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San Jose/Silicon Valley, CA
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Benevolent, crowd funding site for low income people in need, to expand to 3 cities
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YouthBuild USA engages 300 low-income California youth to become community leaders
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Building on Success, Knight Foundation Expands Support for Community Foundation-Backed Information Projects
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Girls Who Code expands tech education program to three cities with Knight Foundation funding
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Fusing public media values with Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, KQED, Knight Foundation and PRX launch Matter Ventures, an accelerator for media startups
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San Jose’s Mayfair community looks to address challenges from within
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Art leaders in Miami and San Jose join Knight Foundation’s National Arts Advisory Committee
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Community foundations increase impact by supporting local news and information projects
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A powerful new collaboration of foundations and federal agencies puts arts at the center of the revitalization of cities and towns across the U.S.
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New tech initiative to help engage and empower San Jose and Silicon Valley community
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Challenge seeks new models for arts journalism
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Mobilize.org to Expand to New Cities with $1 million from Knight Foundation
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Got Love For San Jose / Silicon Valley? It May Create Economic Growth, Gallup Study Says.
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New Knight Foundation Initiative Aims to Inspire Community Action through Technology
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Former Palo Alto Mayor Judith Kleinberg Joins Knight Foundation
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New Voices Invests in Nine Community News Projects
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Knight Foundation Names Vice President of Arts
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$1 Million Knight Foundation Gift Supports United States Artists (USA) Fellowship Program
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Economy Not Key In Residents' Love For Where They Live
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Economy Not Key to Residents' Love of San Jose
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San Jose Harnesses Web 2.0 Technology to Help Determine City's Future and Growth
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Knight Foundation Grant Gives ZER01 Juice to Power Art and Technology Network
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Dennis Scholl Named Miami Program Director for Knight Foundation
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How Much Do You Love Where you Live?
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Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen Addresses Economic Outlook
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How Much Do You Love Where you Live?
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National Trust Loan Fund Launches $5 Million Fund To Develop Affordable Housing
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Silicon Valley Education Foundation Launches $3 Million Initiative to Boost Student Achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
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New Initiative Will Harness Cross-Sector Leadership To Advance Common Good In Silicon Valley with $1.5 Million Investment
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New Silicon Valley Education Foundation Launched
Knight Blog
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Finding opportunities and addressing needs in Silicon Valley’s capital
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Benevolent: Building social capital toward community progress
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Strong neighborhood associations key to successful community engagement
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Silicon Valley Reads: building community connections
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YouthBuild: sharing a recipe for community progress
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New focus, opportunity for funding in community news and information
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Knight welcomes Carol Coletta as new vice president
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Knight Foundation goes live with new portal for grantees
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San Jose youth turn out for Free Speech Day
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Missed #infoneeds conversation at Knight's Media Learning Seminar? Here's full coverage
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Expanded commitment to community information needs
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Libraries use digital technology to redefine their roles in communities
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Libraries go from building collections to making connections
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ArtPlace announces 104 finalists for creative placemaking grants
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Knight Foundation's Communities Program strategy
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How Knight Arts helps build community by binding people to place
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Knight Foundation’s National Program strategy
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250 performers bring Random Acts of Culture™ to San Jose’s Target Pops Summer Festival
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Random Acts of Culture hits 1,000th performance
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Better defining digital literacy
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Matching nonprofits with developers, new platform aims to leverage tech for social good
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Celebrating student excellence in learning game design
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Silicon Valley reading program engages community through open dialogue
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Videos explore the role of libraries in communities & visions for the future
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Cinequest celebrates young filmmakers who inspire to create global change
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Two art leaders join Knight’s national arts advisory committee
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Teaching digital literacy through game design
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Knight Community Information Challenge now accepting applications
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Knight Foundation recognized for fostering an informed and engaged San Jose/Silicon Valley
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Bay Citizen election simulator demystifies new way of voting in San Francisco
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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
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Funding opportunity for community #foundations: Knight Community Information Challenge deadline 6/1 http://t.co/kOrE3ZhGbr #philanthropy
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RT @jcanales: Congrats, Alberto! RT @TimOlsonSF: PBS honors @ibarguen with Be More award #pbsam @knightfdn http://t.co/abUmkMjjf8
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Finding opportunities & addressing needs in #SanJose http://t.co/7soMxnDzbF v @knightsilicnvly #SV #philanthropy
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“BMe is based on a simple truth: there are thousands of black men who are assets to their #communities” - @TSatKF http://t.co/uCketrD2iA
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We're hiring a systems #analyst. Find out more details & apply: http://t.co/P8cv6Y5bY5 #hr #jobs
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Making it so that everywhere you go in S. Florida, you have an encounter with #arts http://t.co/QhoY4fxUNz The @knightarts finalists.
