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Six ways to celebrate national poetry month with O,Miami
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Art leaders in Miami and San Jose join Knight Foundation’s National Arts Advisory Committee
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South Florida’s leading colleges and universities help make voting easier with new TurboVote service
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Dream big and give us your best ideas for the arts in South Florida
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Knight Foundation’s Tatiana Hernandez named as emerging arts leader
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Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County Earns $300,000 Grant Through New ArtPlace Initiative to Revitalize America’s Cities
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A powerful new collaboration of foundations and federal agencies puts arts at the center of the revitalization of cities and towns across the U.S.
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Challenge seeks new models for arts journalism
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56 Finalists announced in Knight Arts Challenge Miami
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Women of Tomorrow Mentor & Scholarship Program Announces National Expansion
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Knight Survey: Nearly Half of Federal Agencies Lag in Responding to FOIA Information Requests
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Knight Arts Challenge Contest Opens for Applications
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Knight Foundation Names Térèse Coudreaut as Human Resources Director
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Knight Grand Jury Prize Finalists Announced for Miami International Film Festival
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Former Univision President Ray Rodriguez Joins Board of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
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"Census" Aims to Count All Poets in Miami
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Knight Foundation Awards Infuse South Florida Arts Scene with $3.8 million
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Three Cities Use Surprising Survey Findings to Stir Passion for Their Communities - and Possibly Economic Growth
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Got Love For Miami? It May Create Economic Growth, Gallup Study Says.
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Designed by kids, built by volunteers: Knight Foundation and KaBoom! Team up to build new playground for Miami area children in one day featuring revolutionary equipment
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Orchestra Returns For Miami City Ballet 25th Anniversary Season
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Masterworks Series at South Florida's Arsht Center to be funded through 2013 with challenge grant
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Knight Foundation Appoints Strategic Initiatives Program Associate
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KaBoom! Builds New Playground for Miami's Cutler Bay
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Knight Foundation Strengthens Focus on Assessment and Impact
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Knight Foundation Supports Miami Children’s Museum Expansion With Endowment Campaign Grant
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Finalists Announced in Third Year of Knight Arts Challenge
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Knight Foundation Names Vice President of Arts
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Teach For America To More Than Triple Number of Its Miami Teachers
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Knight Arts Challenge Opens Contest, Hosts Town Hall Meeting
Knight Blog
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Seeking innovation at home by learning from abroad
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Exploring the future of social entrepreneurship
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Miami’s Ashoka office to help build social entrepreneurship in South Florida
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Young At Arts Children's Museum gets kids to create, not just observe
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Benefit concert celebrates historic Miami landmark and raises funds for Olympia Theater
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Support for arts in Miami and Philadelphia help engage community
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Bringing millennial-led engagement to Miami
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Knights Arts Challenge Miami apps illustrate growth of city's arts community
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Videos explore the role of libraries in communities & visions for the future
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@MEnista: U.S. won’t solve serious problems if we don’t tap into power of Millennials
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Two art leaders join Knight’s national arts advisory committee
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Deepening engagement in elections: TurboVote expands in South Florida
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Next round of Knights Arts Miami Challenge now open
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YOUMedia Miami builds upon the role libraries play as places of innovation and exploration
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Miami school gets One Laptop Per Child to help raise digital literacy
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Application period for 2012 Knight Arts Challenge Miami
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Knight Community Information Challenge now accepting applications
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YoungArts returns to Miami
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Transforming downtown Miami into a center of science, art and learning
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Reinforcing Miami’s position as a gateway to the coral reefs of the Caribbean
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Bas Fisher invites artists to create tours that reflect their relationship with Miami
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Peter London Dance Company helps develop the next generation of performers
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Miami launches new fundraising platform for the arts
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Uncle Luke goes to Sundance
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New works coming to the Miami City Ballet
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Celebrating the Knight Arts Challenge Miami winners in pictures and video
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Announcing the 2011 Knight Arts Challenge Miami winners
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Sounds of Sleepless Night 2011 - Miami Beach
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YOUMedia Miami: empowering teens by building digital literacy skills
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Knight Center for International Media wins AEJMC's 'Best of the Web' award
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RT @ICFJ: #ICFJKnight Award winners have set standard 4 independent reporting in 2 of world’s most dangerous countries http://t.co/vPxeKuoT
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RT @ICFJ: #ICFJKnight Award winner @kmohamed has interviewed the wives of Somali pirates to get their side of the story http://t.co/Y2QNawQH
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MT @ICFJ: Must-read: @CNNWorld piece on #ICFJKnight Award Winner Sami Mahdi’s show where women speak out abt oppression http://t.co/srfy58Aa
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MT @ICFJKnight: B/c of #ICFJKnight Award winner @sami_mahdi1TV, #Afghan women r speaking out about rape, domestic abuse http://t.co/vPxeKuoT
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MT @ICFJKnight: Winner @kmohamed has investigated pirates in #somalia & shed light on industry- was even taken hostage http://t.co/vPxeKuoT
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Congrats #ICFJKnight Int’l Journalism Award Winners @sami_mahdi1TV & @kmohamed for making a difference thru journalism http://t.co/vPxeKuoT
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RT @pbutler50: Jose Zamora of @knightfdn announcing ICFJ Knight intl journ award winners
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MT @voiceofsandiego: @knightfdn grant fueling VOSD's new mag (print/ondemand) + helping us develop membership program http://t.co/zYSBQGfk
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.@voiceofsandiego to launch print mag & build robust community supporters with @knightfdn support http://t.co/MMXI3i69 #journalism
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RT @jcbivins: Chk out @knightfdn funded ideas in #mobile here: http://t.co/62ShiYsK via @ZeroDivideOrg #fundertech #philanthropy #nptech
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Residency program for artists, writers & musicians in the Everglades, 2013 apps due June 1 http://t.co/ofKfC0KQ @natlparkservice #arts
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RT @cksopher: @knowtheory thanks for liveblogging the #newschallenge hangout. You are an apt 140 character summarizer.
