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Courageous Character: David Mura
David Mura is a Minnesota-based memoirist, essayist, novelist, poet, critic, playwright, and performance artist. His work, on topics ranging from contemporary Japan to the legacy of the internment camps and the history of Japanese Americans to critical explorations of an increasingly diverse America, has won wide praise and numerous awards.
The McKnight Foundation, in partnership with the Minnesota Council of Foundations, announces seven Minnesotans as recipients of the 2024 Virginia McKnight Binger Heart of Community Honor.
“The Presidents’ Council is catalyzing a growing movement of investors putting the full weight of our considerable resources behind our missions to deliver a prosperous, just, resilient economy for all.”
—Tonya Allen, President
2024 McKnight Scholar Awards
The Board of Directors of The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience is pleased to announce it has selected ten neuroscientists to receive the 2024 McKnight Scholar Award. This is the second year McKnight makes these awards under the program’s new guidelines, which place additional emphasis on increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion to enhance the excellence and impact of our work.
Stories of Climate Progress and Hope in Minnesota
Hear directly from the advocates who secured the state’s largest-ever investments in clean energy, environmental justice, and transit—making Minnesota a national climate leader—and find out how 100% clean energy went from impossible to inevitable.