Ashoka News & Knowledge Entrepreneurs

To identify and invest in social entrepreneurs in journalism through Ashoka Fellowships

Aspen Institute

To focus the Aspen Forum on Communication and Society on issues of media and community

Committee to Protect Journalists

To strengthen CPJ's worldwide reporting network

Harvard University

To provide a top-flight U.S. education to a new generation of journalists who would return to Latin America in leading roles, with an emphasis on digital journalists

Internews

To support the digital retraining of Internews' network of 60,000 journalists worldwide

Knight Center for Specialized Journalism

To transform the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism into a multimedia, digital learning center

Knight Commission on the Information Needs in a Democracy

To call national attention to the issue by creating a high-level Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy

Appleseed: The News Literacy Project

To develop and launch Appleseed: The News Literacy Project

GuideStar

To improve nonprofit services to the media and to create a News University module on covering the nonprofit sector

ITS: One Water

To develop a new global network of public broadcasters that will coordinate worldwide release of "One Water'' and other works produced by the Knight Center for International Media

International Women's Media Foundation

For general operating support

Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education

To finish an investigative reporting project started by slain Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey