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Newsroom: Impact Stories

Stories that illustrate the impact of our funding in the lives of real people, reported to us by grantees and partners.

  • Northside Achievement Zone
    ​September 16, 2013 - Tamera, a single mom in north Minneapolis, received valuable assistance from McKnight grantee Northside Achievement Zone when she became unemployed.
  • McKnight@60: Our Organizational DNA
    June 2013 - Celebrating McKnight's 60th anniversary, a look back on the business philosophy and creative approach of the organization's founder, WIlliam McKnight.
  • McKnight@60: Our Offices
    ​April 2013 - Celebrating McKnight's 60th anniversary, a look back on the usability and sustainability considerations that went into the design of McKnight's office space in the Mill Ruins building.
  • Impact Story: Affordable Housing Design Awards
    ​​March 2013 - ​In August 2012, Cermak Rhoades Architects received the inaugural AIA MN/McKnight Affordable Housing Design Award, a new annual award recognizing innovative, high-quality designs for affordable housing.
  • McKnight@60: Leadership
    March 2013 - ​Celebrating McKnight's 60th anniversary, a look back at the Foundation's board and executive leadership through the years.
  • Impact Story: Minnesota Early Childhood Initiative
    ​April 2013 - Since 2002, the Minnesota Initiative Foundations have collaborated on a statewide Early Childhood Initiative to help Minnesota’s youngest children.
  • McKnight@60: The Minnesota Initiative Foundations
    February 2013 - Celebrating McKnight's 60th anniversary, a look back at the impact of the six Minnesota Initiative Foundations, making Minnesota greater.
  • Impact Story: Northside Funders Group
    ​February 2013 - In north Minneapolis, 21 private, public, and corporate funders known as the Northside Funders Group are pushing beyond the traditional ways of grantmaking to strategically align their investments for greater impact and to achieve
  • McKnight@60: The Early Years, 1953-1974
    ​​January 2013 - Celebrating McKnight's 60th anniversary, a look back at the family, staff, values, and approach that shaped the Foundation's early years.
  • Impact Story: Foundation for Child Development
    ​The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) is a national, private philanthropy dedicated to the principle that all families should have the social and material resources to raise their children to be healthy, educated, and productive members of their
  • Impact Story: The Data Viz Project
    ​Artist fellows shared career information to be rendered interactively as part of a year-long celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the McKnight Artist Fellowship program.
  • Impact Story: Iowa Environmental Council
    ​The Iowa Environmental Council (IEC) is an alliance of diverse organizations and individuals working together to protect Iowa's natural environment.
  • Impact Story: Energy Foundation
    ​For the past 20 years the Energy Foundation has been a leading, nimble, ambitious, strategic, and powerful force in national energy issues and policies.
  • Impact Story: International Rivers
    ​International Rivers' work is at the heart of the global struggle to protect rivers and the rights of communities.
  • Impact Story: Mekong Watch
    ​Based in Tokyo, Mekong Watch combines research and advocacy to prevent the negative environmental and social impacts of development in the Mekong Region.