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Knight News Challenge: Data

Six News Challenge: Data Winners

Knight Foundation invests $2.22 million to accelerate data projects

Patient-centered innovation

Austen BioInnovation Institute

On Friday, Sept. 28th the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron is holding a community open house, including a tour of its new Center for Simulation and Integrated Healthcare Education.

Macon

Center for Collaborative Journalism

The dedication for the Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University celebrates a bold experiment to train 21st century journalists in service to their community.

Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia

What's your idea for the arts in Philly?

Today marks the year-three launch of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia, and we’re ready to hear your best ideas to engage and enrich the city’s vibrant arts scene. Apply by Oct. 15.

Knight Journalism Program

Our media innovation strategy

Michael Maness shares what the journalism and media innovation team is up to and how its promoting informed and engaged communities.

Knight Arts

How arts help build community

Knight believes the arts help build community by binding people to place and to each other. Done with excellence, the arts inspire and connect people.

Meet Our Grantees

University of Wynwood

To create "O, Miami", the city's first, world-class poetry festival and the first festival of its kind in the country

Explore Our Work

We fund ideas …from people with the vision, tenacity, courage, know-how, and commitment to discovery to see them through.

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Journalism & Media Innovation

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

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Engaged Communities

To help sustain healthy communities in a democracy, we aim to increase the ability of individuals to engage in change.

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Fostering the Arts

We seek to weave the arts into the fabric of communities to engage and inspire the people living in them.

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Knight Blog

- 9/28/2012
- Blog Entry
How Knight Arts helps build community by binding people to place
- 9/28/2012
- Blog Entry
Knight Foundation’s National Program strategy
- 9/28/2012
- Blog Entry
An experiment: Journalists at a convention take time to engage with the community
- 9/27/2012
- Blog Entry
Macon's living laboratory of journalism
- 9/26/2012
- Blog Entry
Engaging community to improve Macon's College Hill Corridor
- 9/25/2012
- Blog Entry
@michaelmaness on Knight's journalism and media innovation strategy
- 9/24/2012
- Blog Entry
You decide who should win $20,000 for their Miami arts project
- 9/21/2012
- Blog Entry
Knight's aspiration for Macon: hip, historic and prosperous
- 9/20/2012
- Blog Entry
Highlighting the 2%: the Knight News Challenge: Data finalists
- 9/20/2012
- Blog Entry
Winners of News Challenge: Data

Publications

- 9/26/2012
- Publication
How people get local news and information in different communities
- 9/6/2012
- Publication
- - Evaluation
Experiments in Media Innovation: A Look at the 2009 Knight News Challenge Winners
- 8/7/2012
- Publication
Digital Training Comes of Age
- 6/20/2012
- Publication
College Hill Interim Learning and Research Report
- 6/4/2012
- Publication
- - Evaluation
Tools from the field
- 6/4/2012
- Publication
Pathways into Leadership: A study of YouthBuild Graduates
- 5/16/2012
- Publication
- - Evaluation
KaBOOM!: Playgrounds that Build Communities
- 4/29/2012
- Publication
- - Evaluation
Social Impact Games: Do They Work?
- 4/5/2012
- Publication
- - Evaluation
Connect Detroit: Lessons from one city's efforts to bridge the digital divide
- 2/14/2012
- Publication
- - Evaluation
State of Funding in Information and Media among Community and Place-based Foundations - Feb. 2012

In The News

- 9/27/2012
- In The News
Reminder: you can apply for this year’s knight arts challenge now
- 9/27/2012
- In The News
Knight Foundation's People's Choice Award lets voters decide who gets its money
- 9/27/2012
- In The News
TEDx Talks generating buzz in Miami
- 9/26/2012
- In The News
New York Times, Washington Post developers team up to create Open Elections database
- 9/26/2012
- In The News
Knight Neighborhood Challenge grants announced
- 9/26/2012
- In The News
O'Reilly: Knight winners are putting data to work
- 9/25/2012
- In The News
Projects on U.S.-Mexico border, development in Brazil win Online Journalism Awards
- 9/25/2012
- In The News
Five South Florida arts organizations vying for the public's vote -- and $20,000
- 9/24/2012
- In The News
Pop Up Radio Archive is open-source software to help producers preserve sound, painlessly
- 9/24/2012
- In The News
The Digital Vote: states and nonprofits push for voter registration online (TurboVote)