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A $500 Million Pledge to Support Local News

Non Profit Quarterly

The MacArthur Foundation itself pledged $150 million to the new fund. In an effort to turn this trend around, the MacArthur Foundation unveiled in September 2023 the Press Forward initiative, a coalition of 22 founding donors set on “strengthening communities and democracy by supporting local news.” Did civic engagement increase?

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. The full keynote and presentation are below. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Online Strategies for Open-Government / Ideas from the Obama Team

Forum One

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. A tall order. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. city issues and indicators.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Senior Vice President for Military, Veteran and Government Affairs. Her work enables NetHope members to be more effective and efficient through the use of technology . Kimberly Mitchell.

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Foundation Transparency – Foundation Center’s Surprising Glass Pockets Website

Tech Soup

I found out about how big a deal Glasspockets is when I attended a local Foundation Technology Affinity Group (TAG) meeting of Northern California foundation techies who kept talking about Glasspockets projects like the hGrant Online Reporting Project , and the Transparency Talk blog. Governance Policies & Information.

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Entrepreneurship and Internet Diplomacy in the Muslim and Arab World

Forum One

In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries." We are also engaging with the Government of Iraq through the development of new web portals that will assist with project management and connecting with citizens of the country. Muslim relations.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. With economic recovery inching along, all levels of government are feeling the pinch brought on by reduced tax revenue.