National

Community Engagement

We aspire to enable all residents to participate in their communities and assume the full rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.

Universal Access

We believe every citizen should have access to today's public square on the Internet. We help Knight communities introduce technologies to allow citizens to connect.

New Americans

We work with national and grass roots organizations to help immigrants become naturalized citizens and play an active role in civic life.

Social Innovators

We invest in bright ideas and organizations with the potential for achieving transformational change. We help nurture an environment where social innovators can thrive.

• Women of Tomorrow Mentor & Scholarship Program
  Amount: $68,931
  To provide support to continue implementation efforts a National Expansion Business Plan
• Generation Engage
  Amount: $40,000
  For general support
• National Immigration Forum
  Amount: $250,000
  To support the continuation the Ad Hoc Working Group on Naturalization that has been a catalyst for bringing Knight grantees, foundations and national organizations supporting naturalization together to increase funding, capacity and effectiveness
• JumpStart, Inc.
  Amount: $500,000
  To leverage stimulus resources to assist six Knight communities struggling to become more diverse entrepreneurial economies
• University of Central Florida
  Amount: $54,156
  To support data collection, analysis and dissemination of the 2009 Florida's Civic Health Index, a partnership between Florida Joint Center for Citizenship and the National Conference on Citizenship
• New Profit Inc.
  Amount: $1,715,200
  To support the national Gathering of Leaders, where social entrepreneurs will unite with resources and leaders across sectors to accelerate transformative social change
• KaBOOM!
  Amount: $1,489,000
  To provide 10 Knight communities with an engagement program that develops civic leaders by involving citizens in projects to improve at least 30 neighborhood playgrounds
• National Urban Fellows
  Amount: $68,000
  To support the leadership development of women and people of color in the nonprofit sector through the sponsorship of a class of 2010 national Fellow to reside in Miami
• OneCommunity
  Amount: $3,300,000
  To provide funding for second year operations for the Knight Center of Digital Excellence, which was created in December 2007 to provide universal digital access in the 26 Knight communities within five years
• Independent Sector
  Amount: $150,000
  To support the Independent Sector's efforts to develop a revolving loan fund for nonprofits that are on the front lines of serving our nation's most vulnerable people in the economic recovery

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