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National Trust Loan Fund Launches $5 Million Fund To Develop Affordable Housing: 08/25/2008
Silicon Valley Education Foundation Launches $3 Million Initiative to Boost Student Achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics: 08/19/2008
Summer Algebra Program a Success
Online Mentors to Aid Digital Contest Hopefuls: 08/07/2008
Coaches will help shape $5 million ideas
J-Lab Moves to American University; Draws $2.4m Grant from Knight Foundation: 08/06/2008
Institute for Interactive Journalism Joins AU’s School of Communication
Young Bloggers and Online News Users are Better Informed On First Amendment Rights, Authors Find: 07/25/2008
New Book is Based on Knight’s Future of the First Amendment Surveys

Knight in the News

Speed Networking Event for Nonprofits in Gulfport Sept. 23: 08/15/2008
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
Knight Foundation offers $24m to community news providers: 08/12/2008
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
King Memorial project announces new fundraising goal: 08/12/2008
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.
Knight Commission: What will tomorrow's newspaper look like?: 08/12/2008
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.
Gary leaders discusses benefits of Wi-Fi: 08/12/2008
The conference, with a theme of "Think Differently, Think Transformationally," was a way to give community leaders and residents the opportunity to learn about transformational ideas for Gary, according to O'Merrial Butchee, director of the Lamkin Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center.

"We'll have the opportunity to learn about wireless technology - networks called Wi-Fi. That is one of the projects Ivy Tech is looking to take on so that we can bring Wi-Fi to the community and along our educational corridor," Butchee said.

The keynote speaker was Milton Irving of One Economy Corporation based in Washington, D.C., which uses innovative approaches to deliver technology and information to communities worldwide. One Economy is a global nonprofit which "leverages the power of technology," Irving said.