Knight Seeks Ideas to Improve Health

August 11, 2013 | Read Time: 1 minute

Innovative projects that use data and information to help improve public health will share $2-million in the next Knight News Challenge.

Officials at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation say they hope to be surprised by the ideas submitted, but they gave several examples of the kinds of projects they expect to see. Among them: efforts to let people track their personal information and combine it with public data to make more informed choices about their health.

Knight, which focuses on journalism and media, worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the California HealthCare Foundation, the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Health Data Consortium to design the program.

The foundation will accept submissions September 3-17.

For more information: Go to knightfoundation.org.

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NICOLE WALLACE

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Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.