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Knight News Challenge Social Media Contest = Money for Your Organization?
We'd all like more money for our mission-driven organizations, right? Well, the Knight News Challenge might be there to provide it. Here's the jist from their Web site:
We’re giving away around $5 million in 2009 for the development and distribution of neighborhood and community-focused projects, services, and programs.
If you have a great idea that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support local conversations or innovate how we visualize, experience or interact with information, we’d like to see it! You have the opportunity to win funding for your project and support within a vibrant community of media, tech, and community-oriented people who want to improve the world.
There are three rules to follow to apply to the 2008-09 Knight News Challenge:
- Use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base.
- Serve the public interest.
- Benefit one or more specific geographic communities.
You can check out local meetups of people who have participated in the past or are looking to make a submission this year, get feedback from others on your submission, and see past winners in the Knight News Challenge Garage.
The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2008 so get on it! If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, you are welcome to attend the local meetup on October 21 at the TechSoup office. The clock is ticking.
