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John S. and James L. Knight FoundationKnight FoundationCommon name. In reliable sources, "Knight Foundation" is typically used in headlines and in running text. JS&JLKF, when it is used, is almost only used once, with every following mention almost always being the "Knight Foundation." Schierbecker (talk) 07:13, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Updating Knight Foundation's page to reflect current information

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I am reaching out on behalf of the Knight Foundation to request assistance in updating the Wikipedia article to better reflect our current structure, leadership, and initiatives. We have identified some areas where the article could benefit from additional details and updated information, and I’m providing sources to support these updates.

Leadership The article currently lists Alberto Ibargüen as the President and CEO; however, as of 2024, Maribel Pérez Wadsworth is serving in this role. Source: https://knightfoundation.org/employee/maribel-perez-wadsworth/

Program Areas Learning and Impact: This program area, which is not mentioned in the current article, funds research to gauge the foundation’s impact and contribute to understanding informed and engaged communities. Source: https://knightfoundation.org/research/

Community Engagement The Knight Foundation has made significant community investments, such as in Miami, where over $62 million has been invested since 2012 to support tech and entrepreneurship, including creating the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at FIU. https://knightfoundation.org/community/miami/

Historical Context Expanding the article’s historical background could provide readers with a more detailed understanding of the foundation’s evolution and its strategic focus over the years. https://knightfoundation.org/about/history/

Research Initiatives Recent research initiatives, like the Pew-Knight Initiative in 2024, aim to understand civic engagement better. Including such collaborations would enhance the article’s depth. https://knightfoundation.org/research/

Thank you for considering these updates. Please let me know if any additional clarification is needed. We’re committed to providing accurate, sourced information to support this page and welcome any feedback or questions. Alejandrodeonis (talk) 15:59, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Alejandrodeonis, thanks for making suggestions on this talk page rather than disturbing the article directly, as you have a conflict of interest.
The article currently has a huge problem (indicated by the warning template at the top): "This article relies excessively on references to primary sources". Your changes exacerbate the problem by only referencing the official website. Ideally someone, maybe you, will find reliable sources that can be used in the article.
Also see Wikipedia:PROMO. Commander Keane (talk) 22:19, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi,
For example, would these three sources better support the request to update the leadership change referenced above:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article281686873.html
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2023/new-knight-ceo-president-maribel-perez-wadsworth-gannett/
https://news.miami.edu/stories/2023/11/university-trustee-maribel-perez-wadsworth-to-lead-knight-foundation.html Alejandrodeonis (talk) 20:11, 10 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • What I think should be changed (include citations):

21st Century

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In December 2005, the Knight Foundation under Alberto Ibarguen took a new strategic direction to support transformational change in its program areas. The decision led to the establishment of the Knight News Challenge. The 'Challenge' concept was further expanded into other program areas and gave opportunities to smaller nonprofit organizations and individuals to receive grants for experimental and innovative ideas that would impact their communities.

Journalism

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In 2006, Knight launched the Knight News Challenge, an open competition to fund digital technology projects that improved how communities accessed news and information. The first year awarded over $11 million to 25 winners. The Foundation also operated the Knight Community Information Challenge, a $24 million effort that funded 100 community-based projects addressing local information needs, often through partnerships with community foundations.[1]

Knight invested heavily in the future of digital journalism and civic tech. In 2011, it partnered with the Mozilla Foundation to launch OpenNews, placing technologists in newsrooms to develop open-source tools. The program resulted in over 50 software projects and eventually spun off as an independent nonprofit.[2][3][4]

In 2016, Knight partnered with Columbia University to establish the Knight First Amendment Institute which is dedicated to defending freedom of speech and the press in the digital age through litigation, policy advocacy and research.[5][6]

In 2019, Knight committed $300 million over five years as part of the Local Journalism Initiative. It also co-created the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund and Lenfest Newsroom Initiative with the Lenfest Institute to modernize local newsrooms and foster collaborative infrastructure.[7][8][9][10]

In 2023, Knight joined 20 other funders to launch Press Forward, a $500 million initiative to support local journalism. Knight made a $150 million anchor investment, and by 2025 the initiative had invested $200 million in local newsrooms and established 36 community chapters.[11][12]

Arts

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In 2008, Knight announced a $60 million investment in the South Florida cultural sector, including a $20 million Knight Arts Challenge[13] to support grassroots and institutional arts initiatives. The Foundation has supported individual artists and experimental projects through this initiative as well as others Knight New Work, and the Knight Art + Tech Expansion. It has also funded projects, and institutions such as Random Acts of Culture, Miami New Drama, O, Miami, Perez Art Museum Miami and the Miami City Ballet.

