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WindyCitizen.com awarded $35,000 Chicago Community Trust news startup grant
- billybob 17y agoNow let's build GassyPatriot.com!
- brandnewlow 17y agoThat was my backup idea for the domain, actually.
- _pius 17y agoCongrats!
- brandnewlow 17y agoThank you. The Chicago Community Trust announced in August it was handing out half a million dollars to new initiatives aimed at improving the local conversation. The winners circle includes a mix of universities, local blogs, and even a few big dogs like the Chicago News Cooperative, a new local news org started by well-known Chicago journalists with deep pockets and lots of connections. It's great to have some no-strings funding to work with on top of our growing ad revenue...
- jamesbressi 17y agoWow, 12 recipients out of 86 requests? A 14% chance of winning? Not bad at all. Congrats to you WindyCitizen.
- brandnewlow 17y agoThanks. Everyone and their brother applied for this. The Chicago Community Trust is the biggest philanthropy in Chicago.
- brandnewlow 17y agoCoverage of the awards: Crain's: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=36050 http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=36050 Chicago Tribune: http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/11/chicago-community-trust-awards-500000-to-help-emerging-sources-for-news.html http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2009/11/chic...
- tptacek 17y agoCongrats. Thoughts about what you're going to do with the funding? I have to imagine it's a huge credibility boost.
- brandnewlow 17y agoHiring a hacker. If anyone's interested in working with a ramen-profitable startup making waves in the online news space, check out my profile.
- kirpekar 17y agoCongrats! Are you running Drupal, Joomla or something similar?
- brandnewlow 17y agoRight now we're on a heavily customized Drupal instance. We're looking into going Django or Rails, but in the near-term, there's much we cans till do with the current set up.
- flooha 17y agoCongrats!