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- EIN 65-0464177
- (305) 908-2600
- 200 S. Biscayne Blvd. Suite 3300 Miami FL 33131 USA
- http://www.knightfoundation.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Philanthropy, Private Independent Foundations
Programs: Civic innovation: to nurture, advance promote civic innovations that accelerate talent, opportunity and robust engagement to create successful communities. There are two major components: 1. The city observatory is a website and urban think tank devoted to data-driven analysis of knight communities and cities more broadly and the policies that shape them. The website features posts that tackle misconceptions about cities, breaks down the latest urban research, highlights the innovative ideas that strengthen communities, and interprets how trends and new research relates to knight communities 2. A civic innovation in action studio held in may in miami. The gathering brings together a mix of researchers, designers and urban practitioners to answer key questions around harnessing talent, advancing opportunity and promoting robust engagement. Community information initiative:the knight community information challenge (kcic) helps community and place-based foundations play leading roles in meeting their community's information needs. There are two major components: 1) "deep dive" support of four successful community information projects, - which helps them to scale and share their insights with both foundations and communities and 2) an annual media learning seminar which brings together community and place-based foundation leaders with journalism and technology experts.