Status update: The Knight Arts Challenge Detroit application period is now closed.  Video: Detroit 2020/Knight Arts Challenge from WXYZ-TV/Detroit

With just a few days left to submit an idea for the Knight Arts Challenge in Detroit, we wanted to share all our tips (and a few tricks) to applying in one place.

So before you hit the send button for that share of $3 million in arts and cultural funding,  you may want to check out the following:

• Three things to think about when shaping your idea

• How to present a winning idea for the challenge

• For inspiration – Winning challenge ideas from Miami and Philadelphia arts challenges (or an excerpted list from MLive.com)

And finally, Knight Foundation’s Dennis Scholl has a piece on how the challenge is building on the city’s creative momentum.