Who We've Funded

For continued operating support through the Regional Arts Development Program I

Timber Lake, SD — For a tri-county economic enhancement initiative

Tougaloo, MS — For the Historically Black College and University Faculty Development Network

St. Paul, MN — To plan for and design an online archive of media materials

Saint Paul, MN — To support expansion at a dental clinic that provides free dental care to women and children

Washington, DC — To develop and implement an enrollment management program to increase enrollment and improve graduation rates at private historically black colleges and universities

Bismarck, ND — To continue a series of faculty workshops on instructional technology, distance learning, assessment of student learning, academic advising, and teaching of Native cultures

Jamestown, ND — For a matching grant to build endowment for need-based scholarships

Minneapolis, MN — To complete the development of an undergraduate minor in ecosystem science and sustainability

Vermillion, SD — To improve teaching and learning in the first year curriculum

Fargo, ND — To implement Family Group Decision Making in North Dakota

Minneapolis, MN — For entry-year support through the Regional Arts Development Program II

Sioux Falls, SD — Toward an agency accreditation plan

Minneapolis, MN — For continued support of a day treatment program evaluation

Saint Paul, MN — To implement a transitional business plan

Billings, MT — For a bio-fuels initiative in North and South Dakota that promotes ecological health, sustainable family farms, and rural economic opportunity

Winona, MN — To establish a coordinated emergency assistance program

North Branch, MN — To support projects to promote environmental justice

Rapid City, SD — For staff and planning to improve access to domestic violence and sexual assault services

Minneapolis, MN — To integrate mental health services for youth at a transitional living program

Duluth, MN — To conduct a program assessment

Minneapolis, MN — Toward a demonstration project to adapt an educational intervention program for early childhood educators and students

Minneapolis, MN — For staff to develop new models of supportive services for people with a high risk of homelessness or who are chronically homeless

Minneapolis, MN — To launch a culturally specific adolescent division of mental and chemical health services

Minneapolis, MN — To translate financial literacy programming into seven languages

Minneapolis, MN — To hire two business development consultants as full-time staff

Saint Paul, MN — For a final grant of operating support through the Regional Arts Development Program I

Minneapolis, MN — For a program that provides medical, mental health, and outpatient treatment services to Native people

Saint Paul, MN — To add a full-time licensed therapist to staff a residential treatment program for youth

Minneapolis, MN — For a final grant of general operating support and to increase individual donors through the Regional Arts Development Program I

Minneapolis, MN — For new and increased positions to operate a newly renovated theater

Minneapolis, MN — To implement a strategic plan for an organization that provides legal training and support to organizations working with battered women and to change and improve the legal system's response to battered women

Rapid City, SD — For enhanced aftercare services for the clients of Full Circle

Bloomington, MN — To support staff at a St. Cloud location to distribute furniture and household items for families in crisis

Minneapolis, MN — To implement a market research study to inform the development of a business and marketing plan

Ponemah, MN — To fund an organizational plan

Owatonna, MN — For an organizing project

Saint Paul, MN — For a Latino civic engagement project

Lame Deer, MT — For a tribal college faculty development program to improve assessment of student learning, integrate cultural awareness into the student experience, encourage faculty to pursue advanced degrees and improve pedagogy

Minneapolis, MN — To expand a program that develops the effectiveness of child care public policy advocates

Sioux Falls, SD — Toward a capital campaign in Rapid City

Saint Paul, MN — To expand the Tax and Benefit Outreach initiative in Greater Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN — To hire a full-time Oromo public health outreach specialist and a full-time dental assistant

Minneapolis, MN — Toward a capital campaign

Minneapolis, MN — To add a finance manager position

Montevideo, MN — To promote ecological renewal and economic revitalization in the Upper Minnesota River Watershed

Minneapolis, MN — To continue improving back-list sales and outreach to the academic market

To support the Collaboration's programs for 2006

To enhance faculty skills in teaching and in the assessment of student learning in visual and liberal arts and honors programs

Lanesboro, MN — Toward a capital campaign

Saint Paul, MN — To increase student learning with guided research, service learning, and faculty mentoring

