into video for on-the-go consumption. Its multiplatform app, Guide, using latest generation avatar and text-to-speech technology to turn traditional web content into an audio-visual stream for curation and consumption on-the-go.
Submittable (Earmark: Submittable)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4984-- Grant period: 02/05/2013 - Invalid date; goal: Submittable enables publishers to collect, review and charge for submissions of text, video and pictures, providing better, more timely responses to audience generated content. Here’s how it works: Once content arrives in the system, Submittable’s sorting, filtering, and ranking features make it easy to curate and take action on the incoming work. Multiple editors or readers can view, comment, and rank submissions. The software also helps publishers create value by putting a small charge - usually no more than what the post office charges to send a letter - on the submission process. This increase quality, decreases spam and creates revenue for the presently undervalued editorial skill sets.
Out of Eden Walk (Earmark: Storytelling: Out of Eden)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5806-- Grant period: 02/01/2013 - 02/01/2015; goal: To support experimentation with new long-form storytelling tools and approaches during Paul Salopek's 7-year journalistic walk around the world. From 2013 to 2020, writer Paul Salopek is recreating that epic journey on foot, starting at humankind’s birthplace in Ethiopia and ending at the southern tip of South America, where our forebears ran out of horizon. Along the way he is engaging with the major stories of our time — from climate change to technological innovation, from mass migration to cultural survival — by walking alongside the people who inhabit these headlines every day. Moving at the slow beat of his footsteps, Paul is also seeking the quieter, hidden stories of people who rarely make the news.
Data Juncture (Earmark: eCitizens.org)47,900.00572--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5507-- Grant period: 02/01/2013 - 12/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop software that provides real-time alerts by email of city council agendas, minutes and support documents by keyword or topic Building an online service giving citizens the ability to subscribe to receive an alert when their local government is working on issues they care about most. The project, to be piloted in San Diego, will use data from Granicus, a major software company for city documents as well as manually scraping municipal websites.
TKOH (Earmark: TKOH)330,000.00150--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5789-- Grant period: 01/01/2013 - 01/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: For a tablet application that helps people easily record stories and oral histories, prompted by photos or videos on the screen Current tools for recording oral history, such as video cameras and professional audio equipment, can be difficult to use and hamper the social nature of a conversation. This project, called Thread, will ease the process by building a simple application that enables users of all experience levels to create rich audio/visual stories that can be archived and shared easily with groups of people, ranging from immediate family members to the extended user community, depending on the user’s preference. By making it easy to record and share stories amongst generations and communities, Thread, will make it possible to preserve the stories of target groups, including rural ranchers in New Mexico whose lives reflect a disappearing culture of endurance and gifted storytelling, before the app launches more broadly.
Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation (Earmark: Online Giving Technology)20,000.00827--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5744-- Grant period: 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013; goal: To support the Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation's leadership role in the use of online giving technologies and to spread the knowledge and best practices they acquire to other Knight community foundations.
Chris Csikszentmihalyi (Earmark: RootIO)200,000.00314--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5784-- Grant period: 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To enable radio stations to transmit over cellular phone networks and citizens to set up their own radio stations Radio continues to be a powerful tool for community information, and the RootIO project amplifies it by mixing its power with new mobile and Internet technologies. RootIO is an open-source tool kit that allows communities to create their own micro radio stations with an inexpensive smartphone and transmitter, and to share, promote, and collaborate on dynamic content. The project will be piloted in Uganda in partnership with the Uganda Radio Network, UNICEF Uganda and UNICEF Innovation Unit.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: International Center for Journalists)4,405,000.005--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3765-- Grant period: 09/20/2005 - 09/01/2008; goal: To expand and improve the Knight International Press Fellowships.
Western Kentucky University (Earmark: Western Kentucky University)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3761-- Grant period: 05/04/2005 - 05/04/2006; goal: To create online teaching tools with the National Press Photographers Association This grant will create an online educational program for the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism contests. The contest will be judged online. The project web site also will contain additional teaching tools. A roundtable will be held to discuss ethics and First Amendment issues.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Earmark: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3820-- Grant period: 06/01/2005 - 06/01/2006; goal: To provide grants to state coalitions for freedom of information.
George Washington University (Earmark: Prime Movers)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3862-- Grant period: 08/01/2005 - 08/01/2006; goal: For a bridge grant to extend Prime Movers, a program that starts and strengthens student media and develops women and journalists of color as mentors, and to help it develop a national high school radio curriculum.
American Society of News Editors Foundation (Earmark: American Society of News Editors Foundation)80,000.00486--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3725-- Grant period: 09/07/2005 - 09/07/2007; goal: To continue the activities of the Council of National Journalism Organizations The Council of National Journalism Organizations raises the visibility and membership of professional journalism groups and helps them work efficiently together. During the past decade, the council’s membership has more than doubled to 53 groups. These groups, representing at least 25,000 American journalists, set standards and offer training. With this grant, the council will work with the Society of Professional Journalists to improve and expand www.journalismtraining.org, a calendar of training opportunities, and to revamp its own web site, www.cnjo.org, and to better market the services of professional journalism organizations.
Internews (Earmark: Internews)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3876-- Grant period: 09/20/2005 - 09/20/2006; goal: To pilot an international journalism training network using health journalism training Epidemics know no national boundaries. With this grant, three non-profit groups – Internews, the International Center for Journalists and the Panos Institute in London – will work together for the first time to produce a map of journalism training worldwide. Using it, they will offer micro-grants to projects that increase the ability of existing training groups to improve and expand health journalism training. Local trainers will be encouraged to share materials freely with other programs and to connect with larger international projects. A report of best practices will be shared. The goal is to encourage better health journalism worldwide.
University of Missouri (Earmark: National Freedom of Information Coalition)1,700,000.0034--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3824-- Grant period: 09/20/2005 - 09/20/2009; goal: To establish a new home for the National Freedom of Information Coalition and expand its ability to support state groups.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Earmark: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)2,500,000.0018--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3812-- Grant period: 09/20/2005 - 09/20/2010; goal: For an endowment campaign and operating support.
University of Missouri (Earmark: Committee of Concerned Journalists)2,280,000.0025--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3837-- Grant period: 09/20/2005 - 06/30/2011; goal: To establish a new home for the Committee of Concerned Journalists and move it toward self-sufficiency Since 1997, in conversations with thousands of journalists, the Committee of Concerned Journalists has crusaded on behalf of quality journalism as defined in the signature book, “The Elements of Journalism.” In 2001, a Knight pilot grant created the “Traveling Curriculum,’’ a training program designed to take the committee’s standard-setting work directly into newsrooms. The training, designed with teaching experts at Stanford University, has reached some 5,500 journalists from 100 news organizations. The web site, www.journalism.org, averages 32,000 unique visitors a month. Training sessions are followed by six-month reviews to push for and review tangible results. A formal assessment program by researchers at Stanford has established concrete changes at every newsroom to date. With this grant, the committee will move to the University of Missouri. There, it will train at least 4,000 additional journalists during the next three years as it develops a “fee for service” model for the training.
Ball State University (Earmark: Ball State University)850,000.0066--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3830-- Grant period: 09/20/2005 - 07/31/2008; goal: To raise First Amendment appreciation, promote media literacy and encourage student media in high schools On Jan. 31, 2005, Knight released “The Future of the First Amendment,” a two-year, $1 million research project by the University of Connecticut. The national study, the largest of its kind, surveyed 112,000 students, nearly 8,000 teachers and more than 500 principals. It found that only half the nation’s high school students agree that the nation’s press should be able to publish without government interference. The survey reinforced support for Knight’s High School Journalism Initiative, which works with major journalism groups to help revitalize high school journalism and help students better understand the role of the First Amendment. With this grant, Ball State will train, coordinate and campaign to improve First Amendment education, use of news in classrooms and student media. It will hold workshops reaching 1,000 educators. It will coordinate meetings of scholastic media leaders and educators to find ways they can work together to change education policy. See firstamendment.jideas.org.
The Pennsylvania State University (Earmark: Pennsylvania State University)1,500,000.0041--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3825-- Grant period: 09/20/2005 - 09/20/2007; goal: To endow a Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society Penn State, located in the Knight community of State College, is one of the nation’s largest universities. Its College of Communications, with 3,500 undergraduates, is the nation’s largest nationally accredited journalism and communications program. In 2003 Penn State launched the Center for Sports Journalism to explore issues in sports journalism through teaching, research and outreach. It offers four undergraduate courses in sports writing, sports broadcasting, sports information and sports, media and society. This grant will create a Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society who will direct the Center for Sports Journalism, develop new and innovative courses and areas of research. The chair will help lead efforts to improve sports journalism.
Minnesota News Council (Earmark: Minnesota News Council)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3562-- Grant period: 05/01/2005 - 05/01/2007; goal: To seed the launch of a new state news council.
PBS Foundation (Earmark: PBS Engage)3,000,000.0012--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3740-- Grant period: 09/20/2005 - 02/28/2011; goal: To expand public affairs programming on public television by better connecting PBS to the citizens it serves through a highly interactive PBS Engage web site, and using the results of that effort as a catalyst for change within the system, transforming pu.
American Society of News Editors Foundation (Earmark: American Society of Newspaper Editors)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3859-- Grant period: 10/01/2005 - 10/01/2006; goal: To expand national Sunshine Week in 2006 to help raise public awareness and support for open government issues.
Pacific News Service (Earmark: Pacific News Service)75,000.00491--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3856-- Grant period: 10/01/2005 - 10/01/2006; goal: To link mainstream and ethnic media for investigative reporting projects.
Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (Earmark: Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3568-- Grant period: 10/01/2005 - 10/01/2007; goal: To support the launch of the Media Academy, a program that trains entry-level editorial and business managers.
Marshall University Research Corporation (Earmark: Marshall University Research Corporation)166,667.00375--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3880-- Grant period: 11/01/2005 - 11/01/2006; goal: To move training for journalists who cover nonprofit organizations to Marshall University Many journalists know little about nonprofits, though they make up the third major sector of the economy. In 2003, for example, giving by the nation’s nearly 65,000 grant-making foundations totaled nearly $30 billion. Professor Burnis Morris has been training journalists how to cover nonprofits since 2001 under Knight Foundation sponsorship. The program, previously run at the University of Mississippi, is now at Marshall, where Morris is the Carter G. Woodson Professor. This grant will expand his program with traveling training and web efforts, so it can reach hundreds more journalists who want to cover nonprofits more effectively.
National Association of Black Journalists (Earmark: National Association of Black Journalists)30,000.00803--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3931-- Grant period: 11/01/2005 - 11/01/2006; goal: To support six midcareer African American journalists covering Liberia's election.
The League of Women Voters of the United States (Earmark: LWV: Sunshine Week Tool Kit)25,000.00813--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3930-- Grant period: 11/01/2005 - 11/01/2006; goal: To prepare a Sunshine Week tool kit and organize local chapter forums.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Harvard University)205,000.00307--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3933-- Grant period: 01/04/2006 - 01/04/2007; goal: To support a Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Shorenstein Center This program matches up recognized national news leaders with their university of choice for a one-year fellowship, during which time they’ll research and envision the future of quality journalism. In 2006, former Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll became the first Knight Visiting Lecturer. At the Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, he is researching, writing, teaching and speaking out publicly about how journalism excellence is achievable in today’s fast-changing world.
University of Maryland Foundation (Earmark: Knight-Batten Awards)180,000.00368--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3904-- Grant period: 02/01/2006 - 02/01/2009; goal: To continue the Batten Awards and rename them the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism The Knight-Batten Awards are co-named for the Knight brothers and Knight Ridder company CEO James. K. Batten. The awards honor novel approaches to journalism in both mainstream and community media that help people learn about and better understand community issues. J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism administers the awards. Six awards will be given each year, including a $10,000 Grand Prize Winner; $5,000 for a Runner-Up and at least three Awards of Distinction; and a $1,000 Wild Card Award that will go to a journalism school, a small news organization or an individual. This grant supports the foundation’s goal of increasing the use of new media to serve the public interest.
JumpStart Productions LLC (Earmark: Jumpstart: NOW on PBS - The Sunshine Gang)45,000.00578--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3943-- Grant period: 03/01/2006 - 03/01/2007; goal: To support the PBS program NOW's special show on "The Sunshine Gang".
Yale University (Earmark: Knight Chair in Constitutional Law and the First Amendment)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3189-- Grant period: 04/07/2005 - 04/07/2007; goal: To expand the reach of the Knight Chair in Constitutional Law and the First Amendment Three post-doctoral fellows will work with Knight Chair Jack Balkin on research projects in freedom of speech, democracy and technology. The research will result in a report on the relationship between public attitudes and Supreme Court decisions on the First Amendment. The fellows also will assist the Knight Chair on books and white papers, in outreach activities and in special programs related to law and technology.
University of Kansas Center for Research (Earmark: University of Kansas Center for Resarch)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3579-- Grant period: 02/01/2005 - 06/30/2011; goal: To develop tools to improve community journalism.
The Harwood Institute (Earmark: The Harwood Institute)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3581-- Grant period: 02/01/2005 - 08/31/2007; goal: To place its civic journalism archives at the University of Kansas, and help develop tools to improve community journalism.
World Press Freedom Committee (Earmark: World Press Freedom Committee)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3714-- Grant period: 03/01/2005 - 03/01/2009; goal: To continue monitoring press freedom issues and coordinate responses to press freedom threats.
TCC Group (Earmark: TCC Group)500,000.0099--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3718-- Grant period: 03/15/2005 - 03/15/2007; goal: To expand the Challenge Fund for Journalism, a program that teaches groups how to build their own organizations. There are roughly 50 national journalism organizations in the United States. These groups promote higher professional standards. Some are more financially stable than others. The Challenge Fund for Journalism was created in 2003 to help seven journalism groups learn how to raise money from their members. This project will train up to eight journalism groups, nominated by Knight, in capacity building and challenge grant fundraising. Depending on their needs, groups will get technical assistance, capacity grants, peer learning and matching challenge grants. The TCC Group is a management consulting firm that works with funders and nonprofit organizations. This grant is a partnership with Ford Foundation and the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
Michigan State University (Earmark: Knight Center for Environmental Journalism)2,150,000.0028--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3501-- Grant period: 03/15/2005 - 04/30/2011; goal: To expand the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism in partnership with the university and launch an endowment campaign In the United States, some 2,500 to 5,000 journalists write regularly about the environment. But as many as 20,000 general assignment reporters occasionally write environmental stories. This project addresses the need for training by supporting a major outreach effort, in partnership with Michigan State University. Jim Detjen, the Knight Chair for Environmental Journalism, has directed the Knight Center for Environmental Journalism since 1999. Activities include: developing a master’s degree specialization in environmental journalism, which the university will continue in perpetuity; holding at least 20 training events; expanding the center’s web site to offer on-line modules; developing a broadcast course; producing a textbook; and launching an endowment campaign.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Harvard University)280,000.00167--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3684-- Grant period: 03/15/2005 - 07/31/2007; goal: To support Nieman fellows from Latin America during the next two years.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: International Center for Journalists)400,000.00122--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3800-- Grant period: 04/01/2005 - 12/31/2006; goal: To train print and broadcast journalists in northwest Indonesia in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Committee to Protect Journalists (Earmark: Committee to Protect Journalists)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3801-- Grant period: 04/01/2005 - 04/01/2006; goal: To establish a special free press fund to protect Indonesian journalists from government censorship and harassment in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
Northwestern University (Earmark: MediaInfoCenter.org)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3763-- Grant period: 04/01/2005 - 04/01/2006; goal: To enhance the Media Management Center's website, MediaInfoCenter.org.
Internews (Earmark: Internews)500,000.0099--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3799-- Grant period: 04/01/2005 - 04/01/2006; goal: To rebuild radio journalism in northwest Indonesia in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship (Earmark: The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship)75,000.00491--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3946-- Grant period: 03/01/2006 - 03/01/2009; goal: To expand the development of a model alumni program for journalism training The Arthur F. Burns Fellowship, named after the late U.S. ambassador to Germany and former Federal Reserve Board chairman, is an exchange program for journalists in the United States and Germany. Each year, it awards 20 two-month fellowships – 10 to Americans, 10 to Germans – and they switch countries and cover the news. The program, which has 333 alumni, maintains contact with 95 percent of them. This grant will enable the Burns Fellowship program to further develop their alumni network, and to share their best practices with Knight’s midcareer training programs.
Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (Earmark: Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication)205,000.00307--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3747-- Grant period: 04/25/2005 - 05/24/2008; goal: To train new journalism deans and directors This project will create a leadership institute to train 15 new deans and directors of journalism and mass communication programs. The deans or directors will get the tools and training they need to strengthen their programs and work more successfully with faculty, alumni and administration officials. A significant number of journalism deans are retiring. Their replacements do not all have experience in educational leadership.
Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (Earmark: Radio and Television News Directors Foundation)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3545-- Grant period: 05/01/2005 - 05/01/2007; goal: To train mid-level broadcast news managers.
Washington News Council (Earmark: Washington News Council)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3813-- Grant period: 05/01/2005 - 03/31/2009; goal: To seed the launch of a new state news council.
National Association of Black Journalists (Earmark: Black College Wire expansion)191,000.00364--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3741-- Grant period: 05/01/2005 - 05/01/2006; goal: To expand BlackCollegeWire.org.
San Francisco State University Foundation (Earmark: PopandPolitics)160,000.00376--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3738-- Grant period: 05/01/2005 - 01/31/2008; goal: To enhance the PopandPolitics web site to train multicultural students to produce multimedia stories.
Newspaper Association of America Foundation (Earmark: Newspaper Association of America Foundation)225,000.00290--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3733-- Grant period: 05/01/2005 - 05/01/2007; goal: To develop sixth grade classes that use newspapers to teach language arts Since 1954, the NAA Foundation has coordinated the Newspaper in Education program to encourage the use of newspapers in schools. Today there are NIE programs at more than 950 of the nation’s 1,450 daily papers. This project will develop and test a set of sixth-grade language arts classes that use newspapers and meet national standards. The classes will integrate reading, writing, journalism, grammar, linguistics and visual literacy. A daily newspaper will be used as a textbook and resource. The classes will be tested in 20 classrooms in disadvantaged schools, hopefully increasing reading test scores in those classes.
WNYC Radio (Earmark: WNYC)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3727-- Grant period: 05/01/2005 - 05/01/2006; goal: To continue support for "On The Media,'' a public radio program reporting on the world of journalism.
National Public Radio (Earmark: National Public Radio)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3713-- Grant period: 05/01/2005 - 05/01/2006; goal: For a planning grant to enhance local news capacity.
Virginia Coalition for Open Government (Earmark: Virginia Coalition for Open Government)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3643-- Grant period: 05/01/2005 - 05/01/2007; goal: For a challenge grant to raise a permanent endowment.
Link Media (Earmark: Link Media)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3681-- Grant period: 05/01/2005 - 05/01/2006; goal: To develop a plan to sustain Mosaic, a satellite televison program bringing Americans news and opinion from the Middle East.
Aspen Institute (Earmark: Aspen Institute)175,000.00372--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4018-- Grant period: 12/01/2006 - 12/01/2008; goal: To help national media policy makers understand community media issues by holding roundtables and a conference The Aspen Institute convenes leaders to discuss their foremost challenges. In America today, local media face challenges as large as anyone's. Their audiences are fragmenting, shifting from boundary-spanning traditional media to media that is online, targeted or free. National policy, which sets the rules under which local media can thrive or wither, also is in a period of transition, with media consolidation, "localism," and "net neutrality," among the important issues. Aspen Institute will hold two roundtable sessions and conduct a “conference track’’ on policy change that would align national policy with community needs and concerns. A report will be widely distributed and posted on www.aspeninstitute.org.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Harvard University)140,000.00417--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3976-- Grant period: 10/01/2006 - 10/01/2008; goal: To support two Nieman Fellows from Latin America during the 2007-08 academic year The Nieman fellowships are the best-known of their type in the country. Each year, 24 of the best and brightest journalists spend an academic year of study at Harvard. Since 1985, Knight Foundation has helped support 16 Knight Latin American fellows. Rosental Alves, the Knight Chair in International Journalism who directs the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas-Austin, was a 1988 Nieman fellow. During the next two years, four leading Latin American journalists will spend nine months at Harvard, attending seminars and activities, designing their own course of study and writing an article about their experience for the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas web site. Upon returning to their countries, they plan to advocate for higher standards in their news organizations, influence broader press freedoms and teach and train others. A two-year, $140,000 grant was added to support two more Nieman fellows during 2007-08.
Channel One Network (Earmark: Channel One: First Amendment)2,250,000.0026--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4022-- Grant period: 10/01/2006 - 10/01/2011; goal: For a strategic alliance with Channel One to promote First Amendment and student media Channel One is the only TV channel that reaches directly into America’s middle and high schools. A daily 12-minute newscast is broadcast into 11,000 schools, 350,000 classrooms and to more than 7 million students. A third of U.S. teens watch it. This grant will promote greater First Amendment education, the creation and strengthening of student media, increased use of news in the classroom and more civics education. PSAs, First Amendment news reports and partnerships with Knight grantees will create more exposure for grantees’ work. At least 50 schools in Knight communities will be added to the Channel One network. This grant aims to spread First Amendment education and student media nationwide to help a new generation of citizens become more informed, interested and effective.
Stony Brook Foundation (Earmark: Stony Brook Foundation)1,700,000.0034--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3977-- Grant period: 10/01/2006 - 03/01/2012; goal: To establish the nation's first required college-wide program in News Literacy Stony Brook established an undergraduate journalism school in fall 2006. Its mission is twofold: train the next generation of journalists and educate the next generation of news consumers. This project will teach a News Literacy course to every entering student over a four-year period, from 2007 through 2011. At least 10,000 students will be taught how to critically judge the credibility of news reports, to understand the role and standards of responsible media and to recognize the value of choosing reliable news outlets. Stony Brook also will develop a multimedia textbook, make the syllabus and class available to other universities and create a cadre of graduate students who will advance research and knowledge in News Literacy. The project aims to demonstrate that a generation of news consumers can be taught to understand the journalism of verification so they will consume the news citizens need to make informed decisions.
National Association of Hispanic Journalists (Earmark: National Association of Hispanic Journalists)5,000.00857--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4042-- Grant period: 10/01/2006 - 10/01/2007; goal: For the 21st Annual Noche de Triunfos Journalism Awards Gala.
University of Maryland (Earmark: Knight Hall)2,000,000.0030--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3997-- Grant period: 10/01/2006 - 10/01/2011; goal: To complete a new college of journalism building, Knight Hall, to house the Knight Institute for the Future of Journalism. This grant will complete construction of a new journalism building, named Knight Hall, which will be occupied by fall 2009. The new 60,000-square-foot, $27.7 million facility will house the Knight Institute for the Future of Journalism, which will bring together Knight-funded programs. They include the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism; J-Lab, which runs the Knight-Batten Awards for Journalism Innovation, New Voices and the Knight Citizen News Network; Knight Chair Haynes Johnson; and the American Journalism Review. Additional professional journalism groups may want to locate to the state-of-the-art Knight Hall. This grant aims to focus Knight’s programs on the future of journalism and improve journalism education and professional development and training. Knight Hall is supported by an additional $2.4 million grant to create the Knight Institute. Note: In 2002, a five-year, $3 million challenge grant was awarded for the journalism building.
University of Maryland Foundation (Earmark: Knight Hall)2,400,000.0022--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3993-- Grant period: 10/01/2006 - 10/01/2008; goal: To create the programming for the Knight Institute for the Future of Journalism.
Internews (Earmark: Internews)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3891-- Grant period: 11/01/2006 - 11/01/2008; goal: To increase coordination of media development and journalism training internationally.
American Society of News Editors Foundation (Earmark: American Society of News Editors Foundation)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4021-- Grant period: 11/01/2006 - 03/31/2009; goal: To revitalize high school journalism and revamp www.highschooljournalism.org The Council of National Journalism Organizations raises the visibility and membership of professional journalism groups and helps them work efficiently together. During the past decade, the council’s membership has more than doubled to 53 groups. These groups, representing at least 25,000 American journalists, set standards and offer training. With this grant, the council will work with the Society of Professional Journalists to improve and expand www.journalismtraining.org, a calendar of training opportunities, and to revamp its own web site, www.cnjo.org, and to better market the services of professional journalism organizations.
Florida International University (Earmark: Florida International University)25,000.00813--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4029-- Grant period: 11/01/2006 - 12/31/2007; goal: To study and discuss the future of news in Cuba FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication specializes in teaching bilingual and Spanish-language journalism. FIU’s International Media Center works to strengthen professional news media in Latin America. It has trained more than 8,000 Latin American journalists in 14 countries since 1988. This grant will support a daylong roundtable among Cuban-American community members, Cuba experts and 10 independent Cuban journalists in exile. They will discuss the future of media in Cuba and assess what type of training independent journalists in Cuba should receive and whether the journalists working for state media could be trained for a new role in a post-Castro Cuba. In addition, Spanish-speaking FIU journalism students will participate in a student reporting project, interviewing at least 30 recently arrived Cubans about how they got their news in Cuba and what kind of news they think would fit the needs of Cubans.
World Press Freedom Committee (Earmark: World Press Freedom Committee)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4032-- Grant period: 12/01/2006 - 12/01/2007; goal: To educate world press-freedom organizations about governmental threats to Internet communication through a conference at UNESCO's Paris headquarters, Feb. 15-16, 2007, titled: New Media: The Press Freedom Dimension This grant will support a conference called “New Media: The Press Freedom Dimension’’ on Feb. 15-16, 2007 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The conference will explore press freedom in new democracies and in non-democratic settings and focus on the challenges and opportunities of new media for press freedom, including how online news affects press freedom. This grant aims to help international organizations, including Knight grantees, learn how to make it more difficult for repressive regimes to use new methods of control to silence new media outlets.
Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (Earmark: Radio and Television News Directors Foundation)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4007-- Grant period: 09/01/2006 - 09/30/2007; goal: To improve electronic journalism in America's high schools Since 2001, Knight Foundation has invested more than $3.2 million through the Radio and Television Directors Foundation to improve electronic journalism in America’s high schools. RTNDF has created 116 new broadcast journalism programs and strengthened at least 300 others. This grant refocuses RTNDF’s Knight-funded efforts on use of the Internet to reach more schools and students. The project will create online teacher lessons for both new and veteran high school media advisers; develop an online teacher certification credit course in broadcast journalism; promote student-to-student learning by allowing students to create “directors cuts” videos that will explain what went into producing the award winning videos posted on the RTNDF site www.hsbj.org; and continue to offer RTNDF partnerships that match schools to local radio and television stations for mentoring, but add a “virtual mentoring” capability.
American Society of News Editors Foundation (Earmark: American Society of News Editors Foundation)1,233,249.0048--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3857-- Grant period: 12/04/2006 - 12/04/2011; goal: To increase public awareness of the importance of open government and endow Sunshine Week by creating the Knight First Amendment Fund This grant will help the American Society of Newspaper Editors build the Knight First Amendment Fund to continue “Sunshine Week’’ and help the nation’s leading journalism organization transform into a 21st century organization. Through this project, Sunshine Week, a national educational campaign about the importance of open government, will continue annually through at least 2010, increasing their reach each year. ASNE also will: create a reserve fund for freedom of information issues that come up each year; hold a major conference in January 2007 and others as needed to examine the issue of federal prosecutors and the news process; hire a development person to help raise $3.75 million for a second endowment fund to help ASNE reform its membership, convention and web sites policies to expand its reach among the nation’s 1,500 daily newspapers, and lead and help editors make the transition to multimedia operations.
Ashoka (Earmark: Ashoka Fellows)3,200,000.009--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3998-- Grant period: 12/04/2006 - 11/30/2010; goal: To select 15 promising social entrepreneurs in Knight Communities and to infuse them with the intellectual, financial and social capital required to increase their likelihood of success in their communities To identify and support social entrepreneurs (‘Ashoka Fellows’) around the world whose innovations aim to create systemic social impact by dramatically improving the way people get and use information. The grant created the News and Knowledge program to provide three-year fellowships focused on developing fellow skills and strengthening their networks.
National Security Archive Fund (Earmark: National Security Archive Fund)700,000.0071--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4004-- Grant period: 12/04/2006 - 12/04/2011; goal: To increase the freedom of flow of information to citizens and journalists by underwriting comprehensive audits that keep pressure on officials to release information in a timely and legal manner.
Jefferson Institute (Earmark: Jefferson Institute)62,000.00506--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4061-- Grant period: 01/01/2007 - 01/01/2008; goal: To study the economic value of journalism training internationally and recommend how training centers can sustain themselves.
IC Foundation (Earmark: IC Foundation, Inc.)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4075-- Grant period: 02/01/2007 - 12/31/2010; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To help 21st Century News Challenge Commercial Product winners present their products to venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: International Center for Journalists)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4071-- Grant period: 02/01/2007 - 02/01/2008; goal: To start a global business journalism program at Tsinghua University in China.
The University of Oklahoma (Earmark: The University of Oklahoma: AEJMC Directory)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4036-- Grant period: 02/01/2007 - 12/31/2010; goal: To create a useful, interactive global directory of journalism schools.
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism (Earmark: City University of New York)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4044-- Grant period: 03/01/2007 - 03/01/2009; goal: To enable low-income journalism students to get work experience comparable to others through this internship. This internship is an integral part of the curriculum of the new journalism program.
Chi-Town Daily News (Earmark: Chi-Town Daily News)340,000.00146--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4093-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 03/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a new, low-cost model for training citizen journalist in every neighborhood of a major city to contribute to a citywide news site The Chi-Town Daily News will recruit and train a network of 75 citizen journalists – one in each Chicago neighborhood. The journalists will work with editors to produce a professional, comprehensive daily local news report. Goals: “A daily online news report written by citizen journalists that has more scope and depth than the coverage you find in many large newspapers.”.
The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association (Earmark: The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association)1,151,000.0053--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4074-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 03/31/2010; goal: To move the Online NewsHour onto a more widely accessible, interactive, multi-platform web site that appeals to younger audiences.
Society of Professional Journalists (Earmark: Society of Professional Journalists)120,000.00441--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3866-- Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 07/31/2008; goal: To transfer journalismtraining.org to SPJ as an ongoing program.
Federation of American Scientists (Earmark: Federation of American Scientists)80,000.00486--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3910-- Grant period: 03/01/2006 - 03/31/2009; goal: To expand the reach of Secrecy News, which explains national secrecy policies The Federation of American Scientists publishes Secrecy News, an e-mail newsletter edited by Steven Aftergood that appears at least twice a week. The newsletter provides an important early warning service for increases in federal government secrecy. In addition to Secrecy News, the project links to online source documents, provides daily support to journalists who report on secrecy; and litigates Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. This grant will expand the reach of the newsletter though collaboration with the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government.
University of Southern California (Earmark: Knight New Media Center)650,000.0073--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3863-- Grant period: 03/14/2006 - 09/30/2008; goal: To re-launch the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism as the Knight New Media Center This grant re-launches the Western Knight Center as the Knight New Media Center, specifically focused on helping good journalists and good journalism succeed in the 21st century. It will specialize in delivering content training to new media journalists as well as new media training to traditional journalists. The center will convert its web site into an interactive learning and resource center and experiment with videoconferencing and webinars. This grant is part of the foundation’s effort to help journalists succeed in a new media world. The center will offer seminars directly to 150 journalists each year, including a leadership workshop for news leaders who are transforming their news operations. The content training offered to new media journalists will include improving online coverage of topics ranging from elections to urban growth to globalization. New media training includes skills training in the latest interactive storytelling techniques. Since 2002, the center has been a new media leader, both in teaching practitioners and in using the World Wide Web to draw 30,000 unique monthly visitors.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (Earmark: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development)200,000.00314--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3955-- Grant period: 03/15/2006 - 03/15/2007; goal: To develop a plan for scaling up First Amendment education in Knight communities ASCD is the largest educational member organization, representing 170,000 educators from more than 135 countries. Since 2000, it has created some 100 First Amendment Schools nationwide. These are K-12 schools where students not only learn about but practice the First Amendment in their schools and communities. This grant will use the lessons learned by this project to create and test a plan to increase First Amendment education in the 26 Knight communities.
The University of Kentucky Research Foundation (Earmark: University of Kentucky)103,000.00451--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3793-- Grant period: 03/15/2006 - 07/13/2007; goal: To increase the impact of the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues The Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, housed in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications at University of Kentucky, was started in 2002 to improve the journalism reaching the 56 million people in the rural United States. This grant will help increase the Institute’s impact by completing a national survey of rural media to gauge their scope and training needs, improving its web site, www.ruraljournalism.org, and creating a journalism training module for News University.
Jefferson Institute (Earmark: Jefferson Institute: Serbian Military Archive)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3968-- Grant period: 04/01/2006 - 04/01/2007; goal: To digitize key parts of the Serbian military archive, create a searchable database and train Serbian journalists to use it.
Syracuse University (Earmark: Syracuse University)160,000.00376--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3954-- Grant period: 04/01/2006 - 05/31/2007; goal: To increase the impact of TRACFED, a database of government actions used nationally by news media In 1997, Knight funds launched a web service called TRACFED. Run by Syracuse University, this service has become one of the web’s most important public storehouses of facts and figures about how the federal government enforces the law, where it assigns employees, and how it spends its money. Through this grant, TRAC will increase its earned income through new information products and expanded marketing and solicit monetary and in-kind contributions. It will also seek a range of partnerships to fund authoritative reports on special interest topics.
University of Maryland Foundation (Earmark: Knight Citizen News Network)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3994-- Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 07/01/2007; goal: To create and manage the Knight Citizen News Network The Knight Citizen News Network is designed to be an online training center for citizen journalists and a showcase for all of Knight’s web-based training endeavors, including J-Learning, at Maryland University, NewsU at the Poynter Institute and the Knight New Media Center in Berkeley and Los Angeles. It aspires to teach anyone how to use the latest technologies to produce compelling stories about and for their own communities. Administered at J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland, the grant will create a new web site to host the Knight Citizen News Network. The site will be a one-stop online training destination helping citizen journalists report valuable, informative news that mainstream media is not able to cover.
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism (Earmark: City University of New York)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3983-- Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 07/01/2007; goal: To teach media law to bloggers and citizen journalists.
George Washington University (Earmark: Prime Movers)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3967-- Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 07/01/2007; goal: To develop a Prime Movers high school journalism program in Philadelphia Prime Movers is a program that starts and strengthens student media and develops women and journalists of color as mentors. GW ran a pilot program in 2004-05 and continued in 2005-06. It created or improved media outlets at six schools, with 12 professional mentors and 16 student mentors teaching. It also developed a national high school radio curriculum, working with the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation. This grant will test new student media models in Philadelphia and develop a plan to scale up student media throughout the city, where only 18 of the 52 high schools have student newspapers.
Kent State University (Earmark: Kent State University: Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3974-- Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 03/31/2009; goal: To establish a Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism to lead national efforts to revitalize high school journalism Kent State’s Scholastic Media Program is considered to be one of the nation’s best. For six consecutive years, Kent State has been one of five universities to host the American Society of Newspaper Editors High School Journalism Institute. The program, part of Knight Foundation’s High School Initiative, trains high school teachers to start or improve high school newspapers. This grant will convert the vacant John S. Knight Chair in English Composition and Theory, endowed with a $1 million grant in 1990, to a Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism. The Knight Chair will create innovative programs, including an online and on campus master’s program for scholastic media teachers; be a leader crusading for First Amendment awareness and civic education, the use of news in classrooms and the creation of student media; help high school students understand journalism fundamentals; and encourage diverse students to pursue journalism careers.
Northwestern University (Earmark: Medill's Graduate Journalism Program)639,000.0074--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4092-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 09/30/2010; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create an academic program blending computer science and journalism, designed to fill a staffing void at many digital news sites To create an academic program blending computer science and journalism, designed to fill a staffing void at many digital news sites. By offering scholarships to Medill’s graduate journalism program to people with education and/or expertise in computer programming, the goal is to turn out students who understand both journalism and technology, connect one to another in ways that build audiences and also enhance and protect the civic functions of journalism in a democratic society. Goals: “A democratic society in the digital age needs people who understand both journalism and technology,".
WNYC Radio (Earmark: WNYC)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3932-- Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 07/01/2007; goal: To support "On the Media," a public radio program reporting on the world of journalism WNYC produces “On the Media,’’ which launched in 1995 with the help of a Knight grant. The show, with nearly one million listeners, won a 2004 Peabody award. This grant will enable the program to continue its diverse content, including reports on how the media is covering the Middle East, the war in Iraq, energy prices, the upcoming 2007 fall elections, 2008 congressional campaigns and the presidential primary. The project hopes to help listeners become better news consumers and increase demand for quality news.
Online News Association (Earmark: ONA: Knight Public Service Award)225,000.00290--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3928-- Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 07/01/2008; goal: To fund an executive director for the Online News Association and establish the Knight Public Service Award The Online News Association will hire a full-time executive director to make ONA financially independent and self-sustaining. The executive director will conduct funding drives and programs to increase ONA membership and sponsor revenue. A new online journalism award, the Knight Public Service Award, will carry a $5,000 prize. This award will be given in October 2006, and each year thereafter, as part of the annual Online Journalism Awards. The grant also helps ONA expand its award judging by working with other professional journalism associations.
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Earmark: Knight Case Studies Initiative)1,250,000.0047--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3995-- Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 07/01/2011; goal: To establish the Knight Case Studies Initiative at Columbia University and plan a journalism leadership center The digital revolution is changing newsroom decision-making. The Knight Case Studies Initiative is a new journalism education model that is designed to create future journalism leaders. The case-studies program is based on the successful Harvard Case Studies run by its business school. This grant will use dynamic, multimedia techniques, integrating real-life case studies into the journalism school’s curriculum. The web-based case studies will show the real-time ethical, management and leadership issues a publisher, executive editor or a senior correspondent considers in making decisions at the highest levels of the profession. A new, permanent graduate course, “Decision Making in Journalism,” will be created from a dozen cases. This project aims to change the way journalism decision-making is taught in this country by giving teachers and the profession powerful new tools to work with.
Participatory Culture Foundation (Earmark: Participatory Culture Foundation: Make Internet TV)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3992-- Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 07/01/2007; goal: To teach citizens how to shoot news video, upload it to a blog and share it with others The Participatory Culture Foundation will create tutorials teaching how to shoot, edit and upload video to a web site. The tutorials will discuss what equipment and software to use, how to format the video for the web, how to load that video onto your own or other web sites, and how to syndicate it to others. The training modules are designed to increase the number and quality of citizen news videos online and to help more communities have video coverage of important events that would not be broadcast on local television news stations. This project is part of the Knight Citizen News Network.
University of California, Berkeley (Earmark: University of California, Berkeley)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3978-- Grant period: 07/01/2006 - 07/01/2007; goal: To teach journalism's core values to citizen contributors Citizen journalism advocate Dan Gillmor will direct the creation of five online training modules that discuss journalism’s core values: 1) thoroughness, 2) accuracy, 3) fairness, 4) transparency and 5) independence. The modules are designed to increase the quality of citizen contributions to online discussions or news reports. The modules are planned to help make editors feel more comfortable with the quality of citizen contributions, causing those editors to use citizen contributions more often. This project is part of the Knight Citizen News Network.
Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (Earmark: Salzburg Seminar in American Studies: Knight Fellowship Program)135,000.00421--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3982-- Grant period: 08/01/2006 - 08/01/2007; goal: For a conference and a plan to redesign the Knight Fellowship Program Salzburg Seminar will convene some 75 former Knight Fellows at a conference at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York. The conference will allow the fellows to continue the learning from previous Salzburg events and discuss how to improve the Knight Fellowship program. Salzburg will then develop an action plan that will clarify program improvements in future years.
Inter-American Dialogue (Earmark: Inter-American Dialogue)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3945-- Grant period: 09/01/2006 - 09/30/2008; goal: To bring together judges and prosecutors to support IAPA's Impunity project Since 1982, Inter-American Dialogue has convened leaders from across the Americas to discuss problems and opportunities in the Western Hemisphere. The Inter American Press Association’s Impunity project has raised public awareness and helped to bring to justice murderers of journalists in the Americas. To help generate support for the Impunity campaign outside the world of journalism, the Inter-American Dialogue will hold two meetings in 2007 in Colombia and Mexico to bring together at least 30 judges, prosecutors, government officials and media leaders to discuss what to do about the uninvestigated killings of journalists. A report that will include recommendations will be widely distributed.
Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (Earmark: Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4015-- Grant period: 09/01/2006 - 09/30/2008; goal: To help BlackCollegeWire.org find a new, permanent home BlackCollegeWire.org, a news service that advances journalism in historically black colleges, has expanded since it was created in 2002 by Knight funding. It has been housed at Florida A&M and the National Association of Black Journalists. This grant will give BlackCollegeWire.org time to search for a new, permanent home, with the help of the Maynard Institute; create and implement a strategic plan to expand the project’s mission; and continue to expand the news service, by adding at least three more schools’ online publications to the site. The project aims to give students of color better access to practical journalism experience, and to help improve journalism education at historically black colleges and universities.
American Society of News Editors Foundation (Earmark: American Society of News Editors Foundation)146,750.00414--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/3952-- Grant period: 09/01/2006 - 09/30/2007; goal: To expand national Sunshine Week in 2007 to help raise public awareness and support for open government issues This grant will help the American Society of Newspaper Editors build the Knight First Amendment Fund to continue “Sunshine Week’’ and help the nation’s leading journalism organization transform into a 21st century organization. Through this project, Sunshine Week, a national educational campaign about the importance of open government, will continue annually through at least 2010, increasing their reach each year. ASNE also will: create a reserve fund for freedom of information issues that come up each year; hold a major conference in January 2007 and others as needed to examine the issue of federal prosecutors and the news process; hire a development person to help raise $3.75 million for a second endowment fund to help ASNE reform its membership, convention and web sites policies to expand its reach among the nation’s 1,500 daily newspapers, and lead and help editors make the transition to multimedia operations.
Community Foundation of New Jersey (Earmark: Hurricane Sandy Inform and Engage Fund)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5797-- Grant period: 01/01/2013 - 01/01/2015; goal: To show why media projects should be part of disaster relief funds by creating the Hurricane Sandy Inform and Engage Fund At its core, this is the goal of the Inform and Engage Fund: to recognize the role that reliable, accessible news plays in the health and well-being of New Jersey’s communities as they recover from Hurricane Sandy. The fund also has collaboration as part of its DNA. It is born from collaboration among funders: The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, The Knight Foundation, the Rita Allen Foundation and our own TPF. In seeking applicants, we’ve made clear that projects focused on collaboration and partnership will get preference when it comes to funding. Applicants for funding include legacy news organizations who are challenging their old reputations as lone wolves, not team players; start-up, entrepreneurial projects that are driven by the passion and creativity of one person or a team; public media seeking to move their journalism into action; and universities seeking to feed knowledge into all of these efforts through research and continuing education.
Cafedirect Producers Foundation (Earmark: Cafédirect Producers’ Foundation (CPF))260,000.00174--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5786-- Grant period: 01/01/2013 - 01/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: For a mobile platform enabling smallholder farmers to have questions translated and answered by others around the world Smallholder farmers in developing countries have limited access to support and best practices. The Cafédirect Producers’ Foundation, which designs projects to support small-scale farmers, will use mobile to address this need by building a platform allowing farmers to ask questions and share knowledge about any farming topic, have it translated by volunteers, answered by farmers in other communities and returned to them via basic SMS messages. Knight funds will enable the project, called WeFarm, to expand on successful pilots in Kenya, Peru and Tanzania, where farmers exchanged more than 4,600 SMS messages, an average of more than 70 per user, on topics such as frost control and animal husbandry.
Digital Democracy (Earmark: Digital Democracy)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5787-- Grant period: 01/01/2013 - 01/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: For developing a mobile toolkit and training low-technology communities to collect and share information In remote parts of the Peruvian Amazon, where mining and oil drilling are impacting the environment, health and economies of indigenous communities, residents lack the tools to collect and report these events to the outside world. Digital Democracy, a nonprofit that builds community technology capacity in marginalized communities, will create and combine existing open software to produce a tool kit communities can use to share their stories and make informed choices. The team will work with local partners in the Peruvian Amazon to deploy and test the tool kit and train residents in its use.
Textizen (Earmark: Textizen)350,000.00139--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5788-- Grant period: 01/01/2013 - 01/31/2015; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: For a platform that helps governments design surveys and feedback campaigns powered by mobile phones and text messaging Textizen is building software to transform the citizen feedback loop. Across the country, a growing number of civic leaders are looking for new ways to connect with constituents. Neighborhood meetings are costly to run, and attendance isn’t always representative. By placing questions in physical places and inviting residents to respond from their mobile phones, Textizen creates new ways for meaningful civic participation. Started as a Code for America pilot project in Philadelphia, Textizen identified early best practices by experimenting with several types of campaigns. One, for example, asked for feedback on public transit changes by posing a text-to-vote question at a bus stop. Building on these pilots, the team will license the software to cities seeking to create new open, engaging channels for civic participation.
WITNESS (Earmark: WITNESS)320,000.00155--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5791-- Grant period: 01/01/2013 - 01/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: For a mobile application to verify and authenticate media shared from mobile devices In situations of conflict or civil unrest, where ordinary people are using their mobile phones to create and share media, news organizations and others have trouble authenticating the origins of photos, videos or audio. In collaboration with The Guardian Project, the international human rights organization WITNESS seeks to solve this problem by launching the InformaCam app. The mobile app allows users to incorporate key metadata in their video (who, what, where, corroborating identifiers), watermark it as coming from a particular camera, and share it in an encrypted format with someone the user trusts. News outlets, human rights organizations and everyday people could use the app in a variety of ways - for a breaking news story using first-hand video from a citizen journalist, sharing evidence of war crimes from a conflict zone, or to verify the images of a fender bender that someone could take to small claims court. Alongside this, WITNESS is advocating for incorporation of a “citizen witness” functionality based on InformaCam into other platforms and apps.
Middle Georgia Regional Commission (Earmark: Ga. Citizen Access)62,200.00505--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5783-- Grant period: 01/01/2013 - 01/31/2014; goal: To establish an effective two-way communication program between the community, elected officials, and Transition Task Force in order to develop a new, consolidated government that is focused on the needs of its citizens.
ProPublica (Earmark: Experimentation with Umbel)24,000.00823--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6139-- Grant period: 01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013; goal: To support experimentation with Umbel, an analytics tool for understanding audience, to help inform journalism coverage and business development.
University of Southern California (Earmark: Media Impact Project)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5775-- Grant period: 12/10/2012 - 01/08/2014; goal: To support the creation of the Lear Center for Media Metrics With $3.25 million in initial financing from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism's Norman Lear Center is about to create what it is calling a “global hub” for those who would measure the actual impact of media — journalistic, cinematic, social and otherwise.
American Society of News Editors Foundation (Earmark: Free to Tweet II)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5770-- Grant period: 12/07/2012 - 02/28/2014; goal: To increase awareness of the First Amendment through the Free to Tweet II campaign.
Wikimedia Foundation (Earmark: Wikipedia)250,000.00176--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5772-- Grant period: 12/05/2012 - 12/04/2013; goal: To support Wikimedia Foundation's operation of Wikipedia and other knowledge sharing platforms.
Investigative Reporters and Editors (Earmark: Open Elections)200,000.00314--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5669-- Grant period: 12/01/2012 - 11/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a comprehensive, open database of election results in the United States Elections are fundamental to democracy, yet the ability to easily analyze the results are out of reach for most journalists and civic hackers. No freely available, comprehensive source of official election results exists. Open Elections will create the first, with a standardized, linked set of certified election results for U.S. federal and statewide offices. The database will allow the people who work with election data to be able to get what they need, whether that’s a CSV file for stories and data analysis or a JSON usable for Web applications and interactive graphics. The project also will allow for linking election data to other critical data sets. The hope is that one day, journalists and researchers will be able much more easily to analyze elections in ways that account for campaign spending, demographic changes and legislative track records.
Momoko Ito Foundation (Earmark: Safecast Radiation & Air Quality)399,600.00128--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5672-- Grant period: 12/01/2012 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To build a network of low-cost air quality monitoring devices and data collection in Los Angeles and Detroit, and scale radiation monitoring globally Safecast, a trusted provider of radiation data in post-quake Japan, is now expanding with challenge funding to create a real-time map of air quality in U.S. cities. A team of volunteers, scientists and developers quickly formed Safecast in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, when demand for radiation monitoring devices and data far surpassed the supply. The project has collected more than 4 million records and become the leading provider of radiation data. With News Challenge funding, Safecast will measure air quality in Los Angeles and expand to other U.S. cities. Disclosure: Knight Foundation Trustee Joi Ito is an officer of the Momoko Ito Foundation, which is receiving the funds on behalf of Safecast.
Media Impact Funders (Earmark: Media Impact Forum)19,850.00842--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5750-- Grant period: 12/01/2012 - 11/30/2013; goal: For Knight's 2013 membership which supports the organization's programs promoting best practices in media philanthropy, and also sponsor a Media Impact Forum event in January 2013.
Participatory Culture Foundation (Earmark: Amara)500,000.0099--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5757-- Grant period: 12/01/2012 - 01/31/2014; goal: To put Amara, the collaborative tool for online video subtitling, onto a sustainable growth path through a program related investment.
Pop Up Archive (Earmark: Pop Up Archive)300,000.00160--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5671-- Grant period: 12/01/2012 - 11/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create open-source software for organizing and publishing archival content from small and independent content producers Founded by University of California grad students, the project beta tested by helping archive the collection of the independent, Peabody-winning production team the Kitchen Sisters.
Investigative Reporters and Editors (Earmark: Census.IRE.org)449,750.00117--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5673-- Grant period: 12/01/2012 - 07/31/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To update and expand Census.IRE.org, a tool for journalists to easily find Census and other information about communities Despite the high value of Census data, the U.S. Census Bureau’s tools for exploring the data are difficult to use. A group of news developers built Census.IRE.org for the 2010 Census to help journalists more easily access Census data. Following early positive feedback, the team will expand and simplify the tool, and add new data sets including the annual American Community Survey, which informs decisions on how more than $400 billion in government funding is distributed.
Lonely Goat Media (Earmark: Lonely Goat Media)25,000.00813--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5753-- Grant period: 12/01/2012 - 02/28/2013; goal: To support the creation of free resources and events for women in media innovation and entrepreneurship.
Bocoup LLC (Earmark: Open Gender Tracking Project)30,000.00803--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5490-- Grant period: 11/30/2012 - 05/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build software that will track the gender balance in published news stories Raising awareness of gender balance in the media by creating a deployable service newsrooms and other content providers can use to evaluate the gender split of both writers and voices in stories. Funding will help build the service as well as conduct two case studies with The Boston Globe and Global Voices.
North Central Texas Council of Governments Foundation (Earmark: Community crime watch neighborhood portal)47,500.00575--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5491-- Grant period: 11/30/2012 - 05/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build software to help local law enforcement agencies collaborate with neighborhood crime watch groups Creating a new community crime watch portal updated with data from local law enforcement agencies. The site will offer mapping to see where crime is happening and alerts to be sent to crime watch groups. The council will be partnering with the Dallas Morning News.
The New School (Earmark: Data Toys)49,646.00568--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5486-- Grant period: 11/30/2012 - 05/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create several prototypes for data toys: experimental, digitally-enabled devices that allow users to explore data and systems through play Building physical and digital models of complexity in the news that encourage open-ended play. Their first projects are in partnership with Public Radio International and Radiolab and are being built through a class at Parsons The New School for Design.
