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MLS2010: 'Developing Strength: Doing Something in Your Community'

March 2, 2010, 8:30 a.m., Posted by Robertson Adams – 0 Comments

Moderator: Steve Gunderson, President and CEO – Council on Foundations

  • Speakers: Josie Heath, President, Community Foundation Serving Boulder County

  • Leslie Lilly, President and CEO, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin County

  • JoAnn Turnquist, President, Central Carolina Community Foundation

  • Mayur Patel, Director, Strategic Assessment and Impact, Knight Foundation

Mayur Patel presented the report "Community Foundations and the Knight Community Information Challenge."

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Breakout Report 3: Universal Digital Access: Building the New Public Square - Day 2

March 2, 2010, 8:28 a.m., Posted by Robertson Adams – 0 Comments

Facilitator:  Kim Marcille Romaner, Founder, Possibilities, Inc.

Scribe:  Heidi Williamson, VP Communications, Berks County Community Foundation, Reading, PA

Kim Marcille Romaner is working with the Miami-Dade Broadband Coalition to close the digital divide in the county and to improve broadband access in public anchor institutions like libraries and community colleges. In their work, the coalition has discovered that it is disingenuous to rely on broadband penetration studies, which do not show the whole picture because the surveys are done using land-based phone lines.

Breakout Report 1: New Models for Professional Journalism - Day 2

March 2, 2010, 8:28 a.m., Posted by Robertson Adams – 0 Comments

 

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Facilitator: Anders Gyllenhaal, Executive Editor, The Miami Herald</p>
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Scribe: LuAnn Lovlin, The Winnipeg Foundation</p>