As acronyms go, ALF is pretty good, and it denotes (an alien life form that landed on an NBC sitcom a few decades ago and) the American Leadership Forum, a national organization with local chapters, including an active one in Silicon Valley.

On Wednesday, Knight Foundation announced a partnership with the Silicon Valley ALF chapter and a new $1.5 million grant to begin a new initiative called the Common Good Collaborative.

Dave Mills, the Knight Foundation Program Director of San Jose, talks about what we’ll see in the coming year (speaker series, forums, matching scholarship funds) of this three-year grant:

What do you think should be part of this new initiative?