Since 2005, the foundation has invested over $466 million in the arts across its Knight communities.[14][15][16]

Communities

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From 2008 to 2011, Knight collaborated with Gallup to conduct the Soul of the Community study, surveying over 43,000 residents in 26 cities. The findings revealed a strong link between residents’ emotional connection to place and economic vitality. This insight informed Knight’s future investments in arts, public spaces, and civic life.[17][18]

The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, launched in partnership with the Aspen Institute in 2008, produced a landmark report in 2009 calling for universal broadband access, transparency in government data, and stronger local journalism. The commission's work influenced the FCC's National Broadband Plan.[19][20]

Knight was a founding funder of the Digital Public Library of America, which launched in 2013 to provide free, digital access to collections from libraries, archives, and museums.[21][22]

In Miami, Knight played a central role in the city’s emergence as a technology hub. Between 2011 and 2015, venture capital investment in Miami increased fivefold, supported by Knight’s funding of local tech accelerators, entrepreneurship initiatives, and public-private partnerships.[23]

The "Grand Bargain" and Urban Revitalization

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In response to Detroit’s 2013 bankruptcy, Knight joined 11 other foundations to preserve the Detroit Institute of Arts’ collection and protect city pensions in an $816 million agreement known as the Grand Bargain. Knight contributed $30 million to the effort. The initiative was credited with strengthening Detroit’s arts sector and cultural economy.[24][25]

Knight also supported urban revitalization and civic commons projects in cities affected by deindustrialization. Through the Knight Cities Challenge and Knight Emerging City Champions, the foundation funded grassroots civic projects that reimagined public spaces and promoted local engagement such as Lock 3 in Akron, and Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia.[26][27][28][29]

Information and Society

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Knight expanded its internal learning infrastructure under its Learning & Impact program, later restructured in 2025 as Information and Society. The program led research initiatives such as the Free Expression Research Series, Trust, Media and Democracy reports, and the Knight Diversity of Asset Managers study.

The foundation has collaborated with Gallup, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Charles Koch Foundation to support field-wide evaluations and studies on media, technology, democracy, and financial equity.[30]

In 2017, Knight and the Aspen Institute established the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy, which published Crisis in Democracy: Renewing Trust in America in 2019. The report addressed the erosion of trust in institutions and recommended strategies for media sustainability and transparency.[31][32]

Knight has been an advocate for diversity in the investment sector. In 2019, it published the Knight Diversity of Asset Managers report, revealing that diverse-owned firms represented a small portion of the industry despite comparable performance. At the time, only 1.4% of 82.2 trillion of U.S.- based assets are managed by diverse-owned firms meaning women and people of color. This research prompted efforts for other foundations and academic institutions to disclose their diversity statistics.[33][34][35]

Philanthropy at the Speed of News

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In 2024, Maribel Pérez Wadsworth became Knight’s President and CEO. In her first address, she called for “philanthropy to move at the speed of news,” emphasizing timely and responsive support.[36]

New initiatives followed, including the Knight Election Hub to support local election coverage. A new partnership with Pew Research Center to study civic information consumption and trust, and a partnership with the Poynter Institute to educate new philanthropic funders to the ethics and best practices of funding local journalism.[37][38][39]

In 2024 after Florida cut state arts funding, Knight provided $2.2 million in emergency grants to 96 small cultural organizations across the state.[40]

Presidents

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  • John S. Knight, 1950-1975
  • Ben Maidenberg, 1976-1978
  • Charles C. Gibson, 1978-1987
  • Creed C. Black, 1988-1997
  • Hodding Carter III, 1998-2005
  • Alberto Ibarguen, 2005-2024
  • Maribel Perez Wadsworth 2024-


  • Why it should be changed:

The following changes should be implemented to the 21st century and Presidents (titled leadership currently) sections as it currently does not accurately represent the foundation's work nor does it have sufficient or verifiable citations. Also the programs section should be removed as it is redundant. the information included there is already present in the intro paragraph.

The update to the leadership section includes a title change to Presidents, includes Maribel Perez Wadsworth who is the current president and CEO of the foundation, and to correct the list of presidents, which incorrectly lists James L. Knight as a president and doesn't include Ben Maidenberg or Charles C. Gibson.

The 21st-century section should be removed and replaced with the above. The section currently has no citations supporting its claims and is not up to date. The above includes updated information of foundation activities and programs since 2000, including citations from multiple verified and reliable sources.

I believe that with these additions, the article relies excessively on references to primary sources, needs additional citations for verification, and close connection tickets can be removed from the page.


