Grantee Learning Logs

Conducting community deliberations to enhance inclusion among Brookings area businesses

To further the collaborative development of equitable workforce solutions through an exchange between employers and residents on the East Side of Saint Paul

To fund a coordinated social service system of care for low-income individuals called the Sioux Empire Network of Care

To better understand the needs of sandwich generation caregivers and explore innovative solutions to better serve them

To develop long-term, community-based, proactive solutions to climate change in order to reduce vulnerability and reinforce the strengths of people, infrastructure and institutions of Moorhead-Fargo

Realizing Well Care: Achieving a sustainable system for community-based chronic disease management and prevention

To advance healing among the Dakota people harmed by disconnection from their spiritual homeland at Wakan Tipi, and to increase the number of neighbors of color who use St. Paul’s Swede Hollow Park

To pilot a peer learning community in South Dakota for increasing homeownership opportunities and creating a mortgage ready environment in tribal communities

To work at the Intersection of Hunger and Health to improve health outcomes for food insecure individuals

To unite MHA Nation community segments in Fort Berthold Reservation and overcome isolation

Expand and embed an innovative partnership model between community members and juvenile justice system leaders to transform Ramsey County justice system practices

To reduce disparities in reproductive health care for African immigrant women in Minnesota with female genital cutting

To collaboratively design the K-12 Standards of Inclusion for Somali Parents and Youth to equip K-12 educators with the context necessary to mitigate the challenges of Somali student learning and parent participation in the school system

To advance an interrelated food system that increases access to healthy foods and builds local wealth in Finland, Minnesota

To support five rural communities in south central Minnesota in developing a model of pairing economic development with inclusion through the Welcoming Communities Project

To coordinate local transportation services for vulnerable people in the Headwaters Region

Thriving In Place: Surfacing innovative strategies to prevent the negative impacts of gentrification and displacement

To pilot a Community Ownership model to preserve affordable housing and reduce displacement in the Phillips Neighborhood of Minneapolis

To facilitate the process of expanding community-based mental health support within three rural communities in South Dakota

To develop a statewide framework for collective impact focused on supporting Veterans in Minnesota

To remove barriers that prevent low-income families from accessing the Minnesota K-12 Education Tax Credit

To assess the accuracy of current screening indicators as a predictor of successful tenancy and create more equitable, effective and accurate screening tools and an implementation plan

For Legal Advocates for Health, a cross borders medical-legal partnership embedded in Family Health Care Center to improve the social determinants of health for New Americans and other vulnerable populations

To support the development of an LGBTQ+ health curriculum in partnership with Minnesota-based medical training programs to ensure more health professionals emerge from degree programs equipped and ready to serve LGBTQ+ patients

A collaborative process for landscape conservation in Western North Dakota

To engage local residents, primarily new American communities, in the transportation design planning process for the crossings of I-94 between Seward and the West Bank

To host African women’s tea ceremonies for African immigrant women to increase understanding of gender-based violence, build a community of support, and begin to generate ideas on preventing gender-based violence

To develop a model for Career and Technical Education that is grounded in Lakota culture that provides education for Native students in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

To create a trauma-informed approach to building career pathways for low-income adult learners

To address structural oppression, institutional racism and systemic gaps in support for Indigenous and People of Color in the Bemidji area through the Healing for Justice (Gwekendam) process

The METRO Green Line light rail line connects downtown Minneapolis and downtown Saint Paul. When it opened in 2014, it brought many benefits for neighborhoods along the line, as well as new challenges. Despite new construction, barriers to stable and affordable housing in the Frogtown Rondo neighborhoods remain. The Frogtown-Rondo Action Network (FRAN) will bring together residents from these neighborhoods, along with district councils and other advocates, to begin a dialogue about ways to break through barriers to accessible, affordable housing for residents. At the same time, FRAN will train and guide local leaders on ways to engage their fellow residents, share what they’re learning with key community stakeholders and create a housing action plan that can be implemented in 2018.

To collectively develop solutions to solve the Personal Care Assistants crisis

To develop a Domestic Violence High Risk Team in Minot, North Dakota

To implement a collective impact process that ensures the availability of affordable housing for low-income families in Rapid City, South Dakota

To develop a community-defined vision and action plan to protect Itasca County’s water resources

To collaboratively develop a Muslim Chaplaincy program as a means to provide culturally grounded support to youth and families

To align the stewardship of Pine Ridge tribal lands with community needs and aspirations