The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed four local community leaders to its Miami Community Advisory Committee.
Miami’s appointed advisers are: Robert Barlick, Goldman Sachs & Co.; Joseph T. Natoli, senior vice president of business and finance and chief financial officer, University of Miami; Javier Alberto Soto, vice president and general counsel, Dutko Worldwide; and Rosa Sugrañes, chairman, Iberia Tiles.
“We’re quite fortunate to be able to tap the community insights and knowledge of these community leaders,” said Lorenzo Lebrija, the foundation’s program director for Miami. “They enable us to better serve our community.”
Miami is one of 26 U.S. cities and towns served by Knight Foundation, a $2.5 billion national foundation with local roots where the Knight brothers owned newspapers in their lifetimes.
Community Advisory Committee members are an integral part of Knight Foundation’s grant-making work. Each committee is a small group of creative, connected and strategic advisers who work with Lebrija and other program directors to discover opportunities that produce maximum impact and lasting change in the communities they serve.
As one of the most diverse cities in the world, Miami’s future boasts potential to be global leader and a center not only for business, but also arts and culture. Knight Foundation hopes to use this diversity to unite Miami and move it forward by focusing on three funding areas: arts, education and investment in the development of the community’s leadership.
“With Rosa Sugrañes as our chair and the considerable connections of the members of our community advisory committee we expect to seek out unique ideas that can help transform Miami,” added Lebrija.
About Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation promotes journalism excellence worldwide and invests in the vitality of Miami and 25 other communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight Foundation supports ideas and projects that create transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.