Knight Foundation donations made to Ushahidi

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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

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Item Value

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 3 70,000 118,333 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000
Technology 2 35,000 52,500 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000 70,000
Journalism 1 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000

Donation amounts by cause area and year

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Cause area Number of donations Total
Technology (filter this donor) 2 0.00
Journalism (filter this donor) 1 0.00
Total 3 0.00

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (3 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 3)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
35,000.003--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.
250,000.001--Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/5153-- Grant period: 06/23/2011 - 06/22/2013; part of the challenge: Knight News Challenge; goal: To increase transparency by creating a platform that helps verify information emerging from mobile phones and the social web. As news events unfold, mobile phones and the Internet are flooded with information. Through SwiftRiver platform, Ushahidi will attempt to verify this information by parsing it and evaluating sources. Working across email, Twitter, web feeds and text messages, the platform will use a combination of techniques to identify trends and evaluate the information based on the creator’s reputation. The project builds on Ushahidi’s past efforts to verify the crowdsourced information collected in global crisis scenarios like the Kenyan election crisis in 2008 and the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan.
70,000.002--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.