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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. What’s the problem? Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

The Central Florida Foundation in Orlando has announced a $70 million contribution from Luminar Technologies founder and CEO Austin Russell to create a charitable fund. More than $6.7 million awarded to Chicago neighborhood anchor projects. December 30, 2021. million in support of neighborhood anchor projects.

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Americans' Urge to Help Overcomes Lock Down Limitations

VisionLink

But, the new coronavirus pandemic has brought out another aspect of American society— the tenacity and ingenuity to work around obstacles to helping that until this point in our lifetime were unseen, namely that of social distancing. Our technology suite is in use in dozens of states around the country and more are joining.

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VisionLink Is In The News: Real-Time Winter Storm Map

VisionLink

I wanted to quickly write and share with you the local and national media coverage that VisionLink has been recently receiving in response to winter storm Juno. How does it work?

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Caravan Studios for the Win: ReImagine: Opportunity Winner!

Tech Soup

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. She's been working in the area of nonprofit technology for more than twenty years. This post was written by Marnie Webb, who leads TechSoup's newest division, Caravan Studios.

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5 Steps to Creating Effective Community Health Initiatives

Connection Cafe

See how technology makes reporting easier. A public health tool framing collective impact can allow you to create the vision of why, how, and with whom. Inspira closely examined their data and discovered that children ages 10-17 were experiencing double the rate of obesity of anywhere else in New Jersey.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Aided by technology, they gathered and shared and used data to figure out where my parents were and how to get them out. We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. Two weeks after Sandy hit, 300,000 people in New York and New Jersey were still without power.

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