The Knight Donor-Advised Fund supports the success of our communities through investments that attract, retain, and harness talent; that expand opportunity by increasing entrepreneurship and economic mobility; and that support civic infrastructure to accelerate the growth of ideas and bring people from diverse social and economic backgrounds together.
The current strategic focus in on engaging students through innovation and connecting the University of North Dakota campus community to that of Downtown Grand Forks.
Promoting civic innovation and robust engagement will enable our communities to succeed in a rapidly changing world. We want our investments to inspire the actions of residents in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks and help us build a better democracy and a successful future.
Places that accelerate talent and opportunity:
Critical Questions
Does this investment:
The current strategic focus in on engaging students through innovation and connecting the University of North Dakota campus community to that of Downtown Grand Forks.
Promoting civic innovation and robust engagement will enable our communities to succeed in a rapidly changing world. We want our investments to inspire the actions of residents in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks and help us build a better democracy and a successful future.
- Talent: Knight Foundation invests in residents, immigrants, and entrepreneurs as economic growth, job creation, and neighborhood revitalization drivers.
- Place: Knight Foundation invests in places that are primed to accelerate talent and opportunity.
- Civic Innovation: Knight Foundation invests in innovation in governance and civic capacity.
Places that accelerate talent and opportunity:
- Connect assets and people
- Attract and retain talent
- Foster economic integration
- Result in a change that can be felt in the near term
- Incorporate quality design and new tools or technologies
- Respond and are authentic to the community
- Are sustainable
- Leverage public and private partners and enhance market potential
Critical Questions
Does this investment:
- Represent a true innovation? Have the ability to be breakthrough or transformative?
- Accelerate learning and the exchange of ideas?
- Have a champion equipped to execute?
- Have a path toward sustainability or completion?
- Promote retention and attraction of talent?
- Enhance opportunity and economic mobility?
- Incorporate opportunities for robust citizenship and/or engagement?
- Result in a change that can be seen or felt in the near term?
