2007 Grantees

NewCastleNOW.org

http://www.newcastlenow.org/

Chappaqua, N.Y.

A weekly cyber newspaper built from citizen-generated content for the Chappaqua area in Westchester County, N.Y., which has lost its local newspaper. The project is spearheaded by volunteers under the auspices of the Friends of the Chappaqua Library.

Vermont Climate Witness

http://www.vermontclimatewitness.org/

Tamarack Productions, Burlington, Vt.

To create a map-based interactive experience to track how residents see climate change affecting the state’s economy, from fall foliage and maple syrup to skiing. Tamarack Productions, a nonprofit environmental awareness organization, will work with the Vermont Natural Resources Council to develop user content and create Google Map mash-ups to help users visualize weather data and real-time weather indicators.

NeighborMedia

http://www.cctvcambridge.org/neighbormedia

Cambridge Community Television, Cambridge, Mass.

An innovative citizen journalism initiative empowers local residents to use technology to bring attention to issues in their community that they deem newsworthy.  NeighborMedia’s nine citizen journalists, based in all of Cambridge’s zip codes, are using a unique combination of web and television media to promote community events, alert neighbors to proposed development, and explore difficult issues like violence and racism.  NeighborMedia content is available for viewing on the web at www.ccvcambridge.org/neighbormedia and on CCTV’s community cable channels.

Greater Fulton News

http://greaterfultonnews.org/

School of Mass Communications, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.

To train local citizen journalists and build a news and information portal for Fulton Hill, a low-income neighborhood in Richmond, Va. Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Mass Communications will work with the Fulton Hill Neighborhood Resource Center to help local residents produce stories, photos, audio, video and a Fulton Hill wiki.

The Eminent Domain

http://theeminentdomain.org/

Pratt Center for Community Development, Brooklyn, N.Y.

TheEminentDomain.org is a news, information and networking resource for New Yorkers working to influence the shape of their neighborhoods and make sure that development is an asset to their communities, not a force for displacement and destruction. The site aggregates local real estate development news, offers original reporting and analysis, discussion forums, and a calendar of community meetings and public hearings about Harlem (Manhattan), Coney Island (Brooklyn), and Kingsbridge Armory (the Bronx).

Bilingual Interactive Environmental Journalism

http://www.ourtahoe.org/

Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada - Reno, Reno, Nev.

A Spanish language newsletter and Web site highlight issues of importance to the Latino population in North Lake Tahoe. Environmental concerns are just part of the challenges this community deals with; employment, economics, housing, and community cohesion are closely related. Several Latino residents are writing regularly for the publication, which is distributed in the Kings Beach and Incline Village communities.

St Paul City Newsdesk

http://www.spnn.org/departments/access/saintpaulnewsdesk.html

Saint Paul Neighborhood Network, St. Paul, Minn.

To create and pay for a network of citizen journalists to cover neighborhood and municipal news for use by media outlets throughout the Twin Cities. Network stories, videos and radio pieces will be published on the St. Paul Neighborhood Network cable-access television web site and on the Twin Cities Daily Planet site.

Anansi’s Web

http://www.sl-goml.blogspot.com/

Central District Organization, Gary, Ind.

To build a news and information hotline for Gary, Ind., accessed via web, phone, mobile text messaging and mailing lists to supplement available media. Content will be generated by students and young professionals and coordinated by the Central District Organization, a group led by young professionals who have returned to Gary to live.

News Desk on Access SF

http://accessf.org/guide/partners/newsdesk/index.php

Access SF, San Francisco, Calif.

To train San Francisco nonprofits to produce a monthly community news program with a neighborhood focus for cable access television and video blogs. Five special interest desks will produce stories targeting youth, LGBT issues, arts and culture, age and disabilities, and multi-lingual stories. Each special interest desk will have its own video blog, supported by Access SF, the city’s community television corporation.

Northwest Community Radio Network Collaborative Newscast

http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/communityradio

Reclaim the Media, Seattle, Wash.

To launch an hour-long, weekly newscast culled from the best public affairs programming produced by more than 40, often-isolated community, college and independent radio stations throughout the Pacific Northwest. Seattle-based Reclaim the Media will use the newscast to anchor a new content-sharing network that will expand the pool of regional news and programming for local audiences.

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