Who We've Funded

Bemidji, MN — Toward a capital campaign

Perham, MN — Toward a capital campaign to renovate a building

Saint Paul, MN — To refine and integrate a community engagement model

Saint Paul, MN — Toward facility repair and replacement as part of a comprehensive capital campaign

Falls Church, VA — For the 'Be Safe Campaign' to protect the environment and children's health

Fargo, ND — For a capital campaign to support the acquisition and renovation of a building in South Fargo

Eagle Butte, SD — Toward construction of a teen center

Saint Paul, MN — For salary and related costs of a new staff attorney and social worker for the Ramsey County Guardianship Pilot Project

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

Minneapolis, MN — To start a new program that treats women with the co-occurring disorders of mental illness and chemical dependency

Moorhead, MN — Toward a capital campaign for a homeless shelter for individuals and families

Saint Paul, MN — For a membership coordinator position

Atlanta, GA — To develop a scholarship of teaching and learning program

Northfield, MN — For program and case management areas of a supportive housing project for residents diagnosed with persistent mental illness

Mandan, ND — To expand operations of a revolving housing loan fund for low-income people in North Dakota

Saint Paul, MN — Toward a capital campaign to lease space in Minneapolis and to build a mixed-use facility on St. Paul's East Side

Moorhead, MN — To match contributions for the Campaign for Concordia, a comprehensive capital campaign

Mitchell, SD — For a matching capital grant to support construction of the George and Eleanor McGovern Library and Center for Public Service

For continued operating support through the Regional Arts Development Program

Saint Paul, MN — To fund a transition in management structure and to develop an agency-wide evaluation plan for an agency that provides a safe and supportive environment for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender youth

Minneapolis, MN — For the fathers' parent education project

Minneapolis, MN — To support Clean Air Minnesota's mobile source emission-reduction projects

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a program for teens in foster care

Williston, ND — To expand services to include residential treatment

Minneapolis, MN — To expand child care businesses in North Dakota and South Dakota through a model that integrates financing, business development, and investment strategies

Rapid City, SD — To support a comprehensive strategic planning process and to complete the transition to independent nonprofit status

Miami Gardens, FL — To help faculty and students learn to use instructional technology effectively

Saint Paul, MN — For a business manager/development director position

Forest Lake, MN — To maintain program levels while implementing a strategic plan

Poplar, MT — To improve faculty awareness of tribal cultures and to develop faculty members' teaching, assessment, instructional technology, and distance learning skills

Eagle Butte, SD — To support the EMPOWERING YOUTH project

Bloomington, MN — For expanded pollution identification and conservation work in the Lower Minnesota River Basin

Duluth, MN — To support the Duluth Informal Science Education Collaborative

Minneapolis, MN — To expand and staff a teen parenting program for adolescent and teen mothers who are placed out of their homes and are too old to remain in the child welfare system

Groton, SD — For support of a program director position, planning for a sculpture commissioning project, and expansion of a high school exhibition program

Saint Paul, MN — For the Legacy Project, to assess and communicate lessons learned from the Grand Excursion programs

Minneapolis, MN — For development costs involved in bringing a discount grocery store to East Franklin Avenue

Houston, TX — For the Grass Creek Prairie Restoration Project on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota

Minneapolis, MN — Toward a capital campaign for a children's shelter

Minneapolis, MN — For the Strategic Planning Fund to enable nonprofit organizations to plan for and implement strategic change, including mergers or significant agency restructuring

Saint Paul, MN — To upgrade a website as a part of the organizational effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program

To implement supportive services at a 12-unit supportive housing program for youth who have become ineligible for public support and are exiting from foster care or residential treatment in a hospital, center, or group home

Saint Paul, MN — To expand a volunteer service program

Saint Paul, MN — For a faculty development project in international learning and for the development of a sustainable model for improved student learning

Ft. Meade, SD — To hire computer and faculty trainers

Saint Paul, MN — Toward a plan for organizational development

Minneapolis, MN — To develop strategic branding for the theater as a part of the organizational effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a system to increase and retain individual donors