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: Kon*Fab)0.00866--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4982-- Grant period: 11/09/2012 - 11/09/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The mission of Kon*Fab is to explore news and information through a more serendipitous discovery. Most newsreaders are built on predictive behavior algorithms that can lead to an uninspiring repetitious flow of the news. The mission of Kon*Fab is to explore news and information through a more serendipitous discovery. Kon*Fab will improve user experience by linking news with the real-time activities of individuals inhabiting physical locations. This alternate model for presenting the news will provide users the opportunity to stumble across new people with new interests potentially improving local engagement around news and community.
Center for Investigative Reporting (Earmark: FOIA Machine Prototype)46,000.00577--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4980-- Grant period: 11/09/2012 - 11/09/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: FOIA Machine will aid journalists and private citizens in accessing millions of important governmental documents around the world that are covered by freedom of information laws (which exist in more than 90 countries). FOIA Machine will help people navigate FOI laws by automating submissions, creating requests in the proper format, making documents publicly available on the web, and using the web to rally support when governments are not responsive.
United States Fund for UNICEF (Earmark: UNICEF Data Severity Index)0.00866--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4983-- Grant period: 11/09/2012 - 11/09/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: The Data Severity Index will increase the efficiency of government action by prioritizing disaster risk reduction data and allowing for more intelligent filtering. Too much data can overwhelm and challenge the human resources at a government agency, limiting their ability to act timely on disaster risk reduction and in engagement with their local community. The Data Severity Index will increase the efficiency of government action by prioritizing disaster risk reduction data and allowing for more intelligent filtering. Building on an existing reporting system, Open Locast, the platform will be field-tested in two cities, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where youth are reporting local issues.
The World Press Institute (Earmark: GroundTruth)0.00866--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4981-- Grant period: 11/09/2012 - 11/09/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: GroundTruth is a communications platform designed to help journalists, researchers and community organizers establish engagement with people who have valuable expertise via text messages and mobile phones. It will give producers the tools to build panels of sources, send out simple surveys, visualize resulting data, and followup with sources for interviews and other needs.
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: The Miami Foundation)16,028.00843--Technology, Communities, Arts, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5657-- Grant period: 11/01/2012 - 10/31/2013; goal: For support of the fiscal agency program.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (Earmark: Journalism Training)36,000.00589--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5641-- Grant period: 11/01/2012 - 10/31/2014; goal: To expand health journalism training to include digital reporters.
Globe Newspaper Company (Earmark: @bostonglobe and @civicMIT)250,000.00176--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5674-- Grant period: 11/01/2012 - 10/31/2013; goal: To establish a partnership for newsroom innovation between The Boston Globe and the MIT Center for Civic Media, and later other universities.
The Pop Tech Institute (Earmark: PopTech Impact Fund)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5697-- Grant period: 11/01/2012 - 10/31/2013; goal: To support the PopTech Impact Fund, which supports unconventional, collaborative discovery and innovation The Impact Fund helps high-potential teams of collaborators in the early stages of their work by providing in-kind support, resources and small amounts of risk capital to projects where either success or failure may illuminate new paths to field-wide impact. Instead of operating in months-to-years, our goal is to respond to opportunities in days to weeks by harnessing the power and capacity of our network. The PopTech Impact Fund will become fully operational in 2013. To receive an update, or to learn how you or your organization can support the Impact Fund, please email [email protected].
University of California, Berkeley (Earmark: The Rashomon Project Prototype)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5688-- Grant period: 11/01/2012 - 05/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop a tool for organizing multiple videos recorded at a public event into a single timeline Offering journalists an improved tool to review user-submitted content by allowing users to easily assemble video of breaking news chronologically, so that the same event can be viewed by various angles. It is organized by the University of California Berkeley’s CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative.
The World Press Institute (Earmark: Whisper Mobile App)49,530.00570--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5659-- Grant period: 11/01/2012 - 10/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build a prototype of Whisper - a mobile engagement platform.
Forty Ninth Parallel (Earmark: News Aggregator)0.00866--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5662-- Grant period: 11/01/2012 - 10/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To build and test a location-based, mobile news aggregator to help individuals connect to news that is trending in their area, as the first phase of a project to build pop-up civic spaces based on news and information.
Mapbox LLC (Earmark: New Tools for OpenStreetMap)575,000.0090--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5649-- Grant period: 10/01/2012 - 09/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Launching tools that make it easier for communities to contribute to OpenStreetMap, the community-mapping project used by millions via foursquare and Wikimedia and becoming a leading source for open, street-level data. DevelopmentSeed will create the tools. OpenStreetMap, a community mapping project, is quickly becoming a leading source for open street-level data, with foursquare, Wikimedia and other major projects signing on as users. However, there is a significant learning curve to joining the growing contributor community. With Knight News Challenge funds, Development Seed will build a suite of easy-to-use tools allowing anyone to contribute data such as building locations, street names and points of interest. The team will promote the tools worldwide and help contribute to the growth of OpenStreetMap.
Temple University School of Media and Communication (Earmark: Urban Apps and Maps Studio)635,400.0075--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5447-- Grant period: 10/01/2012 - 09/30/2015; goal: To provide opportunities for hundreds of underserved residents to join Philadelphia's growing apps development community Each year, the 10-15 community fellows chosen to continue in the program throughout the year will devise at least one app per year that is marketable. By the conclusion of project the studio will create 30-45 experienced developers and a total of 300 urban millennials who will understand how to create and use mobile applications, devices and social media for community engagement.
University of Texas at Austin (Earmark: Knight Center at the University of Texas-Austin)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5600-- Grant period: 10/01/2012 - 09/30/2014; goal: To provide bridge support for the Knight Center at the University of Texas-Austin, for its digital journalism training work in the Americas, as an in-depth assessment and a sustainability study are conducted to help plan the future of the Center.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Earmark: Livingston Awards for Young Journalists)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5636-- Grant period: 10/01/2012 - 09/30/2015; goal: To extend the prestigious Livingston Awards for Young Journalists for two years while a permanent endowment is sought.
WIRED / Advance Magazine Publishers (Earmark: Wordpress feedback and suggestion module)25,000.00813--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5634-- Grant period: 10/01/2012 - 11/30/2012; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop a Wordpress module that allows news organizations to accept feedback, corrections, and translation in-line with text, and incorporate them into content on the fly.
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (Earmark: The Wait We Carry)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5635-- Grant period: 10/01/2012 - 01/31/2014; goal: To develop a platform and database that tracks veterans' wait times for VA health and mental care, education benefits, and other services.
Amplify Labs (Earmark: LocalData)300,000.00160--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5670-- Grant period: 10/01/2012 - 09/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: Providing a set of tools that communities can use to collect data on paper or via a smartphone app, then export or visualize the data via an easy-to-use dashboard. The city of Detroit has used the tools, created by Code for America fellows, to track urban blight. LocalData is a combination of several things. It provides for the collection, organization, and visualization of information in one continuous system. It’s designed to be used beginning at the street level: City workers or community members can either use an app to register information directly or scan paper documentation into the system. From there the information can be exported into different formats for display or analysis.
Captricity (Earmark: Captricity)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4975-- Grant period: 09/14/2012 - 09/14/2013; goal: Captricity is an award-winning cloud-based service that turns paper information into digital data more easily, quickly, and cheaply than existing alternatives. The company was founded in 2011 by Kuang Chen and Jeff J. Lin. For more information, please visit http://captricity.com/press-center..
The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (Earmark: MassINC)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5604-- Grant period: 09/01/2012 - 08/31/2013; goal: To support a regional media network that will increase the public affairs and investigative reporting capacity of nine community newspapers.
Sourcemap (Earmark: Sourcemap)20,000.00827--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5602-- Grant period: 09/01/2012 - 11/30/2012; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To develop a farm-to-table traceability system for school food, built on the Sourcemap platform.
The Washington Post Company (Earmark: Truthteller)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5603-- Grant period: 09/01/2012 - 01/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To prototype an application that fact checks speeches and other live content in real time and delivers relevant information to viewers.
Glassy Media, LLC (Earmark: SuperPACapp)240,421.00278--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5601-- Grant period: 08/01/2012 - 01/31/2013; goal: To create an application that provides instant information on political advertisements run by third-party groups, including finance and organizational data While watching a political TV ad, a user can hold up her phone to identify the commercial and receive objective, third-party information. The Super PAC App allows the user to rate the ad, while understanding who and how much money is behind the ad, what claims the ad is making, and whether those claims are based on facts.
Atavist (Earmark: Atavist)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4977-- Grant period: 07/03/2012 - 07/03/2013; goal: Atavist software enables you to quickly and easily tell your story through digital apps, ebooks, and magazines. It seamlessly integrates multimedia across mobile devices and the Web. Atavist lets you publish anything, everywhere.
University of Southern California (Earmark: KDMC Mobile project)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5443-- Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 08/31/2013; goal: To create a mobile platform that enables community organizations to significantly improve the way they inform and engage their audiences.
University of Southern California (Earmark: Knight Digital Media Center)75,000.00491--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5516-- Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 06/30/2013; goal: To conduct and disseminate research on the potential economic benefits of naturalization on the wages of immigrants in the U.S. and an analysis of the individual costs to achieve this goal.
University of Nebraska Foundation (Earmark: Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Mobile Journalism)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5559-- Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 06/30/2014; goal: To create the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Mobile Journalism.
Jefferson Institute (Earmark: Social media and opinion research tool)15,000.00846--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5576-- Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 07/01/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: For a proof of concept to match news and social sentiment with polling and socioeconomic demographics to create an open public opinion reporting and analysis tool. The Jefferson Institute, creator of the demographic data project Patchwork Nation, will test its concept for a research tool allowing journalists and others to overlay demographic, geographic and public opinion data with social media data and sentiment analysis. Jefferson Institute hopes this tool will surface new insights about how different communities engage with current events.
Americas Business Council Foundation (Earmark: 10Questions Mobile)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5483-- Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 11/30/2013; goal: To create 10Questions mobile app and pilot test it in the Mexican presidential election.
The Tor Project (Earmark: The Tor Project)320,000.00155--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5574-- Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 06/30/2013; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop an open security toolkit for journalists, allowing them to avoid digital surveillance by governments and other groups Summary: With world press freedom in decline for the past decade, journalists and their sources are often threatened by governments, criminal organizations and others who monitor their mobile and online communication to see who is talking to the press. To help protect reporters and their sources, the Tor Project will use its vast network of volunteers to create a toolkit for journalists. The kit will include Tor Project’s existing secure web browser and anonymous upload utility, along new tools and training videos.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: Innovation Challenge for Africa)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5552-- Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 10/31/2013; goal: To establish Africa's first continental innovation challenge focused on digital and data-driven media experimentation Winners will receive cash grants ranging from $12,500 to $100,000, as well as additional technology and business development support. They will also have access to a dedicated AMI CivicTech code lab, for technical advice, start-up support and one-on-one mentoring from the world’s top media experts.
Participatory Politics Foundation (Earmark: OpenGovernment.org)225,000.00290--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5553-- Grant period: 07/01/2012 - 07/01/2013; goal: To build in Knight communities local city versions of OpenGovernment.org, a free and open-source website for contacting local government agencies and officials.
Behavio (Earmark: Behavio)355,000.00138--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5569-- Grant period: 06/18/2012 - 06/18/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To help people and communities make better use of data collected by mobile phones Behavio wants to open access to, and help make sense of, the data routinely collected by mobile phones. Their open source Android platform turns phones into smart sensors of people's real world behaviors and surroundings: how people use their phones, how they communicate with others, and environmental factors like sound, light and motion. As a result, Behavio can understand trends and behavior changes in individuals as well as entire communities, and help them understand and make use of this information. With News Challenge funding, Behavio will create a software development kit for programmers to build apps with smarter sensors; build a set of tools for journalists and others who want to see trends in community data; and launch a mobile application that allows individuals to explore data about their lives. [Note: Behavio Inc. is also known as FUNF].
University of Nebraska Foundation (Earmark: Drone Journalism)50,000.00516--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5445-- Grant period: 06/18/2012 - 06/18/2013; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To fund research and experimentation into the use of drone vehicles as news and information-gathering tools, to study the ethics of these techniques and to publish case studies and best-practices guides Professor Matt Waite will lead a project to research and experiment with drone vehicles as potential tools for news and public data collection. The university will conduct live experiments as well as research into the ethics, legal issues and best practices of drone journalism. Read more at Knightblog.org.
Peepol.tv (Earmark: Peepol.tv)360,000.00136--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5573-- Grant period: 06/18/2012 - 06/18/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To empower people to share breaking news by creating a searchable map of events streamed around the world. Summary: Livestreaming breaking news has proven its potential - but hasn’t yet reached it. Peepol.tv aims to change that by creating a streamlined platform for posting, finding and watching livestreams from around the world. The Peepol.tv team will build a searchable map, aggregate streams from other sources, create topic curation and add features like music and social media interaction. The idea grew from a mini-media innovation challenge at last year’s MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference.
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: Recovers.org)340,000.00146--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5572-- Grant period: 06/18/2012 - 06/18/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop a collaborative organizing dashboard for governments, outside organizations and the public to use in disaster response and other situations. Summary: When a tornado touched down in her Massachusetts yard, Caitria O’Neill and her neighbors struggled to match the sudden wave of resources with massive community needs. While large aid organizations can deliver significant resources, in each disaster untrained local volunteers must help structure unofficial resources long-term. O’Neill and her sister Morgan O’Neill teamed up with engineer Alvin Liang to create Recovers.org, and to build and deliver Web tools and local hubs for disaster recovery efforts. Their online organizing platform, located at [townname.recovers.org], can be launched before or immediately after an event, to turn interest into aid. Already their platform has helped turn the post-disaster spike in interest into money, supplies and volunteers in five communities. Post-disaster launches are pro-bono, but the team licenses the software to areas interested in preparing and enabling the community’s response. The platform is already being used ahead of a disaster for preparation and community organizing in five communities nationwide.
Institute for Nonprofit News (Earmark: Community Journalism Executive Training (CJET) program)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5577-- Grant period: 06/10/2012 - 06/10/2013; goal: To host a summit and training for nonprofit news organizations, in partnership with the Knight Digital Media Center The Community Journalism Executive Training (CJET) program, to be held October 18 - 20, 2012 in Los Angeles, Calif. and hosted at the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, is made possible by support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The $100,000 grant allows INN to produce the program and fund attendance for 40 executives from journalism producers around the country. The attendees will be joined by 10 mentors, entrepreneurs and executives with experience in running successful technology, media and digital news operations.
University of California, Berkeley (Earmark: Knight Digital Media Center)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5349-- Grant period: 06/01/2012 - 10/31/2013; goal: To support the Knight Digital Media Center's operational costs during the planning of its transformation into a revamped and self-sustaining program The Knight Digital Media Center offers workshops to mid-career journalists to enhance their expertise and multimedia skills. Our goal is to provide the foundation of technical skills and story-telling techniques required by New Media platforms. We are housed at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. We also provide tutorials and video presentations from industry experts. The Knight Digital Media Center was launched in April 2006 to focus on helping journalists succeed in the rapidly changing media landscape of the 21st Century. It is built on the foundation of the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism which trained more than 750 professional journalists between 2000 and 2006, as well as providing at least 75,000 more journalists with access to resources and online training opportunities through the efforts of its fellows.
MIT Media Lab (Earmark: Knight-MIT Civic Media Conference)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5580-- Grant period: 06/01/2012 - 06/01/2013; goal: To host the annual Knight-MIT Civic Media Conference in June, 2012.
PolicyMic (Earmark: PolicyMic)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4979-- Grant period: 05/29/2012 - 05/29/2013; goal: PolicyMic is an online media network that redefines engagement with the news. On PolicyMic, the more you respond to articles, share your ideas, and accumulate credibility from others, the more you'll be able to do and say. PolicyMic has built a unique, dynamic, growing community with diverse political viewpoints that encourages ongoing discussion and engagement.
Chute (Earmark: Chute)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4978-- Grant period: 05/17/2012 - Invalid date; goal: Chute is dramatically lowering the cost of collecting visual media and converting it into usable information. Existing information providers can use Chute to empower their audience as media creators. Developers can build new tools to manipulate media in innovative ways. Chute can play a particularly important role for smaller information providers for whom the cost of developing mobile apps and integrating user generated content has proved largely prohibitive to date.
University of Nebraska Foundation (Earmark: Journalism Dean's Mobile Media Fund)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5469-- Grant period: 05/01/2012 - 09/03/2013; goal: To fund digital news and information projects and experiments in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln by creating the Mobile Media Fund.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies (Earmark: Settle It! On-demand fact-checking app)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5437-- Grant period: 04/01/2012 - 03/31/2013; goal: To develop on-demand applications for political information and fact-checking.
Internet Archive (Earmark: Internet Archive 2012 Election Database)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5457-- Grant period: 04/01/2012 - 05/31/2012; goal: To develop a searchable semantic database of television programming and advertising from 2012 and the past ten years, with a focus on uses for the 2012 election.
Center for Investigative Reporting (Earmark: CIR on Youtube)800,000.0069--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5458-- Grant period: 04/01/2012 - 03/31/2014; goal: To establish an investigative news channel on YouTube The Center will manage the channel by coordinating the aggregation and production of content. YouTube will provide access to the platform and back-end support, will promote the channel and will train the Center and its partners in digital video production. Knight grantee The Investigative News Network will recruit new partners to the project; develop the system for distributing revenue earned from advertising; and coordinate agreements regarding rights and legal liability. The grant will result in a YouTube channel devoted to investigative reporting.
Umbel (Earmark: Umbel)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/1-- Grant period: 04/01/2012 - 04/01/2012; goal: Umbel is an audience measurement company that uses big data from social and other sources to dramatically increase digital publishers’ understanding of their audience and online advertising revenue. Umbel does this by correlating audience social information with web analytics and other data to create real insight into who the audience is, what they like and who might be interested in reaching them. Austin, Texas, May 15, 2012 – Umbel, which aims to set the standard for digital audience measurement, today announced that Knight Foundation participated in the company’s $3.7 million Series A round of venture financing through its Knight Foundation Enterprise Fund, a new, early-stage venture fund dedicated to advancing media innovation. The amount of the strategic investment was not disclosed. Umbel marries traditional research and big data analysis of social sources to give publishers real-time intelligence about the audiences that engage with them. With this information in hand, Umbel empowers publishers to convey their audience’s true value and brand preferences more effectively to advertisers and sponsors. The recently-raised funds will be used to support new hires and aggressively execute on the product roadmap. “By enabling news providers to become more data driven, Umbel makes original, online news content much […].
voiceofsandiego.org (Earmark: Web-to-print publishing)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5305-- Grant period: 03/01/2012 - 11/30/2012; goal: For the development of a new marketing and shareholder program and a web-to-print publishing of local news content Voice of San Diego, a pioneering nonprofit news organization focusing on local investigative reporting in San Diego, is going beyond its online site to publish a print and digital monthly magazine. Voice of San Diego Monthly is part of the site’s new membership program, which aims to build a community of readers to help support the organization into the future. Members receive the publication for free, along with other benefits. The magazine is also available on demand at MagCloud.com. For years, Voice of San Diego (VOSD) has relied on thousands of donors, sponsors, foundations and partners to support its mission. The membership program – developed with a $186,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - will assist VOSD in building a robust and well-organized community of supporters out of its thousands of existing donors.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: Global Business Journalism Program)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5144-- Grant period: 02/01/2012 - 01/31/2014; goal: To move the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University toward sustainability as it attracts more revenue and students The International Center for Journalists and Tsinghua University in Beijing launched China’s first Global Business Journalism Program on September 17, 2007. The initiative includes a two-year master’s degree program and professional trainings for working journalists from around the country. The founding sponsors of the program are Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Bloomberg, and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, which form a unique partnership between business and media organizations. The overall goal of the program is to create a cadre of top-notch business reporters and editors, who can produce clear, balanced and insightful coverage of China’s markets and the global economy. Tsinghua University, one of China’s premier research and teaching institutions, host seminars, briefings, and field trips to supplement the demanding program. The program’s faculty also organize parallel training workshops for working journalists throughout the academic year. Bloomberg News contributed ten Bloomberg terminals for the program’s business media lab to provide students with access to real-time information and data in the business world. GBJ will help make China’s markets more transparent and foster greater understanding between […].
Democracy Works (Earmark: TurboVote)205,000.00307--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5436-- Grant period: 02/01/2012 - 01/31/2013; goal: To support TurboVote, an online platform for registering, finding election information, and voting by mail. This grant will fund the development and expansion of TurboVote, a one-stop platform that helps users register to vote, provides local election information, and guides users through the process of voting by mail. The system will provide personalized information including election office contacts, voting details, and candidate information. By enabling the scale and deployment of TurboVote, this grant will create a lasting service aimed at making voting easier. In the 2012 election this service will simplify the voting process for at least 500,000 users, most of whom will be college students—a group frequently disadvantaged by the complexity and rigidity of voting procedures. In the process, TurboVote will create a number of local election information datasets, which other groups will use for other projects and tools.
National Public Radio (Earmark: NPR Digital Training for Journalists)1,500,000.0041--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5389-- Grant period: 01/01/2012 - 01/01/2014; goal: To expand digital training of public radio journalists Related: see "How National Public Radio embraced digital" on Knight Blog.
Participatory Culture Foundation (Earmark: Amara)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5393-- Grant period: 01/01/2012 - 12/31/2012; goal: To expand and improve the Universal Subtitles tool for titling and translating video across the Internet.
Issue Media Group (Earmark: Detroit Urban Innovation Exchange)508,820.0096--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5364-- Grant period: 12/12/2011 - 01/31/2015; goal: For the Impact Project.
University of Southern California (Earmark: Knight Digital Media Center)1,663,000.0038--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5367-- Grant period: 12/12/2011 - 11/30/2014; goal: To focus the Knight Digital Media Center at USC training in support of Knight Foundation's Community Information Needs initiative.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies (Earmark: The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc. EyeTrack)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5376-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 01/31/2013; goal: For new EyeTrack research on mobile devices, providing guidance for news organizations and other developers of mobile storytelling apps to help engage consumers and improve revenue.
University of Southern California (Earmark: Information Needs of Communities)20,000.00827--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5375-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 05/31/2012; goal: To follow the FCC's "Information Needs of Communities" report with an event and by exploring the role of diversity in local information ecosystems.
MPT Foundation (Earmark: Media Innovation Tools)230,000.00285--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5058-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 11/30/2013; goal: To create a media innovation web site to review online tools and websites that deliver new forms of news and information.
Duquesne University (Earmark: Mobile Media Content Research)125,750.00427--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5124-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 11/30/2013; goal: To evaluate the ways in which audiences access the quality, usability, and trustworthiness of news content created and delivered via mobile devices.
World Wide Workshop for Children's Media Technology & Learning (Earmark: Globaloria West Virginia)250,000.00176--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5332-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 01/31/2013; goal: For one-time support that will allow the digital media literacy program in West Virginia to fully transition to a state-supported program.
voiceofsandiego.org (Earmark: Web-to-print publishing)86,100.00484--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5350-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 08/31/2012; goal: For an experiment in web-to-print publishing of local news content Voice of San Diego, a pioneering nonprofit news organization focusing on local investigative reporting in San Diego, is going beyond its online site to publish a print and digital monthly magazine. Voice of San Diego Monthly is part of the site’s new membership program, which aims to build a community of readers to help support the organization into the future. Members receive the publication for free, along with other benefits. The magazine is also available on demand at MagCloud.com. For years, Voice of San Diego (VOSD) has relied on thousands of donors, sponsors, foundations and partners to support its mission. The membership program – developed with a $186,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation - will assist VOSD in building a robust and well-organized community of supporters out of its thousands of existing donors.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Earmark: Information Needs of Communities)20,000.00827--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5371-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 05/31/2012; goal: To follow the FCC's "Information Needs of Communities" report with a symposium and white paper exploring the role Internet, cable television, satellite television and mobile broadband service providers could play in local accountability journalism.
Arizona State University Foundation (Earmark: Information Needs of Communities)40,000.00582--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5409-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 06/30/2012; goal: To follow the FCC's "Information Needs of Communities" report with a public hearing, a second event, a white paper, and a multimedia product exploring the role of philanthropy in advancing local journalism.
Wesleyan University (Earmark: Wesleyan Media Project: Video Monitoring)248,679.00266--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5341-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 11/30/2013; goal: To track and analyze all broadcast television advertisements and YouTube videos aired during the 2012 election.
The Paley Center for Media (Earmark: Next Big Thing)195,770.00362--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5177-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 11/30/2012; goal: For The Next Big Thing in Digital News Innovation, a series of forums that allows news and information entrepreneurs to showcase and pitch their startup enterprises to an audience of high level media executives and investors.
American Society of News Editors Foundation (Earmark: Free to Tweet)196,000.00360--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5357-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 08/31/2012; goal: For the "Free to Tweet" campaign, a national celebration of the First Amendment through social media.
University of Texas at Austin (Earmark: Information Needs of Communities)20,000.00827--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5372-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 05/31/2012; goal: To follow the FCC's "Information Needs of Communities" report with a white paper exploring the role of university initiatives in supporting local accountability journalism.
University of Nebraska Foundation (Earmark: Information Needs of Communities)20,000.00827--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5385-- Grant period: 12/01/2011 - 05/31/2012; goal: To follow the FCC's "Information Needs of Communities" report with a white paper exploring the role of universities in advancing local accountability journalism.
The Miami Foundation (Earmark: Fiscal Agency Program)49,585.00569--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5370-- Grant period: 11/01/2011 - 10/31/2012; goal: For support of the fiscal agency program established in 2010.
Matter Ventures (Earmark: Public Media Accelerator)2,500,000.0018--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5324-- Grant period: 10/01/2011 - 10/31/2014; goal: To initiate and advise innovation in public media by establishing the Knight PRX Public Media Accelerator A new effort will provide funding and expertise to entrepreneurial teams with innovative ideas to increase the impact of public service media. Called the Public Media Accelerator, the project will be launched and operated by the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and supported by a $2.5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Modeled on mentorship-driven technology startup incubators, the Public Media Accelerator aims to strengthen public media’s essential role in meeting community information needs across new platforms and devices. “Forty years ago, public broadcasting harnessed the technology of the time to engage audiences with high quality content that was otherwise inaccessible,” said Jake Shapiro, CEO of PRX. “We are expanding this vital service to include today’s pervasive and participatory media, particularly mobile.”.
