Newsroom: Articles

News stories about issues and developments in McKnight’s many areas of interest, collected from local, national, and international media outlets.

• Article: Bain Boehlke named McKnight Distinguished Artist

  May 1, 2009 - Minnesota Public Radio. The McKnight Foundation has named Minnesota theater director Bain Boehlke as the 2009 McKnight Distinguished Artist.

• Article: Theater's Bain Boehlke gets a gold star

  April 30, 2009 - Graydon Royce, Star Tribune. The actor, director and designer who founded the Jungle Theater is now the 2009 McKnight Distinguished Artist.

• Article: Jungle Theater founder Bain Boehlke wins this year's McKnight Foundation Distinguished Artist Award

  April 30, 2009 - Dominic Papatola, Pioneer Press. Theater founder 'left lasting imprint.'

• Article: Mother Nature's Dow

  March 28, 2009 - Thomas Friedman, New York Times.

• Article: McKnight to join international battle on climate change

  March 19, 2009 - Tom Meersman, Star Tribune. The Minnesota foundation intends to contribute $100 million in the $1 billion war against global warming.

• Article: McKnight Foundation commits $100 million to combat climate change

  March 19, 2009. Ron Way, MinnPost.com.

• Article: The Firepower of the Lowly Caulk Gun

  March 6, 2009 - Jeffrey Ball, Wall Street Journal. Cutting-edge energy technologies such as solar panels don't deliver as much bang as plugging leaky homes.

• Article: Minnesota author Bill Holm dies

  February 27, 2009 - WCCO. Bill Holm, an author who traveled the world but remained firmly rooted in the southwestern Minnesota prairie, has died.

• Article: Minnesota author Bill Holm dies at 65

  February 26, 2009 - Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune. Described as "the Polar Bear of American Literature," the celebrated poet from Minneota is dead at age 65.

• Article: Writer Bill Holm dies at 65

  February 26, 2009 - Mary Divine, Pioneer Press. Bill Holm, a popular musician, poet and essayist whose writings challenged aspects of American life and thought, died Wednesday at a Sioux Falls, S.D., hospital.

• Article: Minneota author Bill Holm dead at 65

  February 26, 2009 - Marshall Independent. Minneota author William "Bill" Holm died Wednesday at the Avera Heart Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D.

• Article: Minnesota mourns the loss of author Bill Holm

  February 26, 2009 - Casey Selix and Amy Goetzman, MinnPost.com. Minnesota poet and essayist Bill Holm died Wednesday at a hospital in South Dakota.

• Article: McKnight expands agriculture efforts in Africa

  December 8, 2008 - Mark Steil, Minnesota Public Radio.

• Article: McKnight food crop research gets a $27 million boost

  December 8, 2008 - Matt McKinney, Star Tribune. The grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to aid the world's poorest farmers will help double what the Minnesota foundation spends per year on ag research.

• Article: McKnight awards: Game to help

  November 20, 2008 - Patrice Relerford, Star Tribune. Two North Side sisters who created a student garden are among several people who will receive McKnight awards today.