When the Knight Foundation awarded $5 million to the revitalization of the College Hill Corridor in 2009, $3 million was set aside for the Knight Neighborhood Challenge. Administered by the Community Foundation of Central Georgia, the Knight Neighborhood Challenge was a five-year program that underwrote the best ideas to transform the city of Macon’s first neighborhoods into the vision of the College Hill Corridor Master Plan.
A broad-based, competitive grant program, the Challenge funded projects – small and large – that gave College Hill a sense of place, spruced up its parks and public spaces and enhanced the arts and entertainment scene. The effort also aimed to get people involved in College Hill through an array of civic and cultural projects.
To learn more about this successful grant program, visit CFCGA.org.