Technology Grants Focus on Local Efforts

September 19, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded $2.2-million for projects that use technology to encourage people to get involved in local issues.

Among the winners:

• Jumo, a New York nonprofit organization started by the Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, for the social network it is building to link people with causes and nonprofit groups, $750,000.
• Craigslist Foundation, in San Francisco, to create a Web site where people can share ideas about how to build a sense of community in their areas, $750,000.
• Engagement Game Lab, at Emerson College, for a project to revitalize the community-planning process by creating an interactive game platform that allows citizens to work together to solve problems, $250,000.

For more information: Go to http://www.technologyforengagement.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.