What The Knight News Challenge is a contest launched by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation offering $25 million in awards for ideas and projects that use digital news or information to build and bind community in specific geographic areas. As Eric Newton, the foundation’s vice president of journalism programs, describes it, the […]
Article · May 23, 2007 by Knight Foundation
William E. Brit Kirwan, Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, presides over first meeting as co-chairman; Northwestern President Henry Bienen and NFL Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti join Commission
Article · May 14, 2007 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI — Yale won a $2.5 million challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to create the permanent program. The challenge will leverage matches to create a total $5 million endowment to keep the program going in perpetuity. The Knight Law and Media Scholars Program builds on the Law School’s leadership […]
Article · May 14, 2007 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI — Yale won a $2.5 million challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to create the permanent program. The challenge will leverage matches to create a total $5 million endowment to keep the program going in perpetuity. The Knight Law and Media Scholars Program builds on the Law School’s leadership […]
Article · May 14, 2007 by Knight Foundation
CLEVELAND — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced it will invest $2 million into the second phase of the Fund for Our Economic Future, a collaboration of philanthropy in Northeast Ohio working to transform the economy of Northeast Ohio. “Northeast Ohio is providing a national model for other regions intent on shifting […]
Article · May 7, 2007 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI — Lorenzo Lebrija has joined the staff of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as Miami program director. Lebrija will work with local leaders and advisers to identify opportunities for investing in innovative ideas and programs. He will work with Mike Maidenberg, Vice President/ Communities Program, in leading the foundation’s efforts to […]
Article · April 26, 2007 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will announce the first-year winners of the Knight News Challenge on May 23 at the Interactive Media Conference & Tradeshow in Miami, hosted by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek. The Knight News Challenge – a contest open to anyone, anywhere – offers $25 million over […]
Article · April 2, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Article from Knight Foundation’s 2006 Annual Report While cyberspace takes great advantage of the virtual, it overlooks a hard reality. “We don’t vote virtually, we don’t elect a virtual president, we don’t pay virtual taxes, we don’t drive on virtual roads,” says Gary Kebbel, Knight’s journalism program officer. “Our lives are organized around geography … […]
Article · April 1, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Communities aren’t just concrete and steel, asphalt and glass. They can just as easily be a state of mind: an aria, a pas de deux, an epiphany in a gallery. For a foundation whose mission is to build community, the arts provide a most effective glue. Art makes tangible things that are intangible. It explains […]
Article · April 1, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Article from Knight Foundation 2006 Annual Report “The more you’re involved in your community, the stronger the civic fabric becomes.” That’s Knight Foundation’s Susan Patterson talking about a big experiment under way along South Carolina’s Grand Strand, where a potential gold mine of civic engagement exists in the sizable pool of retired professionals, seasonal visitors […]
Article · April 1, 2007 by Knight Foundation