Commons Labs (Earmark: Platform for civic discourse)222,000.00298--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5317-- Grant period: 10/01/2011 - 10/31/2012; goal: To support the development of a digital platform for civic discourse.
WHYY (Earmark: News Works)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5347-- Grant period: 10/01/2011 - 09/30/2012; goal: For a consultative process to expand and strengthen WHYY's use of digital technologies.
Northwestern University (Earmark: Master's in Journalism for Programmers)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4881-- Grant period: 10/01/2011 - 10/31/2014; goal: For expanded support for scholarships to computer programmers to study journalism.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: U.S.-Russian Young Journalists Exchange)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5340-- Grant period: 10/01/2011 - 09/30/2013; goal: To pilot a U.S.-Russian Young Journalists Exchange Program.
Tides Center (Earmark: Poderopedia)200,000.00314--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5167-- Grant period: 09/01/2011 - 11/30/2013; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create an editorial and crowd-sourced database that allows visualizing the relationships among political, civic and business leaders To promote greater transparency in Chile, Poderopedia (Powerpedia) will be an editorial and crowdsourced database that highlights the links among the country’s elite. Using data visualization, the site will investigate and illustrate the connections among people, companies and institutions, shedding light on any conflicts of interests. Crowdsourced information will be vetted by professional journalists before it is posted. Entries will include an editorial overview, a relationship map and links to the sources of information.
University of Southern California (Earmark: Knight Digital Media Center)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5301-- Grant period: 09/01/2011 - 10/31/2012; goal: To plan the expansion of the Knight Digital Media Center at USC and create a new curriculum to increase the leadership and impact of Knight Community Information grantees and ethnic media.
The American University (Earmark: Knight-Batten Awards @ J-Lab)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5245-- Grant period: 09/01/2011 - 11/30/2012; goal: To continue J-Lab's programs at American University in 2011, including the Knight-Batten Awards.
Investigative Reporters and Editors (Earmark: PANDA)150,000.00382--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5164-- Grant period: 09/01/2011 - 11/30/2013; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To help news organizations better use public information by creating PANDA, new software that cleans up and aids in analyzing it. To help news organizations better use public information, the PANDA Project, in partnership with Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), the Chicago Tribune and The Spokane Spokesman-Review, will build a set of open-source, web-based tools that make it easier for journalists to use and analyze data. While national news organizations often have the staff and know-how to handle federal data, smaller news organizations are at a disadvantage. City and state data are messier, and newsroom staff often lack the tools to use it. PANDA will work with tools like Google Refine to find relationships among data sets and improve data sets for use by others. PANDA will be simple to deploy, allowing newsrooms without software developers on staff to integrate it into their work.
Tides Center (Earmark: Spending Stories)250,000.00176--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5166-- Grant period: 09/01/2011 - 11/30/2013; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To increase fiscal literacy among journalists and the public by creating simple digital tools that link public spending data to public spending narratives News stories about government finances are common, but readers often find it challenging to place the numbers in perspective. Spending Stories will contextualize such news pieces by tying them to the data on which they are based. For example, a story on City Hall spending could be annotated with details on budget trends and related stories from other news outlets. The effort will be driven by a combination of machine-automated analysis and verification by users interested in public spending.
Momoko Ito Foundation (Earmark: Safecast)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5274-- Grant period: 09/01/2011 - 08/31/2012; goal: To establish Safecast, a network of sensor devices to collect crowd-based submissions of data about the environment.
Network World Events & Executive Forums (Earmark: DEMO Conference)35,000.00590--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5327-- Grant period: 08/01/2011 - 07/31/2012; goal: For sponsorship of the Fall 2011 DEMO an important platform for new digital media entrepreneurs. Sponsorship includes two scholarships for two entrepreneurs from historically underrepresented groups.
Tides Center (Earmark: ScraperWiki)280,000.00167--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5238-- Grant period: 08/01/2011 - 07/31/2013; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To make it easier for journalists to collect information from across the Web by adding new features to ScraperWiki.org ScraperWiki.com provides a way to make it easier to collect information from across the web from diverse sources. The site helps anyone freely create “scrapers” to collect, store and publish public data, and make it freely available for anyone to use. As such, the site provides journalists with updated, aggregated data that allows them to produce richer stories and data visualizations. This grant will add a “data on demand” feature where journalists can request data sets and be notified of changes in data that might be newsworthy, and data embargos that will keep information private until a story breaks. To accelerate the adoption of the platform, the U.K.-based site will host “journalism data camps” in 12 U.S. states.
Aspen Institute (Earmark: FoCAS 2011)200,000.00314--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5255-- Grant period: 08/01/2011 - 07/31/2012; goal: To underwrite the cost of Aspen Institute's Forum on Communications and Society that analyzed issues of networks and citizenship and proposed strategies to improved access to information and participation for individuals and communities.
Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Earmark: Digital Media Incubator at PNI)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5302-- Grant period: 08/01/2011 - 07/31/2013; goal: To launch a digital media incubator in Philadelphia, the fourth largest media market in the United States Ben Franklin Technology Partners has received a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to launch the incubator with Philadelphia Media Network, Inc. (PMN), owner and publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and philly.com. The strategic partnership will also include Drexel University, DreamIt Ventures and the Philadelphia Foundation. Set to begin operation in September 2011, the program will provide four startup or early stage technology companies with a minimum of six months of office space -- at PMN’s offices at 400 North Broad Street – technical and administrative support, mentoring, and access to the Philly.com platform for launching their digital media “apps” or related products. While Philadelphia Media Network will host the incubator and provide Philly.com as a platform for launching the new products, Ben Franklin Technology Partners will provide mentoring and strategic business counsel to the startups. Drexel University will provide graduate and undergraduate students with the unique opportunity to work with and move freely between the startup companies and PMN’s established media business. BFTP also will work with DreamIt Ventures, a nationally-renowned Philadelphia-based startup accelerator program, […].
The Raymond John Wean Foundation (Earmark: TheNewsOutlet.org)62,000.00506--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5185-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2012; goal: For the TheNewsOutlet.org, a multimedia investigative journalism project run by college students and professional editors To keep citizens up to date on local issues, The Raymond John Wean Foundation will expand TheNewsOutlet.org, a collaborative, investigative reporting platform run by college students and professional editors. The project will use the existing model in Youngstown, Ohio, which crowdsources story topics from and about the community, and expand it to other universities and media partners throughout the state. The foundation hopes that greater interaction and increased local content will foster solutions to neighborhood problems.
Greater New Orleans Foundation (Earmark: School Board Coverage)52,000.00512--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5222-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2012; goal: To provide greater transparency and accountability in charter schools by using college journalism students to tweet from and write on board meetings of over 40 independently run charter schools To provide greater transparency and accountability in charter schools, the local news site The Lens will train college journalism students to tweet from and write about local charter school meetings. New Orleans has the highest percentage of students attending charter schools in the country, yet there is little coverage of the boards that govern them. Each student journalist will cover a different school and report the events and details of important board meetings and gatherings. All relevant content will be archived, in order to ensure greater accountability in how the schools are run.
Lincoln Community Foundation (Earmark: Refugee Storytelling)26,000.00812--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5229-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2012; goal: To use journalism students to work with refugee communities to tell their stories in videos and post them online To provide more coverage of the city’s refugee community, journalism students from the University of Nebraska will move a class to a local community center and use multimedia storytelling to share stories. The content will then be offered to local outlets, aiming to promote both understanding in Lincoln and civic engagement among the city’s newest residents.
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo (Earmark: Grow Citizen Journalism)132,800.00424--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5231-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2014; goal: For the Grow Citizen Journalism Project to engage diverse communities in environmental information and action using mobile media tools, targeted messaging, and training in citizen journalism To empower disenfranchised local communities affected by environmental issues, the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo will expand its GrowWNY.org site, a previous challenge winner, to include mobile reporting, mapping and new information applications. These new tools will give a voice to low-income communities and people of color who are disproportionately affected by environmental pollution and have few resources to take action. The Grow Citizen Journalism project will also train citizens in story creation techniques so they can share their first-hand experiences with their toxic surroundings to raise awareness of the issues and encourage action.
Own Local (Earmark: Own Local)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4961-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - Invalid date; goal: Own Local sells digital media services to small and medium businesses (SMBs) in partnership with local news publishers, enabling publishers to leverage their local brand and provide a one-stop shop for SMB digital services and improving revenue for small and regional publishers in particular.
Vermont Community Foundation (Earmark: VTDigger.org)104,000.00450--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5180-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2014; goal: To hire an investigative reporter at VTDigger.org to cover health care reform and energy issues in Vermont To bolster watchdog journalism, VTDigger.org will use funds to hire an investigative reporter to cover health reform and energy issues in Vermont. The reporter will gather material for long-form stories while providing daily coverage to the news site’s 23,000 readers statewide. Stories will focus on health and energy as they are issues that drive the state’s economy and are among the topics Vermonters care about most.
Charlottesville Area Community Foundation (Earmark: Charlottesville Tomorrow)52,000.00512--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5181-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2012; goal: To add an engagement editor to the successful Charlottesville Tomorrow hyper-local news site To strengthen engagement with readers and donors, the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation will increase the staff of the community’s hyper-local news site and expand coverage for its community wiki, which provides in-depth information on local issues, and for its 3D mapping projects, which aids in community planning. In doing so, Charlottesville Tomorrow seeks to increase community involvement in local issues.
Brooklyn Community Foundation (Earmark: Providing a Voice for Brooklyn Residents)52,000.00512--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5232-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2013; goal: To launch The Brooklyn Bureau, a hyper-local investigative news site and news aggregator To improve this rural community’s access to news and information, North Country Public Radio will expand and deepen its broadcast and digital operations and encourage residents to contribute content and help sustain its regional news and information service. Training programs will both engage community members in the news and help establish a path for the next generation of public media professionals.
The Piton Foundation (Earmark: CitizenAtlas)202,000.00312--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5228-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2012; goal: For CitizenAtlas, a digital tool to help real people tell real stories based off of public data To foster greater civic dialogue, The Piton Foundation will draw on its 15 years of democratizing information to create free tools to help citizens translate public data into captivating stories. A major component will be an easy-to-use, online platform that allows users to post their stories and search data and content for others to interact with. The program will also provide training and outreach programs to empower underprivileged communities to navigate the site and tell their stories. The Children’s Corridor, a North Denver neighborhood home to some of the city’s poorest communities, will serve as a pilot for the public release.
Puerto Rico Community Foundation (Earmark: Increasing rural access to information)127,000.00426--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5220-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2013; goal: To increase access to information on jobs, technology and entrepreneurship in rural communities This project will provide information on jobs and entrepreneurship to communities in rural Puerto Rico, where the unemployment rate is about 40 percent. Organizers will share tips on how to create jobs, get permits and manage projects, among other topics, either online or through texting and other mobile technologies.
The Winnipeg Foundation USA (Earmark: Community News Commons)202,000.00312--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5224-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2014; goal: For Community News Commons, a grassroots project to engage, mentor, train and empower citizen journalists To strengthen the flow of community news in Winnipeg, the Community News Commons project will create local hubs to train, engage and empower citizen journalists. The hubs, including a partnership with Canada’s first news café – operated by the Winnipeg Free Press daily newspaper – and the city’s libraries, local community college programs and other media partners, will host training and provide internships and reporting mentorship for local residents and college journalism students. Multimedia reports will be distributed through an onsite news station, via the Web and at café-hosted community news events.
The Denver Foundation (Earmark: Colorado Data Commons)134,900.00423--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5225-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2012; goal: For Colorado Data Commons to take public data and make it easy for citizens to access and use To increase residents’ access to useful news and information, The Denver Foundation, partnering with The Piton Foundation and the Rocky Mountain Investigative News Network, will create an online tool to unlock public data and make it easy for anybody to read and use. The project, called the Colorado Data Commons, will begin by identifying the barriers that keep government data from being more accessible, then devise tools to solve those problems. Some key features include an ability to link datasets and provide multiyear comparisons, creating not only tools that remove the barriers but also ways to visualize data that integrate social media so people can share their analyses. As an example, community groups could use the system to create a dashboard tracking, or even mapping, issues important to them.
The Community Foundation of Utah (Earmark: Youth On-Air)27,000.00811--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5227-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2012; goal: To support Youth-On-Air, a multimedia network that shares youth-produced content and engages it viewers in civil discourse To engage young people in local issues, 20 Salt Lake City teens will have the opportunity to develop a Youth-On-Air broadcasting program. Working with Spy Hop Productions, the students will produce original stories about the issues affecting their lives. These stories will then be shared on TV, on radio and online through Web streaming. Their stories will inform and engage citizens of all ages in conversations around social, political and economic issues of significance, while empowering teens to express themselves and take action for change.
Adirondack Community Trust (Earmark: North Country Public Radio)302,000.00159--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5182-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2014; goal: To support the North Country Public Radio expansion of regional broadcast and digital news/information services To improve this rural community’s access to news and information, North Country Public Radio will expand and deepen its broadcast and digital operations and encourage residents to contribute content and help sustain its regional news and information service. Training programs will both engage community members in the news and help establish a path for the next generation of public media professionals.
South Dakota Community Foundation (Earmark: Dakotafire Media)242,000.00277--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5221-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2014; goal: For Dakotafire Media, an alliance of journalists from 29 rural community newspapers who will share a virtual newsroom to improve coverage of regional issues To strengthen regional coverage, Dakotafire Media will create an alliance of rural journalists to provide in-depth reporting on topics vital to rural South Dakota. The alliance will connect these journalists through online meetings, social networking and collaborative writing software – allowing them to cover topics they couldn’t meaningfully address alone. The journalists, many of whom come from newspapers with staffs of three or fewer people, will also be able to exchange ideas and learn from each other. As some of these newspapers don’t have websites, Dakotafire will offer an online presence for them. The funding comes at a time of great change in the rural Dakotas, where the population is declining and aging, and metro newspapers are retreating to urban centers.
Silicon Valley Community Foundation (Earmark: Mobile Vote App)37,000.00588--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5226-- Grant period: 07/01/2011 - 07/31/2012; goal: For a mobile voter app, to connect Latinos to voter registration information To empower and engage young Latinos, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation will team up with Voto Latino to create a mobile app that will connect voters to information about voter registration. The multifaceted mobile voter application will be available to Apple and Android devices, and will target young Latinos – currently the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. It will explain the voting and registration processes, provide details on prerequisites and answer frequently asked questions.
The Institute On Higher Awesome Studies (Earmark: Awesome Foundation News Taskforce)244,000.00274--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5145-- Grant period: 06/23/2011 - 06/22/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To experiment with a new funding model for local news by bringing together leaders and innovators in communities to provide microgrants to journalism and media projects. To experiment with a new funding model for local journalism, the Awesome News Taskforce will bring together 10 to 15 community leaders and media innovators in Detroit and two other cities to provide $1,000 microgrants to innovative journalism and civic media projects. By encouraging pilot projects, prototypes, events and social entrepreneurial ventures, Awesome News Taskforce will encourage a wide swathe of the community to experiment with creative solutions to their information needs.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Earmark: Openblock Rural)275,000.00169--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5150-- Grant period: 06/23/2011 - 06/22/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To increase access to local information and strengthen rural newspapers technical expertise by using the OpenBlock system to aggregate and publish local, municipal data. Rural news organizations often struggle to move into the digital age because they lack the staff to make public data digestible. OpenBlock Rural will work with local governments and community newspapers in North Carolina to collect, aggresgate and publish government data, including crime and real estate reports, restaurant inspections and school ratings. In addition, the project aims to improve small local papers’ technical expertise and provide a new way to generate revenue.
The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (Earmark: The Public Laboratory)500,000.0099--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5151-- Grant period: 06/23/2011 - 06/22/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To make technology work for communities by creating a tool kit and online community for citizen-based, grassroots data gathering and research. To make technology work for communities, the Public Laboratory will create a tool kit and online community for citizen-based, grassroots data gathering and research. The Lab is an expansion of Grassroots Mapping – a project originated at the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT. During the project, residents used helium-filled balloons and digital cameras to generate high-resolution “satellite” maps gauging the extent of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill – at a time when there was little public information on the subject. Expanding the tool kit beyond aerial mapping, Public Laboratory will work with communities, both online and offline, to produce information about their surroundings.
Adaptive Path (Earmark: iWitness)360,000.00136--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5148-- Grant period: 06/23/2011 - 06/22/2013; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To bridge the gap between traditional and citizen media with a web-based tool that aggregates user-generated content during big news events. To bridge the gap between traditional and citizen media, iWitness will create a web-based tool that aggregates user-generated content from social media during big news events. Whether a parade or protest, election or earthquake, iWitness will display photos, videos and messages in an easy-to-browse interface. Created by a premier web design firm, iWitness will make it easier to cross-reference first-person accounts with journalistic reporting, opening up new avenues for storytelling, fact-checking and connecting people to events in their communities.
NextDrop (Earmark: NextDrop)375,000.00134--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5149-- Grant period: 06/23/2011 - 06/22/2014; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop a new, mobile model for disseminating community information by testing a service that notifies residents of a city in India when water is available. To develop a new way of disseminating critical community information, NextDrop will launch a service, in conjunction with local utilities, that notifies residents of Hubli, Karnataka, India when water is available. NextDrop will work with water utility employees who operate the valves that control the infrequent flow of water. NextDrop will notify neighborhood residents via text when the water is turned on. This system will be replicable in any community as a way to distribute all types of community information.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Earmark: Communications Outreach)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5257-- Grant period: 06/01/2011 - 05/31/2012; goal: To develop new ways for the NAACP and Crisis magazine to communicate with a new generation of members and readers.
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center for Educational Media and Research (Earmark: Digital Learning and Literacy Initiatives)240,000.00279--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5160-- Grant period: 06/01/2011 - 05/31/2012; goal: To support the 2011 Forum on Digital Learning, develop a national Games and Learning Publishing Council, and pilot 'Action Teams' in two Knight communities to localize national digital literacy initiatives.
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (Earmark: AEJMC)180,000.00368--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5187-- Grant period: 05/15/2011 - 10/31/2013; goal: To encourage innovation in journalism education by rewarding innovative uses of Knight News Challenge software by faculty and students.
NewsCloud (Earmark: NewsCloud)190,000.00365--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5143-- Grant period: 05/01/2011 - 04/30/2012; goal: To transform the NewsCloud Facebook platform into a turnkey solution.
Online News Association (Earmark: Online News Association)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4712-- Grant period: 05/01/2011 - 04/30/2013; goal: To hire a business development manager to set up revenue-generating streams that will allow the Online News Association to reach long-term sustainability.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: International Media Institute of India)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5104-- Grant period: 04/01/2011 - 01/31/2013; goal: To move the International Media Institute of India toward sustainability as it attracts more revenue and graduates two more classes of students The International Media Institute of India (IMII) was conceived by leading Indian editors and senior journalists who not only experienced difficulty in finding skilled and knowledgeable journalists to hire but also wanted to do something to arrest the qualitative decline in the profession and make it answerable to public good. Training and orientation of journalists has not kept pace with the boom in the media industry in India and many developing countries. In today's fast-paced life, it has become even more important for media organizations to increasingly rely on professional competence and ethical discipline. The IMII was conceived to inculcate exactly these qualities.
MIT Media Lab (Earmark: The Center for Civic Media)3,760,000.007--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5176-- Grant period: 04/01/2011 - 06/30/2014; goal: To accelerate adoption of community news and information technology through The Center for Civic Media at MIT The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is investing an additional $3.76 million in MIT’s Center for Civic Media to further its groundbreaking work with new technologies to inform and engage communities. The center, launched in 2007 with seed funding from Knight, will use the new support to solidify its leadership in the emerging media innovation field and expand its curriculum and outreach programs. Read news release.
Media Development Loan Fund (Earmark: Legal Aid for Developing World Digital Journalists)110,000.00446--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4947-- Grant period: 04/01/2011 - 12/31/2013; goal: To promote freedom of expression by joining in a global project providing legal representation to selected bloggers and digital journalists Media Development Loan Fund is a mission-driven investment fund for independent news outlets in countries with a history of media oppression. We provide low-cost capital and technical know-how to help journalists in challenging environments build sustainable businesses around professional, responsible, quality journalism. Working in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Southeast Europe and the CIS, we help essential independent news providers to expand their audience, improve their news products and become financially self-sustainable. MDLF provides leading journalists with the support they need to create lasting institutions for change.
Participatory Culture Foundation (Earmark: Miro)196,000.00360--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5055-- Grant period: 03/21/2011 - 03/31/2012; goal: To support Miro, a free Internet-based video player that enables consumers and community groups to view and distribute online video.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Harvard University)124,194.00440--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5059-- Grant period: 03/01/2011 - 03/31/2012; goal: To evaluate the impact of the Text Haiti campaign and the significance for mobile charitable giving.
PBS MediaShift (Earmark: PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Bloggers)75,000.00491--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5142-- Grant period: 03/01/2011 - 03/31/2014; goal: MediaShift Idea Lab is a group weblog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each author won a grant in the Knight News Challenge to help fund a startup idea or to blog on a topic related to reshaping community news. MediaShift Idea Lab is a group weblog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age. Each author won a grant in the Knight News Challenge to help fund a startup idea or to blog on a topic related to reshaping community news. The authors will use Idea Lab to explain their projects, share intelligence and interact with the new-media community online. If you're interested in joining them, and getting a grant from the Knight News Challenge, please visit the News Challenge website. To see biographies of all Idea Lab authors, go to this page.
The American University (Earmark: J-Lab)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4801-- Grant period: 02/15/2011 - 01/31/2012; goal: To enable J-Lab: Institute for Interactive Journalism to develop a focused plan for its future work promoting media innovation and entrepreneurship.
Mercer University (Earmark: Macon Journalism Collaborative)96,000.00474--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5125-- Grant period: 02/01/2011 - 12/31/2011; goal: For a planning grant to determine the feasibility of establishing a Journalism Collaborative between Mercer University, The Telegraph and Georgia Public Broadcasting.
Rochester Institute of Technology (Earmark: Rising Above the Crowd)154,900.00380--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5063-- Grant period: 02/01/2011 - 07/31/2011; goal: For Rising Above the Crowd, a real-time experiment in community engagement using mobile devices and interactive displays.
Aspen Institute (Earmark: Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy)250,000.00176--Technology, Communities, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5048-- Grant period: 02/01/2011 - 03/31/2012; goal: To analyze issues of Internet unity, governance and structure and propose strategies to increase global Internet freedom The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy was a blue ribbon panel of seventeen media, policy and community leaders that met in 2008 and 2009. Its purpose was to assess the information needs of communities, and recommend measures to help Americans better meet those needs. Its Report, Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age, was the first major commission on media since the Hutchins Commission in the 1940’s and the Kerner and Carnegie Commissions of the 1960’s. In the digital age, technological, economic and behavioral changes are dramatically altering how Americans communicate. Information is more fragmented. Communications systems no longer run along the same lines as local governance. The gap in access to digital tools and skills is wide and troubling. This new era poses major challenges to the flow of news and information people depend on to manage their complex lives. The Commission’s aims are to maximize the availability and flow of credible local information; to enhance access and capacity to use the new tools of knowledge and exchange; and to encourage people to engage with […].
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Earmark: Reporters Committee)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5083-- Grant period: 01/01/2011 - 01/31/2012; goal: To help the Reporters Committee engage with a new generation of journalists.
The Bay Area News Project (Earmark: Armstrong CMS)975,000.0063--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5072-- Grant period: 12/13/2010 - 03/31/2012; goal: To support the free publishing software for nonprofit news organizations developed by two leaders, The Bay Citizen and The Texas Tribune.
Media Impact Funders (Earmark: Grantmakers in Film and Electronic Media)4,850.00864--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5051-- Grant period: 12/13/2010 - 12/12/2011; goal: For 2011 general operating support.
National Security Archive Fund (Earmark: 2011 Knight Open Government Survey)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5073-- Grant period: 12/01/2010 - 10/30/2011; goal: To determine how well the federal government follows its own freedom of information rules with the 2011 Knight Open Government Survey.
The Center for Public Integrity (Earmark: Center for Public Integrity, Huffington Post Investigative Fund Merger)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5091-- Grant period: 12/01/2010 - 11/30/2011; goal: To support the merger of Center for Public Integrity with Huffington Post Investigative Fund.
Games for Change (Earmark: Games for Change)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5126-- Grant period: 12/01/2010 - 11/30/2012; goal: To add a News Games resource hub to an expanded web site, make the annual Knight News Games award permanent and widely promote such games.
Chicago News Cooperative (Earmark: Chicago News Cooperative)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4778-- Grant period: 12/01/2010 - 11/30/2011; goal: To support a new Web-based, multi-platform nonprofit news organization in Chicago The Chicago News Cooperative aspires to be the leading news and information website in Chicago. This grant will enable the Cooperative to continue to provide important journalism about civic affairs in Chicago. It will also continue to develop new revenue-generating activities. It will make its web site a forum for publishing important and compelling news in the Chicago metropolitan area through which it will engage audiences in dialogue about civic affairs.
International Research and Exchange Board (Earmark: World Press Freedom Day)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5110-- Grant period: 12/01/2010 - 07/31/2011; goal: To support bringing World Press Freedom Day to the United States for the first time.
Americas Business Council Foundation (Earmark: 10 Questions: Brazil)30,000.00803--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4955-- Grant period: 11/01/2010 - 10/31/2011; goal: To adapt and implement the "10Questions" platform in Brazil's presidential election as a first step to bringing the system to Latin America.
Tides Center (Earmark: Huffington Post Investigative Fund via Tides Fdn.)15,000.00846--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5028-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 09/30/2011; goal: To support the Huffington Post Investigative Fund in lieu of an honorarium for Arianna Huffington to speak at the Media Learning Seminar on February 28, 2011.