  • References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):

References

"History". opennews.org. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Barber, Greg (2014-08-07). "Build an Open Source Community Platform With New York Times, Washington Post and Mozilla". Open Blog. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Lawler, Ryan (2012-05-10). "Mozilla & Knight Foundation Invest $1M In Crowdsourced Translation Startup Amara". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"http://knightcolumbia.org/page/about-the-knight-institute". Knight First Amendment Institute. Retrieved 2025-07-10.  {{cite web}}: Empty citation (help): External link in |title= (help)
McPhate, Mike (2016-05-17). "Columbia University to Open a First Amendment Institute". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Nadolny, Tricia L. (2018-09-16). "Foundations pledge $20 million for local journalism, $9 million for Philly parks and arts". Inquirer.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Candid. "Knight, Lenfest Institute Establish $20 Million Journalism Fund". Philanthropy News Digest (PND). Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund". The Lenfest Institute for Journalism. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"FRONTLINE Announces 2024 Local Journalism Initiative Partners". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Robertson, Katie (2023-09-07). "Philanthropies Pledge $500 Million to Address Crisis in Local News". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Miami Herald (Dec 1, 2008). "The Knight Arts Partnership, an initiative".
Sokol, Brett (2023-03-24). "He Brought an Artistic Flair to the Knight Foundation's Philanthropy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Loos, Ted (2017-12-05). "Knight Foundation Helps Drive Miami Art Scene". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Malaver, Milena (January 14, 2025). "Knight Foundation appoints new VP of arts. She takes over its $466 Million portfolio". Miami Herald.
Inc, Gallup. "Knight Soul of the Community 2010". Gallup.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.  {{cite web}}: Empty citation (help): |last= has generic name (help)
"Soul of the Community [in 26 Knight Foundation Communities in the United States], 2008-2010". www.icpsr.umich.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"Home | The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy". knightcomm.org. Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Howard, Jen (October 28, 2009). "Steven Waldman Named to Lead Commission Effort on Future of Media in a Changing Technological Landscape" (PDF).
"Funders". Digital Public Library of America. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"Seven pilot sites join national digital library project with Knight Foundation funding". Digital Public Library of America. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Kostigen, • Thomas M. "Beyond The Fourth Estate". www.fa-mag.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Davey, Monica (2014-11-08). "Finding $816 Million, and Fast, to Save Detroit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Kennedy, Randy; Davey, Monica; Yaccino, Steven (2014-01-13). "Foundations Aim to Save Pensions in Detroit Crisis". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Bender, William (2017-06-12). "Philly dominates Knight Cities Challenge … again". Inquirer.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Kummer, Frank (2024-03-18). "Rittenhouse Square's lawn took a beating during the pandemic. Now, it's being restored for $500,000". Inquirer.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Kutuchief, Kyle. "Check out how downtown Akron is changing, starting with revitalized Lock 3 | Opinion". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"Nonprofit to restore Rittenhouse Square with $500,000 restoration project". 6abc Philadelphia. 2024-03-25. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
McCabe, David (2019-12-10). "America's Top Foundations Bankroll Attack on Big Tech". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"Press Fact Sheet: Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy". Aspen Institute. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"The Knight Commission calls to rebuild trust in democracy with transparency, responsibility | Penn Today". penntoday.upenn.edu. 2019-02-05. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
ImpactAlpha (2017-05-04). "Knight Foundation: No performance difference between diverse asset managers and their peers". ImpactAlpha. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"Researchers Set Out to Determine How Much Endowments Invest With Diverse Managers. Most Refused to Participate. | Institutional Investor". www.institutionalinvestor.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Stengel, Geri. "Investing In Diverse-Owned Funds Reaps Returns For Kresge Foundation". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Foundation, Press Release | Knight (2024-02-19). "Knight Foundation president urges 'philanthropy at the speed of news' in first address". Editor and Publisher. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"Pew-Knight Initiative". Pew Research Center. 2025-05-29. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Institute, The Poynter (2024-10-14). "Poynter Institute to provide journalism ethics training to local news funders". Poynter. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
"Knight Election Hub". knightelectionhub.org. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
Rosa, Amanda (September 23, 2024). "'A Blow to all of us': Miami arts groups ready to put on a show despite funding cuts". Miami Herald.

