Newsroom: News Releases

The latest news about our work at The McKnight Foundation.

• News Release: Public/private partnership offers new tools for Minnesota's arts and cultural organizations to gather powerful data

  June 1, 2012

• News Release: McKnight announces $450,000 in funding to three Twin Cities school districts to improve literacy by grade 3

  Minneapolis, May 17, 2011 — After one year of funding for intensive planning for comprehensive strategies to improve literacy, schools may apply for implementation funding. 

• News Release: Poet John Caddy receives 2012 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award

  May 16, 2012 - Well known as a poet and a teacher, Caddy has published several celebrated volumes of poetry in a career spanning almost 50 years. 

• News Release: McKnight approves over $10 million in first quarter of 2012

  March 21, 2012 - McKnight's first-quarter approved grants.

• News Release: McKnight hires arts program officer

  March 20, 2012

• News Release: McKnight announces nearly $6 million in funding to two Twin Cities school districts to increase literacy by grade 3

  March 2, 2012 - After a year of intensive planning, Minneapolis and Brooklyn Center districts move forward with McKnight support to improve literacy at key sites.

• News Release: Nominations open for McKnight's Human Service Awards

  February 21, 2012 - The McKnight Foundation invites nominations for the 2012 Virginia McKnight Binger Awards in Human Service.

• News Release: 2012 McKnight Distinguished Artist selection process begins

  February 14, 2012 - The McKnight Foundation invites nominations for its 15th Distinguished Artist Award.

• News Release: ArtsLab: Five foundations renew support for leadership and strategy development program for arts nonprofits

  January 31, 2012 - To bolster community vibrancy and cultural life, five major arts funders have renewed support for Arts Midwest’s ArtsLab, a $1.9 million, multiyear venture.

• News Release: McKnight approves over $30 million in fourth quarter of 2011

  January 6, 2012 - McKnight's 4th-quarter 2011 approved grants

• News Release: Central Corridor Investment pool surpasses $10 million mark

  December 20, 2011 - The Central Corridor Funders Collaborative, of which McKnight is a member, aims to ensure area residents and businesses benefit from light rail.

• News Release: McKnight and HousingLink announce 2010 housing baseline measures

  November 14, 2011 — Report emphasizes field efficiencies and collaboration, impact of government funds.

• News Release: MN Compass's new at-a-glance neighborhood profiles put a sharper focus on trends and issues that matter

  October 24, 2011 - The McKnight-supported Minnesota Compass website, a project of the Wilder Foundation, now provides census data at the Twin Cities neighborhood level. 

• News Release: McKnight approves over $19 million in third quarter of 2011, including $1 million to support creative placemaking

  September 27, 2011 - McKnight's 3rd-quarter approved grants

• News Release: Northland Foundation to receive $5 million Program-Related Investment from The McKnight Foundation

  September 19, 2011 - PRI will help further the Northland Foundation's mission in northeastern Minnesota and enhance organizational capacity.