World Wide Workshop for Children's Media Technology & Learning (Earmark: Globaloria)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4921-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 09/30/2011; goal: To expand the Globaloria Civics Track, a digital platform that lets students create their own web-games that focus on civics, news literacy and journalism topics.
Wesleyan University (Earmark: Wesleyan Media Project)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4930-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 09/30/2011; goal: To support the Wesleyan Media Project's analysis of broadcast advertising during the 2010 election.
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism (Earmark: Tow-Knight Center in Entrepreneurial Journalism)3,020,000.0010--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4909-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 10/31/2015; goal: To establish the nation's most intensive program of its kind at the City University of New York with the Tow-Knight Center in Entrepreneurial Journalism.
Sunlight Foundation (Earmark: National Data Apps)1,216,678.0049--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4967-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 10/31/2012; goal: To create a suite of National Data Apps - platforms and tools for delivering federal data to the public.
Front Porch Forum (Earmark: Front Porch Forum)220,000.00300--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4785-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 12/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create open-source software for neighborhood news To help residents connect with others and their community, this grant will help rebuild and enhance a successful community news site, expand it to more towns and release the software so other organizations, anywhere can use it. The Front Porch Forum, a virtual town hall space, helps residents share and discuss local news, build community and increase engagement. The site, currently serving 25 Vermont towns, will expand to 250.
New York University (Earmark: The Local: East Village)203,800.00310--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4931-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 09/30/2012; goal: To provide start-up support for a community-engaged hyperlocal news and information site, The Local: East Village.
The Center for Public Integrity (Earmark: Center for Public Integrity)1,700,000.0034--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4739-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 10/31/2012; goal: To complete the digital transformation at the Center for Public Integrity.
Learning Matters (Earmark: Learning Matters)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4820-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 09/30/2012; goal: To create a new, more sustainable model for Learning Matters and support coverage of the important educational issue of digital and media literacy.
Queens University of Charlotte (Earmark: James L. Knight School of Communication at Queens University)5,750,000.002--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4932-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 07/31/2014; goal: To name the James L. Knight School of Communication at Queens University of Charlotte and establish its special endowed mission of teaching digital and media literacy to students and the community.
Stroome (Earmark: Stroome)230,000.00285--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4733-- Grant period: 09/01/2010 - 08/31/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a popular open source online collaborative video-editing platform To simplify the production of news video, Stroome will create a virtual video-editing studio. There, correspondents, editors and producers will be able to upload and share content, edit and remix with friends and colleagues – all without using expensive satellite truck technology. The site will launch as eyewitness video – often captured by mobile phones or web cams – is becoming a key component of news coverage, generating demand for supporting tools.
NowSpots (Earmark: NowSpots)260,000.00174--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4742-- Grant period: 08/01/2010 - 08/31/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop open-source software allowing "real-time advertising" that can be updated at any time by local business using social media As a way to help online startups become sustainable, this project will develop an improved software interface to help sites create and sell what are known as "real-time ads." These ads are designed to be engaging as they constantly change -- showing the latest message or post from the advertiser's Twitter account, Facebook page or blog. Challenge winner Brad Flora helped pioneer the idea on his Chicago news site WindyCitizen.com.
Arizona State University (Earmark: CitySeed)93,600.00478--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4784-- Grant period: 08/01/2010 - 07/31/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a mobile community-engagement application To inform and engage communities, CitySeed will be a mobile application that allows users to plant the "seed" of an idea and share it with others. For example, a person might come across a great spot for a community garden. At that moment, the person can use the CitySeed app to “geotag” the idea, which links it to an exact location. Others can look at the place-based ideas, debate and hopefully act on them. The project aims to increase the number of people informed about and engaged with their communities by breaking down community issues into bite-sized settings.
University of California, Berkeley (Earmark: Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4885-- Grant period: 08/01/2010 - 07/31/2012; goal: To help the UC Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program promote collaborative news projects.
Development Seed (Earmark: TileMill 2.0 (aka Tilemapping))76,960.00489--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4751-- Grant period: 08/01/2010 - 10/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To build a suite of open-source tools that local media can use to make custom, embeddable hyper-local maps To inspire residents to learn about local issues, TileMill (originally Tilemapping) will help local media create hyper-local, data-filled maps for their websites and blogs. Journalists will be able to tell more textured stories, while residents will be able to draw connections to their physical communities in new ways. The tools will be tested in Washington, D.C. 2010 Update: Ushahidi, a 2009 Knight News Challenge winner, used a prototype after the earthquake in Haiti to create maps used to crowdsource reports on places needing aid.
Georgia Tech Research Corp (Earmark: The Cartoonist)378,000.00133--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4788-- Grant period: 08/01/2010 - 08/31/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To help journalists tell stories through games To engage readers in the news, this project will create a free tool that produces cartoon-like current event games – the game equivalent of editorial cartoons. The simplified tools will be created with busy journalists and editors in mind, people who have the pulse of their community but don’t have a background in game development. By answering a series of questions about the major actors in a news event, and value judgments about their actions, The Cartoonist will automatically proposes game rules and images. The games aim to help the sites draw readers and inspire them to explore the news.
PRX (Earmark: PRX StoryMarket)75,000.00491--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4789-- Grant period: 08/01/2010 - 06/30/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create StoryMarket, a crowd-funding platform for public radio, so citizens can pay for the professional production of stories they would like to see in the news Building on the software created by 2008 challenge winner Spot.us, this project will allow anyone to pitch and help pay to produce a story for a local public radio station. When the amount is raised (in small contributions), the station will hire a professional journalist to do the report. The project provides a new way for public radio stations to raise money, produce more local content and engage listeners.
Wiki Spot (Earmark: Local Wiki)360,500.00135--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4732-- Grant period: 08/01/2010 - 07/31/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create an easy-to-use open source "wiki" platform tailored to the needs of local communities Based on the successful DavisWiki.org in Davis, Calif., this project will create enhanced tools for local wikis, a new form of media that makes it easy for people to learn — and share — their own unique community knowledge. Members will be able to post articles about anything they like, edit others and upload photos and files. This grant will help create the specialized open-source software that makes the wiki possible and help communities develop, launch and sustain local wiki projects.
Stamen Design, LLC (Earmark: CityTracking)412,000.00121--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4907-- Grant period: 08/01/2010 - 08/31/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To build a web service and open source tools to display public data in easy-to-understand, highly visual ways To make municipal data easy to understand, CityTracking will allow users to create embeddable data visualizations that are appealing enough to spread virally and that are as easy to share as photos and videos. The dynamic interfaces will be appropriate to each data type, starting with crime and working through 311 calls for service, among others. The creators will use high design standards, making the visuals beautiful as well as useful.
Society Technologies Foundation (Earmark: GoMap Riga)265,000.00172--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4786-- Grant period: 08/01/2010 - 06/30/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create map based social network where people can browse news and engage in civic action through an online local community map To inspire people to get involved in their community, this project will create a live, online map with local news and activities. GoMap Riga will pull some content from the web and place it automatically on the map. Residents also will be able to add their own news, pictures and videos while also discussing what is happening around them. GoMap Riga will be integrated with the major existing social networks and allow civic participation through mobile technology. The project will be tested in Riga, Latvia, and ultimately be applicable in other cities.
Trustees of Boston University (Earmark: Order in the Court 2.0)250,000.00176--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4787-- Grant period: 08/01/2010 - 03/31/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To clearly show how modern technology can increase access to the courts with a pilot in the Quincy District Court in Massachusetts To foster greater access to the judicial process, this project will create a laboratory in a Boston courtroom to help establish best practices for digital coverage that can be replicated and adopted throughout the nation. While the legislative and executive branches have incorporated new technologies and social media, the courts still operate under the video and audio recording standards established in the 1970s and 80s. The courtroom will have a designated area for live blogging via a wifi network and the ability to live-stream court proceedings to the public. Working in conjunction with the Massachusetts court system, the project will publish the daily docket on the web and build a knowledge wiki for the public with common legal terms.
Media Development Loan Fund (Earmark: Global Voices)5,000.00857--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4934-- Grant period: 07/01/2010 - 06/30/2011; goal: To support Global Voices' general operations.
Institute for Nonprofit News (Earmark: Investigative News Network)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4743-- Grant period: 07/01/2010 - 06/30/2012; goal: To establish the Investigative News Network, with the founder of the Voice of San Diego and other foundations, as an entrepreneurial organization.
Link Media (Earmark: Link TV)245,000.00271--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4737-- Grant period: 07/01/2010 - 07/31/2011; goal: To test a "semantic" news video player and related tools, with a focus on how young news consumers use the tool.
The Open Planning Project (Earmark: OpenBlock)235,000.00283--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4794-- Grant period: 07/01/2010 - 10/31/2011; goal: To enable the creation of online sites that graphically display local data by neighborhood.
Tribune Publishing Company (Earmark: The Columbia Daily Tribune)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4771-- Grant period: 07/01/2010 - 12/31/2010; goal: To install and test at The Columbia Daily Tribune newly revised computer code that replicates and then adds to the local data mapping functionality of EveryBlock.com.
The American University (Earmark: American University)240,000.00279--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4795-- Grant period: 06/14/2010 - 07/31/2011; goal: For an independent investigation of broadband speeds and availability in the Washington metropolitan region.
iFOCOS (Earmark: PitchIt! Challenge)225,000.00290--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4777-- Grant period: 06/14/2010 - 06/30/2013; goal: To support the PitchIt! Challenge to provide seed-stage investments to help launch innovative new media ventures.
Globe Newspaper Company (Earmark: The Boston Globe)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4723-- Grant period: 06/01/2010 - 12/31/2010; goal: To install and test at The Boston Globe newly revised computer code that replicates and then adds to the local data mapping functionality of EveryBlock.com.
Northeastern University (Earmark: Initiative for Investigative Reporting)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4814-- Grant period: 06/01/2010 - 05/31/2012; goal: To expand a proven model, the Investigative Reporting Seminar, into an institute serving community newspapers and digital news startups.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Knight Fellow at the Shorenstein Center)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4793-- Grant period: 06/01/2010 - 06/30/2011; goal: To support a Knight Fellow at the Shorenstein Center.
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation (Earmark: Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4886-- Grant period: 05/01/2010 - 04/30/2011; goal: To illuminate the role played by journalism within and beyond the Japanese-American Internment Camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming during World War II.
SnagFilms LLC (Earmark: SnagFilms)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4959-- Grant period: 05/01/2010 - Invalid date; goal: SnagFilms is a company dedicated to ubiquitous distribution of non-fiction (documentary) and independent films. The company enables better, faster and cheaper distribution of this content, broadening the audience for the films and generating additional revenues for the filmmakers, who can then go on and create more films.
International Center for New Media (Earmark: International Center for New Media)249,000.00265--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4790-- Grant period: 05/01/2010 - 04/30/2013; goal: To partner with the Austrian based International Center for New Media and add a new category to the contest for the best digital projects covering the Millennium Development Goals.
Palo Alto Unified School District (Earmark: Palo Alto Unified School District)35,000.00590--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4792-- Grant period: 05/01/2010 - 06/30/2011; goal: To create and pilot a 21st Century Literacy curriculum.
Aspen Institute (Earmark: Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy)809,991.0068--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4736-- Grant period: 04/01/2010 - 03/31/2012; goal: To advance a detailed national policy discussion of the findings of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy.
Patchwork Nation (Earmark: Patchwork Nation)450,000.00112--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4799-- Grant period: 04/01/2010 - 06/30/2012; goal: To advance new reporting models and partnerships by extending the Patchwork Nation system of county-by-county demographic breakdowns to individual congressional districts.
Trustees of Boston University (Earmark: New England Center for Investigative Reporting)400,000.00122--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4698-- Grant period: 04/01/2010 - 04/30/2012; goal: To establish revenue-generating projects at Boston University's New England Center for Investigative Reporting.
Personal Democracy Forum (Earmark: Personal Democracy Forum: 10 Questions)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4843-- Grant period: 04/01/2010 - 05/31/2011; goal: To increase public engagement in the local electoral process by creating an online multimedia dialog between voters and candidates.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies (Earmark: PolitiFact training)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4800-- Grant period: 04/01/2010 - 03/31/2011; goal: To train Florida news organizations how to use PolitiFact, a Pulitzer-Prize winning process used to check facts stated by political sources in news stories.
University of Southern California (Earmark: Spot.us)5,000.00857--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4842-- Grant period: 03/15/2010 - 03/14/2011; goal: For general operating support of Spot.Us.
Asian American Journalists Association (Earmark: Asian American Journalists Association)5,000.00857--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4845-- Grant period: 03/15/2010 - 03/14/2011; goal: For general operating support.
voiceofsandiego.org (Earmark: Voice of San Diego)5,000.00857--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4844-- Grant period: 03/15/2010 - 03/14/2011; goal: For general operating support.
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (Earmark: 'Creating A Public Square in a Challenging Media Age')98,500.00473--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4745-- Grant period: 03/01/2010 - 02/28/2011; goal: To issue a white paper that will advance the findings of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy and provide ideas to implement its recommendations. Note: The finished white paper by Norm Ornstein was published as "Creating A Public Square in a Challenging Media Age." Please see related project here.
Free Press (Earmark: Free Press)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4730-- Grant period: 02/01/2010 - 01/31/2011; goal: To organize public responses to the Knight Commission recommendations, doing four white papers on key policy areas. Note: please see related project here.
Sawhorse Media, LLC (Earmark: Sawhorse Media: Shorty Awards)75,000.00491--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4734-- Grant period: 02/01/2010 - 02/28/2011; goal: To identify and recognize the best producers of content on Twitter by sponsoring the Shorty Awards.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Earmark: The School of Journalism and Mass Communication Foundation of North Carolina)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4705-- Grant period: 02/01/2010 - 02/29/2012; goal: To convert the existing James L. Knight Professorships to the James L. Knight Chair in Digital Advertising.
International Research and Exchange Board (Earmark: IREX)5,000.00857--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4735-- Grant period: 01/01/2010 - 12/31/2010; goal: For general operating support. IREX is the organizer of World Press Freedom Day.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: Knight International Journalism Fellowships)6,000,000.001--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4701-- Grant period: 12/07/2009 - 01/31/2013; goal: To lead a new group of high-impact projects advancing news in the public interest through Knight International Journalism Fellowships.
Media Development Loan Fund (Earmark: Global Voices)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4728-- Grant period: 12/01/2009 - 12/31/2011; goal: To support Global Voices' general operations.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Nieman Labs)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4607-- Grant period: 12/01/2009 - 10/31/2012; goal: To expand coverage on Nieman Labs of new business models for news, media innovation and community news experiments.
Community Initiatives (Earmark: The Bay Citizen)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4711-- Grant period: 12/01/2009 - 12/31/2011; goal: To help launch the The Bay Citizen, a nonprofit, nonpartisan member-supported news organization providing in-depth original reporting for the San Francisco Bay Area.
National Constitution Center (Earmark: National Constitution Center)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4713-- Grant period: 12/01/2009 - 11/30/2010; goal: To support the priorities of the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution at the Constitution Center.
The Ohio State University Foundation (Earmark: The Ohio State University)31,000.00802--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4717-- Grant period: 12/01/2009 - 12/31/2010; goal: To create and distribute a series of video stories about the importance of information flow, following the launch of the Knight Commission on Information Needs in a Democracy.
Tides Center (Earmark: Huffington Post Investigative Fund)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4718-- Grant period: 12/01/2009 - 12/31/2011; goal: To support developing both innovative business plans and innovative digital content delivery for investigative reporting through the hybrid model at Huffington Post Investigative Fund.
Tides Center (Earmark: NewsCloud)249,942.00263--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4668-- Grant period: 12/01/2009 - 04/30/2011; goal: To launch and support twelve news organizations on NewsCloud's Facebook community application platform.
The Real News Network (Earmark: The Real News Network)249,950.00262--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4602-- Grant period: 11/01/2009 - 10/31/2011; goal: To develop a video-news publishing and audience interaction platform that combines interactivity, social media and context to engage its audience in story selection, user contributions and recommended content Real News Network is a nonprofit 501(c)3 founded in 2005, a viewer-supported online video-news service. Its mission is to engage viewers in solving community problems. It provides video journalism that presents facts, history and context, while allowing interactivity and social networking. The Real News Network – with its 2 million views per month and 9 million views on YouTube – provides an opportunity to experiment with an online news-video model with a significant audience. This grant will develop an innovative platform that allows interactivity between citizens and journalists and engages its audience through the use of social media and context. We expect the platform to become a model of open-source integration of online publishing software and social networking services. It can be used by anyone who wants to tell stories with video and create a community of news consumers interested in solving community problems.
Channel One Network (Earmark: Channel One Network: Five Freedoms)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4699-- Grant period: 11/01/2009 - 10/31/2010; goal: To revamp and test Five Freedoms, a new approach to teaching high school students about the First Amendment.
Texas Christian University (Earmark: Texas Christian University)25,000.00813--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4704-- Grant period: 10/31/2009 - 10/31/2010; goal: To retrain Schieffer School faculty and media professionals in digital and multi-media story-telling in lieu of an honorarium for Bob Schieffer to speak at the Media Learning Seminar III.
World Press Freedom Committee (Earmark: World Press Freedom Committee)140,000.00417--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4608-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 01/01/2012; goal: To strengthen the monitoring of global threats to press freedom and facilitate a merger with Freedom House As the Irvine Foundation and others report, strategic restructuring — including mergers, back-office consolidations and joint ventures — are an increasingly popular option for nonprofits facing stiff competition, rising community needs and decreasing funds. This grant will allow the World Press Freedom Committee, an early grantee of Knight Foundation, to continue its most important activity as it restructures. For 30 years, the committee has carefully monitored global groups such as the United Nations and UNESCO and campaigned for the free flow of information. Its work helped overcome attempts to radically limit press freedom internationally. The committee seeks to secure the future of this monitoring work by merging with Freedom House, a larger, better financed NGO with a compatible mission. Freedom House publishes the most important international guide to press freedom.
New America Foundation (Earmark: New America Foundation)225,000.00290--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4611-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2011; goal: To create media policy ideas and advance the findings of the Knight Commission on the Information needs of Communities The New America Foundation is a nonprofit based in Washington D.C. It was founded in 1999 and it is headed by Steve Coll, a 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner for distinguished non fiction. New America is a new think tank model that uses the work of its fellows, digital media, innovative communication strategies and its network of media connections to analyze, explain and propose policy solutions to challenges on key issues being faced by the United States. The grantee will create a media policy fellowship program at the New America Foundation. They will create and distribute practical ideas for media reform. The grantee is expected to create ideas that can help set up the framework for a federal media reform that aims to bridge the digital divide and bring communities the information they need. In doing that, the grantee is expected to advance the recommendations made by the Knight Commission. By the end of the grant, policy reforms from Congress and the F.C.C. that arise from the work, ideas and recommendations of the program’s fellows are expected. Ultimately, this project aims to […].
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies (Earmark: Journalism Training for UNITY Journalists)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4666-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 03/31/2011; goal: To promote diversity and boost under-represented groups in journalism through subsidized training and operational support For decades, mass media scholars have argued that general-interest newsrooms work best when they reflect the communities they seek to serve. Yet members of key demographic groups – African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, women, and gay and lesbian journalists – are still not in newsrooms in the way they are in the general population. As the digital age causes the “creative destruction” of traditional media, newsroom diversity is shrinking, not growing. Yet the same digital age is creating many new individual opportunities for the most eager and entrepreneurial of these underrepresented journalists – if they have the right training. This grant creates a seven-way partnership between the nation’s most popular provider of journalism training, the Poynter Institute, and six professional journalism groups to offer training scholarships to worthy individuals. Poynter Institute is a school dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders. It promotes excellence and integrity in the practice of craft and in the practical leadership of successful businesses. It stands for a journalism that informs citizens and enlightens public discourse. The six participating journalism organizations are: National Association of […].
Native American Journalists Association (Earmark: Native American Journalists Association)20,000.00827--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4694-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2011; goal: To promote diversity and boost under-represented groups in journalism through subsidized training and operational support.
The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (Earmark: The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association)20,000.00827--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4695-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2011; goal: To promote diversity and boost under-represented groups in journalism through subsidized training and operational support.
International Women's Media Foundation (Earmark: Elizabeth Neuffer Fund)60,000.00508--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4665-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2011; goal: For a one-time bridge grant to support the Elizabeth Neuffer Fund in honor of the slain journalist The Elizabeth Neuffer Fund was created in 2004 through the International Women’s Media Foundation. This program honors the memory of Elizabeth Neuffer, a 1998 winner of the Courage in Journalism Award and a reporter for The Boston Globe, who died in Iraq on May 9, 2003. In collaboration with Elizabeth’s partner, Peter Canellos, now editorial page editor of The Boston Globe, and her brother, Mark Neuffer, the IWMF established this fund to support professional development of a journalist each year who shares Elizabeth’s passion for social justice and has been covering the world’s most difficult stories. The women selected have ranged from freelancers to veteran reporters with the BBC. Neuffer fellows may also work with the Boston Globe or New York Times. The fellowship includes housing with a family; a stipend to cover meals, ground transportation, and other living expenses; and health insurance. It does not provide a salary or honoraria. Fellows spend nine months at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Until recently, the program was supported by the Boston Globe Foundation and New York Times Foundation. Both suspended their operations […].
National Association of Hispanic Journalists (Earmark: National Association of Hispanic Journalists)20,000.00827--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4693-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2011; goal: To promote diversity and boost under-represented groups in journalism through subsidized training and operational support.
Asian American Journalists Association (Earmark: Asian American Journalists Association)20,000.00827--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4696-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2010; goal: To promote diversity and boost under-represented groups in journalism through subsidized training and operational support.
National Public Radio (Earmark: National Public Radio)1,000,000.0060--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4627-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 12/31/2011; goal: To extend Knight Foundation's digital training of the NPR newsroom by creating 12 local news test sites linked to one another and to NPR. This grant is the test project of the creation of a new local reporting network This project will expand NPR’s reach to local news. The goal is for 12 test sites to become models for the 880 NPR stations across the country. Eventually, we hope each site becomes a local content expert and the linking of all sites with one another and that NPR national creates a new reporting network that focuses specifically on news of local interest. We expect that other NPR sites will join this network and that it becomes a new model for a national news network. It is hoped that NPR will become an authoritative source of local online news, convert a loyal radio following into a powerful, nationwide online network, and distribute public radio content widely across emerging media platforms.
National Association of Black Journalists (Earmark: National Association of Black Journalists)20,000.00827--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4691-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2011; goal: To promote diversity and boost under-represented groups in journalism through subsidized training and operational support.
Journalism and Women Symposium (Earmark: Journalism and Women's Symposium)20,000.00827--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4692-- Grant period: 10/01/2009 - 09/30/2011; goal: To promote diversity and boost under-represented groups in journalism through subsidized training and operational support.
University of Southern California (Earmark: Spot.us expansion)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4606-- Grant period: 09/01/2009 - 12/31/2011; goal: To expand Spot.us, a project that publicly finances local investigative reporting, to Los Angeles in a partnership with the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California Spot.us is a 2008 Knight News Challenge winner. It uses micropayments collected from the public to fund local investigative and enterprise reporting. Since its launch in San Francisco a year ago, about 30 articles have been proposed, funded and written, the highest profile one for The New York Times. Rather than backing a news organization, the public is asked to consider funding individual stories. By seeing what stories the public is willing to pay for, and creating a mechanism to do so, Spot.us is testing the viability of an alternative funding stream for local news during an era in which daily newspapers are shedding local reporters. This project will extend Spot.us to Los Angeles through a partnership with the University of Southern California School of Journalism. The platform will be redeveloped to be more easily extended to additional cities with new features. Ultimately, we hope this grant shows how to scale Spot.us to any city and have it be sustainable there. Additionally, it is hoped that Spot.us shows that crowdsourced reporting […].
Texas Tribune (Earmark: The Texas Tribune)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4660-- Grant period: 08/31/2009 - 11/30/2011; goal: To launch The Texas Tribune, a new nonprofit statewide online news organization The Texas Tribune is a new nonpartisan, nonprofit media startup whose mission is to promote civic engagement and discourse on government, politics, public policy and other matters of statewide interest. The core product of the Texas Tribune will be its destination web site, www.texastribune.org. The site will blend text reporting with the newest presentation and visualization tools; audio and video; original source documents; highly curated news aggregation from other sources; and proprietary, searchable databases. Texas Tribune will produce events and specialized publications, and plans to syndicate content to other online, print and broadcast news outlets. In addition, Texas Tribune will document best practices – both on the editorial and business side -- and share them with the larger news community, including other Knight grantees, through the new Investigative Reporting Network. Texas Tribune will help fill the new void in the amount of quality statewide news coverage in Texas, the nation’s second most populous state. They expect to reach its growth targets and become a sustainable model for other statewide news sites to follow. The Texas project will collaborate with other Knight projects in California, New York, and Washington, […].
Miami Dade College (Earmark: Miami Dade College - Miami: City of Refuge)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4575-- Grant period: 08/01/2009 - 11/30/2011; goal: To establish Miami as a City of Refuge for persecuted writers Free speech writing can still be a perilous act in many places throughout the world. Between January and June 2006, 19 writers were murdered, 33 had received death threats and 142 were imprisoned, according to International PEN's Writers in Prison Committee. Cities of Refuge North America aids persecuted writers around the globe by creating safe havens for them in North America, spaces where they may practice their craft freely, unfettered by censorship and political repression. They assist writers worldwide while enriching both communities and the literary landscape in North America. This grant gives Knight the opportunity to set a Knight community as a City of Refuge for persecuted writers. Grant funds will support the costs of hosting a persecuted writer in residence for two years. During that time, the writer will teach a course at MDC and participate in public readings and discussions.
