1st ACT Silicon Valley

To help launch a new vision for Silicon Valley by supporting development of a focused plan aimed at making downtown San Jose a more viable, fun and pedestrian-friendly place

1st ACT Silicon Valley

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

Alum Rock Counseling Center

To provide both referral and intensive case management/mental health intervention services for up to 280 low-income families with children 0-5 years residing in the Mayfair neighborhood of East San Jose

American Leadership Forum: Common Good Collaborative

To seed a change from individual to collaborative activity by funding the ALF Network Development Fund and co-creating the Common Good Collaborative

Arts4School

To expand the "Arts4School" program already in place in East Palo Alto's Costaño Elementary School and to replicate it in east San Jose's Lyndale Elementary School

Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley

For 45 ballet school scholarships for underserved students

C.E.O. Women - Creating Economic Opportunities For Women

To make C.E.O. Women's economic opportunity program available to immigrant and refugee women of San Jose and eventually to other communities

Center for Economic Progress

To support the National Community Tax Coalition in providing intensive technical assistance and cross-community learning opportunities to organizations running Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)/Prosperity Campaigns in up to 10 Knight communities

Choices for Children

To connect unlicensed child care providers and disenfranchised families to child development resources using community-based resources and culturally-based approaches

Cinequest: Picture the Possibilities

For year one of Cinequest's three-year project "Picture the Possibilities" ("PTP") to empower youth with the tools, mentors and experience needed to turn their stories into films while challenging them to drive change in their communities

Community PlanIT

To implement Community PlanIT, an online tool that enables engagement in local community planning efforts, in four Knight communities: Detroit, Akron, San Jose and Philadelphia

Digital Public Library of America

To include Knight-community libraries in the creation of a national digital library network