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Knight's National Program wants people to have the awareness and the means to pursue their true interests. We partner with innovators and entrepreneurs with transformative ideas and the potential to achieve them. Those that merit our funding are innovators with the potential for permanent systemic change that can be replicated.

What We Fund

Universal Access: We believe every citizen should have access to today's public square on the Internet. We help Knight communities introduce technologies to allow citizens to connect.
Community Engagement: We aspire to enable all residents to participate in their communities and assume the full rights and responsibilities of citizens in a democracy.
Social Innovators: We invest in bright ideas and organizations with the potential for achieving transformational change. We help nurture an environment where social innovators can thrive.
Naturalization: We work with national and local organizations to help immigrants move from green card status to become fully naturalized citizens. More.

Contact Us

To contact National Program Officer Damian Thorman please e-mail thorman@knightfoundation.org

Major Recent National Program Grants

National Urban Fellows
Amount: $185,000
To support a national urban fellow for 2010-11 and the dissemination of research from lessons learned from the program over the past 40 years
Living Cities, Inc.: The National Community Development Initiative
Amount: $1,000,000
To support the start-up of the Admiral Community Impact Center. The center will advise professional athletes who want to give back to their communities, providing them with marketing support and helping them find the nonprofits that match their goals
PICO National Network
Amount: $1,000,000
To support the expansion of naturalization resources by using this faith-based approach to community organizing for immigrant families moving from green card to full citizenship in Philadelphia/Camden, Boulder, San Jose and Long Beach
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation
Amount: $1,000,000
To support the building of a memorial to commemorate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
National Council of La Raza
Amount: $1,210,000
To support a naturalization program to increase applications for naturalization by five-hundred thousand in Knight communities over three years

Browse National Program grants

Video

Universal Access

Digital Inclusion Summit

In March the Federal Communications Commission and Knight Foundation held "America's Digital Inclusion Summit" at which several Members of Congress and FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn called for universal access to high-speed Internet services.

Naturalization

NALEO

The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) was awarded a Knight grant to help immigrants with green cards make progress toward citizenship.

Workforce Development

The National Fund for Workforce Solutions

Knight funded the National Fund for Workforce Solutions to develop programs in Philadelphia and the other Knight Communities.

Informed and engaged communities.