International Women's Media Foundation (Earmark: International Women's Media Foundation)220,000.00300--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4599-- Grant period: 08/01/2009 - 07/31/2011; goal: To support the International Conference of Women Media Leaders The International Women’s Media Foundation is a global network dedicated to strengthening the role of women in the news media worldwide. Started in 1990, the foundation today is a global network dedicated to cultivating leadership, honoring courage and building opportunity. The IWMF anchors its work in research and monitors the status of women in the news media worldwide. This grant will support the 2011 International Conference of Women Media Leaders which will bring together between 100 and 150 leading women journalists from around the world to develop a global strategy to grow gender equality within the news professions. During the conference, the group will unveil the results of its Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media, which will frame conference discussions and help drive change.
Area/Code Entertainment LLC (Earmark: Area/Code Entertainment)203,605.00311--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4610-- Grant period: 08/01/2009 - 07/31/2011; goal: For the research and concept development of community-centric urban games in five Knight Communities.
Tides Center (Earmark: CMS Upload Utility)10,600.00853--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4523-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 11/30/2010; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a quick way to convert and load multiple newspaper files to a Web site Joe Boydston is the Vice President of Technology and New Media for the McNaughton Newspaper Group, a small, family owned group of newspapers in Northern California. Boydston works with a team of Web programmers, designers and marketing professionals committed to creating and supporting tools that help shape community media organizations. Simple technical problems are keeping community newspapers from making their content available on the World Wide Web. Journalists use computers at even the smallest newspapers. But there is no free, easy-to-use software allowing news organizations, particularly those with small budgets and older equipment, to send batches of stories to be reformatted and published to the web. This grant will create new and easy-to-use tools to enable content producers to publish more legacy content online. We expect this grant to allow small community newspapers to publish more timely news and information to the web. Ultimately, this grant will save news organizations time and money, allowing them to use their resources to bring their community the news and information it needs.
Sunlight Foundation (Earmark: Politiwidgets)565,000.0091--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4425-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 08/31/2011; goal: To create and launch web tools allowing easily accessible public information on Congress Sunlight Foundation was founded in January 2006 to harness the power of the Internet and new information technologies to enable citizens to learn more about what their elected representatives are doing. Sunlight aims to use the tools of open government to help reduce corruption, improve the conduct of public officials and increase the public’s trust in its democratic institutions. The digital revolution has created the potential for a quantum leap in government openness – but only if we can make its instant information easy to find and use. Sunlight Foundation proposes to create a series of new, easy-to-use web tools to allow journalists and citizens to know not just about earmarks but many other actions of our Congressional representatives. During the next two years, the grantee will develop, market and distribute a series of easy-to-use open-source software programs to provide journalists and citizens “integrated information” on Congress. These tools will provide more information about members of Congress more easily to more web users than ever before. This nonpartisan project can be expected during the midterm election to increase debate of fact-based issues the data reveals: earmarks, campaign […].
Center for Investigative Reporting (Earmark: Center for Investigative Reporting, California Watch)1,320,000.0045--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4484-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 07/31/2011; goal: To launch a new foundation-sponsored collaborative multimedia investigative reporting project in California.
Ushahidi (Earmark: Ushahidi)70,000.00501--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4519-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 12/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop a web site, map and timeline to organize and display citizen reports from large news events The mainstream press is not big enough to be everywhere news breaks out. During crises, there rarely is a centralized point for reporting and searching for data about a particular situation. Ushahidi can help fill the gap by creating a free web map and timeline that journalists and citizens can use to contribute multiple reports of large news events. Contributed by web, e-mail or mobile phone, the reports will be displayed as locations on the map, as well as on the timeline. The visual display of the source and type of information will help with trend analysis. The map has been tested in Kenya and will be rebuilt so that it can be used worldwide.
Citizens Union Foundation (Earmark: Councilpedia)250,000.00176--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4522-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 12/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create Councilpedia, a web project that will help Gotham Gazette expand coverage of New York lawmakers by tapping into what the public knows The online Gotham Gazette, which focuses on New York City issues, will use this grant to expand its City Council coverage with a wiki devoted to local legislators. Crowd-sourcing is the practice of asking a community to contribute its knowledge to a report on a given topic. Wikis are web pages that anyone can contribute to or edit. These techniques are combined in this grant to engage citizens to more actively participate in local politics. This project will enlist New Yorkers to scrutinize records and share what they know about local legislators, their actions, and their funders. This contributed information will be moderated and vetted by the nonprofit news organization, the Gotham Gazette. Councilpedia is a test of whether or not New Yorkers will collectively report on their city council using the methods that millions of people worldwide have used to create and check their own encyclopedia, Wikipedia. With this grant, Gotham Gazette will expand its City Council coverage through a wiki devoted to local legislators and those who donate to the legislators’ campaigns. The project […].
ProPublica (Earmark: ProPublica)1,010,000.0057--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4596-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 07/31/2012; goal: To create a sustainable business model for ProPublica ProPublica, founded in 2008, is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. To date, it has more than 30 full-time journalists in its newsroom, making it the largest new nonprofit investigative news operation in the nation. Its major investigations to date have included examinations of stimulus spending, gas drilling and nursing abuses. ProPublica is led by Paul Steiger, a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation trustee and the former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen serves on the group’s board. This grant will openly create a sustainable business model that draws on diverse funding sources, including institutional philanthropy, board contributions, individual contributions, corporate philanthropy, earned revenue and investment income. By the end of the grant, ProPublica will have a mature development operation, well along in implementing a diversified development plan. Future development work will be funded out of operating funds. It is expected that this model will allow ProPublica to continue its high-quality investigative reporting for the public interest. Ultimately, we hope its success in doing so will spur other emerging investigative journalism nonprofits.
Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (Earmark: Mobile Media Toolkit)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4524-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 02/28/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To advance the use of mobile technology to produce and distribute news and information With more than half the world owning a mobile device, the media industry, civil society groups and citizens yearn to use the technology to create and distribute news and information. Yet they often lack the knowledge and tools necessary. The Mobile Media Toolkit will offer media production tool sets for download and use on a variety of phones across regions of the world. The toolkit will include applications for video and audio recording, a distribution tool for mobile content to social media sites and detailed how-to information that outlines what users can do with the phones they have.
Boston Cyberarts (Earmark: Virtual Street Corners)40,000.00582--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4526-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 03/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To use video reports of two different neighborhoods to spur civic conversation The Greater Boston neighborhoods of Brookline and Roxbury are 2.4 miles apart, yet there is little interaction between them because of divisions of race and class. This project will connect them through citizen journalists’ video newscasts that will be projected on life-size screens to enable real-time interaction between citizens. Organizers hope the broadcasts spur crowds and discussion about their shared region, and engage citizens to think beyond their social circles. Reporters could then mine those crowds for further stories.
Tides Center (Earmark: City Circles)100,700.00452--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4529-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 12/31/2010; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop new, open source software allowing commuters using a new light rail route in downtown Phoenix to get news and information The city of Phoenix debuted a new light rail transit system last winter, changing the physical and social fabric of the city. Now The Daily Phoenix (aka The Zonie Report) will use print, web and mobile technology to cater to these new commuters, offering news and information, games, social networking features and promotions. Daily Phoenix will deliver relevant community information on a “stop-by-stop” basis, creating and distributing the open-source tools to interact and access this information via mobile devices or the web. Users will be able to access this anywhere, on or off rail. By using a combination of hyper-local news, games, profiles, networking features and local business promotions, this project will allow citizens to connect and engage with an entirely new, and growing, community.
Jefferson Institute (Earmark: Data Visualization Tools)243,600.00276--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4581-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 06/30/2010; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create open source tools that make community news and information easy to visualize As more information becomes available online, the challenge is to easily find, use and make sense of huge amounts of complicated data. Data visualizations are powerful depictions of abstract information that can reach millions of people by creating clear pictures that effectively communicate what the numbers actually mean. Unfortunately, the tools to create these visual representations are usually too expensive and difficult for smaller news organizations and everyday citizens to use, creating a gap for the future of community journalism. This grant will create a suite of easy-to-use tools for anyone to use on any standard set of data ranging from government databases to demographics and statistics.
Tides Center (Earmark: MediaBugs)335,000.00149--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4521-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 12/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop a service to allow users to better report, track and resolve errors, issues and problems in news coverage All journalists make mistakes, but they sometimes view admitting errors as a mark of shame. MediaBugs aims to change this climate, by promoting transparency and providing recognition for those who admit and fix their mistakes. MediaBugs will create a public test web site in a U.S. city for people to report errors in any news report – online or off-line. Comments will be tracked to see if they create a conversation between the reporter and the error submitter, and then show whether corrections or changes resulted. Based on a system that technology teams use when releasing software, this aggregation process will display trends in errors and show which news organizations are responsible to public questions and comments.
Research Foundation of the City University of New York (Earmark: New Business Models for News Project)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4583-- Grant period: 06/01/2009 - 06/30/2010; goal: For the New Business Models for News Project, to openly produce detailed business plans that will be used to create sustainable models for the future of news While print journalism has largely set the news agenda for the rest of the industry, traditional business and distribution models are no longer viable on their own. Quality news content benefits society as a whole, but is expensive to produce and a growing number of organizations are declaring bankruptcy or shutting down their print operations entirely. The opportunity here is to experiment with new, different business models to create ways of sustaining journalism as it rapidly changes in the 21st century media environment. This grant will bring together editors, publishers, entrepreneurs, technologists, investors, business strategists and consulting experts to openly build and publish three new business plans for 21st century journalism. These plans will focus on hyperlocal, city-metro and paid-content models, with all work being progressively shared on the web through blogs, Google Docs, video and open discussions. This grant will result in at least three complete business plans focusing on hyperlocal, city-metro and paid-content models. These models will be grounded in real-life examples and cases, including existing Knight News Challenge projects. All […].
World Wide Workshop for Children's Media Technology & Learning (Earmark: Globaloria)227,500.00289--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4580-- Grant period: 06/01/2009 - 08/31/2010; goal: To empower students to create their own web-games that focus on First Amendment, News Literacy and Journalism topics The World Wide Workshop Foundation is a global, nonprofit educational organization. Its mission is to harness the potential of computers and the internet to enhance technological fluency for creative learning. Under the leadership of Dr. Idit Harel Caperton they developed Globaloria in 2006 as a network for learning social-issue web-based game design that empowers youth with digital literacies and web 2.0 skills so they can actively participate in 21st century life. The opportunity is to experiment with an educational model that is relevant to today’s generation of students, allowing them to analyze, design and build their own web-based games to “learn by doing.” This project also provides innovative opportunities for civic engagement and participation among technologically-underserved and economically-underprivileged students in rural West Virginia. This grant will support Pilot Year 3 of Globaloria. At least 45 students will use the new “News and Information” platform during the 2009-2010 academic year to create 20 games that reflect and reinforce their connection to First Amendment, News Literacy and Journalism related topics. It is expected that the success of this approach will encourage more and more […].
French-American Foundation (Earmark: Symposia on Immigration Reporting)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4542-- Grant period: 05/01/2009 - 06/30/2010; goal: To improve the quality, depth and awareness of immigration reporting in North America and Europe through two international symposiums, one in Paris and one in the United States The global economy has made of immigration a global issue. More and more people move from one country to another in search of better opportunities in employment, education, health, safety and quality of life. The increase in mobility of people from one country to another generates news; however, media coverage tends to focus on illegal immigrants and sensational stories that center around crime and economic peril. News coverage can have an impact on immigrant communities and the ways they are perceived. This grant gives Knight the opportunity to improve the quality and depth of reporting on immigration and bring international attention to the issue. It also gives Knight the opportunity to participate in a strategic partnership with other foundations to showcase international best practices, and give journalists the tools they need to produce balanced and insightful reporting on issues such as immigration, integration, access to education, employment and health care. The grant will create a network of journalists and leaders interested in immigration issues. It will give journalists, nonprofit organizations and leaders […].
Stony Brook Foundation (Earmark: Stony Brook Foundation)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4585-- Grant period: 05/01/2009 - 06/30/2011; goal: For a planning grant to help secure stimulus funding for News Literacy education Educated citizens are more demanding news consumers. The pioneering Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University will seek to expand news literacy at the high school and college level by seeking millions of federal stimulus dollars newly available for education programs. This planning grant will give the Center the time and resources to seek up to $10 million in stimulus funds, including from the Department of Education’s innovation fund. They will also develop a specific project plan and solidify partnerships with 25 universities. These funds would be used to hire between 50 and 100 journalists for up to two years at the universities. The journalists would receive News Literacy instruction training from the Center. Preference in funding would go to universities that agree to find ways on their own to sustain the News Literacy classes.
Pacific News Service (Earmark: Pacific News Service)247,000.00267--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4415-- Grant period: 05/01/2009 - 04/30/2011; goal: For the Ethnic Media Digital Divide Initiative, a one-year pilot project to expand the digital reach and capacity of low-tech ethnic print publications New American Media, founded by the nonprofit Pacific News Service in 1996, is a national multi-channel news and communications organization connecting ethnic media with one another, with youth media and with the larger civic media. NAM is dedicated to bringing the voices of those traditionally marginalized by both “old” and “new” media—including ethnic minorities and immigrants—into the national discourse. Ethnic media are gaining recognition as the fastest growing sector of American journalism. Close to 51 million ethnic adults, or one out of four American adults, depend on the ethnic media sector for news, information and entertainment, according to a 2007 New American Media multilingual poll. However, fewer than 30 percent of ethnic news outlets have a robust presence online. At a time when the traditional business and distribution models are no longer viable on their own, the biggest challenge for ethnic media is bridging the digital divide so they can continue to meet the information needs of their communities. The opportunity here is to help these outlets secure their own long-term survival by creating a model to […].
National Association of Hispanic Journalists (Earmark: National Association of Hispanic Journalists)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4590-- Grant period: 05/01/2009 - 10/31/2011; goal: To launch web-based digital journalism training as a regular part of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention Founded in 1984, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists is dedicated to the recognition and advancement of Hispanics in the news industry. The 2,300-member group trains and networks Hispanic journalists, holding an annual conference and job fair attended by nearly 2,000 and a annual banquet that has raised more than $600,000 in scholarships for more than 400 college journalism students. This grant will sponsor the participation of 38 Hispanic journalists at the annual NAHJ Convention, where they will receive training in online journalism. They will continue to offer digital training at future conferences. NAHJ also will track whether or not participants in this training get jobs as a result. It is expected that the web pages containing the training will receive significant traffic, extending the value of the training beyond the convention. Ultimately, we hope this grant helps to increase newsroom diversity by giving Hispanic journalists the opportunity to receive the knowledge and skills they need to be marketable in today’s media environment.
Tides Center (Earmark: World Summit Youth Award)53,200.00511--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4551-- Grant period: 04/01/2009 - 11/30/2009; goal: To sponsor the participation of 80 young people from around the world at the World Summit Award and help them network with one another about the best practices in digital journalism, communications and technology The WSYA selects and promotes best practice in e-Content. It demonstrates young people's potential to create outstanding digital contents and serves as a platform for people from all UN member states to work together in the efforts to reduce poverty and hunger, and to tackle ill-health, gender inequality, lack of education, lack of access to clean water and environmental degradation. The WSYA is organised as a follow up activity of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) and its action plan towards the year 2015.
Scoop Media (Earmark: Scoop Media: Scoop44)136,400.00419--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4541-- Grant period: 04/01/2009 - 06/30/2011; goal: To support the launch of Scoop44, a nonprofit youth-run news bureau covering the administration in Washington, D.C. Scoop44 was launched in February 2009 under Scoop Media, a New York-based nonprofit corporation founded by student journalists in November 2007. There is no major media organization run by young Americans that is designed to cover major political issues. The opportunity is to take advantage of the explosion of digital tools, online reporting and social media to create an organization by and of young people. This grant experiments in creating a new kind of self-sustaining nonprofit news bureau run entirely by young journalists. It is expected to increase the quality and quantity of news stories focusing on how new policies relate to and affect the nation’s youth. In addition, a majority of each day’s stories will be produced for multiple platforms using multiple media. Ultimately, this grant will help inform a new generation around national and international issues central to the nation’s future that affect Americans of all ages. (Note: Scoop44 is currently operated as Scoop2012.com).
Tides Center (Earmark: Drupal Voicebox Module by Bill Fitzgerald)88,380.00482--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4480-- Grant period: 03/01/2009 - 11/30/2010; goal: To create a free digital publishing system that allows communities to share local news and information with one another. This grant is part of the Knight Drupal Initiative, a contest that taps into and uses the social network and aggregated knowledge of a technology community for the benefit of better grant-making. The digital revolution means the local public square is moving online. More and more, the places that connect individuals together and help them discover their common needs and challenges are local online news and information sites. But in a networked world, a single online community can be like a single island in the ocean. Communities need a network through which they can connect with other communities that might have similar needs and challenges so that they can learn from one another. This grant will release a free publishing system that can be easily used by anyone in any community. It is expected that the new free publishing system will allow communities to receive, create and share information both within the community and with other communities. We also expect this grant to help communities share strategies, best practices and lessons learned. Ultimately this grant will be a big step toward […].
Tides Center (Earmark: Managing News by DevelopmentSeed)195,000.00363--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4481-- Grant period: 03/01/2009 - 09/30/2010; goal: For a free, open source Drupal module that will help people map where news is happening. Part of Knight Drupal Initiative. This grant is part of the Knight Drupal Initiative, a contest that lets computer programmers recommend the kind of news tools they think the open-source community needs. This grant gives Knight the opportunity to create new media tools that will help people organize online news and information in ways that make it more useful to them. The grant gives Knight the ability to help create the following two free and open-source Drupal-based tools: 1) A mapping tool that allows people to geo-tag stories and see the location on a map of where the stories originated; 2) A news monitor that allows people to aggregate multiple local news sources based on topic or issue. By the end of this grant there will be free, open-source Drupal-based mapping and news aggregation tools. It is expected that these new media tools will work together or separately on any Drupal site. We also expect this grant to provide clear and easy documentation on how to implement the new media tools. It is hoped that this grant will help lower the barriers to entry […].
Tides Center (Earmark: Documenting Drupal by Addison Berry)50,500.00515--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4499-- Grant period: 03/01/2009 - 12/31/2011; goal: To expand the users of Drupal by creating clear, easier to use operating instructions. Part of Knight Drupal Initiative. This grant is part of the Knight Drupal Initiative, a contest that tapped into a community of software developers to help the foundation make better technology grants. Drupal is an open source software package that allows anyone to start a news and information site. The software developers who improve it on a volunteer basis number more than 300,000. Millions download and use the software. Many of those users do not have extensive backgrounds in Web technology. Having clear, concise, up-to-date documentation is essential for the technically inexperienced who want to get a Web site implemented. Lack of good, accessible documentation leaves an extremely useful tool out of reach for many people. This grant will make the Drupal software easier to use by allowing more than two million current users to take full advantage of its capabilities, and by enabling more people with little or no technical knowledge to begin using it. We expect that by using Drupal, more people will be able to exchange ideas, news and information and increase the number of annual Drupal downloads.
Tides Center (Earmark: Instant Syndicating Standards by Nick Vidal)25,000.00813--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4457-- Grant period: 03/01/2009 - 09/30/2011; goal: For free, open-source software that enables people to discover and syndicate the news and information that matters most to them within their social network. Part of Knight Drupal Initiative This grant is part of the Knight Drupal Initiative. The foundation asked the Drupal community for its top ideas to improve this open source software platform. This grant focuses on the use of the software package for social networking, a hugely popular activity in the digital era. It will create a software application intended to make the sharing and receiving of information through social networks much easier. The grantee will develop free, open-source software that allows individuals to create and share a personal stream of information. This Drupal software application will be used on Orkut, Google's social networking platform. Orkut is the most used social networking platform in both Brazil and India, two of the world's most populous countries. It is expected that the new Drupal application will allow people to easily distribute information they are looking for in their social network. It is expected to help individuals navigate through the enormous amounts of information on the web and their networks to find exactly what they are looking for. Ultimately this […].
Tides Center (Earmark: Drupal for Facebook by Dave Cohen)86,260.00483--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4458-- Grant period: 03/01/2009 - 10/31/2011; goal: To allow anyone, anywhere to easily create a "one-click" Drupal online news site that could be integrated into Facebook for publishing and distribution. Part of Knight Drupal Initiative This grant is part of the Knight Drupal Initiative, a contest tapping computer programming skills to create new software that speeds media innovation. Facebook is one of the world's fastest-growing web sites, a social networking site with scores of millions of users. This experiment allows Knight Foundation to help create a free and easy-to-use online news area that is integrated into Facebook. It would allow any of the millions of Drupal-software users to create their own easy-to-use news site that can be shared via Facebook. The new software also would allow Facebook profiles to be imported into the Drupal news sites, making it easy for the news site users to create their own communities. This grant will create an open, free, useful and reliable integration between Drupal and Facebook, along with a ready-to-use structure for an online news site. It is expected that by the end of 2009 at least 50 web sites or Facebook applications will be based on the software package developed by this project. We also expect that by […].
Tides Center (Earmark: Open Microblogging by Rob Loach)40,240.00581--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4502-- Grant period: 03/01/2009 - 09/30/2011; goal: To create an addition to the free, open-source web publishing module that will allow anyone to add micro-blogging to a personal Drupal web site. Part of the Knight Drupal Initiative. A project that intends to create an addition to the free, open-source Drupal web publishing system that will allow anyone to add micro-blogging functionality – the transmission of brief text updates – to a personal Drupal web site and to allow the growing number of individuals and organizations using micro-blogging to receive or distribute notices across different web sites and micro-blogging services such as Twitter. The grantee is Rob Loach, a Web developer who specializes in the development of Web applications using Drupal and open-source Linux software. He works at Mansueto Ventures in New York (mansueto.com). More.
Sawhorse Media, LLC (Earmark: Sawhorse Media: Shorty Awards)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4539-- Grant period: 01/01/2009 - 12/31/2009; goal: To identify and recognize the best producers of content on Twitter by sponsoring the Shorty Awards Twitter has emerged as a powerful new medium. It combines the features of blogs, instant messages and e-mail. It’s short-form, personal nature offers opportunities for journalists, groups, nonprofits, governments, companies and individuals to communicate in ways distinct from other digital media. It is particularly suited for brief status updates, and seems useful for breaking news. A contest would provide a systematic way to discover or recognize who’s doing the best job of non-fiction work on Twitter. This grant creates the Shorty Awards. (In its first year, the award drew 50,000 entries). It is expected to become an annual event, with the number of participants growing every year. It is hoped that the winners of the first awards will inspire more journalists and others to use Twitter or similar services.
World Press Freedom Committee (Earmark: World Press Freedom Committee)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4518-- Grant period: 12/19/2008 - 12/31/2010; goal: To continue World Press Freedom Committee's research, monitoring and advocacy work defending press freedom abroad.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: International Center for Journalists)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4536-- Grant period: 12/19/2008 - 05/31/2011; goal: For the India International Journalism Institute in New Delhi, India.
Tides Center (Earmark: Cafebabel.com)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4511-- Grant period: 12/19/2008 - 12/31/2011; goal: To support the planning and development of new Web 2.0 editorial and business strategies for an online news site covering the European Union Globalization and interdependence make the world look more and more like a true global village. The current economic challenges are a perfect example of how we all are interconnected and how political and economic events transcend borders. In today's world there is a need for a good transnational editorial and news business model that can both reach transnational audiences and distribute relevant and current information to those audiences while at the same time using that reach to generate the necessary revenue to sustain the operation. This grant gives Knight Foundation the opportunity to support Babel International in their development of a new editorial and business model that could provide news and information to transnational communities. Babel International is a nonprofit organization based in Paris and is the publisher of Cafebabel.com. The online site was founded in 2000 and was the first multilingual site covering the European Union. Note: A.k.a. Babel International PARIS, France - Cafebabel.com, the first pan-European online newsmagazine, will develop new web 2.0 tools for its site and strength its business model to ensure long-term […].
The Five Freedoms Project (Earmark: The Five Freedoms Project)80,000.00486--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4452-- Grant period: 12/19/2008 - 12/31/2009; goal: To expand programming while supporting new organizational leadership capacity and long-term strategic development.
George Washington University (Earmark: George Washington University)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4506-- Grant period: 12/19/2008 - 06/30/2010; goal: To create a multimedia online discussion and opinion site where the best arguments become part of a periodic PBS special.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: International Center for Journalists)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4528-- Grant period: 12/19/2008 - 12/31/2010; goal: To expand the Global Business Journalism Program at Tsinghua University in China.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Harvard University)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4362-- Grant period: 12/16/2008 - 10/31/2011; goal: To expand and improve a citizen media law project that provides legal education, resources and assistance to individuals, organizations and Knight grantees.
Tides Center (Earmark: Patchwork Nation developed for The NewsHour)225,000.00290--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4527-- Grant period: 12/16/2008 - 06/30/2010; goal: To use the Patchwork Nation platform and visual data display to provide a portrait of a nation in the midst of economic, political and cultural change. Patchwork Nation has embarked on a new partnership with "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," working along with The Christian Science Monitor, and you may have noticed some changes on the site in the past week. Consider this a tour of the new site, which gives users many more opportunities to get inside the numbers we regularly examine and the community types we have identified across the nation’s 3,100-plus counties. There are now essentially two versions of the site: The Christian Science Monitor’s and the "NewsHour’s." Patchwork Nation is an effort designed to better study and analyze the United States as it undergoes a period of dramatic change. It is funded by the Knight Foundation.
The Center for Public Integrity (Earmark: Center for Public Integrity)454,000.00111--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4487-- Grant period: 12/08/2008 - 12/31/2009; goal: To transform the Center for Public Integrity into a news organization that uses the latest digital production and distribution tools, along with social networking, to form new reporting and distribution partnerships.
American Public Media / Minnesota Public Radio (Earmark: Public Insight Network)2,950,327.0014--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4431-- Grant period: 12/08/2008 - 02/28/2012; goal: To expand Public Insight Journalism to an open-source platform and extend it beyond public radio and into Knight communities.
Trustees of Boston University (Earmark: Trustees of Boston University)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4491-- Grant period: 12/01/2008 - 06/30/2010; goal: To fund a new model of sustainable, multimedia investigative journalism based at Boston University.
