Who We've Funded

Valley City, ND — To implement an assessment of student learning plan and to strengthen faculty instructional skills and subject matter competencies

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a program that teaches organizing leadership skills among diverse cultural communities

Minneapolis, MN — To support artistic and educational programming and to diversify audience participation through a More than a Museum initiative

Minneapolis, MN — To develop and evaluate a treatment model for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties

Saint Paul, MN — To strengthen the Jane Addams School for Democracy

Callaway, MN — To support the Sustainable Community Capacity Building Program

Minneapolis, MN — To expand a grassroots network of rural landowners to promote wind energy

Rapid City, SD — To construct a shelter building for battered women

Saint Paul, MN — For capital renovations for social space for programs to support at-risk children and teens

Fargo, ND — Toward the construction of an emergency shelter for women and children experiencing homelessness and domestic violence

Burnsville, MN — To develop a pilot project to support relatives and neighbors who provide child care to infants and toddlers

Bismarck, ND — To establish a multi-disciplinary, community response program for rape victims

Minneapolis, MN — For a supportive housing project for homeless youth

Minneapolis, MN — To support the position of a technical assistance provider to work with African-led organizations

Saint Paul, MN — To expand services to American Indian entrepreneurs

Fargo, ND — To consolidate offices and expand a thrift store

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a new business/technology plan through the Organizational Effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program

Maple Plain, MN — To expand statewide technology services for Minnesotans with disabilities

Sioux Falls, SD — To improve the quality of student-teacher interactions and to learn how to assess student learning

Minneapolis, MN — For staff development, marketing, and fundraising support

Brimley, MI — To support campus workshops and individual faculty professional development activities related to the College's strategic plan

Saint Paul, MN — To support transition costs resulting from the consolidation of two youth mentoring organizations

Browning, MT — To support faculty completion of advanced degrees, training in instructional technology, and curriculum development

Minneapolis, MN — To develop internal systems to manage human resources for a youth mentoring program

Saint Paul, MN — To fund a crime prevention program that focuses on gang prevention, intervention, and reintegration

Minneapolis, MN — Toward a capital campaign

St. Cloud, MN — To assist Caritas Counseling Services to become certified to receive third-party insurance reimbursement

Brooklyn Center, MN — To add administrative support for an organization that helps families in economic crisis

Minneapolis, MN — For transitional support

Owatonna, MN — To expand the Health Promoter Project and to develop an after-school Latino youth program in Owatonna and Waseca

Bismarck, ND — For one-time temporary support of increased staffing costs

Saint Paul, MN — For statewide programs that provide training and support to caregivers of infants and toddlers

Minneapolis, MN — To hire an outreach coordinator for a child care advocacy agency

Saint Paul, MN — Toward a multi-year campaign to enroll eligible children and adults in state health programs

Orangeburg, SC — To support the Center for Excellence in Teaching

Northfield, MN — For a stormwater runoff study and development of best watershed management practices

Montevideo, MN — To expand efforts to improve the water quality and health of the upper Minnesota River through farmer involvement, civic action, and policy change

Minneapolis, MN — For a grassroots development campaign in North Dakota and Minnesota

Minneapolis, MN — For an earned income initiative to reissue books that are out-of-print to the academic textbook market

To support the activities of the Collaboration

Saint Joseph, MN — To continue the Learning Communities Program and to change institutional procedures to incorporate the communities into college protocols for workload, rewards, and curriculum change

Sioux Falls, SD — To expand a Minneapolis and St. Paul domestic violence program for the deaf

Saint Paul, MN — To continue the implementation and evaluation of the Family Assets for Independence in Minnesota (FAIM) pilot project

To improve employment support and training services for job seekers, workers, and employers

Saint Paul, MN — To strengthen a program to help homeless and near-homeless families address obstacles to obtaining permanent, affordable rental housing

Moorhead, MN — To improve students' abilities to make intellectual connections among the contents of a variety of courses and to their experience in 'the real world' and to improve first- to second-year retention rates

Minneapolis, MN — To improve administrative skills in conjunction with the transition to an independent organization

Bloomington, MN — To build a new community service center and shelter for battered women

