Published March 30, 2001 by Knight Foundation
Recent investigations by federal officials found more than 800 web sites and newsgroups with questionable information about six major medical conditions. The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against 44 stock promoters that paid online investment “experts” to rave about their companies’ stocks. Concerns about developments such as these have led Knight Foundation to […]
Published March 13, 2001 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI – With recent research showing that unsupervised youth are a problem in communities across the nation, five new local projects funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will address ways to end youth violence and promote youth development. By providing young people with constructive after-school programs and workshops, the new projects […]
Published October 11, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has released new Community Indicators resources to help its nonprofit partners and others in their work to strengthen communities.The Foundation has created detailed “community profiles” for each of its 26 communities of interest, plus an overview profile that summarizes key indicators across the 26 disparate […]
Published October 11, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has released new Community Indicators resources to help its nonprofit partners and others in their work to strengthen communities.The Foundation has created detailed “community profiles” for each of its 26 communities of interest, plus an overview profile that summarizes key indicators across the 26 disparate […]
Published October 10, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI — Paul Grogan, vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard University, and Cesar Alvarez, president and CEO of the law firm Greenberg Traurig, have been elected to the board of trustees of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Paul Grogan, 50, was appointed to the external relations post at […]
Published October 10, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI — Paul Grogan, vice president for Government, Community and Public Affairs at Harvard University, and Cesar Alvarez, president and CEO of the law firm Greenberg Traurig, have been elected to the board of trustees of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Paul Grogan, 50, was appointed to the external relations post at […]
Published September 26, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI – Two new tenured teaching posts in the Knight Chair in Journalism program, one awarded to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the other to the University of California-Berkeley, head the list of new journalism grants by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In all, Knight foundation’s trustees approved 25 journalism grants […]
Published September 26, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI – Two new tenured teaching posts in the Knight Chair in Journalism program, one awarded to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the other to the University of California-Berkeley, head the list of new journalism grants by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In all, Knight foundation’s trustees approved 25 journalism grants […]
Published June 13, 2000 by Knight Foundation
AKRON – At a 50th anniversary dinner celebrating historic ties to the Akron community, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced 17 grants totaling more than $10 million to an array of local nonprofit organizations Monday night (June 12). A crowd of more than 250 at the John S. Knight Center watched as […]
Published June 1, 2000 by Knight Foundation
A decade after publishing a seminal series of reports that led to the restructuring of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics will reassemble to take stock of the state of college athletics. The original members of the commission have agreed to reconvene beginning later this summer, conduct hearings and […]
Published June 1, 2000 by Knight Foundation
A decade after publishing a seminal series of reports that led to the restructuring of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics will reassemble to take stock of the state of college athletics. The original members of the commission have agreed to reconvene beginning later this summer, conduct hearings and […]