Digital Literacy
One laptop Per Child: Miami
"How can you pretend you’re actually educating people to live in the 21st century if you’re not making them smart digitally?" asks Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen.
Knight Foundation
"How can you pretend you’re actually educating people to live in the 21st century if you’re not making them smart digitally?" asks Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen.
Twenty men – teachers, businessmen, writers and pastors – have been named winners of the BME Leadership Award, created to honor black men in Philadelphia and Detroit.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund are supporting the effort, a non-partisan initiative to enhance transparency about those attempting to influence American elections.
Knight Foundation is accepting applications from community and place-based foundations seeking to fund news and information projects until Feb. 27.
A report finds that 'new' donors often use their mobile phones to make contributions through text messaging that is inspired by moving and sometimes distressing stories about people in crisis.
55 Philadelphia-area finalists named today by Knight Foundation include individual artists, artist collectives, community groups, music organizations and theater companies.
To support the development of a technology plan for an SMS-based mobile membership platform designed to increase the number of participants and incentivize increased action and retention
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Hope all the first-time #opera goers out there enjoy @OperaCarolina's Madama Butterfly tonight! http://t.co/Zx8jVo4y #arts
Lessons in #nonprofit news sustainability: @minnpost ends 2011 in the black http://t.co/Dqb4CGpc #journalism via @NiemanLab
500+ #Miami elementary #students receive laptops, digital training thanks to @OLPC http://t.co/1KSjncna
Funding for the #arts, @knightarts Challenge #Miami launches Feb. 21 http://t.co/wIUFbEib #philanthropy
RT @matthaggman: Day 1 of One Laptop Per Child at Holmes Elementary in Miami. First OLPC directed project in US. http://t.co/tqdJJP2i
Via@OLPC: #OLPC and #Knight Foundation launch digital literacy program in Miami's #LibertyCity: http://t.co/LIoRPhIQ
@Idit @amystarlight @ICFJknight @simonaroberts @lrainie @lbotello @gdetorres @craignewman Thanks the #FF!
RT @ushahidi: In the San Francisco area? Join us for a community meet-up on Wednesday, February 1st. http://t.co/oZAXgLCX
How #journalists are using @FrontlineSMS to innovate around the world http://t.co/OEKWEBya via @jczamora #journalism #mobile
New #Detroit initiative offers fundraising help to budding philanthropists http://t.co/X5li9Pyf @CitizenEffect @Detroit4Detroit