General Mills Foundation Announces Celebrating Communities of Color Recipients (2/13/06)

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February 13, 2006

General Mills Foundation Announces
Celebrating Communities of Color Recipients

The General Mills Foundation announced the 50 nonprofit recipients of the 2005 Celebrating Communities of Color grants program, a $500,000 initiative now in its second year. The recipients will be able to expand the scope of programming that supports the metro area's growing number of people of color through $10,000 grants.

The grant recipients include:

La Escuelita's Sustaining Cultural Assets in Latino Youth program
The TVbyGIRLS Seed Project, which will link girls from the Cass and Leech Lake Reservations with girls from the Twin Cities for a joint video project
St. Paul's Neighborhood House, which provides services ranging from a food shelf to job training to programming for teens through its Hmong Family Resettlement Program
The Page Education Foundation's African American Male Recruitment Initiative to help increase the number of young black men attending higher education
The Joyce Preschool, which provides innovative early childhood education that targets Latino families with dual language classes for Spanish- and English-speaking children and programming for parents

"These grants help bolster the inventive and often critical programming that schools, community centers, arts groups, social service agencies and other organizations offer to make a difference in the lives of thousands of people of color in our community," said Ellen Goldberg Luger, executive director and vice president of the foundation.

In two years, the General Mills Celebrating Communities of Color grants program has served nearly 105,000 people in the metro area.

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