Knight Gives $2.2-Million to Data Projects

October 14, 2012 | Read Time: 1 minute

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $2.2-million to six projects designed to make data about important issues available to the public.

Among the winners:

• LocalData, a project created by three Code for America fellows, was awarded $300,000 to create tools that communities can use to collect data on paper or via smartphone and then export or visualize the information.

• Safecast, an online effort that provided radiation data after the 2011 earthquake in Japan, has received $400,000 to create a real-time map of air quality in U.S. cities, starting in Los Angeles.

• Open Elections, a project to create the first free, comprehensive source of U.S. election results, was awarded $200,000.

For more information: Go to knightfoundation.org.

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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.