Sponsors
Hands on Miami
Hands On Miami (HOM) was created in 1993 by people in search of a user-friendly approach to community service. Hectic or unpredictable schedules often make it difficult to conform to the hours most social services agencies require of their volunteers. HOM provides the solution by creating flexibly-scheduled, meaningful, direct service volunteer opportunities.
In partnership with schools, social service and environmental organizations, HOM organizes more than 70 service opportunities each month offering thousands of Miamians the chance to make a difference in our community. Volunteers can spend a morning delivering care packages to AIDS patients in a local hospital, an evening reading bedtime stories to children in an emergency shelter, or an afternoon planting native vegetation to restore our natural beach ecosystems. The HOM model makes community service accessible on anyone’s schedule. Projects take place outside traditional work hours. Flexible time commitments permit volunteers to serve once a week, once a month, or whenever they can. Our hallmark Flexible Volunteer Program has been a resounding success. Through our work, HOM has recognized additional volunteerism needs in our community, and has evolved to meet them.
Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation promotes excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in the vitality of the U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers.
The foundation, headquartered in Miami, was established in 1950. It has always been independent of the Knight brothers’ media enterprise that later became Knight-Ridder. Knight-Ridder was sold to The McClatchy Company in 2006.
The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald has been the most prominent daily publication in South Florida since its inception in 1903. In 1951, it won its first of 20 Pulitzer Prizes for reporting on organized crime in Miami.
Today, the newspaper has transformed into the Miami Herald Media Company, encompassing numerous print, online, radio, and video properties. In 2006, MHMC was acquired by the McClatchy Company (MNI) from Knight Ridder, and today is the largest of McClatchy’s thirty daily papers. Our new website – Miami.com – won the Best of Miami 2008 Reader’s Choice award for Best Local Website, and our combined web properties generate roughly 20 million page views per month. Our mission: reach everybody, every day, their way.
