Minneapolis, MN — To develop and deliver an organizational capacity building program for nonprofits in North Dakota (originally awarded to contribute to a loan fund to help Minnesota nonprofits compete for state and federal 'Pay for Performance' funding)
Duluth, MN — Build community-based intergenerational work experiences and leadership skills among college interns working in rural communities and on Indian Reservations
Rapid City, SD — Community collaboration toward implementation of the Authentic Youth Civic Engagement (AYCE) plan, educating the community on the value of its youth, and building opportunities for youth voices to be heard
Pierre, SD — For alignment of K-12 exit/postsecondary entrance standards, communication efforts and professional development efforts around Common Core State Standards
Brainerd, MN — Intergenerational citizen leadership co-production model for providing public services and goods. (A collaborative public work initiative to engage and strengthen citizen leadership [focused on youth, University students and senior citizens] to solve community problems through co-production models for providing public services and goods.)
Cass Lake, MN — Cover the design, circulation and analysis, as well as other related costs, of a survey to assess interest in changing blood quantum requirements
Minneapolis, MN — Reinvigorate the University's land-grant tradition to assure common people have access to useful and practical knowledge and education
Wagner, SD — Tribal Constitutions Executive Education Seminar for the Yankton Sioux Tribe Business and Claims Committee and Constitution Revision Committee on May 1-2, 2012
Saint Paul, MN — Four InCommons gatherings to share research on Community Connectedness in conjunction with the Blue Cross Blue Shield Community Connectedness Challenge
Minneapolis, MN — One-time grant to enhance the capacity of the higher education partners to collect, compile, and analyze data. Permissible uses of the money include staffing, consultants, staff development, training, hardware, and/or software
Saint Paul, MN — One-time grant to enhance the capacity of the higher education partners to collect, compile, and analyze data. Permissible uses of the money include staffing, consultants, staff development, training, hardware, and/or software
Saint Paul, MN — To solicit proposals from counties to perform a comprehensive child welfare field test. This test will aim to improve outcomes and save money. It will attempt to both identify and actually capture for repayment the savings generated by prevention efforts.
Montevideo, MN — Prototype a place-based Innovation site in Western MN to beta test the use of InCommons' values and practices to solve community problems. CURE will experiment and monitor their activities and share learnings with a community of interest and on InCommons
Saint Paul, MN — One-time grant to enhance the capacity of the higher education partners to collect, compile, and analyze data. Permissible uses of the money include staffing, consultants, staff development, training, hardware, and/or software
Fort Thompson, SD — Travel for six representatives to attend the 'Remaking Indigenous Governance Systems: Constitutions and Other Arrangements' seminar on May 2-3, 2011 at Mystic Lake Resort in Prior Lake, MN
Dickinson, ND — Community Problem Solving - Oil and Sustainable Solutions: Convene community stakeholders to solve problems presented by rapid area growth due to the oil economy after conducting an inventory of effects of the oil/energy boom on community capacity to handle rapid growth, and exploring how other communities have dealt with a similar situations
Saint Paul, MN — One-time grant to enhance the capacity of the higher education partners to collect, compile, and analyze data. Permissible uses of the money include staffing, consultants, staff development, training, hardware, and/or software
Little Falls, MN — 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
Minneapolis, MN — Creative Community Leadership Institute: Support the delivery of graduate level creative leadership training to 40-50 artists and community leaders in the Twin Cities and Fargo/Moorhead area through the Creative Leadership Institute
Saint Paul, MN — To create a learning community of practice for Art of Hosting facilitators so they can connect and deepen their practice, find apprenticing opportunities to learn how to design trainings and receive support and opportunities to serve the community
Saint Paul, MN — Deliver news coverage, storytelling, data, and profiles around a series of topics vital to Minnesota communities, which reflect new ways Minnesotans are dealing with the 'new normal' and include examples of leaders taking action to solve problems
Moorhead, MN — One-time grant to enhance the capacity of the higher education partners to collect, compile, and analyze data. Permissible uses of the money include staffing, consultants, staff development, training, hardware, and/or software
Minneapolis, MN — Add to the public's knowledge and appreciation of courageous leadership around the state by writing one piece per month, profiling Minnesotans who are exercising leadership to wrestle with specific challenges, and addressing why and how they're doing it
Saint Cloud, MN — One-time grant to enhance the capacity of the higher education partners to collect, compile, and analyze data. Permissible uses of the money include staffing, consultants, staff development, training, hardware, and/or software
Vermillion, SD — Build a strong statewide nonprofit sector to accomplish organizational missions through leadership training, technical assistance and connections to tools and data that could advance solutions to tough problems
Rapid City, SD — Support a seminar on Native nation building and tribal governance, programs, and economies on July 26-28, 2011 at Standing Rock Indian Reservation