Millions Await You, Bunkie

Posted by Rod Underhill at 10/15/2008 11:10 PM
Categories: Venture Capital
A very informative tip came in early this am from my good friend Ryan of London, England:  millions of dollars being handed out by www.newschallenge.org

I took a bit of time to research the foundation behind all this free money and discovered it was, indeed, a very well known group.  I had never heard of this particular funding opportunity, so I am very happy Ryan told me about it.  There are but two weeks left for applications to be filed for this particular grant. 

Note that online records show that in 2005, for example, the fund approved 78 million dollars in grants.

If you or someone you know appears to qualify for this particular (and spectacular) give away, please encourage them to learn more and perhaps (very quickly) submit their application.

Here is what the Foundation itself has to say:

We’re giving away around $5 million in 2009 for the development and distribution of neighborhood and community-focused projects, services, and programs.If you have a great idea that will improve local online news, deepen community engagement, bring Web 2.0 tools to local neighborhoods, develop publishing platforms and standards to support local conversations or innovate how we visualize, experience or interact with information, we’d like to see it! You have the opportunity to win funding for your project and support within a vibrant community of media, tech, and community-oriented people who want to improve the world.There are three rules to follow to apply to the 2008-09 Knight News Challenge:Use or create digital, open-source technology as the code base.Serve the public interest.Benefit one or more specific geographic communities.


 

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  • 10/18/2008 1:11 AM Ryan wrote:
    Hey Rod,

    Yeah, with my research they seem really good. It seems they are focused on projects that will help local communities in particular - so any of those side projects you've got going on, apply!

    I think grants are handed out in early 2009 and winners announced in Fall 2009. Note that Tim Berners-Lee got a grant, and he invented the internet.
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