Project summary: $500,000 in San Diego, Calif.
The online news site voiceofsandiego.org, the Media Arts Center San Diego, the San Diego County Library, Lincoln High School and other partners will create a digital news network , The People's Post, that includes professional and lay journalism and community-based digital storytelling. The digital storytelling feature, a key aspect, will produce reports from underserved communities through fixed or mobile story-stations dispersed throughout the region. The San Diego Foundation believes a new collective civic voice will emerge through the effort.
Recipient: About the organization: The San Diego Foundation is a broad-purpose community foundation, managing more than 1,500 charitable funds and granting more than $600 million to local nonprofits since its inception in 1975. The foundation is committed to improving the quality of life in the greater San Diego region through responsible philanthropy and informed, inclusive civic engagement. It maintains an in-depth understanding of the region's challenges and the organizations addressing them; and serves as the region's principle resource for information about charitable giving and community needs.