Minneapolis, MN — To continue work in the energy sector and in local economic development

Minneapolis, MN — For a major Internet and digital programming initiative to engage immigrant populations

Gaithersburg, MD — For the Midwest Clean Air Campaign and for a wilderness and public lands program

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

Moorhead, MN — For additional administrative and programming positions as part of a leadership transition

Minneapolis, MN — Toward a capital campaign to renovate a building as primary exhibition and education space, and for an administrative assistant

Grand Rapids, MN — To implement a family self-sufficiency program in Koochiching County

Minneapolis, MN — To establish services for children, women, and families

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a model regional food system that uses sustainable farming methods

Minneapolis, MN — To expand a volunteer program

Saint Paul, MN — To support a business development program for Latino immigrant entrepreneurs

To develop a training initiative to strengthen the management skills of African nonprofit leaders

Saint Paul, MN — To renovate the Minnesota Women's Building

Minneapolis, MN — To provide pro bono business law services to nonprofit organizations and microenterprises

Duluth, MN — To renovate supportive housing for five homeless and sexually exploited young women with mental health or chemical dependency problems

Alexandria, MN — To purchase a safe house for battered women and children

New York, NY — For a technical assistance training program for community development corporations affiliated with Duluth-LISC

Saint Paul, MN — To renew a faculty development program that deepens the capacity of faculty to teach and advise students from all backgrounds and that prepares students for a multicultural world

Bismarck, ND — For a comprehensive statewide 2-1-1 information and referral system for North Dakota

Saint Paul, MN — To hire a case manager to work with low-income families

Arden Hills, MN — For a demonstration project to sustain cultural minority elders in their communities

Saint Paul, MN — For a research project to better understand and develop ways to help nurture arts activities in rural and outlying suburban communities

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

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

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

Saint Paul, MN — To reduce water pollutants and strengthen work with similar organizations

Mounds View, MN — For a public health campaign in the Red River Valley to prevent chronic disease in workers who apply pesticides

Saint Paul, MN — For permanent protection of land and shoreline to improve water quality in Minnesota

North Saint Paul, MN — To hire consultants to develop materials and conduct trainings to improve end-of-life care for Hmong and Spanish speakers

Minneapolis, MN — To design and implement a development initiative to stimulate new individual and corporate contributors

Saint Paul, MN — Toward a capital campaign for a multicultural community services center in St. Paul

Woodstock, MN — Toward a capital campaign to add new inpatient and detoxification beds

New York Mills, MN — For additional administrative and promotional support related to a new arts program for teens in rural Minnesota

Grand Forks, ND — For a staff position to coordinate a grants program and related activities to prevent homelessness

Grand Forks, ND — To increase the time and compensation of the administrative coordinator and to support associated activities

Minneapolis, MN — Toward the cost of a technology consultant as a part of the organizational effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program

Shoreview, MN — To expand a youth-run business program

New Town, ND — To improve faculty skills in instructional technology, curriculum development, assessment of student learning, and knowledge of tribal cultures, and to help faculty complete graduate degrees

Saint Paul, MN — To fund a health disparities coordinator

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

Saint Paul, MN — For a capital campaign to renovate existing facilities and construct a new building to serve people with mental illness

New Orleans, LA — For staff who work on organizing and leadership development with teens to combat racism and oppression in the Twin Cities and Duluth

Saint Paul, MN — To increase enrollment in health care coverage programs for immigrants and the working poor in northwest Hennepin County

Minneapolis, MN — To expand restorative justice services to the Phillips neighborhood and to begin serving youth

Minneapolis, MN — To support the creation of a prevention services position

Saint Paul, MN — For cultural consultants to address racial disparities in the child welfare system

Saint Paul, MN — For an effort to assure that Minnesota's youngest children are ready for kindergarten

Saint Paul, MN — To provide physical and mental health screenings to Hmong refugees from the Wat Tham Krabok camp

Minneapolis, MN — To evaluate rural revitalization work and to share information inspired by Renewing the Countryside