9:00am | The Long Beach Community Foundation, which helps local organizations through grantmaking and charitable donations, will receive up to $2.5 million from the Knight Foundation over the next seven years with the goal of fostering an “informed and engaged” Long Beach.

Over the next seven years, the Community Foundation will use the funds to assist local non-profit organizations. A Knight Foundation community director will work with a Long Beach advisory committee to guide the use of funds.

“Overseeing this important endowment provides an excellent opportunity for us to demonstrate our leadership in community philanthropy,” said Community Foundation CEO Jim Worsham, in a statement.

Typically, the Knight Foundation targets organizations that deal with local journalism or digital media that they believe provide a service to the community. The effort in Long Beach is part of the Knight Foundation’s nationwide $70 million Community Foundation Initiative, which a press release describes as “an effort to deepen Knight’s commitment to ensuring that communities are informed about and engaged in the issues and opportunities that face them.”

It is not clear exactly which Long Beach non-profits may be eligible for this funding. If you think you may fit the goals of this project, contact the Community Foundation, which lists Connected Corridor and the Press-Telegram‘s Send A  Kid To Camp as its current projects.

“Information is an essential community need, and community foundations were established to meet core needs,” said Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the Knight Foundation. “They also exist and thrive only because of community engagement and contributions. That makes them ideal partners to help us understand and advance local community engagement, focused on ensuring that these communities have the information they need to manage their affairs in our democracy.”