Knight Foundation Arts Program - Strategy Presentation

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We believe the arts help build community by binding people to place and to each other. Done with excellence, the arts inspire and connect people. Our grantmaking strategy in the arts has four initiatives: (1) Creative Placemaking (2) Making Art General (3) Institutional Reform and (4) Spurring Innovation. Find out more at knightfoundation.org

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Knight Arts Program Strategy

Evolution of Arts Program

Fund Momentum

Magic of Music

Capital Campaigns

Endowments

Institutions

Museum Loan Network

Symphonies

Legacy Arts

Crowdsourcing

Contests

Digital Cloud

Innovation

Artistic Excellence

Arts EducationCross Pollination

Audience EngagementSustainability

I am an Artist

Matching Funds

Universities

New Models

Interactive Experience

Strengthened

Out of the Concert Hall

Mobile Apps

Big Ideas

Curate Your Own Experience

Web

Scholarships

General SupportFacilities

Risk Taking Dynamic Leadership

LimitedArts Focus

Supported

Best Arts Ideas

Listen &Experiment

Making Art General

Curating & Networking

Creative Placemaking

Infrastructure

Art for Social Change

Diversity

Geographic EligibilityKnight Arts Program funds projects that

benefit eight ‘resident’ Knight Communities:

• Akron, Ohio• Charlotte, N.C.• Detroit, Mich.• Macon, Ga.

• Miami, Fla.• Philadelphia, Pa.• St. Paul, Minn.• San Jose, Calif.

NATIONAL$22 million

RESIDENTDIRECTORCOMMUNITY

$18.8 million

NON-RESIDENTDIRECTORCOMMUNITY$8.6 million

More than 94% of Arts grants are made in

the 8 communitie

s94%

6%

} 339 GRANTS TOTALING$96.8 MIL-

LION

Creative PlacemakingMaking Art GeneralInstitutional OutreachSpurring Innovation

Strategic Initiatives

Creative Placemaking

Culture and creativity expressed powerfully through a specific place that can create vibrancy.

Creative Placemaking

Creative PlacemakingMaking Art GeneralInstitutional OutreachSpurring Innovation

Strategic Initiatives

Some KnightArts Grantees

Creative PlacemakingMaking Art GeneralInstitutional OutreachSpurring Innovation

Strategic Initiatives

Institutional Outreach

Creative PlacemakingMaking Art GeneralInstitutional OutreachSpurring Innovation

Strategic Initiatives

“Thus we seek to bestir the peopleinto an awarenessof their own true condition, provide inspiration for their thoughts and rouse them to pursue their own true interests.”

– John S. Knight, 1969

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