The Knight Cities Challenge will award $5 million for the best ideas to make the 26 Knight communities more successful. Apply at knightcities.org. With less than five days left to apply for the Knight Cities Challenge, we know many of you are hard at work putting the final touches on your application! Even if you haven’t started […]
Article · October 22, 2015 by Elizabeth Miller Tilis
The Knight Cities Challenge will award $5 million for the best ideas to make the 26 Knight communities more successful. Applications are open through noon ET, Tuesday, Oct. 27. Apply at knightcities.org. Knight Foundation’s Vice President of Community and National Initiatives Carol Coletta took to the popular social media platform Reddit this past Friday to answer questions […]
Article · October 7, 2015 by Elizabeth Miller Tilis
Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen recently joined an episode of “The Open Mind” to share his thoughts on disruption and innovation in the constantly shifting media landscape. “I think that this is an unbelievably exciting time for people in the business of providing reliable and consistently reliable news to a democracy,” he told host Alexander […]
Article · August 25, 2015 by Elizabeth Miller Tilis
Above: Knight News Challenge: Election winners. Photo credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Annette Strauss Institute. Technology plays a growing and crucial role in engaging citizens with government, Catherine Bracy, director of community organizing at Code for America, told a gathering in Austin, Texas, Wednesday morning. And yet public engagement remains inherently broken; voter turnout in 2014 […]
Article · July 22, 2015 by Elizabeth Miller Tilis
Photo credit: Michael D. Bolden The following article – which provides an overview of Knight Foundation’s history and its strategic grantmaking and details many of its existing grantees and partners – is an excerpt from Private Wealth magazine. The article “Beyond the Fourth Estate” can be read in its entirely online for free. “I think […]
Article · July 15, 2015 by Elizabeth Miller Tilis
Exploring the Tiny House Hotel. Photo by Elizabeth Miller Tilis. Restaurant owner Philip Stanton jokes that running his Mississippi Pizza Pub in Northeast Portland is more stressful than his former job as a nurse practitioner in an emergency room. And yet it is Stanton’s clear passion for his neighborhood and a desire to learn from […]
Article · May 5, 2015 by Elizabeth Miller Tilis
Photo (above) by Flickr user Christopher Michael. At Knight Foundation, we know that the dream of the ’90s is alive in Portland. But it’s not the only thing; a robust and thriving public life has become one of the city’s key trademarks. That’s no accident, says Carol Coletta, Knight’s vice president for community and national […]
Article · April 30, 2015 by Elizabeth Miller Tilis