A new McKnight-funded report from the University of Minnesota Energy Transition Lab — in partnership with the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the Labovitz School of Business and Economics — looks at projected job creation in northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin if a range of biomass and solar projects come to fruition.
Opportunities for integrated transit planning and workforce development. Report by Yingling Fan, Andrew Guthrie, and Kirti Vardhan Das, produced at the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, with support from Hennepin County, the Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation, and The McKnight Foundation.
About Community, Not a Commute tells the story of the community’s journey toward realizing that vision of opportunities for all—in particular, the role of public funding joined with private philanthropy in the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative. The Funders Collaborative served as both a cushion and a lubricant in the complex multi-sector effort to ensure the rail project delivered benefits to …
June 19, 2016 – The McKnight Foundation has awarded the 2016 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award to Minnesota composer and recording artist Libby Larsen.
June 13, 2016 Part of McKnight’s Food for Thought series, a new essay by Jay Walljasper exploring opportunities and challenges in Brainerd, Fergus Falls, and other communities in the northwest corner of Minnesota.
Updated June 2016 A set of shared metrics that will track the region’s change on critical economic, environmental, and social outcomes. A project of Greater MSP, the Minneapolis St. Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership
The following op-ed originally appeared at The Chronicle of Philanthropy. With permission, it is reprinted here in its entirety. Climate change is one of the most urgent challenges of our time — so pressing it brought nearly 170 nations together this spring to sign a landmark agreement. While the scale of this challenge is global, we …
This case study examines the challenges and lessons learned during the 10-month development of the Carbon Efficiency Strategy, a joint venture between Mellon Capital Management and The McKnight Foundation, offering carbon-conscious investors a way to invest in companies whose practices could reduce carbon emissions. In late October 2014, Gabriela “Gabby” Franco Parcella, chairman, president, and CEO …
The McKnight Foundation’s 2015 “at-a-glance” annual report, sharing stories of our commitment to sustainability from across all of our work.
The sixth edition of Global Impact Investing Network’s Annual Impact Investor Survey is based on an analysis of the activities of 158 of the world’s leading impact investing organizations, including fund managers, foundations, banks, development finance institutions, family offices, pension funds, and insurance companies.