Who We've Funded

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

Saint Peter, MN — To support a comprehensive plan for faculty development focused on teaching and learning

Minneapolis, MN — To create the Guthrie New Play Program

Minneapolis, MN — To develop and implement an environmental justice fund for grassroots groups from low-income, rural, and communities of color in Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN — To support staff positions

Minneapolis, MN — To continue the Academic Barriers Challengers after-school program

Saint Paul, MN — To construct the Hmong American Center

Sentinel Butte, ND — Toward a capital campaign to build a new girls' dormitory and other program space

Minneapolis, MN — For planning and organizational development to guide long-term growth

Minneapolis, MN — To address ecological health by engaging in coalition building activities in Minnesota and the Dakotas

Saint Paul, MN — To hire an executive director

Saint Paul, MN — For public policy research and analysis

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a facilities and operating plan for a youth-focused visual arts center

Saint Paul, MN — For a merger of human service organizations

Minneapolis, MN — To increase Latino families' involvement in the school success of their children

To become a certified functional family therapy site

Minneapolis, MN — To strengthen a volunteer/intern program

Minneapolis, MN — To support administrative staff to continue implementation of the Little Earth Joint Partnership, its vision, and long-range plan

Winnebago, NE — To improve student retention and success rates through the improvement of instruction with a focus on assessment

Fargo, ND — To implement a two-year development project to secure permanent funding for the Healthy Families Region IV Program

Minneapolis, MN — To add a full-time client advocate position

Minneapolis, MN — To establish a centralized management services office to provide more efficient core services for the Alliance membership

Saint Paul, MN — For community outreach programs of Metropolitan State University library and Dayton's Bluff, a newly constructed combined public library

Minneapolis, MN — To hire a full-time executive director and add new staff hours as needed

Saint Paul, MN — To hire staff for a public health program

Saint Paul, MN — Toward a capital campaign to build a new gallery and to renovate permanent galleries

Minneapolis, MN — To support the development and production of new and existing works of dance

Mounds View, MN — To design a plan for reducing exposure to pesticides in the Red River Valley

Saint Paul, MN — To establish a full-time position of associate director for external affairs

Saint Paul, MN — For a challenge grant to complete the first phase of a capital campaign to construct a new headquarters and production center in Saint Paul

Mendota Heights, MN — To expand services to youth intervention programs throughout Minnesota

Moorhead, MN — To establish educational and social programming for youth who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender

Minneapolis, MN — To conduct a series of public forums on water quality, environmental health, and social justice

Park Rapids, MN — To expand a pilot job skills development and mentoring program for Native American and other at-risk high school students in rural Minnesota

Yankton, SD — To help faculty adjust their teaching styles to an increasingly older and diverse student body, reestablish an interdisciplinary honors program, improve course assessment methods, and develop joint student/faculty research projects

Washington, DC — To engage in outreach and relationship building with tribes in the Bush Foundation region

Saint Paul, MN — To support additional staff costs resulting from a program expansion

Saint Paul, MN — To expand direct services provided for homeless women in recovery and their children

Bismarck, ND — Toward a capital campaign to construct a center of Western heritage and history

Grand Forks, ND — For continued operating support through the Regional Arts Development Program

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

Grand Rapids, MN — Toward a capital campaign to build a new radio station

Aberdeen, SD — To support the second phase of a six-year effort to analyze the effectiveness of various pedagogical strategies and instructional technologies on student learning and retention

Saint Paul, MN — To hire an elders outreach liaison

Brooklyn Park, MN — To hire a new, full-time staff member

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

Little Rock, AR — To develop a computer and assessment program for college faculty to improve student learning

Minneapolis, MN — To support initiatives to increase earned income

Raleigh, ND — For a capital campaign to renovate buildings

Minneapolis, MN — Toward a capital campaign

Minneapolis, MN — To support a combined social worker/program manager position

Minneapolis, MN — To hire a part-time administrative assistant and to pay stipends for three company dancers

Virginia, MN — To provide early intervention mental health services, service coordination, and case management for displaced workers and families on Minnesota's Iron Range

Rapid City, SD — For a program to reduce student dropout rates, increase graduation rates, and increase attendance at Central High School

Rapid City, SD — To fund part-time curators and to improve computer technology

Pine Ridge, SD — To fund the director and curator positions for the Heritage Center

Minneapolis, MN — To implement direct service programs for Sudanese immigrants and refugees

Rochester, MN — To upgrade software, networking and customer service applications as a part of the organizational effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program

Princeton, MN — To hire a store manager for the start-up and operations of a thrift store

Minneapolis, MN — To recruit and hire an executive director

Winona, MN — To reform the general education curriculum, to improve faculty educational technology skills, and to develop a core of faculty to mentor junior faculty leaders

Saint Paul, MN — Toward visual identity initiatives of a strategic plan as part of the organizational effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program

Toward a capital campaign to redevelop blighted land into Landmark Plaza

Saint Paul, MN — To create and staff a development office

Saint Paul, MN — To implement a Museum-wide program focused on public understanding of current science

Willmar, MN — Toward a capital campaign to build an emergency shelter and service offices

Brookings, SD — To provide staff and internal support to strengthen a statewide program to encourage authorship, literacy, and reading

Brookings, SD — For continued development of the South Dakota Institute for Infant Toddler Care and Development

Minneapolis, MN — To support an environmental coordinator and secure voluntary reductions in air emissions from neighborhood industry sources

Bismarck, ND — To support the Bush Child Development Successor Program in North Dakota

Pierre, SD — To implement the Child Development Successor Program

Minneapolis, MN — To expand the service area of the Central City Neighborhoods Partnership restorative justice program

Saint Paul, MN — For an evaluation of a pilot project that tests the provision of supportive housing and services to address long-term homelessness

Minneapolis, MN — To hire an executive director

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a business plan and hire a part-time manager for the Textile Center Shop

Saint Paul, MN — For staff and consultant expenses associated with creating a statewide capacity to heal survivors of torture in Minnesota communities

Duluth, MN — For a comprehensive capital campaign to increase endowment and enhance campus facilities

Minneapolis, MN — For a staff position to develop a resource database, a network of service providers, and a volunteer program to serve truant and homeless youth

Minneapolis, MN — To restructure a website and provide for online transactions as a part of the organizational effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program

Sioux Falls, SD — Toward costs associated with a statewide rural battered women outreach project in South Dakota

Saint Paul, MN — To improve the artistic quality of the Theater's productions

For continued operating support through the Regional Arts Development Program

Mission, SD — To implement a comprehensive high school retention program

Fort Collins, CO — To support tree planting, solar installation, and environmental outreach efforts on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

Crookston, MN — To develop a database of transit-dependent populations and form a five-county collaboration to increase transit options

St. Paul, MN — For programming for the Minnesota Collaborative and Channel and to plan marketing and evaluation

Saint Paul, MN — To support an employment program and to complete a transition to a new leader and building

Bismarck, ND — For faculty training in instructional methodology, assessment of learning, advising, and Native cultures

Jamestown, ND — To plan a program to improve teaching effectiveness in order to improve student learning

Bismarck, ND — For the Campaign for Growth through Change and Commitment

Grand Forks, ND — To renew a faculty development program to engage faculty in assessment as a way to enhance teaching and learning

Sioux Falls, SD — For a faculty development program that emphasizes critical thinking

Minneapolis, MN — To hire a mental health director and consultant to increase American Indian mental health services capacity

Saint Paul, MN — To establish a youth conservation corps on Saint Paul's East Side