1. HISTORY GLANCE
AT A
Excellence in
Undergratuate
in Education
conference, 1993.
Henry King
Stanford and
Ben Maidenburg, left, Cornel West
Knight Foundation
with Jack Knight on
trustees, 1986.
Knight’s 85th birthday
Alvah Chapman,
Barbara Toomey,
James L. Knight, Henry King Stanford,
John F. Kennedy, C.C. Gibson,
Charles John S. Knight Gordon Heffern,
Landon Knight at IAPA gathering standing; Lee Hills,
in Miami James L. Knight,
Nov. 18, 1963 seated
Early members of
Lee Hills
Knight Foundation's
Knight Newspapers Jim Knight's family. LeRoy Walker,
board included
go public, 1969. Left to right: president of the
Lee Hills, far left;
Left to right: son-in-law Reed Toomey, United States
Jim Knight, center;
Alvah H.Chapman, daughter Marilyn North, Olympic Committee,
Blake McDowell,
James L. Knight, daughter Marjorie Crane, was a member of the
second from right
a Knight Jim Knight, Knight Foundation
Newspaper trader, wife Mary Ann Knight, Commission
Lee Hills, daughter Barbara Toomey, on Intercollegiate
Creed C. Black
Clara John S. Knight and daughter Beverly Olson Athletics
Irene Knight
1950 1954 1965 1966 1969 1972 1975 1978 1980 1981 1982 1986 1987 1988 1989
Knight Foundation was The first grant to a journalism Clara I. Knight, the Knights’ The board of trustees voted to Congress passed the Tax Reform To raise enough cash for the Jack Knight signed his final will, C.C. Gibson, a longtime Akron The board of trustees concluded John S. Knight died on June 16, The board of trustees voted to Knight Foundation became the The new Journalism Program Creed Black, publisher of the The Education Program
established with $9,047 in organization, the Inter mother, died Nov. 12, bequeathing end the financial aid program Act of 1969, which severely new legislation’s grant payout leaving the bulk of his share of civic activist and friend of its first strategic planning exercise leaving the Foundation 6,356,504 extend grant making to all cities 21st largest foundation in the was launched with major grants Lexington Herald-Leader, suc- launched its first initiative,
Akron, Ohio, to carry out the American Press Association, the Foundation 180,000 shares for college students and to restricted the business holdings requirements, the Foundation the newly created Knight-Ridder Jack Knight, replaced an ailing with a key decision to continue shares of Knight-Ridder stock served by Knight-Ridder Inc., U.S. with the final transfer of for midcareer fellowships at ceeded C.C. Gibson as president. Excellence in Undergraduate
work of the Knight Memorial supported a scholarship fund. of Knight Newspapers stock, replace it with direct grants to of foundations and required a arranged for the sale of Newspapers Inc. to Knight Maidenburg as president. the program of grants focused then valued at $241.5 million. though the decision was not fully funds from the John S. Knight Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Education. Over the next
Education Fund, a college then valued at $5.2 million. individual colleges and universi- minimum payout in grants. Clara Knight’s stock in a Foundation. The Foundation on journalism and the 11 James L. Knight succeeded his implemented until the final estate. The bequest totaled the Massachusetts Institute of The board added two new three years, nearly $10 million
scholarship and loan program The bequest was the Foundation’s ties and state associations of secondary offering by Knight opened its first office in Akron cities where the original Knight brother as chairman. An intensive settlement of John S. Knight’s $428,144,588. Technology and the University national program areas – Arts was provided to 39 private
that had been created in first major infusion of assets. higher education institutions. Newspapers. The sale raised with two full-time employees: Newspapers were published. five-year planning effort, guided estate in 1986. of Michigan. At the University and Culture and Education. liberal arts colleges for innovative
1940 to honor the memory On a highly selective basis, the $21,343,500. The Foundation Ben Maidenburg, former Akron The board also voted to expand by long-time trustee Lee Hills, The Foundation adopted its of Maryland, the Foundation projects that strengthened
of Charles Landon Knight, Foundation also began making embarked on an expanded Beacon Journal executive the board of trustees by adding began to prepare the Foundation A $4 million grant endowed first statement of purpose, created the Knight Center The Foundation established the undergraduate education.
