To provide access to The HistoryMakers Digital Archive of African American community members and support public programming in public libraries in five Knight communities.
Program Area: Communities
To support the Congressional Digital Service Fellowship, a temporary emergency-response deployment of software engineers, developers and designers to help Congress modernize and legislate during Covid-19 response and recovery.
To support connections across entrepreneurs and establish a uniform data gathering method for entrepreneurial activity within St. Paul.
To advance the vitality of Charlotte’s Historic West End by supporting the Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) in financing the redevelopment of a commercial property adjacent to the Five Points Plaza urban park.
To support the continued revitalization of Macon’s downtown through a second Macon Action Plan Challenge (the “Downtown Challenge” or “DTC”)- a community-wide microgrants program focused on downtown development priorities.
To support Middle GA’s first-ever black giving circle to cultivate charitable giving within the local African American community and to specifically support organizations located within Macon’s Urban Core.
To support data collection which captures attendance, demographic information and origin markets for events in Macon, better enabling Visit Macon to strategically market events.
To develop an online platform that incorporates digital mapping and immersive technologies to enable virtual walking tours around historic neighborhoods in the City of Charlotte.
Tosupport expansion of the Kensington Corridor Trust, acommercial real estate trust formed in 2019 that is purchasing vacant lots andproperties to protect against speculation in the neighborhood where rents haveincreased 300-400% in the past year.
To implement a community-centered stewardship program to make Southwest Philadelphia’s public spaces more engaging and accessible as residents increase their green spaces and tree canopy along the community’s public right-of-way.
For LISC Philadelphia to develop and implement a neighborhood plan, called “Southwest by Southwest,” and increase local community-based organization capacity so that Southwest Philadelphia residents can organize and advance their interests in current and planned development opportunities.