Last fall, we asked the Philadelphia arts community one simple question: “What’s your best idea for the arts in Philadelphia?” A record-breaking 1,752 people responded with inspiring ideas, and today 63 have been named as finalists. We believe the arts inspire and enrich communities. That’s why the citywide Knight Arts Challenge is providing new support […]
Article · January 19, 2011 by marika.lynch
Last fall, 1,752 Philadelphia artists and art advocates submitted their best ideas to the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia. Our readers have been hard at work, and we’re about ready to announce the contest’s finalists. We’ll list them here at KnightArts.org, at 7 p.m. Jan. 18. Stay tuned. The projects are inspiring – you won’t want […]
Article · January 6, 2011 by marika.lynch
Crossposted from KnightArts.org Knight Foundation’s Dennis Scholl and Miami filmmakers Chad Tingle and Marlon Johnson won a Suncoast Emmy this week for Sunday’s Best, a documentary on the elaborate hats African-American women traditionally wear to church. Commissioned by Knight Foundation, the film shot in Miami won the Religion-News category. Incorporating interviews and contemporary and vintage […]
Article · December 8, 2010 by marika.lynch
Knight Foundation’s Dennis Scholl and Miami filmmakers Chad Tingle and Marlon Johnson won a Suncoast Emmy this week for Sunday’s Best, a documentary on the elaborate hats African-American women traditionally wear to church. Commissioned by Knight Foundation, the film shot in Miami won the Religion-News category. Incorporating interviews and contemporary and vintage photography, it is […]
Article · December 8, 2010 by marika.lynch
Crossposted from Knightcomm.org By Amy Garner At a time when government funding for public broadcasting is hotly debated,’Rethinking Public Media: More Local, More Inclusive, More Interactive, a new policy paper by Barbara Cochran, offers five broad strategies and 21 specific recommendations to reform public media. The strategies include strengthening local news operations, sharing digital platforms […]
Article · December 8, 2010 by marika.lynch
Knight Foundation’s Damian Thorman is the new chair of the National Fund for Workforce Solutions, which is testing local, innovative approaches to workforce development. ‘This is a critical moment for the National Fund,’ Thorman, Knight Foundation’s national program director, said. ‘Recently, we were awarded more than $7 million in federal funds as part of the […]
Article · December 8, 2010 by marika.lynch
This week, Knight Foundation awarded $3.8 million to the newest winners of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami – and the ceremony at the Knight Concert Hall was imbued with art. Singers from the Florida Grand Opera, dressed as regular attendees, surprised the audience with a performance Toreador Aria, from Bizet’s Carmen ‘ a nod to […]
Article · November 30, 2010 by marika.lynch
Cross-posted from NewsChallenge.org Life gets busy, with work, family and other commitments.’ But don’t let that keep you from submitting a Knight News Challenge application, says winner Scott Rosenberg. Rosenberg was staring down a deadline for his book just as the News Challenge application window was closing. Thankfully the application was easy, he said. So […]
Article · November 30, 2010 by marika.lynch
Free Gospel Sundays at the Arsht Center was enabled by a 2009 Challenge grant. Tonight, 27 innovative ideas received $3.8 million in funding through the Knight Arts Challenge Miami, a contest to bring South Florida together through the arts. Big and small, the projects have one thing in common: they introduce audiences to – […]
Article · November 29, 2010 by marika.lynch
Tonight at 6 p.m., we’ll be announcing the 2010 winners of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami. This year’s winners have innovative ideas for bringing South Florida together through the arts. Find out all about them by visiting KnightArts.org after 7 p.m. See you then! Note: an earlier version of this post erroneously stated that the […]
Article · November 24, 2010 by marika.lynch
Knight Foundation’s Donna Frisby-Greenwood Now under construction: a new early childhood learning center in Camden, New Jersey that strives to become a national model. Being built on the Rutgers University-Camden campus, the facility named for the Knight brothers will allow a place for young children to learn while professors apply their scholarly research to the […]
Article · November 23, 2010 by marika.lynch