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Grants Roundup
April 30, 2007
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Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation awarded more than $150,000 in grants to 28 organizations serving the people of the Cass and Clay County region. Grants included $10,500 to Fargo Moorhead Opera for Family Night at the Opera, $7,000 to the New Sudanese Community Association, and $8,500 to River Keepers for wild bird/native plant demonstration garden signs. The foundation supports a wide array of categories such as arts, civic, education, health, human services, and youth concerns.
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Philanthrofund Foundation (PFund), a Minnesota community foundation supporting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) communities, was awarded $120,000 grants from both Bush Foundation and Otto Bremer Foundation. The grants, the largest PFund has received in its 20-year history, will enable PFund to build on its achievements and enhance its capacity to serve GLBT and allied populations across Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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Bush Foundation awarded more than $15.7 million to 61 organizations at its March meeting, including $1 million each to Saint John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict for matching grants to build their endowments. Twin Cities arts institutions receiving grants included the Children’s Theatre Company and School, which received $400,000 for a preschool education program, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society, which received a matching grant of $750,000 as part of the
foundation’s program to fund large cultural organizations.
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Americans for the Arts, the
nation’s leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts
in America, received a $400,000 grant for its Animating
Democracy program from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Animating Democracy has designed a
two-year initiative to advance understanding of the social and civic impact of
arts-based civic engagement. It will serve arts practitioners,
funders, and public- and private-sector cultural policy makers
by responding to the expressed need for
quantifiable, as well as anecdotal, evidence that the arts can
have potent social change effects. The ultimate goal is to
better make the case for the arts’ value and contribution in
civic engagement.
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Wells Fargo contributed $10.8
million to more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations and local schools
throughout Minnesota in 2006. The contributions supported a variety
of affordable housing, economic development, educational, human
services and art programs and community events. Major corporate
donations included approximately $450,000 to Habitat for Humanity,
$1.8 million for the 2006 Community Support/United Way campaign and
more than $905,000 that Wells Fargo matches when team members make
personal contributions to pre-K through college educational
institutions in Minnesota. Nationally, Wells Fargo’s 2006
contributions surpassed $100 million for the first time in company
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The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux
Community has made a donation of $100,000 to the Center for
Rural Service Delivery for a project to provide telemedicine
services and links to local Community Health Representatives (CHRs)
on Indian Reservations. The grant will fund a project on the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation, which is situated in North
and South Dakota. |
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