News and Updates

Upcoming Deadline

The next application deadline is June 30, 2013.  This deadline will have a significant focus on Public Art, Public Parks, Improving the Perception of Safety, and Improving the Entryways to the Corridor. 

Public Art

If you're interested in applying for KNC funding for a public art, please click here for additional information on available sites and how to apply for funding.  

New KNC Grants

Check out the most recent round of KNC grants and videos here! #kncdidthis

Cops on the Hill

If you are a local law enforcement officer that is moving to or within the College Hill Corridor, click the Cops on the Hill icon below.

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 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.