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Stories of Transformation
Knotice is a new enterprise software firm in Akron. Alex Fledderjohn photo.
Since 2004, philanthropic organizations in Northeast Ohio have worked together to bolster economic development in a region suffering from decades of decline.
In 2000, as Knight Foundation marked its 50th anniversary, its leadership made one of the largest and most challenging investment decisions in its history. It would commit nearly $19 million over three to five years to help revitalize Overtown, a community less than a half mile from the foundation's Miami headquarters but far distant economically and socially from much of the city and Miami-Dade County.
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Even with tangible signs of recovery and a focus on the future spurred in part by Knight Foundation, the Mississippi Gulf Coasts recovery has been slow.
Tempering the Immigration Debate: An Assessment of the American Dream Fund From coast to coast, the newly documented surge in
immigrants was changing communities. Inside some of America’s largest foundations –
including Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York — staff members took notice of the new figures. They sensed, correctly, that the topic of immigration was hot, and they wanted to get involved.