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Workshop Report: Mitchel Resnick - Nancy Jones, Day Two

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The Information Needs of YOUR Community
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008
Aragon Room

Leader: Mitchel Resnick,
M.I.T.
Scribe: Nancy Jones,
Community Foundation of Broward

Online Sources/Examples

Communityview.org – Central
Minnesota – St. Cloud

  • Calendar of events is well used
  • Focus groups showed that people
    wanted in-depth information – not being used

Becauseitmatters.net – Gulf Coast Community Foundation

Community foundations can
educate nonprofits –

Citizen academies -
handson.org

State of Today and Related
Issues

Rethink web sites – from the
transactional/informational to complete information resource centers.

The current tools in our
industry are not developed enough to accomplish our informational goals –
dashboard/portal

  • How long do you own
    an issue?
  • Do you simply
    provide information from other sources?
  • How can we adapt existing
    resources to include new voices?
  • New components
  • New media
  • Make them more
    user-friendly

Youth roles:

Avenues to give youth a voice
in our community

  • Schools performance
  • Existing school
    newspapers as vehicles

Reference Knight Foundation
grant in Bradenton/Poynter Institute

Establish habits that engage
them as youth – to continue into adulthood – their role as active participants

What can the future look
like?

Connecting people with
opportunities – mash-ups of maps/calendars/needs volunteermatch.org/charityfinder.org
– integrate people and things that they are passionate about with needs –
meaningful volunteerism

What resources do
community foundations need to move forward?

Need network/information sharing
forum for follow-up, feedback to Knight Foundation, resources for best
practices

Listservs – from
CoF

What are the sites that are
doing this? What examples can we use?

What are the essential
elements of these sites?

What are the physical places
in a community where issues are developed?

Ideas:

  • journalism interns
  • video grantee stories
  • video legacy project – why did you
    set up your Fund? Why did you choose our CF?