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To help create a vibrant museum culture in Miami by endowing Art for all Miami, an art education program that will lower the barrier to entry to the visual arts by taking 40,000 students to class at the museum each year
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
To support LISC's national strategic shift to expand the services it provides in low-income neighborhoods and to have greater impact on their social and economic vitality. Detroit, St. Paul and Duluth will be pilot cities
To create new community news products in a major national center with MIT's Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies program
To solidify Miami as a cultural destination through development of cutting-edge contemporary arts exhibitions supported in whole or part by an endowment that provides a sustainable base of funding
To enable a unique orchestral academy to solidify its role as cultural icon by creation of a Knight New Media Endowment that will help the organization capitalize on technology and explore new performance formats
To provide universal digital access in 26 Knight communities within five years through the creation of the Knight Center of Digital Excellence (K-CoDE) and a $10 million Digital Opportunity Challenge Fund to facilitate the implementation of the program
To expand and deepen a collaborative investment to improve urban neighborhoods in 23 communities
To advance journalism excellence and free expression worldwide through a redesigned, high-impact, project-based Knight International Journalism Fellowship program
To create a new sense of place in Silicon Valley by supporting an initiative that uses the lens of creativity to bring the future into focus and inspire physical and cultural improvements
To transform the way Charlotte addresses critical issues by expanding a tested scenario planning model into a vehicle for redefining civic values, changing decision-making models and strengthening social networks
To bring a significant number of talented but disadvantaged minority middle schoolers to high school graduation and beyond by expanding the proven Breakthrough program using a "cluster" strategy