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Grants Roundup
Nov. 26, 2007
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The Northwest Area Foundation has awarded $7.71 million in grants to an urban-based Native American group in each of four states for the purpose of breaking the cycle of inter-generational poverty. The four separate grants are intended to help build organizational capacity and to support programs for long-term poverty reduction:
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A two-year, $3.5-million grant to United Indians of All Tribes Foundation (UIATF), Seattle, Wash., which plans to use the money for a community development center, small business development, a Native American cultural center and enhanced education for adults and early childhood.
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A two-year, $3.36-million grant to Native American Youth & Family Center (NAYA), Portland, Ore., which indicates it will apply the grant to workforce development, low income housing, promotion of home ownership, job training and civic engagement.
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A one-year, $500,000 grant to Society for the Advancement of Native Interests-Today (SaniT), Rapid City, S.D., for use in culturally-based education, business and employability training.
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A one-year, $350,000 grant to Native American Development Corporation (NADC), Billings, Mont., for workforce development, a jobs training center and business training and development.
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Ameriprise Financial awarded more than $850,000 to nonprofits
across the country in the second of three funding cycles for 2007.
Forty-four grants were made under the company's three funding
platforms: Financial Well-Being for a Lifetime, arts and culture,
and employee- and advisor-driven causes. In addition to corporate
giving, the company disbursed more than $240,000 in employee
gift-matching this cycle and completed a whole-house Habitat for
Humanity build in Minneapolis. |
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The Northland Foundation awarded 58 grants in the seven counties
of northeastern Minnesota for the quarter ending September 30.
Substantial resources went to provide for basic needs and promote
the building blocks of healthy, stable families and communities:
affordable housing, safety/violence prevention and intervention, and
health and wellness for young children. Among those grants are
$25,000 to Itasca County Family Service, Grand Rapids, supporting
in-home case management for at-risk families with young children;
$20,000 to ElderCircle, Grand Rapids, to develop an Adult Day
Service program to support family caregivers; and $20,000 to Range
Women's Advocates, Virginia, to maintain services to battered women
and their families in northern St. Louis County.
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Complete list of grants awarded (PDF) |
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AgStar Fund for Rural America
awarded $13,000 to the Minnesota Food Association for purchase of a
tractor and other farm equipment for the New Immigrant Agriculture
Project (NIAP). In the past eight years, NIAP has provided land,
training, and technical assistance to over 620 Hmong and Latino
farmer/producers. The participants have had training in crop
production, the principles and methods of sustainable farming, niche
marketing, risk management, and farm business management. After
three years of participation in the program, these farmers are able
to establish the requisite years of experience and farm records to
enable them to apply for loans to purchase their own farm land and
continue to expand their farm businesses |
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Philanthrofund Foundation (PFund) was awarded a $60,000 grant
from Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues. The three-year matching
grant will enable PFund to build on its achievements and enhance its
capacity to serve GLBT people of color across Minnesota, Iowa, North
Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin, impacting the inequity in
funding of organizations for GLBT people of color and cultivating a
movement to achieve equal rights. |
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Mayo Clinic is providing $100,000 over two years to support
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation's biobusiness initiatives.
As part of SMIF's biobusiness focus, a new regional BioBusiness
Resource Network will be created that will provide rapid and
effective transfer of technical and management knowledge to support
start-up and existing company growth. In addition, SMIF will engage
at least three communities/collaborations in developing a
biobusiness vision through their asset based convening process. Mayo
has been an annual supporter since 1995, contributing a total of
$370,000 to SMIF. |
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