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Four Foundations Collaborate to Provide Resources for Journalism Organizations to Innovate: 10/06/2008
Initiative Offers Low-Skilled workers New Chances For Careers in Wichita's Aviation Industry: 10/01/2008
National Fund for Workforce Solutions Selects Wichita Region for Funding
Leon County Students To Get Expanded Civics Lessons: 09/30/2008
Knight Foundation grant will support a new curriculum expected to be a state-wide model
80 Young Leaders Will "Give A Year, Change the World" in Miami: 09/26/2008
140,000 Hours of Service Pledged
Inventor of Web Announces Creation of Foundation to Bring the Web to All People: 09/14/2008
Sir Tim Berners-Lee announces World Wide Web Foundation; John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Supports Mission With $5 Million Seed Grant

Knight in the News

Knight News Challenge Among 'Cool Projects That Can Change the World': 10/06/2008
Knight Foundation News Challenge "You invent it. We fund it." This is the Knight Foundations News Challenge slogan which will award $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news and information exchange. The deadline for applications is November1, 2008. The contest is open to innovators worldwide, from software designers to journalists and everyone in between. To help people interested in applying for a grant, the Knight Foundation has created the News Challenge Garage where applicants can be mentored and peer reviewed by past awardees and some of the biggest web gurus such as Mary Hodder, founder of Dabble.com.
Quigley Builds New Chamber Orchestra in Miami: 10/05/2008
Patrick Dupré Quigley has been performing music for as long as he can remember: in church, hymns lent gravitas to the ritual of Catholic mass; in school, piano lessons and choir practice filled his afternoons; on road trips to visit his grandparents as a child, songs made the hours pass quickly.

But it wasn't until his sophomore year at the University of Notre Dame, after changing majors from chemical engineering to political science and, finally, to music, that Quigley decided to make music his life's work.

''It was something that I was realizing more and more that I simply couldn't live without,'' says Quigley, founder of Miami's professional chamber choir, Seraphic Fire. ``Could I be happy doing something other than music? Maybe, but probably not.''
City Year in Miami: Role Models Help Young Students: 10/05/2008
With the launch of City Year Miami, 80 uniformed young adults have committed to serve our city, working full-time in Miami-Dade County public elementary schools, tutoring and mentoring children and giving much-needed help to overworked after-school programs, vacation camps and other aspects of overextended schools. They'll even be trained as emergency volunteers to assist when the next hurricane strikes. Think of it as a Peace Corps for the United States. The young adults' diversity and age -- 17 to 24 -- give them a unique ability to connect with the children they mentor and give these kids someone to look up to.
PACES helps overcome hurdles: 10/02/2008
For those who want an aircraft job but don't have what it takes: Take heart. A new program has been created to help people overcome the hurdles blocking them from those jobs. The program, called the Preparation for Aviation Career Employment System, PACES for short, was announced Wednesday at Wichita Area Technical College.
Our Opinion: Responsibility is the root of civics education: 10/02/2008
Libraries, media centers and advocates of freedom of expression this week are celebrating Banned Books Week. In the 26 years since the annual event was launched, more than 1,000 books have been challenged across the country — 400 last year alone, according to the American Library Association