Knight Foundation

Informed & Engaged Communities

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Code for America

To support a program that increases engagement and transparency in government by asking top developers and designers to become CFA fellows, giving a year of service in city governments, including two Knight communities

Area/Code: Macon Money

To support the development and implementation of a game in Macon that uses an alternative form of local currency - Macon Money - to literally connect Macon residents to each other and to the College Hill Corridor in new ways

Springboard for the Arts Incubator Program

To attract artists to St. Paul with the expansion of the Arts Incubator Program, providing arts groups with resources and support to help them engage their communities and supporters

Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art

To complete construction of the final of the five new buildings and two historic buildings that make up the new Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art campus in Biloxi and to produce a related documentary

Student African American Brotherhood

To increase high school graduation rates and college access for at least 90 African American male students by extending the Student African American Brotherhood's network to high schools in Akron, Macon, and Miami

Bob Graham Center for Public Service

To support the Bob Graham Center for Public Service's pioneering approach to prepare University of Florida students to be informed, skilled and engaged citizens

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

Jumo

To connect people to the organizations, information and causes they care about so they can take action and connect with people of similar passions

Random Acts of Culture: San Jose

To break down barriers of access to the performing arts and touch the lives of residents with Random Acts of Culture (RAC), a series of unexpected, spontaneous cultural performances in non-traditional settings

O, 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

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)

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