Its 2010 and a new year which brings new projects and new ventures.
As previously mentioned here The Minneapolis Foundation was selected by the Knight Foundation as one of twenty-one community foundations to receive a Community Information Needs Challenge grant to promote public affairs journalism in collaboration with MinnPost. Now the project is off and running.
Known as Community Sketchbook, MinnPost will run six stories each month focused on “the economic and social challenges facing communities, especially low-income communities and communities of color, and how people are trying to address them.” Additional articles on related topics will also be highlighted through the Sketchbook.
Community Sketchbook debuted on January 6th. Click here for the first feature. The first topic happens to be about Minnesotans living on food stamps, a topic also recently discussed here.
One of the benefits the Foundation is most excited about from this partnership is that all stories can be republished or distributed, in print or online at no cost. This effort will be promoted to ethnic, community and rural media outlets who may not always have easy access to this kind of information.
We hope you enjoy this new feature.
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