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@aghilmort You're welcome, sorry we experienced some difficulties.
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What's the next big thing in digital news #innovation? #PaleyNext explores today in Chicago http://t.co/dKlh9MZV v @PaleyNext
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@andypvd Thanks for asking! @news21 is a great program for next-gen journalists from 12 journalism programs around the country.
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Have a question about the next round of the #newschallenge on data? Ask it anytime on Twitter!
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@bradleylbar We aren't archiving the Hangout, but we will have plenty more opportunities to get your q's answered.
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@PRIResDev A space should open up shortly. If you have a question feel free to ask it on Twitter & we can get it answered for you.
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Sorry for the delay, we're up & running: #newschallenge Google+ Hangout. Join us or ask questions via Twitter. http://t.co/eXWIHfcW
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We're having a few technical difficulties with the Google+ hangout - please stay tuned will update the link shortly. Thanks for patience!
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@tjl @PRIResDev Join the Google+ Hangout here http://t.co/buh6ii4Q
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@PRIResDev Stay tuned, we're starting in a second.
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Join us at 11am EST for a Google+ hangout, ask questions re next round of #newschallenge http://t.co/mzTeDM5N via @jsb @michaelmaness
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Online news site @ctmirror broadens its efforts from informing the public to also engaging it http://t.co/GnHbz2YD by @HartfordFdn
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RT @ICFJ: The clock's ticking-it's almost time to announce the @ICFJKnight Int'l Award winners! Stay tuned this evening for more!
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Did you miss @PublicLab's talk about mapping, DIY activism & civic science at #SXSW? Listen it to online http://t.co/hW0XgLPj v @sdosemagen
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Young leaders step up to help move #Detroit forward http://t.co/remQmoqr via @freepress #leadership
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RT @bthewirz: Consult a Doctor, Open English, Senzari, CareCloud...how about that Miami tech scene? http://t.co/Uawl9tbs via @miamiherald
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MT @MediaFunders: Great events: Next Big Thing tmrw http://t.co/9qsgRN02 @paleycenter & @Knightfdn. GFEM funder convo http://t.co/z14FC1tx
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Inside @the_barnes grand opening in #Philadelphia & why it's a cultural icon to be cherished by the community http://t.co/O0N7mUcZ #arts
Publications
In The News
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Troupe another way for New World’s Peter London to nurture dancers
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Beyond books: check out your public library
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Philanthrofest invites Miamians to get engaged with their community
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Turbovote, which simplifies registering to vote, expands in South Florida
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Random opera performance leaves MIA passengers smiling
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College students the focus of new "Netflix-like" voter-assistance website
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Miami-Dade students in Liberty City get free laptops
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Miami’s Borscht filmmakers soaking up Sundance Film Festival
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Local arts programs get big boost with Knight Foundation grants
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Knight Foundation grant could mean $30M for Miami science museum
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Art Basel more than arts, it’s an investment in Miami’s civic life
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Miami collector brings innovative ideas, energy to Knight Foundation’s arts program
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Big expansion, big questions for Teach for America
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Library program empowers tech teens to tell their stories
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Creed Black, newsman who ran Knight Foundation for a decade, dies at 86
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The Knight Foundation is bringing artists out of performance halls and into people’s everyday lives
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In Miami, an Alternative Cultural Renaissance
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B of A donates $1 million to Miami Art Museum
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DASH students design their dream school
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The Borscht Film Festival — considerably more than beet soup
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Two museum exhibitions during National Poetry Month find meaning beyond objects and images
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The “Red Thread” story is not subtle but the production is magical at PlayGround Theatre
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Media leaders call on non-profits to aid journalism
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Tactical Philanthropy Podcast: Interview with Alberto Ibargüen
Featured Miami Projects (3 of 290)
Browse ProjectsO, Miami Poetry Festival
To create "O, Miami", the city's first, world-class poetry festival and the first festival of its kind in the country
Urban Reef: Coral Morphologic
To support the expanded scope of Urban Reef - A series of Fluorescent Coral Video Projections across the City of Miami during Art Basel 2010
Locust Arts Builders Exhibition
To offer a total of 45 young artists enrolled in local high schools the space, time, budget and institutional support to create a professional-level visual art exhibition in the Locust Arts Builders Exhibition (The LAB)
About our Miami Strategy
Miami’s ever-evolving population – some 50 percent of residents were born elsewhere – offers a window into the future of America’s cities. While the area’s diversity is its greatest strength, it’s also a great challenge. In Knight Foundation’s hometown, we seek to inform and engage our community by bridging differences and bringing South Floridians together through the arts and educational opportunities.
Knight Foundation is working to weave the arts into the fabric of the community. We ask everyone in the community for their best ideas for the arts through a contest called the Knight Arts Challenge. In four years, we’ve received over 5,000 ideas. Funds have helped nurture individual artists and organizations, aided cultural groups in adapting to changing trends and technologies and amplified cultural offerings.
In education, we strive to help inform and educate our next generation of leaders. To do that, Knight Foundation has focused on closing the achievement gap between middle and low income kids, with a combination of metric-based intervention programs in Focused in one feeder pattern of schools.
About Our Engaged Communities Strategy
To help sustain healthy communities in a democracy, we aim to increase the ability of individuals to engage in change.
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Matt Haggman
Program Director / Miami
