Our Partners
The City of West Palm Beach is teaming up with Florida Atlantic University, the Knight Foundation, and Community Foundation to install and activate the 'Mobility Intelligence Project', designed to figure out ways to improve mobility in the City.
City of West Palm Beach
The coastal City of West Palm Beach is located in South Florida, approximately 70 miles north of Miami. The city spans approximately 58 square miles, with approximately 110,000 residents. It is the county seat of Palm Beach County and one of the three main cities in South Florida. Long a place where people of vision have brought their dreams, built new enterprises, and achieved success, the City of West Palm Beach is a regional center of commerce offering an environment where dreams can still come true. Born among affluence, West Palm Beach has always been, and still is, a place where men and women roll up their sleeves and get things done, yet without the hustle, hassle, and hardship found elsewhere in South Florida. Its government, business community, and citizenry unite to build a positive, progressive business environment that is supportive and cooperative, which combined with its outstanding lifestyle and easy workability, creates Florida’s best metropolitan location, where professional and personal lives both flourish, and where dreams still come true.
I-SENSE, Florida Atlantic University
The Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems Engineering (I-SENSE) leads university-wide activities in Sensing and Smart Systems, one of Florida Atlantic University’s four research pillars. The I-SENSE mission is to catalyze a culture of research excellence in Sensing and Smart Systems; to develop, demonstrate, and operate technological solutions with high societal impact; and to attract and support future generations of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners. The institute catalyzes research initiatives that crosscut disciplines, academia, government, and industry. The mission is led by a robust interdisciplinary team comprising five staff members, nine faculty fellows, three postdoctoral researchers, more than 60 affiliated faculty, and more than two dozen supported students.
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the university serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six-county service region in southeast Florida, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion.
Knight Foundation
The Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots, investing in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. The foundation’s goal is to foster informed and engaged communities. The Knight brothers believed that a well-informed community could best determine its own true interests and was essential to a well-functioning, representative democracy. The brothers pursued those beliefs, building and running one of America’s largest and most successful 20th century newspaper companies. The Knights formed Knight Foundation to promote excellence in journalism and the success of the communities in which they worked. The company was sold, and the foundation, ever evolving, carries on this work.
Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties
The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties is an autonomous, publicly supported philanthropic foundation with a long-term goal of building permanent, named charitable funds established by many separate donors for the broad-based charitable benefit of residents of Palm Beach and Martin Counties. Together with donors, the foundation’s mission is to serve as the leading catalyst for building vibrant communities through meaningful philanthropy. At their most powerful, community foundations can foster a culture of giving and help create long-lasting change in the region they serve and overall, in society. Community foundations change lives. Their unique role in a region enables donors to transform their philanthropic passion into meaningful impact.