Are you using Drupal or other open source tools to keep your community in the know? If so, the Knight Community Information Challenge may be for you. $24 million in funding is being offered in cooperation with community foundations across the US to help support projects that are providing local news and information to their communities in fresh, creative ways. By collaborating with your local community foundation to develop a proposal, your project could be eligible for Challenge funding. The deadline for submission is September 15, 2008.
For more info, contact your local community foundation or go to
http://www.informationneeds.org/content/news-release
For links to community foundation web sites, go to
http://www.fundsnetservices.com/commfoun.htm
I'd really appreciate leads to especially strong local news and information projects. Please spread the word!
Thanks,
Alex Hofmann
Advisor to Knight Foundation