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How civic #entrepreneurship is re-energizing #Detroit - lessons from the field http://t.co/WiAyr9Ul8V v @leagueofcities #socent #socinn
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Community #foundations are discovering good info promotes social change, opening up data & experimenting with mobile http://t.co/a1vtIexBRk
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.@GirlsWhoCode hosts Inaugural Teacher Training Workshop in NYC to prep for summer’s programs http://t.co/JscDZuopps #changetheratio
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10 ways civic hacking is good for cities http://t.co/SRG1rtt5ax v @codeforamerica #hackforchange #cfabrigade
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MT @ccoletta: Miami Nice (and @matthaggman nice) is good for entrepreneurship. http://t.co/uw1O8rRhNe @knightfdn #socent
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MT @cksopher: Anyone working with audio: @PopUpArchive launched beta of archive management system. They are awesome http://t.co/b7COdtTRbn
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"There are thousands of black men who are assets to their communities" - @TSatKF http://t.co/FnPftf8bkr v @BMECommunity @BMePhilly
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Insights & info on applying to the Knight Community Information Challenge http://t.co/a1vtIexBRk #infoneeds #philanthropy
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Nearly $200k awarded for community strengthening efforts in #Baltimore http://t.co/mIlvx9lwpK via @baltimoresun @BmeBaltimore
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As consumers increasingly use phones 2 access news & info, #foundations take engagement efforts #mobile http://t.co/cfI6epEYgO #philanthropy
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Less than a week to submit your idea to the @CivicData Challenge. Make civic data useful! http://t.co/t0geH1yYEQ #opendata #dataviz
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Legal Hackathon supports #Miami’s #startup culture http://t.co/6nvniMExEg v @PipelineMIA @LegalHackMiami #atthack
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Mobile experiments to inform residents about #environmental issues: a look at @GrowWNY @CFGB @cleanairwny http://t.co/cfI6epEYgO #WNY
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#Leadership award winners: 20 #Philly brothers receive $200k for their community projects, via @BMEPhilly http://t.co/bc5TaOykZR
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Journalism Disrupted: @michaelmaness on models of online & print #journalism emerging in the U.S http://t.co/9FybRD9wlN v @knightakron
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15 #Detroit educators, engineers, designers & community organizers awarded ~$200k to improve city, v @BMECommunity http://t.co/6xdzDLiWKe
Publications
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Bright Spots in Community Engagement
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General Assessment Resources & Tools
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How the Public Perceives Community Information Systems
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Scene Changer: The Story of 1stACT Silicon Valley
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Youth Cluster Assessment Annual Report, Year 2
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EITC and Family Economic Security Programs
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One Economy Digital Communities: San Jose and Miami
In The News
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Knight Foundation and Fisher family fund nonprofit startup, Benevolent
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Techy girls gaining ground
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How To Spread 1,000 Random Acts Of Culture
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Voice of San Diego adds monthly print magazine
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High-Quality STEM education for all: it takes a village
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Cinequest Film Festival: Growing up in East Palo Alto
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The Bay Citizen Named Finalist in Knight/NEA Community Arts Journalism Challenge
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The Knight Foundation is bringing artists out of performance halls and into people’s everyday lives
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Community Funds Are Offered New Ways to Measure Health of News Coverage in Their Cites and Towns
Featured San Jose/Silicon Valley Projects (3 of 53)
Browse ProjectsGlobaloria
To advance a new and successful way of teaching digital literacy and community engagement to students and young adults in San Jose and Silicon Valley by using the Globaloria game design system
Zero1 - The Art and Technology Network
To build an internationally recognized cultural identity and sense of place for the Silicon Valley by strengthening ZERO1's organizational capacity and making its biennial international digital arts festival a signature cultural event
Digital Public Library of America
To include Knight-community libraries in the creation of a national digital library network
About our San Jose/Silicon Valley Strategy
The Silicon Valley region has a name and brand as a creative technology center recognizable worldwide. Here in the birthplace of digital and social media, Knight Foundation is focused on fostering an informed and engaged San Jose and Silicon Valley by ensuring that technology is used to benefit the local community. We’re looking for innovative ways to use technology for greater civic engagement, and to ensure that all residents are digitally and media literate as fundamental to engagement in the 21st century.
Also, Knight Foundation is supporting the vitality of the region by helping to develop its diverse cultural and social assets. Knight seeks to fund the kind of events and spaces that enliven the region and attract and keep residents who help Silicon Valley prosper.
San Jose/Silicon Valley Project Categories
About Our Engaged Communities Strategy
To help sustain healthy communities in a democracy, we aim to increase the ability of individuals to engage in change.
Trabian Shorters on our strategy
Staff
Judith Kleinberg
Program Director/San Jose and Silicon Valley
San Jose Community Advisory Committee
• Frederick Ferrer (chair)
• Michele Lew
• Dena Trujillo
• Sanjay Vaswani
• Kim Walesh