Stories of Transformation

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Even with tangible signs of recovery and a focus on the future spurred in part by Knight Foundation, the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s recovery has been slow.
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$25 Million for Newseum Honors Knight Legacy; Knight a Founding Partner
The Newseum in Washington D.C. grand re-opening is April 11, 2008.
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Tempering the Immigration Debate: An Assessment of the American Dream Fund
From coast to coast, the newly documented surge in immigrants was changing communities. Inside some of America’s largest foundations – including Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York — staff members took notice of the new figures. They sensed, correctly, that the topic of immigration was hot, and they wanted to get involved.
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Knight Arts Partnership: A Big Bet on the Arts Will Mean $60 Million for South Florida
The Knight Arts Challenge offers to the South Florida community – to all of you – $20 million in matching grant money for the arts. We are looking for big, exciting and new ideas. There are only three rules: the ideas must be about art, the projects must take place in South Florida, and the idea must find funding to match Knight’s $20 million commitment.
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A Big Job: Retooling Northeast Ohio’s Economy
A Reporter's Analysis

Since 2004, philanthropic organizations in Northeast Ohio have worked together to bolster economic development in a region suffering from decades of decline.
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Knight Funding in Miami’s Overtown: A Big Bet, a Bigger Challenge
A Reporter's Analysis

In 2000, as Knight Foundation marked its 50th anniversary, its leadership made one of the largest and most challenging investment decisions in its history. It would commit nearly $19 million over three to five years to help revitalize Overtown, a community less than a half mile from the foundation's Miami headquarters but far distant economically and socially from much of the city and Miami-Dade County.
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Akron Neighborhood Benefits From Leaders' Collaboration
Ken Stapleton, executive director of the University Park Alliance, calls the partners in the long-term revitalization collaborative "very, very strategic thinkers, bold leaders, people who aren't afraid to take risks." They started in 2000 with a bold idea to take charge of the community's revitalization with seed funding from Knight Foundation.
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Volunteer Program Sees Gold in Untapped Pool of Seasonal Talent
"The more you're involved in your community, the stronger the civic fabric becomes." That's Knight Foundation's Susan Patterson talking about StepUp!, a big experiment under way in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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News Challenge Winners Innovate with Digital Media
The 25 Knight News Challenge winners are a distinctive and eclectic group ranging from MIT to MTV to individual bloggers. The contest, open to anyone, anywhere, seeks and funds ideas using digital news and information to build and bind community in specific geographic places.
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The Arts and Culture Inspire – and Can Drive the Economy
For a foundation whose mission is to build community, the arts provide a most effective glue. In the Knight communities of Miami, Akron, Charlotte and Columbus, Ga., new cultural institutions are integral parts of booming civic revitalizations.
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Zaha Hadid Pushes the Bounds of the Built Environment
Pritzker Prize-winner international architect Zaha Hadid consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban design. As part of Knight’s series of Thought Leader presentations, she shared ideas about building for the needs of people with interviewer Cathy Leff, director of Miami Beach’s Wolfsonian museum.
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Citizen Media Observer Says: Don’t Speak. Point!
What does the future of news look like? Citizen media expert Bruno Giussani examines the changing, crowded, chaotic new media world and offers some advice on how to thrive.
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