Comments on: Community Foundations and Local News http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/09/17/community-foundations-and-local-news/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:22:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Seth Finkelstein http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/09/17/community-foundations-and-local-news/#comment-151695 Seth Finkelstein Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:09:21 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/09/17/community-foundations-and-local-news/#comment-151695 I don't want to be too harsh, since the idea is good-hearted. But this sort of proposal tends to strike me as basically, giving up. It can't be absolutely disproved, and there's a role for such foundations. But the amount is nowhere near what's necessary overall. So again, it's not bad ... more like a band-aid on a sucking chest wound. I don’t want to be too harsh, since the idea is good-hearted. But this sort of proposal tends to strike me as basically, giving up. It can’t be absolutely disproved, and there’s a role for such foundations. But the amount is nowhere near what’s necessary overall. So again, it’s not bad … more like a band-aid on a sucking chest wound.

]]> By: Lucy Bernholz http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/09/17/community-foundations-and-local-news/#comment-151692 Lucy Bernholz Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:11:38 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/09/17/community-foundations-and-local-news/#comment-151692 You are right on about this. Its not just community foundations who have these interests, of course, but I absolutely agree they can take the lead. Community technology foundations are also good players in this arena, as the Community Technology Foundation of California has played a lead role in supporting community media. I've written extensively about the role foundations can and should play where media and intellectual property are concerned - www.philanthropy2173.com and www.blueprintrd.com. I also touched on it in a Insight piece in the SF Chronicle in August called "Toward a Better Bay Area" Thanks for getting this out there. Lucy Bernholz You are right on about this. Its not just community foundations who have these interests, of course, but I absolutely agree they can take the lead. Community technology foundations are also good players in this arena, as the Community Technology Foundation of California has played a lead role in supporting community media. I’ve written extensively about the role foundations can and should play where media and intellectual property are concerned - http://www.philanthropy2173.com and http://www.blueprintrd.com. I also touched on it in a Insight piece in the SF Chronicle in August called “Toward a Better Bay Area”

Thanks for getting this out there.

Lucy Bernholz

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