The Knight brothers’ passion for journalism and communities found its spark in northeast Ohio. Knight Foundation, a private, independent foundation, originated with the Knight family’s belief in the value of education. The father of John S. and James L. Knight, editor and publisher Charles Landon Knight, had a tradition of helping financially strapped students pay […]
Article · June 10, 2016 by alley
Assets and grantmaking Year Assets New Grants Approved Payout 2023 $2,603,180,460 315 $195,216,207 $129,821,000 2022 $2,529,635,008 270 $128,159,492 $114,141,000 2021 $3,089,444,600 358 $95,853,815 $114,231,066 2020 $2,674,252,731 381 $71,731,889 $123,809,334 2019 $2,424,843,251 488 $155,146,399 $133,711,354 2018 $2,271,386,220 425 $157,028,547 $105,335,420 2017 $2,473,340,121 623 $88,528,014 $117,929,820 2016 $2,256,756,854 482 $93,859,603 $127,865,430 2015 $2,301,502,477 599 $150,688,190 $126,796,384 2014 […]
Article · June 10, 2016 by alley
We are social investors who support a more effective democracy by funding free expression and journalism, arts and culture in community, research in areas of media and democracy, and in American cities and towns where the Knight brothers once published newspapers. (Read our Statement of Strategy.) Informed and Engaged Communities The Knight brothers believed that […]
Article · June 10, 2016 by alley
Professor Thomas Sleeper conducts University of Miami Frost School of Music students in ‘The Marriage of Figaro.’ Credit: Jenifer Day Clark, 2012. Each year, Knight Foundation’s trustees visit different Knight communities, to see and feel the work being done in the cities where Jack and Jim Knight once owned newspapers. This year, we put the […]
Article · March 8, 2015 by alley
By Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO, Knight Foundation In the decades we’ve supported CPJ at this dinner, I never imagined I would be up here saying this: There is a New War on Journalists. ALBERTO IBARGÜEN Not just new battles, but an entirely new war … a 21st century war, with blurred geographic lines and […]
Article · November 26, 2014 by alley
Welcome to Knight Foundation on Vimeo. From Knight Foundation’s offices in downtown Miami, I can see the remains of the former headquarters of Knight Newspapers and, later, Knight Ridder. The building is being torn down now, but that’s where our founders, Jack and Jim Knight, built what was, in their day, the largest newspaper company in […]
Article · June 2, 2014 by alley
Today we welcomed Carol Coletta as Knight Foundation’s new vice president for community and national initiatives. Carol is a nationally recognized expert on cities and the use of the arts in the development of communities. She will join the foundation on May, 6. Carol succeeds Knight’s Vice President/Communities Trabian Shorters, who has announced that he will become […]
Article · March 27, 2013 by alley
Today in Miami, we at Knight Foundation are renewing our commitment to helping community and place-based funders meet their local community information needs. For the next three years, we’ll be both expanding and tailoring the Knight Community Information Challenge, which provides funding and the expertise needed for the foundations to invest in media projects that help ensure […]
Article · February 11, 2013 by alley
By LIZ FABIAN — [email protected] Darlene Murphy and Kellie Jaros haven’t had an art showing since they graduated from Wesleyan College in 2005. Their collective works, dubbed “Natural Instincts,” are now hanging in the 567 Center for Renewal at 533 Cherry St. “It’s a collaborative effort,” Murphy said. “We both like to take photographs and […]
Article · November 8, 2012 by alley
Bill Friday, president emeritus of the University of North Carolina and co-founder of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, died on Oct. 12. To honor his legacy, Knight Foundation is giving $25,000 to a scholarship fund in his name. Here, Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen shares his remembrances. Bill Friday has died. As we commend his soul to the tender mercies of […]
Article · October 12, 2012 by alley