AKRON, Ohio – Vivian Celeste Neal, one of Akron’s leading educators most recently with the University of Akron, has joined the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as a community liaison program officer. The community liaisons are the primary grant-making officials based in Knight foundation’s 26 communities of interest. Based in Akron and Summit […]
MIAMI – Two experienced nonprofit and foundation executives – David F. Smydra of Detroit, Mich., and Polly Talen of the Twin Cities – have joined a cadre of community liaison program officers at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The community liaisons are the primary grant-making officials living in Knight foundation’s 26 communities […]
New Crises, Enduring Commitments In this space last year, you read about a new strategic plan here at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The plan suggests that the foundation’s approach to grant making ought to be as holistic as our emergency response was in Miami after 1992’s Hurricane Andrew and in Grand […]
Akron, Ohio — A $2.5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is helping to launch a community development project to create a vibrant 40-block, mixed-use neighborhood surrounding The University of Akron. Knight Foundation is providing the grant over the next five years to finance the plan, to be administered by […]
The Knights were less well known to the general public than newspaper families like the Sulzbergers, the Grahams and the Chandlers, but in the world of 20th century journalism, John S. Knight was highly respected – for his journalism values, for his independence, for the editorial and financial success of his newspapers. Clark Hoyt, who […]
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 […]
The independent, blue-ribbon Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics reported Tuesday on “abuses…threatening the very integrity of higher education” and proposed a sweeping reform agenda based on university presidents’ asserting control of all aspects of college sports. “Keeping Faith with the Student-Athlete: a New Model for Intercollegiate Athletics” is the title of the 47-page report issued by the 22-member Commission after […]
MIAMI, March 27 — At its annual meeting, the Knight Foundation today announced the election of four new trustees to its board. They are Dr. W. Gerald Austen, chief of surgical services at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; James K. Batten, president of Knight-Ridder Inc., Miami; Rolfe Neill, chairman and publisher of the Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, […]