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News, speeches, opinion pieces, and other information that help illustrate our work and explain our position on issues.

• News Release: McKnight hires two staff members

  April 13, 2009 - McKnight recently hired two new staff to fill administrative support positions.

• Our Voice: Testimony before the Minnesota House of Representatives Cultural and Outdoor Resources Finance Division

  April 6, 2009 - Arts program director Vickie Benson provides professional analysis on the need for a strategic statewide distribution plan for arts funding.

• Article: Mother Nature's Dow

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

• News Release: McKnight approves over $6.8 million in first quarter of 2009, including $1 million to support artists and arts participa

  March 26, 2009 - McKnight's first-quarter 2009 approved grants.

• 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.

• News Release: McKnight pursues comprehensive strategy to address global climate change

  March 19, 2009 - To promote low-carbon prosperity, McKnight supports both Midwest innovation and a pioneering collaborative network operating around the world.

• 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.

• Our Voice: Request for Action for Resilient Gulf Coast

  March 2009 - The following letter to the US Senate and House of Representatives, urging federal leadership and support for the Gulf Coast region, was signed by two dozen foundations and nonprofit organizations, including The McKnight Foundation.

• Our Voice: Contrasting Crisis

  March 2009 - This essay by McKnight president Kate Wolford appeared in the spring 2009 issue of the Initiative Foundation's IQ Magazine.

• 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.