AnonymousArchivist (talk) 19:41, 10 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Lews, Seth. "Opening Up Journalism's Boundaries to bring change back in: How Knight and its News Challenge have evolved".
  2. ^ "History". opennews.org. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  3. ^ Barber, Greg (2014-08-07). "Build an Open Source Community Platform With New York Times, Washington Post and Mozilla". Open Blog. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  4. ^ Lawler, Ryan (2012-05-10). "Mozilla & Knight Foundation Invest $1M In Crowdsourced Translation Startup Amara". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  5. ^ "http://knightcolumbia.org/page/about-the-knight-institute". Knight First Amendment Institute. Retrieved 2025-07-10. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  6. ^ McPhate, Mike (2016-05-17). "Columbia University to Open a First Amendment Institute". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  7. ^ Nadolny, Tricia L. (2018-09-16). "Foundations pledge $20 million for local journalism, $9 million for Philly parks and arts". Inquirer.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  8. ^ Candid. "Knight, Lenfest Institute Establish $20 Million Journalism Fund". Philanthropy News Digest (PND). Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  9. ^ "Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund". The Lenfest Institute for Journalism. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  10. ^ "FRONTLINE Announces 2024 Local Journalism Initiative Partners". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  11. ^ Robertson, Katie (2023-09-07). "Philanthropies Pledge $500 Million to Address Crisis in Local News". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  12. ^ "Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  13. ^ Miami Herald (Dec 1, 2008). "The Knight Arts Partnership, an initiative".
  14. ^ Sokol, Brett (2023-03-24). "He Brought an Artistic Flair to the Knight Foundation's Philanthropy". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  15. ^ Loos, Ted (2017-12-05). "Knight Foundation Helps Drive Miami Art Scene". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  16. ^ Malaver, Milena (January 14, 2025). "Knight Foundation appoints new VP of arts. She takes over its $466 Million portfolio". Miami Herald.
  17. ^ Inc, Gallup. "Knight Soul of the Community 2010". Gallup.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  18. ^ "Soul of the Community [in 26 Knight Foundation Communities in the United States], 2008-2010". www.icpsr.umich.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  19. ^ "Home | The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy". knightcomm.org. Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  20. ^ Howard, Jen (October 28, 2009). "Steven Waldman Named to Lead Commission Effort on Future of Media in a Changing Technological Landscape" (PDF).
  21. ^ "Funders". Digital Public Library of America. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  22. ^ "Seven pilot sites join national digital library project with Knight Foundation funding". Digital Public Library of America. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  23. ^ Kostigen, • Thomas M. "Beyond The Fourth Estate". www.fa-mag.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  24. ^ Davey, Monica (2014-11-08). "Finding $816 Million, and Fast, to Save Detroit". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  25. ^ Kennedy, Randy; Davey, Monica; Yaccino, Steven (2014-01-13). "Foundations Aim to Save Pensions in Detroit Crisis". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  26. ^ Bender, William (2017-06-12). "Philly dominates Knight Cities Challenge … again". Inquirer.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  27. ^ Kummer, Frank (2024-03-18). "Rittenhouse Square's lawn took a beating during the pandemic. Now, it's being restored for $500,000". Inquirer.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  28. ^ Kutuchief, Kyle. "Check out how downtown Akron is changing, starting with revitalized Lock 3 | Opinion". Akron Beacon Journal. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  29. ^ "Nonprofit to restore Rittenhouse Square with $500,000 restoration project". 6abc Philadelphia. 2024-03-25. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  30. ^ McCabe, David (2019-12-10). "America's Top Foundations Bankroll Attack on Big Tech". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  31. ^ "Press Fact Sheet: Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy". Aspen Institute. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  32. ^ "The Knight Commission calls to rebuild trust in democracy with transparency, responsibility | Penn Today". penntoday.upenn.edu. 2019-02-05. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  33. ^ ImpactAlpha (2017-05-04). "Knight Foundation: No performance difference between diverse asset managers and their peers". ImpactAlpha. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  34. ^ "Researchers Set Out to Determine How Much Endowments Invest With Diverse Managers. Most Refused to Participate. | Institutional Investor". www.institutionalinvestor.com. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  35. ^ Stengel, Geri. "Investing In Diverse-Owned Funds Reaps Returns For Kresge Foundation". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  36. ^ Foundation, Press Release | Knight (2024-02-19). "Knight Foundation president urges 'philanthropy at the speed of news' in first address". Editor and Publisher. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  37. ^ "Pew-Knight Initiative". Pew Research Center. 2025-05-29. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  38. ^ Institute, The Poynter (2024-10-14). "Poynter Institute to provide journalism ethics training to local news funders". Poynter. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  39. ^ "Knight Election Hub". knightelectionhub.org. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
  40. ^ Rosa, Amanda (September 23, 2024). "'A Blow to all of us': Miami arts groups ready to put on a show despite funding cuts". Miami Herald.