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The Media Justice Fund Issues its Final Evaluation Report

Since 2003, the Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange has made grants to grassroots social change organizations to support the development of media and communications systems to advance ...

Pew Center: Social Media Provide First-Hand Accounts, Direct Action on Haiti

[Source: Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, January 21, 2010]
The tragic earthquake that devastated the country of Haiti on January 12 and killed an estimated 200,000 people inspired a wealth of online activity. The online communication site Twitter played ...

Community Radio Reaches Out in Haiti

[Source: Prometheus Radio Project, January 27, 2010]
"Much has been made about the role flashier technologies like Twitter, Skype and text messaging have played in helping disaster victims find loved ones and communicate with international aid ...

Resources: The Broadband Stimulus and How Funders Can Address the Needs of their Communities

In the Spring of 2010, an unprecedented $4.8 billion will be distributed via federal Stimulus funding for building out high-speed Internet/Broadband to unserved and underserved communities ...

Social Media and CrisisCamp Disaster Response: Humane Communications Over Human Networks

[Source: Jonah Bossewitch; January 16, 2010]Update: This discussion has now been transformed into an actual project proposal at the Crisis Commons wiki – the Haitian Video Postcard Exchange Project.

Twitter Provides a Conduit for News from Quake-Devastated Haiti

[Source: San Jose Mercury News, by Patrick May; January 13, 2010]

Social Media Aids Efforts to Help Victims of Earthquake in Haiti

[Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy, by Caroline Preston, January 13, 2010]
People interested in helping victims of the earthquake that wracked Haiti are being encouraged to text and tweet their donations and publicize their support using the new technologies. At the same ...

My Favorite Multimedia of 2009

[Source: MQ2.org, December 31, 2009, by Julie Drizin]This time of year is chock-full of retrospectives and top ten lists, bests and worsts, reflections and resolutions. A lot of hot breath has ...

Knight Foundation Commits $70 Million to Community Foundations Nationwide

MIAMI (Jan. 7, 2010) The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced today that it intends to distribute $70 million over the next seven years to community foundations serving cities and ...