St. Louis Beacon (Earmark: St. Louis Beacon)90,000.00479--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4503-- Grant period: 12/01/2008 - 06/30/2010; goal: To expand the local reporting staff of the St. Louis Beacon and provide a viable alternative site for local news.
MinnPost (Earmark: MinnPost)105,000.00448--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4504-- Grant period: 12/01/2008 - 06/30/2010; goal: To expand the local reporting capacity of MinnPost.com and provide a viable alternate local news site.
Chi-Town Daily News (Earmark: Chi-Town Daily News)95,000.00475--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4505-- Grant period: 12/01/2008 - 06/30/2011; goal: To expand the local reporting capacity of Chi-Town Daily News and provide a viable alternate local news site.
voiceofsandiego.org (Earmark: Voice of San Diego)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4509-- Grant period: 12/01/2008 - 06/30/2010; goal: To expand the local reporting capacity of Voice of San Diego and provide a viable alternate local news site.
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: International Center for Journalists)12,098.00850--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4514-- Grant period: 12/01/2008 - 11/30/2009; goal: For a series of international journalism meetings through the global business journalism program at Tsinghua University in China.
Tides Center (Earmark: NewsCloud)249,529.00264--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4449-- Grant period: 11/01/2008 - 10/31/2010; goal: For NewsCloud to create and launch two social media publications on Facebook to test strategies that leverage social media environments to engage youth in news and information.
Georgetown University (Earmark: Georgetown University: Our Courts First Amendment)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4438-- Grant period: 10/01/2008 - 10/31/2009; goal: To help Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's Our Courts digital learning initiative create an interactive First Amendment learning module for middle-school students.
Participatory Culture Foundation (Earmark: Participatory Culture Foundation: Miro Local TV Platform)589,000.0089--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4420-- Grant period: 10/01/2008 - 10/31/2010; goal: To create 17 open-source community video news sites that tap into public access television's structure and audience using a template that could be repeated in other communities to create local video news sites.
World Wide Web Foundation (Earmark: W3F: World Wide Web Foundation)5,000,000.003--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4436-- Grant period: 09/15/2008 - 10/31/2013; goal: To be the first funder of the World Wide Web Foundation, thereby helping it raise subsequent funding for an endowment.
The Paley Center for Media (Earmark: The Paley Center for Media)20,000.00827--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4465-- Grant period: 09/01/2008 - 12/31/2008; goal: To hold two forums on how to use new technologies to increase the reach and impact of independent and investigative journalism documentaries.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Harvard University)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4356-- Grant period: 09/01/2008 - 09/30/2009; goal: To promote independent journalism through the creation of an annual I.F. Stone award.
SnagFilms LLC (Earmark: SnagFilms)210,000.00304--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4373-- Grant period: 09/01/2008 - 08/31/2011; goal: To create a new digital distribution platform for documentary films.
Tides Center (Earmark: Tides Center)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4295-- Grant period: 09/01/2008 - 01/31/2009; goal: To increase the coordination of independent media development and journalism training internationally.
World Wide Web Foundation (Earmark: W3F: World Wide Web Foundation)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4435-- Grant period: 08/01/2008 - 04/30/2009; goal: To support the creation and launch of the World Wide Web Foundation.
The University of Texas at El Paso (Earmark: The University of Texas at El Paso: BorderZine)412,200.00120--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4325-- Grant period: 07/01/2008 - 07/31/2011; goal: To create BorderZine, a bilingual online news magazine, to train Latino journalism students nationwide.
The American University (Earmark: J-Lab)2,400,000.0022--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4375-- Grant period: 07/01/2008 - 11/30/2011; goal: To expand J-Lab's activities, while increasing institutional support for J-Lab by moving it to American University.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies (Earmark: The Poynter Institute for Media Studies)1,440,000.0044--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4341-- Grant period: 07/01/2008 - 07/31/2013; goal: To extend Poynter's NewsU e-training into all newsrooms in the United States and focus new classes on digital training.
UNITY: Journalists of Color (Earmark: UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc.)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4347-- Grant period: 06/01/2008 - 07/31/2009; goal: To unite Knight's journalism grantees, and recruit for the foundation's programs and the Knight News Challenge.
Digital Innovations Group (Earmark: Digital Innovations Group: Games for Change Festival)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4355-- Grant period: 06/01/2008 - 07/31/2011; goal: To create a track at the annual Games for Change Festival that will increase the number and quality of News Games.
Georgia Tech Research Corp (Earmark: Georgia Tech Research Corp: News Games Site)142,165.00416--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4342-- Grant period: 06/01/2008 - 07/31/2009; goal: To produce a web site studying and explaining News Games to help developers create more of them.
Investigative Reporters and Editors (Earmark: Investigative Reporters and Editors: IRE Conference Miami 2008)25,000.00813--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4367-- Grant period: 05/01/2008 - 04/30/2009; goal: To increase interest in innovative investigative reporting models at a key Miami conference.
Tides Center (Earmark: PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Bloggers)70,000.00501--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4348-- Grant period: 04/01/2008 - 06/30/2009; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To speed digital news innovation by adding three new bloggers to the "idea lab" within the PBS MediaShift web site.
Tides Center (Earmark: Reporting On)15,000.00846--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4312-- Grant period: 04/01/2008 - 07/31/2009; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a social networking tool to help reporters use one another as resources, to identify trends and to add context to their own work Reporters working on similar topics will be able to communicate and share ideas using a social networking tool and a web site created through this project. The site will indicate how many journalists across the country are working on the same issue, such as declining tax bases or water problems. Reporters then could exchange resources and approaches, or use one another’s communities as examples in their own stories. Journalists in small newsrooms often feel isolated. Given the opportunity to communicate with others, a reporter can add context to articles and, perhaps most importantly, know when a seemingly small local story is part of a larger regional, or national, trend.
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism (Earmark: City University of New York)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4316-- Grant period: 04/01/2008 - 04/30/2010; goal: To extend a novel program helping journalism students get internships as part of a practical curriculum and to help establish CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism.
President and Trustees of Colby College (Earmark: Colby College: News Literacy)246,612.00270--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4317-- Grant period: 04/01/2008 - 04/30/2011; goal: To improve the news literacy of liberal arts students.
Tides Center (Earmark: Community Radio in India)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4313-- Grant period: 04/01/2008 - 10/31/2010; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To use the latest software and computer-based FM transmitters to reduce the cost of creating rural radio stations This project will connect rural radio stations to the Internet by using new software and computer-based FM transmitters. The innovations will significantly reduce the cost of creating the stations in India - from an estimated $50,000 to $2,500. India is issuing a new round of community radio station licenses, so the proposal is timely. The effort will start by helping nonprofits already operating in India launch radio stations.
Tides Center (Earmark: News on Cell Phones)325,000.00153--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4320-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 07/10/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a news system for cell phones in developing countries While computers can readily access news feeds through the Internet, only the more expensive cell phones have the same capability. This project will make it easy for significantly cheaper models to select and receive news feeds, expanding the news universe for those whose only digital device is a cell phone. Users, particularly in areas where Internet access isn’t affordable, will be able to receive news via text messaging. They also will be able to rate top stories in lists to be shared with friends. The project will be tested in the rural area of a developing country.
Tides Center (Earmark: The News is Coming / Iindaba Ziyafika)630,400.0076--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4278-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 02/28/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop an innovative multimedia news system to unite a town separated by race and class divisions Local news reports disseminated through cell phones will help connect an all-black township in South Africa with the white population living in the urban center – giving everyone in Grahamstown equal access to news and information. Articles from the community newspaper, Grocott’s Mail, will be delivered to mobile phones, the only modern communications system available in the rural township. In a partnership with a local university, journalism students will create audio and video feeds for distribution. Meanwhile, masters-level students will study the project’s design and impact, while post-graduate students develop a sustainable business model for the technology. The project will create open-source software so that small town newspapers around the globe will be able to send mobile reports.
Video Volunteers (Earmark: Video Volunteers)275,000.00169--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4321-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 07/31/2010; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To train 100 Community Video Producers, and expand a media distribution network for 300 villages in India Video Volunteers, a New York-based nonprofit, will train 100 people in rural India as Community Video Producers. These citizen journalists will produce magazine- style video news reports, typically on local social issues, and show them on widescreen projectors in poor communities. The idea is to distribute public interest information to the poor – without having to provide the entire population with digital tools. To date, Video Volunteers’ screenings in India have reached 140,000 people in 150 communities. The video technology is not new. The innovation is to do citizen journalism on a significant scale in a poor, rural area.
Tides Center (Earmark: Spot.Us)340,000.00146--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4323-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 05/01/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a micro-payment system to fund investigative news reports Spot Journalism will provide a new way to pay for local investigative reporting by soliciting financial support from the public. Through this project, independent journalists and residents will propose stories, while Spot Journalism uses the Web to seek “micro-payments” to cover the costs. If enough donors contribute the amount needed, a journalist will be hired to do the reporting. The money has to come from a variety of sources, though. Each project will need many small contributions before being approved in order to avoid personal crusades. In addition to offering a new model for investigative work, Spot Journalism will provide a way to discover the issues important to a community while giving a voice to those who wonder why a given problem is not being investigated.
Associated Students UCLA (Earmark: Community News Network)275,000.00169--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4265-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 10/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a new kind of college newspaper by involving award-winning journalists in the creation of an open-source software platform Student editors at the UCLA Bruin will create online publishing software geared to mobile editing. College journalists then will be able to use the content management system to remotely assign and edit stories, videos and photos for online college sites. Also, readers will use it to submit their own content and communicate with one another.
Deproduction (Earmark: Denver Open Media)380,000.00130--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4314-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 07/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create free open-source software to enable Public Access Television stations to better serve and engage communities DOM is the culmination of the Open Media Foundation's innovative 3-part vision for putting the power of the media in the hands of the community. Designed to ensure all communities have the media and technology resources they need to engage in local and global communications, DOM offers state-of-the-art video equipment, as well as media distribution via the Internet and our three community-programmed television channels.
Tides Center (Earmark: Transparent Journalism)350,000.00139--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4315-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 07/31/2010; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To help search engines better distinguish between well-reported journalism and everything else on the Internet With the copious amounts of information – and misinformation – on the Internet, the public needs more help finding fair, accurate and contextual news. This project will create a system to do just that. The plan: to design a way for content creators to add information on their sources to their reports, as a form of “source tagging.” For instance, a reporter could note that an article was based on personal observations, interviews with eyewitnesses or specific, original documents. Filters would then use this data - the “story behind the story” - to help find high-quality articles. A reader searching the phrase “Pakistan riots” for example, might find 9,000 articles. But filtering by “eyewitness accounts” would yield a more selective list. Berners-Lee, Moore and the Web Science Research Initiative are working with the BBC and Reuters on how to best integrate the tagging into journalists’ normal workflow.
Tides Center (Earmark: Printcasting)837,000.0067--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4322-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 07/31/2010; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To enable individuals to create narrowly targeted, local niche publications with local advertising Printcasting will allow individuals to easily create ad-supported, customized publications with a mix of local news and information. The software will help aggregate feeds from news organizations, bloggers or newsletters, for example, so that would-be publishers can pick and choose among them to create a niche publication. The Printcasting model then will guide users through placing articles, photos and ads onto a template that either could be delivered by e-mail or printed at home and distributed. For example, a publication for reef-diving photographers could include ads for nearby dive shops or underwater cameras. The idea is to pair localized ads and content to create targeted publications.
Tides Center (Earmark: Sochi Reporter)600,000.0078--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4264-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 12/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To test the latest social networking and user-generated-content tools in a small Russian town about to host the Olympics The people of Sochi, the Russian resort city hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics, will be able to use the latest online tools to both discuss and influence the impact of the games. A web site and database will allow the community to track and debate how the plans are changing life there over a five-year period. The idea is to help residents better prepare for the Olympics, to inform the media about the city’s issues and to use discussions about the games as a way to improve life in Sochi.
Tides Center (Earmark: RadioEngage)327,000.00152--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4318-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 07/31/2010; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create an easy to use software package to help public radio stations create web sites Drupal, one of the popular open-source software platforms that publish web sites, will be used to create a turnkey web site for radio news organizations. This content management and publishing system will address the needs of radio news sites, such as creating and archiving audio and text, producing podcasts and playlists and streaming live audio and video. KUSP, a public radio station on California’s Central Coast, will test the project.
Tides Center (Earmark: Freedom Fone)876,000.0065--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4319-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 07/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create an economical way for poor people to use cell phones to create and gather information in forms difficult for authoritarian governments to control Freedom Fone will provide a voice database where users can access news and public-interest information via land, mobile or Internet phones. In a concept similar to a telephone tree employed by many private companies, users will call in and then dial specific numbers to find the information they need. Independent radio station content will be broadcast, along with frequently updated audio reports created specifically for Freedom Fone. Users will be able to pose questions and leave answers on a voicemail system. The concept, which employs both new and old technologies, will allow the poor to receive and contribute information in a practical and economical way. It will be tested in Zimbabwe.
WNYC Radio (Earmark: WNYC)2,000,000.0030--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4332-- Grant period: 03/10/2008 - 06/30/2011; goal: To support the launch of a new national morning show for public radio.
Link Media (Earmark: Link Media)235,000.00283--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4327-- Grant period: 03/01/2008 - 03/31/2009; goal: To launch a series of online Global News Literacy modules showing how news is covered differently in different countries.
Editor & Publisher (Earmark: Editor & Publisher's Interactive Media Conference)119,500.00444--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4338-- Grant period: 03/01/2008 - 12/31/2008; goal: For a high-profile Interactive Media Conference in Las Vegas to announce the Knight News Challenge winners.
Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (Earmark: Radio and Television News Directors Foundation)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4306-- Grant period: 03/01/2008 - 01/31/2009; goal: To expand the Sunshine Week PSA campaign in 2008 to help raise public awareness and support for open government issues.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Harvard University)534,000.0093--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4181-- Grant period: 12/10/2007 - 12/31/2011; goal: To provide a top-flight U.S. education to a new generation of journalists who would return to Latin America in leading roles, with an emphasis on digital journalists.
University of Maryland Foundation (Earmark: Knight Center for Specialized Journalism)1,145,000.0054--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4233-- Grant period: 12/10/2007 - 11/30/2011; goal: To transform the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism into a multimedia, digital learning center.
Internews (Earmark: Internews)600,000.0078--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4123-- Grant period: 12/10/2007 - 12/31/2011; goal: To support the digital retraining of Internews' network of 60,000 journalists worldwide.
Aspen Institute (Earmark: Knight Commission on the Information Needs in a Democracy)1,700,000.0034--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4259-- Grant period: 12/10/2007 - 01/31/2011; goal: To call national attention to the issue by creating a high-level Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy.
Ashoka (Earmark: Ashoka News & Knowledge Entrepreneurs)3,000,000.0012--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4251-- Grant period: 12/10/2007 - 12/31/2011; goal: To identify and invest in social entrepreneurs in journalism through Ashoka Fellowships Founded in 1980 by social entrepreneur Bill Drayton, Ashoka finds, supports, and advance the impact of leading social entrepreneurs around the world. Since 1981, Ashoka has elected more than 1,800 leading social entrepreneurs as Ashoka Fellows. The fellows are chosen because they have innovative solutions to social problems and the potential to create lasting, visible change. As fellows, they are given living stipends, professional support and access to a global network of peers in more than 60 countries. With the digital revolution turning journalism upside down and inside out, never before has the field had such entrepreneurial opportunity. Ashoka will use its tested selection criteria to find leading social entrepreneurs in journalism, criteria that align with Knight Foundation's elements of transformation.
Aspen Institute (Earmark: Aspen Institute)600,000.0078--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4292-- Grant period: 12/10/2007 - 12/31/2011; goal: To focus the Aspen Forum on Communication and Society on issues of media and community.
Tides Center (Earmark: Appleseed: The News Literacy Project)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4247-- Grant period: 12/01/2007 - 04/30/2009; goal: To develop and launch Appleseed: The News Literacy Project.
GuideStar (Earmark: GuideStar)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4305-- Grant period: 12/01/2007 - 12/31/2008; goal: To improve nonprofit services to the media and to create a News University module on covering the nonprofit sector.
International Women's Media Foundation (Earmark: International Women's Media Foundation)20,000.00827--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4310-- Grant period: 12/01/2007 - 12/31/2008; goal: For general operating support.
The North Carolina A&T State University (Earmark: The North Carolina A&T State University: Black College Wire)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4200-- Grant period: 12/01/2007 - 03/31/2009; goal: To help BlackCollegeWire.org become self-sustaining.
Tides Center250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4234-- Grant period: 12/01/2007 - 12/31/2008; goal: To pioneer a new way of covering political campaigns by going beyond the red-vs.-blue debate.
University of California, Berkeley (Earmark: University of California, Berkeley)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4236-- Grant period: 12/01/2007 - 11/30/2008; goal: To stabilize an important investigative reporting program at U.C. Berkeley during a time of economic uncertainty for enterprise journalism.
Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (Earmark: Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4254-- Grant period: 12/01/2007 - 04/30/2009; goal: To finish an investigative reporting project started by slain Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey.
The Council on Foreign Relations (Earmark: The Council on Foreign Relations)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4227-- Grant period: 12/01/2007 - 11/30/2009; goal: To train journalists to do foreign policy reporting for the 2008 presidential election.
Independent Television Service (Earmark: ITS: One Water)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4139-- Grant period: 12/01/2007 - 11/30/2009; goal: To develop a new global network of public broadcasters that will coordinate worldwide release of "One Water'' and other works produced by the Knight Center for International Media.
George Washington University (Earmark: George Washington University)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4199-- Grant period: 11/01/2007 - 07/30/2008; goal: To complete a new approach to starting student media by establishing Media Clubs in Philadelphia.
American Society of News Editors Foundation (Earmark: ASNE Foundation)160,000.00376--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4215-- Grant period: 11/01/2007 - 11/01/2008; goal: To create a new First Amendment awareness campaign and strengthen national Sunshine Week in 2008 This grant will increase the number of participants in Sunshine Week 2008. Public officials will be asked for their positions on open government and the First Amendment, their views posted on the popular web site, SunshineWeek.org. Partnerships will include radio, television and the web. A prominent personality who will be national spokesperson. Sunshine Week began in 2005 as an annual event to celebrate the importance of open government and free expression during the week of the March 16 birthday of James Madison, fourth president of the United States and author of the Bill of Rights. The American Society of Newspaper Editors is raising an endowment that will make the week a permanent part of the journalism landscape. In addition to strengthening Sunshine Week, this grant will help ASNE’s First Amendment Committee research and develop a campaign to spread First Amendment awareness more generally. These projects came about after a steep drop in public support for the First Amendment and a rollback of Freedom of Information laws nationally in the wake of the Sept 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Internews (Earmark: Internews)25,000.00813--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4248-- Grant period: 11/01/2007 - 11/01/2008; goal: To provide reporting tools for journalists covering Burma's military crackdown.
Philadelphia's Children First Fund (Earmark: Philadelphia's Children First Fund)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4198-- Grant period: 11/01/2007 - 06/30/2010; goal: To complete the merging of Philadelphia's new Media Clubs into the regular operations of the school district.
North Carolina Open Government Coalition (Earmark: North Carolina Open Government Coalition)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4135-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 06/30/2011; goal: For a challenge grant to raise a permanent endowment The N.C. Open Government Coalition is a relatively new group, formed in 2004 by a broad alliance of groups to promote public access to government records, meetings and activities. A start-up grant from the National Freedom of Information Coalition, a Knight grantee, provided seed money for what had been a state volunteer organization. This grant is expected to help the North Carolina Open Government Coalition raise an endowment of $500,000 to $750,000. The $25,000 in annual interest income from the endowment is expected to permanently fund a part-time executive director to organize programs, build membership, hold yearly state conferences and publish educational materials. The board leadership and members will focus on coalition-building and fund raising. Ultimately, this grant aims to raise public awareness of the importance of open government in a democracy.
The Ohio State University Foundation (Earmark: The Ohio State University)177,300.00371--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4151-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 12/31/2009; goal: To train journalists to do in-depth public affairs reporting with digital media skills During January through June in 2008 and 2009, a total of four leading journalists will be Knight Digital Media and Public Affairs Fellows in the Kiplinger Program. Newsrooms will publish/air the fellows’ digital media projects and use them as examples for other journalists who want to learn multimedia storytelling. Fellows will share what they learned with colleagues and provide training and assistance in producing effective projects. It’s expected that newsrooms will offer returning fellows opportunities to pursue more high-quality, multimedia public affairs projects. Ultimately, this grant will result in Kiplinger revamping its program to focus on digital reporting on public affairs. The Kiplinger Program at Ohio State agrees to continue the digital media emphasis after the grant term is over. This grant is part of a series helping training programs adapt to the digital revolution in news.
MinnPost (Earmark: MinnPost)380,000.00130--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4294-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 10/01/2008; goal: To provide additional funding to MinnPost through an anonymous donor.
Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa (Earmark: IAPA: Impunity Project)2,500,000.0018--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4120-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 10/31/2012; goal: To broaden the Impunity project to judges and lawmakers, making the unpunished killing of Latin American journalists "everybody's problem" The Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa, also known as the Inter American Press Association Press Institute, has defended freedom of the press in the Americas for more than half a century. In the 1990s, the association convinced leaders throughout the hemisphere to sign the Declaration of Chapultepec in support of free expression. At the time journalists were killed in Latin America and South America with an impunity rate of 100 percent, meaning that every murdered escaped without arrest, prosecution, conviction or imprisonment. IAPA began to develop an Impunity campaign, a successful combination of rapid response teams that investigate murders, coverage of the crimes and letter to local authorities, a hemisphere-wide advertising campaign and visits to heads of state. After a year of study, IAPA has determined that the next best phase for this campaign would be to expand its campaign for arrests to be made in the murders of journalists by making impunity “everybody’s problem.” The project would be expanded by organizing forums and meetings with judges and lawmakers in countries where there is the greatest likelihood that policy and legal changes […].
MinnPost (Earmark: MinnPost)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4203-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 09/30/2008; goal: To help launch a new kind of "digital daily,'' a quality nonprofit online news organization serving the state of Minnesota MinnPost is a new not-for-profit enterprise, whose mission is to publish a new, high-quality daily news report online and to develop a sustainable business model for quality journalism. In many cities, daily newspapers are cutting back staff as advertising dollars move to other media. Critics argue that these dailies are getting less serious, less ambitious, less courageous and far less comprehensive. The digital revolution is causing “creative destruction’’ of the economics of metropolitan daily newspapers and network television. This grant will help launch a new kind of “digital daily,’’ a quality nonprofit online news organization serving the state of Minnesota and enable them to help launch and support activities for 15 months. MinnPost has a combination of ad revenue, foundation support and membership donations. It is an experiment in a new nonprofit business model for quality journalism.
Louisiana State University and A & M College (Earmark: LSU: Multicultural Student Leadership Conference)35,000.00590--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4232-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 01/31/2009; goal: To increase multicultural journalism education through a conference that will create a best practices book and a popular web site This project will create a best practices book on journalism and mass communication schools with the greatest record of success in understanding and teaching about news and newsroom diversity. The book will have recommendations on how to implement similar programs at other schools, and be a resource guide for programs interested in improving their diversity records. About 2,000 copies of the book will be sent to journalism schools and professional journalism organizations. The book also will be posted on the Manship School of Mass Communication’s web site, Mass Communicating: the Forum on Media Diversity (www.masscommunicating.lsu.edu). It is expected that the project will increase the teaching of media diversity in U.S. journalism schools and help develop a Rainbow School Network, a consortium of schools that will work together nationally on behalf of diversity. Ultimately, this grant aims to increase diversity in newsrooms and in news coverage.
National Public Radio (Earmark: National Public Radio)1,500,000.0041--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4204-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 03/31/2010; goal: To help NPR move itself from a public radio company to a public media company NPR is the nation’s largest source of quality radio news. In 2005, Knight gave NPR a $250,000 planning grant to enhance local news capacity. That spurred the system to work with its member stations to devise a plan to set up local news “hubs” around the country, which it is now phasing in. But NPR’s news issues have become even more pressing. Though its on-air programs have grown in popularity this past decade to reach nearly 27 million listeners each week – a 40 percent increase over the past five years – the rate of growth is slowing. To add to its reach, NPR is making a major push in the area of digital technology. During this grant, about 600 NPR staff will be trained in its new audio production and content management system. Additionally, up to 40 NPR senior managers, leaders and training staff will learn how to transform the NPR newsroom for the digital future; and about 400 NPR reporters, producers, editors and other staff will have completed multimedia skills training. It’s expected that NPR staff will learn how to gain understanding of […].
World Press Freedom Committee (Earmark: Pre-Olympic China information study)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4222-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 10/31/2008; goal: For a conference and major web campaign about China's information control before the 2008 Beijing Olympics The World Press Freedom Committee monitors threats to press freedom in the United Nations system and other major intergovernmental organizations. It promotes a common front against press restrictions through the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, and works to ensure that press freedom is a primary consideration for the future of news on the Internet. This grant will support a two-day conference in Paris, to examine freedom of expression in China, in advance of the Beijing Olympics. The 50 participants, including sports journalists, editors and photographers, are expected to learn about China’s methods of information control so they are better prepared to cover the Beijing Olympics. The committee’s web site will make conference material widely known, especially among the thousands of sports writers who will be attending the Olympics. This grant aims to make China’s internet and other censorship practices more widely known.
The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University (Earmark: Stanford University)90,000.00479--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4101-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 03/31/2009; goal: For a strategic plan to increase the impact of the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists This one-time grant will determine how this longtime fellowship program can change to reflect the news industry’s digital transformation. Fellowships will be completed by spring 2008. It is expected that the fellowships will be restructured with an increased emphasis on innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership. The fellowships will explore requiring action plans from program applicants, as well as ways to collaborate with the Knight Digital Media Center at U.C. Berkeley and University of Southern California, News University, the Knight Citizen News Network, J-Lab and other Knight digital media grantees and the International Center for Journalists, which recently restructured the Knight International Journalism Fellowships.
