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Knight Arts Challenge

An experimental contest that strives to unite South Florida through the arts has announced its 45 finalists for 2009. The group includes galleries, an opera company and an independent music store. Together they stand to receive a total of $4 million. Winners will be announced in the fall. More.

Often called the city of tomorrow, Miami is among the most diverse communities in the world. Its mix of tradition and modernity and its large and changing immigrant population offer a window on the future of America's cities. Here, in its hometown community, Knight Foundation is investing in education, leadership development and the essential cultural fabric of the region.

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The 2009 Soul of the Community Survey explores the link between residents' emotional ties to where they live and the community's economic growth. Three main factors emotionally attach residents to Miami, including openness (how welcoming a place is), social offerings (fun places to gather) and aesthetics (an area’s physical beauty and green spaces). However, ratings for those qualities remained steady – which means that something else not examined by the study is influencing the big jump in the loyalty and passion Miamians have for the area in 2009.

See survey details for Miami at http://www.soulofthecommunity.org/miami .

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Miami News Releases

Friday, February 19, 2010: Knight Arts Challenge Opens Contest, Hosts Town Hall Meeting
Monday, February 1, 2010: National Contest Calls on Community Foundations for Local Information Experiments
Wednesday, January 13, 2010: Knight Foundation Spurs New Round of Local News and Information Projects Nationwide

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Community Grants in Miami

Teach for America
Amount: $6,000,000
To close the achievement gap of 25,000 students in the Miami-Dade public school system by providing funding for Teach For America Miami-Dade to grow from 95 teachers to 350 teachers per year over five years, while placing the teachers in a feeder pattern
Friends of Bass Museum, Inc.
Amount: $240,000
To promote imaginative thinking among school children through a curriculum-based art program
Miami Art Museum of Dade County Association
Amount: $50,000
To support Miami Art Museum's executive search for a chief curator, a search necessary in ensuring the overall vitality of the institution
Broward Public Library Foundation
Amount: $100,000
To provide Creole, Spanish and English training for teachers offering computer literacy classes in library branches
Miami-Dade Public Library System
Amount: $200,000
To increase the amount of Internet access points in Miami-Dade public libraries and to purchase more laptops for public use
Chez Bushwick, Inc.
Amount: $12,000
To produce the one-week Miami residency of REPLICA, a multidisciplinary performance work for stage, gallery and alternative exhibition space that manipulates concepts of space and representation

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