father of John S. and grants to educational and grants program, continuing editor, who served as president, one new family member – Jim for its much larger asset base the John S. Knight Fellowships which reaffirmed the two for Specialized Journalism, a Newspaper Management Center
James L. Knight. cultural organizations in cities its focus on educational and and his secretary, Shirley Follo. Knight’s daughter, Barbara and grant-making program. for Professional Journalists at principal emphases: journalism program of short courses on at Northwestern University. The Knight Foundation
with Knight newspapers. cultural institutions in cities Toomey – and a member not Stanford University, the first and improving the quality of specialized subjects for working Commission on Intercollegiate
John S. Knight,
James L. Knight with Knight newspapers but associated with either the of several continuing education life in Knight-Ridder cities. journalists. At the University Athletics was created to study
outside of the new
also adding major journalism family or company – banker opportunities for working jour- of Florida and the University and recommend a plan of action
Miami Herald building
organizations and projects to Gordon Heffern. nalists and news executives that The board approved a new of Missouri, grants created to address widespread abuses
its list of funded groups. the Foundation supported – and governance structure that five-year experimental programs in college athletics. Co-chaired
in some instances created – at remained in effect through the to recruit, educate and place by former Notre Dame president
some of the nation’s major end of the century. The new minority journalists. Father Theodore Hesburgh
C.C. Gibson
Clara Knight universities. structure expanded the board and former University of North
(Mrs. Charles John S. Knight of trustees from nine to 13 Carolina president William
Landon Knight) at Underwood
members and incorporated the Friday, the commission produced
typewriter
principle of family, company three reports that contributed
The Journalism
Lee Hills signs and independent representation to the momentum for reform,
Program made
agreement with grants to
on the board. Work also began which culminated in the
Stanford President enhance minority
on a comprehensive revision of restructuring of the National
Donald Kennedy recruiting and
the Articles of Incorporation and Collegiate Athletic Association
renaming the retention programs
John S. Knight Code of Regulations, which the (NCAA). The commission
Fellowship Program.
board approved in 1988. disbanded in 1996.
C.C. Gibson is in
background with
Lee Hills was elected vice chairman.
Albert Hastorf
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2. HISTORY GLANCE
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Knight Foundation’s
Vice President
and Chief Program
Officer Jim Spaniolo
helps a Kids
Voting participant
Knight Foundation
committed
Former President Teach for
$10 million to
Jimmy Carter America recruit
help South
at Miami Habitat Jerry Petrus
Dade County
for Humanity instructs an
rebuild after
work site eighth grader
Hurricane Andrew
in a Brooklyn
classroom
Charlotte teacher
Deborah Camp
Lee Hills Hall 'Magic of Music'
acquired National
groundbreaking at Symphony
Board for
University of Creed Black
Initiative
Professional
Missouri School of chats with
performance
Teaching Standards
Journalism, 1993 Hodding Carter III
from 1998
certification
and his wife,
by Louisiana
Patt Derian,
Philharmonic
at Knight
Immunization with video screen
Foundation offices
Initiative poster in background
James L. Knight
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
The Foundation became a James L. Knight died on Feb. 5, The Foundation committed The Foundation became the The Knight Foundation A $1 million grant enabled The Arts and Culture Program W. Gerald Austen, M.D., suc- In a search for solutions to Knight Foundation became the Hodding Carter III, longtime The Foundation established Longtime trustee Lee Hills,
The Presidential Leadership More than 125 liberal arts
founding partner in the National leaving the bulk of his estate to $10 million to the recovery and John S. and James L. Knight Immunization Initiative – the the Kentucky Collaborative for launched two national initia- ceeded Lee Hills as chairman. the gun- and gang-driven chief supporter of a national newspaper and television jour- the Knight Center for Specialized adviser to the Knight brothers,
Grants, an outgrowth of the educators gathered for a three-
Community Development the Foundation. His bequest rebuilding of Dade County after Foundation on Jan. 1. first to encompass all 26 cities Teaching and Learning to tives. The first, the “Magic of Hills remained on the board. national epidemic that left no collaborative of 160 colleges nalist, succeeded Creed Black Journalism at the University died Feb 3.
