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Knight Nonprofit Center Announced in Biloxi, Miss.: 06/27/2008
$5 Million Challenge Grant from Knight Foundation Helps Start Columbia's Effort to End Homelessness: 06/26/2008
Foundation's Largest Columbia Grant Backs Public-Private Plan
Knight Foundation and Opportunity Fund Launch Innovative “Saving for Citizenship” Program: 06/23/2008
New Knight Initiative Seeks to Address Local Information Needs Engaging Community Foundations: 06/23/2008
$24 Million, Five-Year Project Spurs Innovation through Challenge Grants
FAQ: What's the Knight Community Information Challenge?: 06/23/2008

Knight in the News

Knicht Commission's Perko Tapped to CoSIDA Hall of Fame: 07/03/2008

Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics Executive Director Amy (Privette) Perko, a former women's basketball star at Wake Forest University whose academic laurels were just as well known as her athletic ones, has been selected for induction into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame.
Akron council to spend $800,000 on wireless plan: 07/02/2008
The City Council voted Monday to spend about $800,000 over the next five years to provide free wireless Internet service in and around downtown Akron.

The city will enter into an agreement with OneCommunity, a nonprofit technology organization providing broadband wireless service, to create a wireless Internet corridor covering 11 square miles of the city.

Council President Marco Sommerville said that the wireless corridor will go a long way in bridging the digital divide.

''This will be in a number of neighborhoods where people can't afford it (Internet service). . . . The fact is the digital divide does exist and this will give people a chance to catch up and participate in the digital world,'' said Sommerville.

Last April, OneCommunity was awarded a $4.5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its $25 million pledge over the next five years to accelerate digital access projects in 26 cities where the Knight brothers once owned newspapers.

Part of that $25 million commitment, about $15 million, will be used to establish and fund the Knight Center for Digital Excellence in Akron, which will coordinate the various digital projects in the grant communities.
Morris: Later start date could aid falling grades: 07/01/2008
THE LINES OF DEMARCATION that once separated college sports seasons no longer exist. We now have meaningless early season basketball games played the Friday night before late-season football games. We have the NCAA basketball championship game in the middle of baseball season.
City attorney decides in Mayor's favor on grants: 06/26/2008
Macon Mayor Robert Reichert can spend private foundation grants and conduct a survey of city employees without the City Council's approval, according to the city attorney. The controversy surfaced in late May, when some council members were upset to learn of the ongoing survey. The survey and other projects are paid for by two local foundation grants funneled through a third foundation, the Community Foundation of Central Georgia.
Living Cities Helps DC Nonprofit Turn Foreclosure Crisis Into Affordable Housing Opportunity: 06/26/2008
DC organization CityFirst receives $500,000 grant recognizing its program as one of the most promising models in the country for returning foreclosed properties to productive use. WASHINGTON, June 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Foreclosures, like the subprime lending that precipitated them, have been heavily concentrated in vulnerable neighborhoods. The resulting vacant and abandoned properties threaten values of neighboring homeowners, invite crime, and discourage further investment. In response, Living Cities, a collaborative of major philanthropies and financial institutions, has announced the awarding of its first round of grants, $3,750,000, to support innovative, locally driven responses to combat the crisis.