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Knight Foundation aims to help sustain democracy by leading journalism to its best possible future in the 21st century.

Media Innovation: Since 2007, Knight has invested more than $100 million in new technologies and techniques, including in more than 200 community news and information experiments. Its media innovation portfolio seeks to improve public media, discover new platforms for investigative reporting, increase digital and media literacy, promote universal broadband access and support a free and open Web.

Journalistic Excellence: As the nation’s leading journalism funder, Knight funding has supported training for more than 100,000 journalists worldwide, and has helped to transform journalism education with the college-level Carnegie-Knight Initiative, major fellowship programs at Stanford, Michigan and Harvard and 22 Knight Chairs with endowments of more than $50 million.

Freedom of Expression: The foundation helps safeguard the rights of journalists worldwide and supports public information campaigns about the value of freedom of information and open government.

The foundation has invested more than $454 million in more than 1,000 journalism and media grants since 1950.

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For-profit companies often provide innovative solutions at the intersection of engagement, community and information. The Knight Foundation can support such ideas in three distinct ways: Expenditure responsibility grants finance charitable projects undertaken by for-profit companies. Program related investments (PRIs) fund early stage companies whose principal activity serves a charitable purpose. The Knight Enterprise Fund makes mission related investments in startups that can dramatically improve engagement with information and communities or that augment content creation.

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