Minneapolis, MN — Toward planning and development of a women's program and related physical space

Minneapolis, MN — For the New Advocacy Project to help shape public policy for conservation

Saint Paul, MN — For consultant and associated expenses to develop a business plan for a new agricultural group known as the Northern Plains Quality Buffalo Producers located in South Dakota

Bloomington, MN — To rebuild a volunteer program in an agency that provides emergency shelter, transitional housing, and community services for victims of domestic violence

Minneapolis, MN — For two full-time program officers dedicated to providing assistance and training in Greater Minnesota

Brookings, SD — To support grassroots organizing work and organizational evaluation and planning

Dickinson, ND — To complete a plan for a regional Center for Entrepreneurship and Rural Revitalization at Dickinson State University

New Orleans, LA — For recovery for victims of Hurricane Katrina at Dillard University

Minneapolis, MN — To purchase a ten-acre organic farm in Hugo, Minnesota for Dream of Wild Health

Memphis, TN — For salary and equipment costs to develop outreach materials for landowners on the ecology of shallow lakes and conservation programs

Duluth, MN — For continued operating support through the Regional Arts Development Program I

Minneapolis, MN — To expand a home visiting early literacy program

Brookings, SD — To recruit and train new volunteers

Saint Paul, MN — To support programs to provide affordable energy for low-income people

Chicago, IL — To support clean energy development programs in the Dakotas and Minnesota

Bemidji, MN — To develop a halfway house specifically for adolescents

Fargo, ND — For a new health mentoring program for refugees

Fargo, ND — For a planning/pilot grant to establish a professional touring company

Moorhead, MN — To design and construct a new website as part of the organizational effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program I

Saint Paul, MN — To help family farming remain a vibrant and significant piece of the economic landscape of the rural Upper Midwest

Saint Paul, MN — To support transition costs at a newly independent organization that provides technical assistance to nonprofits

Saint Paul, MN — Toward a capital campaign

Mitchell, SD — To expand a court advocacy program for abused and neglected children

Saint Paul, MN — To advance the adoption of clean energy policies, increase production of community-based renewable energy, and build organizational capacity

Saint Paul, MN — To support operations

Saint Paul, MN — To support continued implementation of a pilot project for a watershed initiative

Bismarck, ND — To hire a part-time exhibits coordinator

Grand Marais, MN — Toward a capital campaign

Minneapolis, MN — For continued operating support through the Regional Arts Development Program I

Minneapolis, MN — To support Powering the Plains, a program to reduce the levels of carbon dioxide produced from the generation of electricity

Minneapolis, MN — For a capital campaign to construct a Center for Families in North Minneapolis

Minneapolis, MN — To expand sustainable development programs

Minneapolis, MN — Toward the environmental justice fund

Bemidji, MN — To expand staff at the Headwaters Science Center

San Francisco, CA — To support the Funders' Collaborative for Strong Latino Communities in the Upper Midwest region and to support strategic planning

Minneapolis, MN — To expand and evaluate the programs of a learning center for low-income and immigrant adults

Minneapolis, MN — To hire a marketing firm to convey brand promise to the public as part of the organizational effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program I

Saint Paul, MN — For Phase II of the Connected Counseling Program for high school completion

Little Falls, MN — Towards the Rural Methamphetamine Initiative

Minneapolis, MN — For a collaborative ecological health network in Minnesota and the Dakotas

Minneapolis, MN — To re-design and re-launch a website as part of the organizational effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program I

Brainerd, MN — For mentor recruitment

Hayward, WI — To infuse Native American culture into the curriculum and to enhance faculty skills in the teaching and assessment of student writing

Minneapolis, MN — To implement a plan to become a family resource center

Bismarck, ND — Toward a legal education effort in North Dakota

Sioux Falls, SD — Toward a capital campaign for residential youth treatment facilities

Bismarck, ND — Toward the cost of operating a statewide, 24-hour telephone crisis counseling 2-1-1 help line

Minneapolis, MN — For planning of the Legal Services Coalition technology initiative