Initiative Foundation

14 Grants from 1998 - 2020

  • Total Amount Received: $3,122,750
  • Location: Little Falls, MN

Sponsorship of an Initiative Foundation convening (re-purposed for COVID community response)

Grants received

$15,000 in 2020

  • Term: 11 Months

Sponsorship of an Initiative Foundation convening (re-purposed for COVID community response)

$1,400,000 in 2018

  • Term: 90 Months

Support the expansion of the Initiators Fellowship

$200,000 in 2016

  • Program: Ecosystem
  • Term: 23 Months

This Ecosystem Grant provides general operating support for the Initiative Foundation's leadership work

$7,500 in 2015

  • Term: 6 Months

Identify, recruit, engage and support a cohort of 15 leaders to attend bushCONNECT on May 4, 2015

$200,000 in 2014

  • Term: 24 Months

Central Minnesota Champions Communities of Leaders (COL)

$17,500 in 2014

  • Term: 6 Months

Co-create programming and recruit and support attendees for bushCONNECT on May 12, 2014

$75,000 in 2011

  • Term: 13 Months

Thriving Communities: leadership development and community capacity cohort pilot project, working on a specific issue at a community level in a regional structural shift context

$125,000 in 2011

  • Term: 16 Months

Thriving Communities: leadership development and community capacity cohort pilot project, working on a specific issue at a community level in a regional structural shift context

$150,000 in 2009

  • Term: 17 Months

For participation as a selected community partner, through its 2009-2010 Healthy Community Partnership program, in the planning and pilot phases of an initiative by Bush Foundation and Minnesota Public Radio to create broadcast, online, and social media networks that provide increased information and storytelling to illuminate issues and to improve community problem solving at the local and regional levels

$100,000 in 2008

  • Term: 11 Months

Increased ability of HCP communities to affect long-term change in two to four identified trends through improved planning, training, measurement, and partnerships; Increased philanthropic investments in HCP communities

$300,000 in 2005

  • Term: 24 Months

Towards the Rural Methamphetamine Initiative

$390,000 in 2001

  • Term: 35 Months

To expand the Healthy Communities Partnership program

$83,000 in 1999

  • Term: 24 Months

To support a community development program in rural towns

$59,750 in 1998

  • Term: 12 Months

To expand the Healthy Communities Project, a community leadership development program