Minneapolis, MN — For salary and program expenses of a full-time program officer working outside the Twin Cities metro area

Richfield, MN — To improve support services for welfare recipients with new jobs

Brookings, SD — To expand efforts to involve citizens in agricultural policy and land use practices in South Dakota

Madison, SD — To increase the use of, and to assess the effectiveness of, instructional technology to improve student learning

For a staff retreat through the Organizational Effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program

Tsaile, AZ — To improve students' first year experience, incorporate Navajo content in the curriculum, and improve the assessment of student learning

Duluth, MN — To implement strategic plans for three programs and for agency-wide resource development for an organization working to end violence in the lives of women and children

Minneapolis, MN — To continue developing culturally competent curricula for men who perpetuate domestic violence against their partners and sometimes their children

Minneapolis, MN — For continued planning and development of an American Indian gardening and cultural recovery program

Bigfork, MN — Toward a capital campaign for a fine arts center

To expand a program providing workplace clothing for low-income women

Cambridge, MN — To help an organization that stabilizes families and individuals in crisis to expand a respite care program for seniors and caregivers

Stillwater, MN — To construct a new multi-service center

Fargo, ND — To hire a part-time artistic director and a part-time administrative assistant

Moorhead, MN — For the research phase of a marketing plan through the Organizational Effectiveness component of the Regional Arts Development Program

Saint Paul, MN — For continued support of the Farm Preservation Advocacy project

Saint Paul, MN — For long range planning

Harlem, MT — For workshops with cultural consultants and stipends to faculty to integrate Gros Ventre and Assiniboine cultures into the curriculum, and for professional development activities

Blaine, MN — To expand a car care program for low-income families

Sioux Falls, SD — To support a fundraising manager to diversify sources of contributed income

Groton, SD — Toward a capital campaign to complete the 'Walk with Dakota' project

Minneapolis, MN — To support the one-time costs of changing its publication distributor

Minneapolis, MN — To support project management and related work as the organization continues its development efforts on Franklin Avenue

Minneapolis, MN — To establish an accredited program of pastoral care for offenders being released from correctional facilities

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a pilot project to support relatives and neighbors who provide child care to infants and toddlers

Saint Paul, MN — For continued operating support through the Regional Arts Development Program and technical assistance support for a fundraising database

Cambridge, MA — For scholarships for senior historically black private college administrators to attend the Institute for Educational Management

Saint Paul, MN — To support the Hmong Resource Center

Minneapolis, MN — To complete the Children's Village

Minneapolis, MN — To support a community-based program to prevent and reduce the effects of lead poisoning among Minnesota children

Saint Paul, MN — For a high school completion program in the district's seven high schools

Minneapolis, MN — For the New Rules project to increase community self-reliance in Minnesota and North and South Dakota

Saint Paul, MN — To increase the number and diversity of member congregations involved in affordable housing issues

Gaithersburg, MD — To promote improvements to coal-fired power plants and overcome barriers to transmission improvements for wind power in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota

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

Saint Paul, MN — To implement a comprehensive membership and development plan

Minneapolis, MN — To expand the Parent Involvement program

Watertown, SD — To establish a community-based environmental and humanitarian program that emphasizes care and concern for animals, the environment, and the human community through service projects and education

Minneapolis, MN — For a plan to strengthen the organization

Saint Paul, MN — To support a new clinical supervisor position to meet agency staff's culturally-specific, board-licensure supervision needs

Minneapolis, MN — To expand services to Lao women, girls, and elders

Washburn, ND — To support a new education coordinator and associated programs at Fort Mandan

Crow Agency, MT — For individual professional development, workshops on campus, and integration of Crow culture into the curriculum

Minneapolis, MN — To implement the Little Earth Joint Partnership Vision and Plan

Salisbury, NC — To match new gifts for major building renovations in the 'Vision 2004' capital campaign

Saint Paul, MN — To purchase and renovate a building for a short-term residential program for youth

Minneapolis, MN — To complete a strategic business plan

Mayville, ND — To improve undergraduate student learning through problem-based teaching

Saint Paul, MN — To hire staff for a youth program in a low-income neighborhood