Miami
66 finalists in Knight Arts Challenge
Spanning from Broward to the Florida Keys, many of the finalists are small projects and organizations representing the diversity of South Florida
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BMe Leadership
Black men reshape communities
Black men from all walks of life received a combined $600,000 to advance their community-building work as winners of the BMe Leadership Award.
San Jose
Silicon Valley leaders talk big challenges
Leaders from philanthropy, government and the arts share what they see as San Jose/Silicon Valley's greatest assets and biggest challenges.
Macon Telegraph
SeeClickFix expanded in Macon
With SeeClickFix, Macon residents can now report problems with street lights, street painting, traffic signs and signals and more.
Knight Community Information Challenge
Funding for community information
The Knight Community Information Challenge, which offers matching funding to community and place-based foundations for news and information projects, is now accepting applications.
TurboVote
Modernizing the voting experience
Knight announces $1 million in new support for TurboVote to help it increase citizen participation in elections through new technology and outreach.
Meet Our Grantees
Breadboard at the Science Center
To bring the city’s art and tech communities together through a new alliance and facility that will provide hands-on programming, plus a civic prototyping lab addressing community issues
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We fund ideas …from people with the vision, tenacity, courage, know-how, and commitment to discovery to see them through.
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50 Black men honored for reshaping their communities with BMe Leadership Award
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66 finalists named in Miami Knight Arts Challenge
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Benevolent, crowd funding site for low income people in need, to expand to 3 cities
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TurboVote to modernize voting experience for all Americans with Knight Foundation funding
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National contest offers community foundations funds for local information projects
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43 Ideas for the Philadelphia arts receive more than $2 million in funding
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New program funded to measure media impact and audience engagement
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Detroit steps up, takes Knight Arts Challenge in record numbers
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Philadelphians gain greater access to digital literacy classes, affordable high-speed Internet and low-cost computers
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Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Launches Today
Knight Blog
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Civic engagement increases with news and information projects, funders find
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Finding opportunities and addressing needs in Silicon Valley’s capital
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Insights and info on applying to the Knight Community Information Challenge
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50 ordinary men doing extraordinary things for our communities
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Community Foundations test mobile to inform residents
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Announcing 66 finalists in Miami Knight Arts Challenge
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Pop Up Archive: beta is here!
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Ibargüen challenges graduates to embrace change and diversity
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Aspiring citizens navigate path to becoming new Americans
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Benevolent: Building social capital toward community progress
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Turn civic health data to useful apps/visualizations: have impact on public decision-making http://t.co/t0geH1yYEQ @CivicData deadline 5/19
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.@knightarts finalists show depth of #Miami’s #cultural community, diversity of leaders & outside-the-box ideas http://t.co/QhoY4fxUNz
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50 black male leaders honored tmrw in #Detroit #Philly #Baltimore. Follow along with @bmecommunity #bmecommunity http://t.co/7CE8mGlkFu
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#FF to some of our grantees building more informed/engaged #SanJose & #SV: @ZERO1_ART @SomosMayfair @siliconvalleycf http://t.co/7soMxnDzbF
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Tomorrow morning 10:30 am @bmedetroit @bmebaltimore @bmedetroit honor #leadership winners. Follow #bmecommunity! http://t.co/7CE8mGlkFu
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Civic engagement increases with news & information projects, funders find http://t.co/bYdo7He9We #philanthropy #infoneeds
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#techjobs MT @bthewirz: Great opportunity, amazing team + disruptive tech @captricity is hiring! https://t.co/yScKB59riI cc @knightfdn
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Believing in power of tech & collaboration as impetus for community building http://t.co/ncY9tEKBH8 by @SFlaBizJournal v @matthaggman
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Digital Public Library raises questions of ownership, permanence, access http://t.co/CIslAm8YFy v @p2173 @dpla #libraries
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Where art & tech meet big government data: #HackForChange #Miami http://t.co/1dliYczYwV v @ndahlberg @thelabmiami
Publications
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Bright Spots in Community Engagement
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O, Miami: How A Festival Infused A City With Poetry
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Case studies: How four community information projects went from idea to impact
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Financial Oversight Lessons
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Connected Citizens Detroit: A Snapshot of Civic Engagement
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Ushahidi Kenya Evaluation: Case Studies
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Building the Arts in Miami
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Digital Citizenship
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How people get local news and information in different communities
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Experiments in Media Innovation: A Look at the 2009 Knight News Challenge Winners
In The News
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My View: ‘Miami Nice’ is becoming our special sauce
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Benevolent is like Kiva for the Silicon Valley's working poor
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Knight grant paves way for 'ecoventions' at Schuylkill Center
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Knight Foundation picks 66 Arts Challenge finalists
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66 finalists named for lucrative Knight Arts Challenge grants
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It’s not charity– it’s community, says the founder of Benevolent
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City street sign, lighting problems in Macon can be reported online
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‘Crowdfunding’ site uses donations to lend a helping hand
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What makes people attached to a city?
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Benevolent’s approach to crowdfunding lifts low-income Americans out of poverty