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8/15/2008

Speed Networking Event for Nonprofits in Gulfport Sept. 23

Come make connections with other nonprofit leaders in a fast paced and fun environment.

Register now as space is limited! Bring at least 50 business cards!!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
St. Peter’s By-The-Sea Episcopal Church
1912 E. Beach Blvd. / Highway 90 – Gulfport

Admission - FREE

Register Online at www.msnonprofits.org under Calendar of Events
Spponsored by Knight Foundation

Office Tel.: (228) 896-2802 e-mail: lyons@knightfoundation.org
11975 Seaway Road, Box I, Gulfport, MS 39503
For additional directions to the facility, call (228) 863-2611.
Church is located on Highway 90 in Gulfport, across from Harbor, east of the Gulfport library.
Entrance at 15th Street - west of Salute Italian Restaurant & Bradford-O’Keefe

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Knight Foundation offers $24m to community news providers
Journalism.co.uk
8/12/2008
The Knight Community Information Challenge will offer $20 million over five years to support initiatives in the US aimed at using media and technology to better serve local communities with information.

See http://www.informationneeds.org
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King Memorial project announces new fundraising goal
Associated Press
8/12/2008
The addition of a bookstore and rising construction costs are driving up the price tag of the planned Martin Luther King Memorial.

The group building the memorial raised their fundraising target by $20 million on Tuesday to $120 million. Organizers say the additional funds will cover the bookstore, security enhancements required by the National Park Service and the rising costs of fuel and construction materials.

Also Tuesday, the group announced a $3 million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a $1 million gift from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The announcements come as the memorial project was closing in on its initial $100 million fundraising goal. The total raised now stands at $98.8 million.
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Knight Commission: What will tomorrow's newspaper look like?
The Aspen Times
8/12/2008
ASPEN — With the invention of Napster nearly a decade ago, the musical unit of consumption shifted from the album to the song. After a brief crisis, the music industry, or at least Apple, responded, inventing the iPod, iTunes and a whole new way of providing music to consumers.

With the invention of online new media, the newspaper industry has also seen its unit change — from the overall newspaper to the individual article. Many newspaper readers no longer consume an entire newspaper, instead consuming a variety of articles from different news sources, said Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search products and user experience. She spoke at a forum Sunday at the Aspen Institute that focused on an ongoing study by the Knight Foundation of the information needs of a democracy.

The day before, clarifying her idea for the foundation website, Mayer wondered if the static article is the best atomic unit of consumption for the online arm of a newspaper. What if, instead, news websites had Wikipedia-type articles that could only be updated by reporters and editors, she asked.
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Knight News Releases

National Trust Loan Fund Launches $5 Million Fund To Develop Affordable Housing 08/25/2008: WASHINGTON, DC (August 25, 2008) - The National Trust Loan Fund (NTLF) today announced the creation of a $5 million loan pool to help develop affordable housing in cities across the country. The National Trust for Historic Preservation promotes community development in older and historic neighborhoods.