The Knight Program in Community Building is a forum for examining the state-of-the-art in community building.

The program’s mission is to advance the knowledge and practice of effective community building through an innovative series of interdisciplinary initiatives including fellowships, scholarships, conferences, charrettes, and publications.

Today’s communities face a host of urgent problems ranging from growth issues to quality-of-life concerns. The Knight Program fosters an interdisciplinary approach to these complex problems in the belief that the cooperation of diverse professions is essential for creating and maintaining livable communities. The fellowship, which is the heart of the Knight Program, each year brings together twelve distinguished mid-career professionals from a multitude of fields.

The Knight Program is based at the University of Miami School of Architecture and is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which promotes excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in the vitality of twenty-six U.S. communities.

Thank you for visiting the Knight Program website. Here you can find information on our past and present fellows and scholars, our events, and our publications. Applications for fellowships and scholarships are also available online. Please note that the deadline for the fellowship is early fall and the scholarship application is due in late spring.

To view a complete timeline of Knight Program events, including seminars, conferences, charrettes, courses, tours, and more, go here.