University of Texas at Austin (Earmark: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas)1,600,000.0039--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4117-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 08/31/2011; goal: To refocus the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas as a digital media center In 2002, Rosental Alves, former executive editor of Brazil’s most prestigious newspaper, launched the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. During the past five years, the center has trained thousands of journalists, using distance learning to extend its training; created a trilingual web site in English, Spanish and Portuguese; helped create self-sustaining professional journalism groups in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia; formed the Austin Forum, a network of journalists’ organizations; and helped form a new national organization of investigative reporters in Colombia. This grant will help Alves will lead journalists into the 21st century by teaching great journalists the latest digital techniques, and also by using the latest digital techniques to teach great journalism throughout the Americas. This grant will enable the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas to expand its digital media work while raising funds for a fifth year of operation and to study the feasibility of an endowment. By the end of the grant, the center will have directly trained 2,200 journalists through nine innovative seminars or workshops that mix online and on-the-ground training, 35 moderated online training […].
International Center for Journalists (Earmark: International Center for Journalists)3,815,000.006--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4155-- Grant period: 10/01/2007 - 10/31/2010; goal: To advance journalism excellence and free expression worldwide through a redesigned, high-impact, project-based Knight International Journalism Fellowship program The International Center for Journalists was founded in 1984 to improve journalism in nations that have little or no tradition of independent media. ICFJ became Knight’s number one journalism grantee when the foundation created the Knight International Press Fellowships. Over the years, Americans traveled abroad to improve the skills of more than 30,000 journalists worldwide, along with exchanges, training seminars, workshops and conferences. This grant will redesign the project to focus on high-impact, innovative projects around the world. The fellows are expected to produce measurable results of transformational change. Projects should be designed to produce lasting, visible impact. Editors participating in the International Journalism Exchange and those who attend the World Editors Forum will create and implement action plans to transform their news organizations. The ultimate goal of this work is to raise journalism standards and increase free expression worldwide.
Queens University of Charlotte (Earmark: Al Jazeera English Research Project)59,840.00510--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4165-- Grant period: 09/01/2007 - 12/31/2008; goal: To study whether Al Jazeera's English programming increases cross-cultural dialogue and understanding This one-time grant will support sample surveys and interviews in Malaysia, Indonesia, Qatar, the United Kingdom and the United States, the countries that watch Al-Jazeera English the most, to analyze the demographics, world views and cultural attitudes of AJE’s viewers. A summary of the findings will be produced and distributed via the Internet. It is expected that this grant will determine whether viewers of Al-Jazeera English have different perceptions of the United States, international events and a more global world view. Additionally, this grant aims to increase cross-cultural dialogue and understanding, lessening the likelihood of conflict. Al-Jazeera English is generally unavailable on cable TV.
Suburban Newspapers of America Foundation (Earmark: Suburban Newspapers of America Foundation)180,000.00368--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4178-- Grant period: 09/01/2007 - 08/31/2009; goal: To move suburban and community newspapers into the digital world by developing e-learning classes, in collaboration with News University SNA Foundation, collaborating with News University, will develop up to three e-learning classes designed specifically for suburban and community journalists. The self-directed courses and webinars will train them how to extend their print content to the web. Possible classes include: covering breaking news online for weekly print publications; how to produce web-first content; how to blog professionally; covering town meetings to engage readers in the story beyond the facts; and building social networks in local communities. The classes will be promoted and a virtual local journalism community will be developed. It is expected that journalists will learn how to cover breaking news and local newspaper web sites will become more interactive with their readers. As of Jan. 1, 2008, News University had 60,000 registered users.
Tides Center (Earmark: PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Bloggers)120,000.00441--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4211-- Grant period: 09/01/2007 - 09/01/2008; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To speed digital news innovation by creating an "idea lab" within the PBS MediaShift web site for Knight News Challenge winners.
University of Montana Foundation (Earmark: University of Montana: Reznet)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4146-- Grant period: 09/01/2007 - 08/31/2009; goal: To expand Reznet into a multimedia Native news site and integrate multimedia into all its training University of Montana professor Dennis McAuliffe, Jr. is a leader in journalism education for Native Americans. He created Reznet, which trains Native American journalism students while paying them to work on Reznet’s online news site, and requiring them to apply for internships. While the mainstream media continues to struggle with the lack of diversity in its newsrooms, an even greater void exists in the online journalism world. The web site, www.reznetnews.org will be enhanced, making it more interactive with user-generated content and social networking, and will be promoted virally and through other means. To change that they will integrate more multimedia into Reznet’s training and by doing so, help what was once an online “school paper’’ evolve into a mainstream multimedia Native news site.
The Paley Center for Media (Earmark: The Paley Center for Media)100,000.00453--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4193-- Grant period: 09/01/2007 - 08/31/2008; goal: To hold a series of meetings to explore alternative economic models for independent documentaries and other investigative journalism The digital revolution, which is strengthening ease of production in documentary video, might provide better ways to distribute and pay for documentaries. This grant will enable the Paley Center for Media to hold three forums in New York to explore ways to expand the reach and effectiveness of documentaries. The first forum will bring together a group of foundations that support documentaries on social issues with the goal of exploring how they can collaborate. The second forum will convene media companies that broadcast documentaries, as well as Internet companies and other production and content distributors. The third forum will convene representatives of the creative community, journalists and leading documentary filmmakers and producers. Participants will discuss the potential of new funding and distribution models that were identified during the first two forums. By holding these forums, it is expected to create a new fund or a new model to support documentary films and distribution; an agreement to explore topics that receive little coverage; and an agreement on better and more targeted marketing using technology to engage audiences. The grant aims to expand the […].
Philadelphia's Children First Fund (Earmark: Philadelphia's Children First Fund)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4137-- Grant period: 08/01/2007 - 08/01/2008; goal: To launch the first phase of merging Philadelphia's new Media Clubs into the regular ongoing operations of the school district This is a companion to the George Washington University grant. Philadelphia’s Children First Fund is an independent nonprofit established by the School District of Philadelphia in 2003. It improves and enhances academic performance through district-approved programs. Through this grant, a full-time program manager will help create a total of 24 after-school media clubs by the end of the 2007-08 school year. Some 400 students will participate, using the Internet to produce student media seen by thousands. A new journalism course will be developed during the grant period and piloted during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic school years. After the grant period, the school district will integrate the journalism course into the high school curriculum and starting with the 2011-12 school year, the course will be offered to all 69 high schools. The George Washington and Philadelphia projects came about after a national survey funded in 2004 by Knight Foundation showed three quarters of America’s high school students said they did not know their First Amendment rights, or took them for granted, and that some 40 percent of the nation’s high […].
Public Interest Productions (Earmark: News Challenge Bloggers)136,000.00420--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4159-- Grant period: 08/01/2007 - 08/01/2009; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: For a public education campaign to highlight community news innovation, featuring the Knight News Challenge winners Ten winners of the first year News Challenge were awarded $15,000 each through Public Interest Productions, to blog about their media innovation subject areas.
University of Missouri Columbia (Earmark: University of Missouri Columbia)105,000.00448--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4175-- Grant period: 08/01/2007 - 05/31/2009; goal: To study how the effectiveness of online-only news sources compares with online sites of traditional news organizations This project brings together the nation’s top experts in content analysis from three well-known journalism schools with a leader in the field of online news audience research. Esther Thorson, acting dean at the University of Missouri-Columbia and director of research for the Reynolds Journalism Institute there, is directing this project. During this grant, an academic team, led by the University of Missouri School of Journalism, will develop a comprehensive description of alternative community news models in the United States. The variety of new digital media news sites in 52 cities will be analyzed for the type of stories they cover, to create a more complete picture of the scope and quality of emerging digital news in these cities. The final report from the project would provide a more comprehensive picture of alternative community news innovations.
George Washington University (Earmark: George Washington University)125,000.00428--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4131-- Grant period: 08/01/2007 - 08/01/2010; goal: To launch the first phase of a new approach to starting student media by establishing Media Clubs in Philadelphia Retired Washington Post columnist Dorothy Gilliam is working with The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs to improve high school journalism. With Knight grants, GW developed the Prime Movers program, recruiting more experienced journalists, especially women and people of color, in partnership with young ones, to start or revitalize high school media, especially in schools with high populations of students of color. This grant will bring to a total 24 the number of media clubs created in Philadelphia high schools. Participating students will be taught by teachers trained by the Prime Movers program and mentored by Prime Mover-trained professional journalists and interns from Temple University’s School of Communications. It is expected that this program will create motivated mentors, get high school students of color interested in journalism careers and help retain young journalists in newsrooms, especially women and people of color.
Bay Area Video Coalition (Earmark: PBS Mediashift Idealab)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4152-- Grant period: 08/01/2007 - 12/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a section of the PBS MediaShift blog devoted to community news experiments.
Marshall University Research Corporation (Earmark: Marshall University Research Corporation)15,000.00846--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4161-- Grant period: 08/01/2007 - 08/01/2008; goal: To create a blog on covering nonprofits for Knight training alumni Professor Burnis Morris directs a program at Marshall University to train journalists how to cover nonprofits. Journalists and the public know little about nonprofits and philanthropy. Yet the U.S. nonprofit sector is the sixth largest economy in the world, with assets of $1.76 trillion. This grant will enable Professor Burnis Morris to create and run the first blog for journalists who cover nonprofits and philanthropy issues. Alumni from training courses at the University of Maryland’s Knight Center for Specialized Journalism will participate.
TCC Group (Earmark: Journalism Training)450,000.00112--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4068-- Grant period: 07/01/2007 - 07/31/2009; goal: To train journalism leaders and strengthen their nonprofit professional groups The TCC Group is a 25-year-old for-profit management consulting firm that works with funders and nonprofit organizations. During the next two years, this project will strengthen from 24 to 28 journalism and nonprofit groups, selected by Knight and a partnership of three other funders, by building their organizational and fund-raising capacity through technical assistance and capacity and challenge grants. These groups will include a mix of those working in Knight priority areas. By the end of the grant period, it is expected that each of the organizations will have strengthened its leadership, increased its organizational capacity and diversified its sources of funding, particularly from individuals, to promote greater sustainability. TCC will analyze their strengths and results and document success stories. Ultimately, the project hopes to strengthen these groups, which have been an important part of the professionalism of journalism in the United States.
WNYC Radio (Earmark: Taking Radio 'Out of the Box')600,000.0078--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4081-- Grant period: 07/01/2007 - 01/31/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To improve a city's awareness of its arts and culture by bringing more diverse voices to WNYC public radio using a new type of interactive web site To improve a city’s awareness of its arts and culture by bringing more diverse voices to WNYC public radio using a new type of interactive web site. WNYC will use social networking and social engagement tools to “take radio out of the box” and change it from a one-way to a multi-directional conversation. WNYC will create a new portal for cultural news, trends and events, using the tools of e-mail, audio, video, live events, user-initiated meet-ups and social networking. It will create an interactive, noncommercial, social networking platform built around users’ interest in cultural events. It will give listeners an ownership stake in the development of content, while also sharing its expertise with the audience. WNYC will partner with several dozen cultural organizations in NYC, including The New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, The Met Opera Guild, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, Carnegie Hall, Studio Museum of Harlem, Queens Museum, Museo del Barrio, Asia Society, and Harlem Chamber of Commerce. WNYC will work with many smaller community-based arts and […].
University of California, Berkeley (Earmark: Knight Digital Media Center)2,800,000.0015--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4136-- Grant period: 07/01/2007 - 07/31/2012; goal: To speed the news industry's digital transformation by increasing the number and impact of multimedia workshops offered by the Knight Digital Media Center News leaders agree that the fundamentals of journalism – who a journalist is, what a story and a new medium are, and why we interact with audiences the way we do – have been upended. Journalists need to be able to make the leap to a web-first, web-centric environment. And they also need to bring along with them the fair, accurate, contextual search for the truth that defines their role in democracy. The new demand for this work offers new opportunities for the Knight Digital Media Center to leverage change in the industry. This grant will help to expand their multimedia training workshops, add new seminars on emerging technology and increase both distance-learning and on-site training for newsrooms. All activities will be marketed and branded under the banner of the Knight Digital Media Center. Program participants will return to their newsrooms with multimedia storytelling skills; an understanding of digital technology; an ability to teach others and a new mindset that will make them leaders in making the transformational changes newsrooms need to survive and thrive in the […].
University of Southern California (Earmark: Knight Digital Media Center)2,400,000.0022--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4138-- Grant period: 07/01/2007 - 07/31/2011; goal: To speed the news industry's digital transformation by increasing the leadership workshops and special topic seminars offered by the Knight Digital Media Center With this grant, the Knight Digital Media Center will speed the news industry’s digital transformation by increasing its leadership workshops and special topic seminars. The center will reach 100 journalists directly with its new work. They, in turn, will change newsrooms populated by thousands of other journalists and change media seem by millions of Americans. Specifically, center alumni will learn how to gain understanding of how to better cover news online, and gain tools for managing change and transformation in newsrooms.
University of California, Berkeley (Earmark: Oakland Jazz Scene Game)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4084-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 06/30/2008; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To complete the development and public launch of the game "Saving 7th Street: The Oakland Jazz & Blues Clubs" Re-creating Oakland’s once vibrant jazz and blues club scene as an online video game and virtual world. The game will allow players to experience the club scene as it was in its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, before it fell victim to redevelopment schemes and urban decay. Goals: “Reconnecting residents of a community to their history and cultural heritage through video game technology and storytelling.”.
Tides Center (Earmark: Placeblogger)222,000.00298--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4095-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 03/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To make it easier for people to find hyperlocal news and information about their city or neighborhood through promotion of "universal geotagging" in blogs To make it easier for people to find hyperlocal news and information about their city or neighborhood through promotion of “universal geotagging” in blogs. Goals: “Placeblogger wants to make it so simple to know what’s fresh, interesting and compelling about where you are right now, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without it.”.
Louisiana State University Foundation (Earmark: LSU: Multicultural Student Leadership Conference)0.00866--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4080-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 04/30/2008; goal: To increase multicultural journalism education through a conference that will create a best practices book and a popular web site.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Citizen Media Law Project)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4086-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 09/30/2008; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a 50-state database that will contain legal actions against citizen journalists, as well as state-specific legal guides The Citizen Media Law Project, a joint venture between Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Center for Citizen Media, is creating a set of online resources for citizen journalists. This will include state and federal legal guides; advice on business formation; and a database of lawsuits, subpoenas and legal threats involving citizen media.
Ithaca College (Earmark: Digital News 'Incubators')230,000.00285--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4091-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 07/31/2009; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create "incubators" at seven academic institutions to foster creative thinking about solutions to digital news problems Create ‘incubators’ at seven academic institutions to foster creative thinking about solutions to digital news problems. The schools are: Michigan State, University of Kansas, Kansas State, Western Kentucky University, Ithaca College, University of Nevada-Las Vegas and St. Michael’s College.
Media Mobilizing Project (Earmark: Media Mobilizing Project of Philadelphia)150,000.00382--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4099-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 03/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To develop online digital newscasts for Philadelphia's immigrant community and to distribute them via the new citywide wireless platform Project: To develop online digital newscasts for Philadelphia’s immigrant community and to distribute them via the new citywide wireless platform. Goals: “We aim to utilize Wireless Philadelphia to empower immigrant communities with tools to represent themselves.”.
New York Academy of Medicine (Earmark: New York Academy of Medicine)25,000.00813--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4144-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 06/30/2008; goal: To create global agreement of the responsibilities of government and media during disasters that threaten public health.
Citizens Union Foundation (Earmark: NY News Games)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4085-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 09/30/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To use "news games" to tell stories and engage a nonprofit news organization's audience. Gotham Gazette will produce at least three “news games” each year, for two years. The games will focus on life and problems in New York City. They will put the players into the shoes of decision-makers. Using real information about civic life, each game will show players how key decisions can change the course of a community. The choices individuals make will be tallied and available on the web site. Those choices, as well as players’ ideas and comments, will be presented to relevant public officials for further discussion. Gotham Gazette also will partner with community organizations to hold public forums with citizens, civic leaders, policy experts and city officials to discuss the results. Gotham Gazette will seek assistance from Knight News Challenge gaming experts in New York City, especially the Parsons School of Design, which offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in game design. Tentative games are: The Garbage Game, where player have to juggle cost, environmental impact and fairness to find a way to handle the city’s garbage problem. Players will become their household garbage and follow the route it takes. Emergencies, where players will […].
Tides Center (Earmark: Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker)89,874.00481--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4096-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 09/30/2008; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a citizen/professional journalism project using innovative web tools and citizen journalism practices to track Boulder's implementation of a carbon tax Create a citizen/professional journalism project using innovative web tools and citizen journalism practices to track Boulder, Colo.’s, implementation of a carbon tax.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Earmark: The School of Journalism and Mass Communication Foundation of North Carolina)200,000.00314--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4100-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 07/31/2008; goal: To expand Knight Chair activities to digital media, and hold an annual high-profile conference to amplify the chair's work.
Editor & Publisher (Earmark: Editor & Publisher's Interactive Media Conference)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4102-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 07/31/2009; goal: For a high-profile Interactive Media Conference in Miami during which the winners of the Knight News Challenge will also be announced Executives, editors, and publishers from leading media Web sites at this renowned forum, now in its 20th year, for an in-depth discussion of critical new-media challenges facing traditional media companies. The Interactive Media Conference, hosted by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek, will also feature the 14th-annual EPpy Awards, honoring the best media-company Web sites. Online entry coming soon to www.eppyawards.com.
University of Maryland (Earmark: University of Maryland)70,000.00501--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4130-- Grant period: 06/01/2007 - 05/31/2008; goal: To study the transition of U.S. journalism schools into the digital future and sponsor a conference to help Chinese media create sustainable business models.
Syracuse University (Earmark: Syracuse University)225,000.00290--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4073-- Grant period: 05/01/2007 - 05/01/2010; goal: To create a permanently expanding and independent source of federal government information for journalists and citizens by making TRACFED, a database project, self-sustaining.
Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education (Earmark: Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4105-- Grant period: 05/01/2007 - 03/31/2009; goal: To integrate multimedia into all the Maynard Institute's training.
Duke Student Publishing Company (Earmark: NextNewsRoom Project)50,000.00516--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4083-- Grant period: 05/01/2007 - 03/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To plan an "ideal newsroom" for the digital news era Project: The Chronicle staff will plan an “ideal newsroom” for the digital news era and create an online resource for student newspapers and other news organizations looking to bring their facilities up to date with new media trends. Goals: “We want to prepare future generations of journalists and consumers for an era of constantly changing media choices.”.
Duke University (Earmark: Duke University)76,000.00490--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4133-- Grant period: 05/01/2007 - 05/01/2008; goal: For a high-profile debate of ''trial by media" in the aftermath of the Duke lacrosse case.
Five Freedoms Project (Earmark: Five Freedoms Project)184,550.00367--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4035-- Grant period: 05/01/2007 - 09/30/2008; goal: To launch a new organization dedicated to bringing First Amendment education to America's schools through web-based lesson plans, Five Freedoms media clubs and a Leadership Academy that will develop a handbook for school leaders.
Regents of the University of Minnesota (Earmark: Playing the News)250,000.00176--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4087-- Grant period: 05/01/2007 - 06/30/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create a flexible-format reality-based newsgame that focuses on community issues Playing the News is a news simulation environment which lets citizens play through a complex, evolving news story through interaction with the newsmakers. Goals: “We hope to imagine a new way to compile and display the development of complex news events.” Nora Paul and the Institute for New Media Studies will provide a game prototype that uses community-based “scenario builder” and “dialog builder” tools that will allow community leaders, game makers and journalists to develop games using real community issues. Paul will create guidelines and documentation so that others can more quickly develop issues scenarios for games about their communities. She will blog about the game platform project and will write a final report explaining the process. Specifically, Paul will produce a script for the platform, a functional version of the simulation, a news-scenario-building procedures manual, a technical design document, technology documentation, a website for product building and testing and a user-friendly toolset that allows individuals to easily build news scenarios on the game platform. In addition, she will provide a demonstration version of a game based on the platform. The scenario builder and dialog builder software developed will […].
Salzburg Seminar in American Studies (Earmark: Salzburg Academy Program on Media and Global Change)120,000.00441--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4108-- Grant period: 04/01/2007 - 04/01/2008; goal: To enable students and faculty from journalism schools in Latin America to study how global issues are covered differently in different countries through the new Salzburg Academy Program on Media and Global Change.
The Bill of Rights Institute (Earmark: The Bill of Rights Institute: Constitution Day)95,000.00475--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4114-- Grant period: 04/01/2007 - 04/01/2008; goal: To teach young people about First Amendment freedoms by creating a special Constitution Day 2007 newspaper tabloid and online module in partnership with the Newspaper Association of America Foundation.
Tides Center (Earmark: Everyblock)1,100,000.0056--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4076-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 07/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create, test and release open-source software that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block With this project, Adrian Holovaty will create 10 city-specific web sites devoted to public records and hyper-local information. They will include the Knight cities of Miami, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Jose and Charlotte. The sites will allow users learn more about life around them. When they type in their address, they will get a page filled with information relevant to that address, including government records, news stories and community discussions. The first five city sites will launch by June 30, 2008. Holovaty will blog and speak at conferences about the process of creating the city databases.
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Earmark: Rising voices)244,000.00274--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4077-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 03/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To extend the successful Global Voices project to people from additional communities worldwide Over the past two years, Global Voices has introduced readers around the world to the brilliant, funny, insightful and touching voices of bloggers from developing nations. Rising Voices is our new effort to introduce thousands of new developing world bloggers to the world, helping students, journalists, activists and people from rural areas to the blogosphere. Goals: “It’s becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we’re trying to get new groups of people talking.”.
VillageSoup (Earmark: VillageSoup)885,000.0064--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4088-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 06/30/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create an open-source version of VillageSoup’s successful community news software, combining professional journalism, blogs, citizen journalism, online advertising and “reverse publishing” from online to print. Goals: “Turning independent weekly newspaper companies and entrepreneurs into an imposing, lively, worldwide creative energy that is competitive with media company chains.” Richard Anderson has received $885,000 to rewrite the VillageSoup online publishing platform from its original proprietary software to a new open-source publishing system. It will field-test this system in its existing Times/Citizen newspaper operations and in up to 12 additional communities. After successful field testing and debugging in year two of the grant, it will make this new publishing system available to anyone. VillageSoup launched in 1996 as a for-profit company that developed web applications for local businesses and used news to drive traffic to those sites. A key element of its business model, even back in 1996, was community discussion and user-contributed content. Says Anderson: "Ultimately, the publishing system will be made available to anyone who wants to start a hyper-local news and advertising site. This all-in-one solution will encourage greater citizen journalism.".
MIT Media Lab (Earmark: Center for Future Civic Media)5,000,000.003--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4094-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 03/31/2012; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To create new community news products in a major national center with MIT's Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies program With its $5 million Knight News Challenge award to the Media Lab and the Comparative Media Studies Program at the >Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Knight Foundation teams up with one of world's premier technological innovators. MIT will create a Center for Future Civic Media to test and investigate civic media in local communities. The center pairs the technological innovation of the Media Lab with the social and cultural expertise of the Comparative Media Studies Program. "We are moving to a Fifth Estate where everyone is able to pool their knowledge, share experience and expertise, and speak truth to power," says Chris Csikszentmihályi (pronounced Cheek-sent-me-hi), MIT's director of the Computing Culture Research Group, who will lead the center as co-director, together with Henry Jenkins, co-director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. Says Jenkins: "We now have more than a decade's worth of research into the kinds of online communities which emerge within networked cultures. With this project, we seek to draw on that research to strengthen people's ties to their own local communities." The Center will develop new theories, techniques, […].
American Society of News Editors Foundation (Earmark: American Society of News Editors Foundation)2,750,000.0016--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4110-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 03/31/2010; goal: To teach the next generation of journalists, increase student media and improve First Amendment awareness among all high school students by expanding highschooljournalism.org.
Radio and Television News Directors Foundation (Earmark: Radio and Television News Directors Foundation)1,200,000.0050--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4043-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 05/31/2011; goal: To increase student broadcast media and improve First Amendment awareness among high school students.
Yale University (Earmark: Yale University: Knight Law and Media Scholars)2,500,000.0018--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4072-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 08/31/2010; goal: To train the next generation's leading legal journalists and media lawyers by creating the Knight Law and Media Scholars.
Arizona State University Foundation (Earmark: Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship)552,000.0092--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4082-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 07/31/2011; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To support the development of media entrepreneurship and the creation of new digital media products through the establishment of a center at Arizona State University To support the development of media entrepreneurship and the creation of new digital media products through the establishment of the Knight-Kauffman Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University. Goals: “Growing a cadre of talented young entrepreneurs trained to harness the promise of emerging technologies, new methods of storytelling and interactivity through innovative new media products for a new generation of news consumers.”.
MTV - Dept of Strategic Partnerships and Public Affairs (Earmark: Mobile Youth Journalism (08 Election))700,000.0071--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4090-- Grant period: 03/12/2007 - 03/31/2009; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To cover a presidential election for young people via mobile media by creating a nationwide Mobile Youth Journalists network and to reuse their video reports on MTV MTV will use its $700,000 Knight News Challenge grant to empower one young person in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to cover issues of prime importance to today's youth - such as the environment, the upcoming presidential election and sexual health - as Knight Mobile Youth Journalists. Knight "MyJos" will create weekly video news reports for multimedia distribution, including online and over cell phones, and the most popular reports will be showcased across MTV's platforms. By enabling young adults to report on issues that interest them and distribute those reports on their most commonly used digital mediums, MTV will offer its audience another innovative way to be heard on today's most pressing social and political issues. Goals: "By reporting on the issues most relevant to young adults with new tools of engagement, Knight's 'MyJos' will help mobilize this age group to effect positive social and political change.".

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