John S. & James L. Knight Fdn

Site Url: http://www.knightfoundation.org/
Location: Miami, Fla.

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Grants:

2007: 1) Gotham Gazette, 2007: $250,000
1) Knight Community Info Challenge. 2009: $5,031,515 [21 sites: Digital Public Square ($550,000), IdeaMN ($500,000), Regional Information Initiative ($500,000), Valley Independent Sentinel ($500,000), NOWcast SA ($488,500), CommonWealth Magazine ($400,000), Raising Digital Literacy Among Seniors ($383,332), Virtual Community Library ($277,686), Community Information Hub ($255,000), Hyper-local Information ($250,000), Public School Notebook ($200,000), The Green Table Virtual Meeting Place ($188,000), Connect Southwest Alabama ($169,005), Bridging the Digital "Gray Divide" ($155,967), Neighborhood News Bureaus ($128,535), ConnectNetwork ($120,000), A Civic Blast ($100,000), Access to Basic Information ($100,000), Donor-funded News Beats ($100,000), Community News 2.0 ($87,500), Carbon and Water Footprint Project ($86,740), Manatee Connects ($41,250)]; 2010: $4,300,000 [24 sites: ACTion Alexandria ($102,000), Digital Media Center ($350,000), Write for Arkansas ($252,000), Be Counted, Represent ($72,000), Central Pennsylvania 2-1-1 ($225,000), Community News Matters ($202,000), GreenSpace ($352,000), River Partnership Online Network ($141,000), Community Information Action Agenda ($152,000), Public Interest News Service ($352,000), We the People ($72,000), Gables Home Page ($130,000), TheDuSu.com ($122,000), Open Indicators Consortium ($62,000), The Florida Independent (Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice, $352,000), ctmirror.org (Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, $302,000),
Health News Florida ($302,000), WyoFile.com ($122,000), Amazing County (a.k.a. County Bounty) ($94,400), Community Forums (Rhode Island Foundation, $102,000), Envision Bay Area ($302,000), READY. GET SET. LEARN. ($104,000), Beyond Bullets (The New York Community Trust, $62,000), KidSpeak Neighborhood News ($126,000)

2) 2009 News Challenge projects: a) N.Y. news games (Gotham Gazette) $250,000 b) Spot.us $340,000 c) Everyblock, $1,100.000 d) Web journalism (Boulder, Colo.) $90,000 3) Chi-Town Daily News, $435,000, 4) MinnPost, $835,000 5) St. Louis Beacon, $90,000 6) Voice of San Diego, $100,000 7) PlanPhilly $100,000 8) New England Center for Investigative Reporting, $250,000 9) Center for Public Integrity, $1,507,000 2005-08 10) William Penn Foundation/Public School Notebook, $200,000 2008-11 11) Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties, $916,084 (KNIGHT TOTAL – $11,244,599) 12) Manatee Connects (Manatee Community Foundation, $2,500,000 (to be distributed over a seven year period)

2010 grants: 1) Wyofiile, $122,000

Knight Foundation’s Investigative Reporting Initiative: 1) Texas Tribune, $250,000.00, 08/31/2009 to 11/30/2011 (a new nonprofit statewide online news organization); 2) Center for Investigative Reporting, $1,320,000, 07/01/2009 to 07/31/2011 3) Pro Publica, $1.010,000, 07/01/2009 to 07/31/2012

Other Grants: 1) Knight News Challenge – 2009: ProPublica, $719,500.00, 07/01/2009 to 11/30/2011 (To create DocumentCloud, a public, easily searchable index of original source documents on the Web); 2010: CityTracking. $400,000; The Cartoonist, $378,000; Local Wiki, $350,000; WindyCitizen, $250,000; Front Porch Forum, $220,000 2). The Real News Network, $249,950.00, 11/01/2009 to 10/31/2011 3) Huffington New Post, 2009: $200,000

Community Initiatives: 2009: Bay Citizen, $250,000

2011: Bay Citizen and Texas Tribune, $487,500 each ti develop new publishing system for local news sites”