Our key messages
The messages below are not necessarily meant to be used verbatim. They are intended to inform communication about Knight by representing the most essential key points about our foundation. If you have a chance to speak, write, twitter, lecture, email, or in any other way communicate about Knight Foundation, these key points help you make sure to cover the basics.
- Knight Foundation seeks to help create transformation in journalism and communities.
- Successful grants and initiatives require: Discovery, vision, courage, tenacity and know-how.
- Knight is a national foundation with local roots in the communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Knight tailors grant-making strategy to each community.
- Knight-funded initiatives help communities meet the information needs in a democracy.
- As the nation’s leading journalism funder, Knight aims to help journalism reach its best possible future in the digital age.
- Knight pledges to be approachable, transparent and responsive toward grantees and everyone else it interacts with.
- Knight experiments with digital technology, online community and new grant-making concepts to connect with innovators world-wide.