City Connect Detroit

To help develop and guide a collaborative of Knight grantees in the key Northend neighborhood by supporting a skilled coordinating organization

Design Detroit Initiative

To help launch the signature Design Detroit Initiative by providing a planning grant to the key coordinating group

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall

To do a feasibility study on a Detroit Symphony Orchestra summer home on the revitalized riverfront

The Detroit Institute of Arts

To help the Detroit Institute of Arts transform its relationship to audiences by supporting a pilot project using a PDA (personal digital assistant) to deliver information about exhibits

Pro-Literacy Detroit

To connect a critical segment of the Detroit work force to job opportunities through support of an innovative pilot project that uses Internet-based literacy and training programs

City Connect Detroit

To strengthen the new Office of Neighborhood Investment program set up by Detroit's mayor by supporting a key position that links the city to the philanthropic community

New Economy Initiative

To speed the transition of southeast Michigan to a knowledge-based, entrepreneurial, creative economy through support of a broad-based philanthropic collaborative called the New Economy Initiative

Focus: HOPE

To increase the job skills of residents near Focus: HOPE's campus through support of the organization's comprehensive campaign

Shorebank Enterprise Detroit

To accelerate neighborhood transformation in Detroit by supporting equity-like developer investments in affordable housing, multi-family rehab, and other projects, and to solidify ShoreBank as a community development agent

Intel Americas

To enable the city of Detroit to go wireless by developing the request for proposal that will anchor the city's strategy for buildout

U Snap Bac Non Profit Housing Corporation

To underscore Knight's commitment to a new community development effort on Detroit's east side by funding home repair and supportive services to residents and to secure the match required by the city of Detroit and enables the project to move forward

Pacific News Service

To build ethnic media networks in key Knight Foundation markets, conduct multilingual polls and strengthen ties between immigrant organizations and ethnic media at national and local levels