Knight Neighborhood Challenge
News & Updates
The April 30, 2010 Grant Recipients will be announced on Tuesday, July 27 at 5pm at the Cox Capitol Theatre.
The next deadline will be Friday, October 15th, 2010 at 5:00pm. The application will remain the same, but the process for submitting your online application will be more user-friendly!
Watch the new College Hill Video! What do you do in the Corridor?
About the Knight Neighborhood Challenge
Thanks to a $5 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Macon is taking a major step toward revitalizing the College Hill Corridor. The grant includes $3 million for the Knight Neighborhood Challenge, which will be administered by the Community Foundation of Central Georgia. This five-year program will underwrite the best ideas to transform the city’s first neighborhoods into a vibrant college town connected by leafy roads and bike paths to Macon’s downtown. This grant will fund creative, transformational ideas for the Corridor from organizations and individuals. A broad-based, competitive grant program, the Challenge will fund the best ideas – small and large – that give College Hill a sense of place, spruce up its parks and public spaces or enhance the arts and entertainment scene. The effort also aims to get people involved in College Hill through an array of civic and cultural projects.
The goal of the Knight Neighborhood Challenge is to invest in ideas to restore the land use and social fabric of the College Hill neighborhood, to reawaken the soul of the community through active participation in a wide array of community arts, cultural and sports activities, and to connect us to one another through digital and traditional information gathering/sharing channels.
