{"id":105750,"date":"2016-06-10T16:59:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/community\/san-jose"},"modified":"2022-12-08T11:54:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:54:48","slug":"san-jose","status":"publish","type":"community","link":"https:\/\/knightfoundation.org\/community\/san-jose\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What We Look For<\/h2>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large\"><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>Knight focuses on building a more engaged San Jose with a focus on creating vibrant public life \u2014 drawing people out of homes, offices, and classrooms and into the community. In doing so, Knight seeks to create a safe, connected and people-focused city.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>Since 2008, Knight has invested more than $38 million to forward this mission, including supporting innovation in alternative transportation, building capacity at the regional think-tank SPUR, and reimagining the public spaces in San Jose\u2019s urban core whether it be downtown streets or urban parks like the Guadalupe River Park, Emma Prusch Park, St James Park or Backesto Park. Our investments seek to elevate and connect our incredibly diverse-community voices and urban visionaries working in San Jos\u00e9\u2019s community organizations or civic government.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>Our San Jose program focuses on three themes:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<ul><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li>Creating competitively-differentiated physical and virtual public spaces where people can come together, share information and ideas, build trust, and commit to the city where they live, work, learn or play;<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li>Provide platforms and resources for diverse talent to build power through networks and information so that they can work together to resolve complex issues that challenge San Jos\u00e9; and<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<li>Foster innovation and learning in systems to support vibrant public life like transportation, regional planning, and economic development. <\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in our arts program, read more about our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knightfoundation.org\/programs\/arts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">arts strategy<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><strong>San Jose Community Advisory Committee members:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p>Lan Diep, City of San Jose; Nuria Fernandez, Valley Transportation Authority; Michael Flynn, Google; Garrett Herbert, Deloitte LLP; Mary Papazian, San Jose State University; Greg Woock, Pinger.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"block-employees single-program__wrapper-section \">\n\t<h2 class=\"block-employees__heading\">\n\t\tCOMMUNITY PROGRAM STAFF\t<\/h2>\n\t\t<div class=\"block-employees__inner\">\n\t\t\n\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-text\">\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What We Look For Knight focuses on building a more engaged San Jose with a focus on creating vibrant public life \u2014 drawing people out of homes, offices, and classrooms and into the community. 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