Knight Foundation donations made to Emerson Engagement Lab

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Basic donor information

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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

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Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 5 145,000 236,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 75,000 75,000 145,000 145,000 250,000 250,000 675,000 675,000
Technology 1 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000
Communities 3 250,000 333,333 75,000 75,000 75,000 75,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 675,000 675,000 675,000 675,000
Technology, Journalism 1 145,000 145,000 145,000 145,000 145,000 145,000 145,000 145,000 145,000 145,000 145,000 145,000 145,000

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Cause area Number of donations Total
Technology (filter this donor) 1 0.00
Communities (filter this donor) 3 0.00
Technology, Journalism (filter this donor) 1 0.00
Total 5 0.00

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (5 donations)

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Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 5)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
35,000.005--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.
75,000.004--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6242-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014; goal: To conduct research on the use and adaption of civic technologies by examining the intersection of these new technologies and community engagement.
145,000.003--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 […].
675,000.001--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5399-- Grant period: 12/12/2011 - 12/31/2013; goal: To implement Community PlanIT, an online tool that enables engagement in local community planning efforts, in four Knight communities: Detroit, Akron, San Jose and Philadelphia Current community planning processes regularly take up to a year and often engage only a handful of residents. Community PlanlT has the ability to change that by speeding up the process to a few days and perhaps most dramatically by increasing citizen participation in local decision making. The platform will expedite community learning and participation around the local planning process through approximately 30 days of online engagement that culminates in a face-to-face meeting with planning officials and other participants Knight's initial 2010 investment in HUB 2.0, the predecessor to Community PlanlT, resulted in an open-source online social media/game platform for place-based planning. The platform has been implemented in two communities in the Boston area and its effectiveness as an engagement tool has been positively evaluated. By enlisting unconventional community participants in the process, Community PlanIT addresses the concerns of city planners, government officials and communit-y or-g anizers that too few voices are represented in important local planning efforts.
250,000.002--Communitieshttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4708-- Grant period: 06/14/2010 - 06/30/2011; goal: To enable members of Knight communities to participate in the planning and development of public spaces through the use of the interactive game platform HUB2.