July 20, 2020 The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience (MEFN) announced the three recipients of $600,000 in grant funding through the 2020 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Awards, recognizing these projects for their ability to fundamentally change the way neuroscience research is conducted. Each of the projects will receive a total of $200,000 over the …
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected four projects to receive the 2019 Memory and Cognitive Disorders Awards. The awards will total $1.2 million over three years for research on the biology of brain diseases, with each project receiving $300,000 between 2019 and 2021. The Memory and Cognitive Disorders (MCD) Awards support innovative research …
The following blog post originally appeared at Stanford Social Innovation Review. It is reprinted here with permission in its entirety. A four-point framework for funders to advance a low-carbon future using their entire endowment. Anticipation is building as world leaders converge at the international climate conference in Paris to address global warming. This will be …
State of the Artist note: This post, from Laura Zabel, is in response to our Visualizing Artists’ Careers project. I can’t stop looking at these graphics. I love the unbalanced stars that show us just how different each person’s trajectory and career is. And somehow simultaneously demonstrate how important and catalytic an opportunity like a …
McKnight president Kate Wolford recently joined foundation leaders from across the country to sign this statement of support for the National Endowment for the Arts. This was originally posted by ArtPlace America, a collaboration of foundations, federal agencies, and financial institutions that work to position arts and culture as a core sector of comprehensive community …
At the McKnight Foundation, we are all in on our mission, leveraging every tool at our disposal as a philanthropic organization. That’s why it was so important to us that our office be a real-life example of building spaces that allow people and planet to thrive. The Foundation’s new headquarters centers community, connection and sustainability, and was recently awarded a national LEED Gold rating.
Discover how Minnesota’s Indigenous culture bearers are spurring creativity, power, and connection across the state. Organizations like Duluth’s American Indian Community Housing Organization and St. Paul’s Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance are using art to drive change and empower Indigenous communities.
In 2023, McKnight increased its giving. At the time, we didn’t make a big announcement. Here’s why we feel compelled to say more now.
David Mura is a Minnesota-based memoirist, essayist, novelist, poet, critic, playwright, and performance artist. His work, on topics ranging from contemporary Japan to the legacy of the internment camps and the history of Japanese Americans to critical explorations of an increasingly diverse America, has won wide praise and numerous awards.
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected four projects to receive the 2023 Neurobiology of Brain Disorders Awards. The awards will total $1.2 million for research on the biology of brain diseases, with each project receiving $100,000 per year in each of the next three years for a total of $300,000 funded per project. …