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Knight Foundation appoints Carol Coletta as Vice President/Communities and National Initiatives
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Residents of Akron’s Cascade Village to lead their community’s future with $1.7 million from Knight Foundation
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Women of Tomorrow Mentor & Scholarship Program Announces National Expansion
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Knight Foundation Renews Membership In Fund For Our Economic Future
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White House Volunteers, KaBOOM! and Knight Foundation Build Playground in D.C.
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National designation for local workforce collaborative
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Knight Foundation-Funded Sites Gain Access To Kachingle
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed and Engaged” Charlotte
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an "Informed and Engaged" Long Beach
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed and Engaged” Boulder County
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged” Fort Wayne
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Foundation Deepens Commitment to Advance an “Informed and Engaged” Macon
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged” Duluth
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance An “Informed, Engaged” Lexington
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Knight Foundation Supports Miami Children’s Museum Expansion With Endowment Campaign Grant
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged” Gary
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Social Innovation Can Help Solve Michigan's Toughest Problems
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged” Columbus
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged" Greater Grand Forks
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged” Aberdeen
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Knight Foundation Appoints Bahia Ramos-Synnott Director, Community Foundations
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged” Columbia
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged" Biloxi
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged” Milledgeville
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Haitian Community Receives Help to Ease Earthquake Repercussions in South Florida
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Foundations Deepen Partnership To Advance An “Informed, Engaged” State College
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged” Wichita
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance an “Informed, Engaged” Tallahassee
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Media Advisory: FCC & Knight Foundation Host Digital Inclusion Summit at Newseum on March 9
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Foundations Deepen Partnership to Advance An “Informed, Engaged” Myrtle Beach
Knight Blog
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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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Community foundations look to boost fundraising efforts with online giving days
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Knight Foundation's Communities Program strategy
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Knight Foundation’s National Program strategy
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First Lady, Washington volunteers and Knight build playground today in D.C.
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What Makes People Passionate About Where They Live? Find Out More This Fall.
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Knight Foundation Partners with City Leaders to Continue Investing in Macon's Neighborhoods
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Keeping Haiti's communications infrastructure alive
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Knight announces $70 million for community foundations
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Building new economic foundations in Detroit
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New 2-County Workforce Funders Collaborative will Address Employer and Worker Needs
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Wichita's future is part of my past
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Transforming the Kansas economy with fiber, resin and heat
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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
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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
Publications
In The News
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Eric Anthony Johnson: Doing their part in University Park
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Quality of life issues produce strong connection, study finds
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Downtown Wichita Innovation Center announced
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Tactical Philanthropy Podcast: Interview with Alberto Ibargüen
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Dan Gillmor on SF Gate: Foundations have role in keeping local journalism vibrant
Featured Projects (3 of 81)
Browse ProjectsBrowse ProjectsCommunity Foundation of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks and Region
To supplement an existing donor-advised fund
Blue Grass Community Foundation
To supplement an existing donor-advised fund
Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation
To supplement an existing donor-advised fund
About our Community Foundations Program strategy
The Knight Community Foundations Program serves to advance informed and engaged communities by working in transformational ways with community foundations and their leaders.
The nature of the relationship we have with our network of partners in each of our 26 Knight Communities is invaluable. To date we have committed to giving at least $140 million to community foundation endowments. The leadership behind these organizations is not only supported by our assets, but increasingly by our efforts to ease the flow of information between all of us so that we may learn and lead more effectively.
Activating this network in this way provides Knight an excellent platform for experimentation and learning for creating more informed and engaged communities.
Grant seekers within Knight communities are encouraged to contact their local community foundation and inquire about the Knight donor-advised fund.
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Luis Linares
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