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Macon, GA, Mayor Robert Reichert can spend private foundation grants and conduct a survey of city employees without the City Council's approval, according to the city attorney. The controversy surfaced in late May, when some council members were upset to learn of the ongoing survey. The survey and other projects are paid for by two local foundation grants funneled through a third foundation, the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.
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A $1.85 million grant by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will help Opportunity Fund launch Saving for Citizenship—a new program that will help 500 low-income legal immigrants in Silicon Valley save money to apply for naturalization and become US citizens.
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Pending Approval
$5 Million Challenge Grant helps start Columbia's effort to end homelessness
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It used to be so simple to stay abreast of important community news and information: You grabbed a copy of your hometown newspaper or tuned in to your local TV or radio station. The rapid growth of the Internet has changed that, threatening the future of those 20th century purveyors of news (like the long-gone newsboy represented at left) while giving people access to so much information it can be difficult to sift through it all. With those changes in mind, an eclectic group representing the worlds of media, technology, business and government convened in Washington, D.C., to begin a yearlong study of how to keep communities connected in the digital age.
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People like me who run community sites (mine is MyTopiaCafe.com) often talk about "civic engagement" and believe that the community information we provide encourages broader and deeper civic participation. Nice happy talk, but there's little research to determine whether our efforts really are effective in that regard. As a scholar, I see the value in such research -- but as a practitioner, I just haven't had the time to do it.
How exactly can community sites strengthen civic engagement? Through content? Site functions for feedback and social networking? Site architecture? The personalities engaged in making the site work through these means, and more? The people who engage in action based on something posted to the site?
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