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JournalismKnight Prototype Fund winners met this summer to share ideas in Pittsburgh. Photo: Michael Bolden. Eighteen projects will each receive $35,000 in funding and time to test their media and information ideas as the latest recipients of grants from the Knight Prototype Fund. Related Link “Knight Prototype Fund will take 18 new projects from idea […]
Article · October 15, 2014 by Michael D. Bolden
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otherKnight Foundation trustees and many staff members are in Macon, Ga., over the next three days for the foundation’s third-quarter board meetings. Macon is one of 26 Knight communities, cities where founders John S. and James L. Knight once owned newspapers, and one of eight communities where local program directors lead the foundation’s grantmaking. Beverly […]
Article · September 7, 2014 by Michael D. Bolden
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Arts
Hattie Mae Williams, a 2013 Knight Arts Challenge Miami winner, recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for her Miami Sites Project. The first component, of the project, a site-specific dance and film at historic Miami Marine Stadium, is scheduled for July, she said. Williams hopes to raise $4,000 for to help match the Knight Arts Challenge […]
Article · June 18, 2014 by Michael D. Bolden
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CommunitiesPhoto credit: Tom Clark. Overview: Knight Foundation hosted 100 civic innovators at a Civic Innovation in Action Studio in Miami May 12 -14 to explore ways to harness talent, advance opportunity and promote robust engagement. Tackling the thorniest problems in the nation’s communities is difficult in any amount of time, even when you attack them with the intellectual firepower […]
Article · May 15, 2014 by Michael D. Bolden
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JournalismPhoto credit: Flickr user Ernest Duffoo. You were elated to receive that grant you applied for, but then the phone calls stopped. Email responses that used to come within minutes started taking days – or even weeks. What happened? Did you do something wrong? The probable answer is no; it’s just part of a normal relationship […]
Article · May 15, 2014 by Michael D. Bolden
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CommunitiesPhoto credit: Tom Clark. Leaders in civic innovation tackled the question of how places can accelerate economic opportunity Tuesday during the first day of work of a Civic Innovation in Action Studio convened by Knight Foundation in Miami. The advancing opportunity group included about 35 thought leaders, including Carol Coletta, Knight Foundation’s vice president of […]
Article · May 14, 2014 by Michael D. Bolden
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CommunitiesPhoto credit: Tom Clark. One hundred civic innovators are in Miami through Wednesday examining how to make better cities by exploring ways places can harness talent, advance opportunity and promote robust engagement. Related Links “Putting ideas into action to build better cities” by Carol Coletta on KnightBlog “Learning Lab gathers ideas on promoting community engagement” […]
Article · May 13, 2014 by Michael D. Bolden
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Communities
A recent panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference assembled several thought leaders to discuss connecting youths from “low-opportunity” communities with the demand for technologists in the digital age. Van Jones, co-founder and president of Rebuild the Dream and former White House environmental adviser, moderated the panel titled “YesWeCode: Training NextGen Technologists. Speakers included Joi […]
Article · May 10, 2014 by Michael D. Bolden
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