Excellence in Undergraduate day dissemination conference
Initiative (NCDI), the largest eventually totaled $200 million. Hurricane Andrew devastated in the Community Initiatives undertake a large-scale, statewide Music” Symphony Orchestra city, community or school and universities engaged in as president. Black continued of Southern California as a
Education initiative, were in Columbia, Md., focused on
philanthropic collaboration in Lee Hills succeeded him as portions of the region on Aug. The Knight International Press Program – provided funding expansion of Different Ways of Initiative, sought symphony immune from outbreaks of strategic planning activities to to serve on the board. western counterpart to its
launched to provide unsolicited, the successes and challenges of
U.S. history. NCDI engaged chairman. 24. The commitment reaffirmed Fellowships were established to over the next two years for Knowing, a promising school- orchestras willing to engage violence by and against youth, adapt to the dramatic and well-respected predecessor at
unrestricted grants to small, the projects funded through the
the public, private and nonprofit a practice of support for com- enable U.S. journalists and parental education and public reform initiative developed by their entire organizations in the Foundation launched the rapid financial, technological The board approved a policy the University of Maryland.
private liberal arts colleges, Excellence in Undergraduate
sectors in partnerships that The Foundation undertook a munity recovery that the board news executives to serve as information activities with the Los Angeles-based experiments designed to generate Initiative to Promote Youth and philosophical transforma- fixing the 26 cities at the time of
many of them schools serving Education initiative. The
The Foundation launched an
enabled local community year-long strategic planning had begun during the 1980s temporary resources for the press the goal of improving immu- Galef Institute. The support a greater sense of excitement Development and Prevent tions taking place on their James L. Knight’s death in 1991
special populations, in recogni- conference was the Foundation’s
in-depth, two-year Community
development corporations to effort. One of the first outcomes after major natural disasters. in emerging democracies. The nization rates of children 2 was the first of several major about the concertgoing Youth Violence. The initiative campuses. Administered by the as the geographic focus of the
tion of the creativity and prom- first large-scale effort to connect
Indicators Project to acquire
increase their capacity for included a five-year, $10 million Such support escalated during program was an outgrowth of years old and younger. Knight Foundation grants experience and a more vital was structured to first engage Institute for Research on Higher Community Initiatives Program.
ise of their leadership. grantees with each other to
more comprehensive information
providing housing, social services initiative to bolster community the 1990s as the Foundation the Foundation’s longstanding made over the next five years relationship between artists local communities in developing Education at the University
share ideas, strategies and
about cities covered in the
and economic stimulators in foundations in Knight cities. responded with major grants support for the efforts of U.S.- The Foundation incorporated for comprehensive, community- and audiences. The second, comprehensive strategic plans of Pennsylvania, the Knight
The Foundation moved its experiences, to learn from each
Community Initiatives Program.
selected neighborhoods of more for Grand Forks, N.D., after based journalism organizations, in the state of Florida. wide initiatives designed to the Museum Loan Network, to address youth violence and, Higher Education Collaborative
headquarters from Akron to other and to disseminate what
The purpose: to lay the
than 20 cities. The Cities Program was the Red River flood and such as the World Press Freedom broaden and deepen the was a collection-sharing secondly, to support implemen- has helped participants remain
Miami and expanded its staff they had learned to a broader
groundwork for more focused
renamed the Community subsequent fires destroyed Committee and the Inter Supported by the Foundation, impact of school reform in the program created in partnership tation of local plans. mission-centered while becoming
from eight to 14. field. Such dissemination
The Knight Chair in Journalism grant making.
Initiatives Program to reflect much of its downtown in 1997 American Press Association, the American Society of geographic areas of interest to with The Pew Charitable “market smart.”
activities subsequently became
W. Gerald Austen, M.D. Lee Hills
program was established to a more proactive posture in which addressed challenges to Newspaper Editors created the the Foundation. Trusts and administered at
an integral part of initiatives
strengthen journalism education grant making. The Foundation committed a free press through public Institute for Journalism the Massachusetts Institute of
in all of the Foundation’s
at the undergraduate level, $1 million to the National Trust information and professional Excellence, a program placing Technology.
programming and led to addi-
primarily at the nation’s best The Education Program for Historic Preservation to education activities. journalism professors in summer
tional “community of learners”
journalism schools. Over the refocused its emphasis launch the Community Initiated jobs at newspapers across the
workshops as well as publica-
next 10 years, nearly $20 mil- from higher education to Development Program, a country. It was the first of
tions focused on the lessons
lion endowed 14 chairs at 12 collaborations between colleges demonstration project using several Foundation-supported
that the Foundation’s grantees
major journalism schools as and universities and K-12 historic preservation to revitalize projects designed to strengthen
had learned through hands-on
Trustees
well as at Duke University and schools to improve education commercial districts in Detroit, ties between the newsroom
experiences.
visit a Detroit
The first Knight Chair
Washington and Lee University. from kindergarten through Miami and Philadelphia. and the classroom.
redevelopment
in Journalism
project during
college and beyond.
professors pose
a 1993
with Del Brinkman,
board meeting
Journalism Program director,
seated
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