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Grants Roundup
October 13, 2008
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Ameriprise Financial awarded more
than $1.4 million to nonprofit organizations in the first of three
funding cycles in 2008. Local organizations supported include The
Lost Harvest, which rescues excess high-quality, nutritious,
culturally specific fresh produce before it becomes landfill and
makes it available to individuals and families facing hunger; and
Kids Voting Minneapolis, which helps teachers engage students in
civic learning, promotes family dialogue, and provides an authentic
voting experience on Election Day: students use a special ballot to
vote on many of the same candidates and questions as adults.
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A $10,000 grant from the Duluth
Superior Area Community Foundation is paving the way for Duluth
residents to track crime online in their neighborhoods.
www.crimemapping.com
allows citizens to view 14 types of crimes within the city down to
their street level. The grant, which comes from the Community
Leaders Fund, covers all of the costs associated with the program
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The Blandin Foundation awarded
$380,000 in grants to an area food bank, to organizations that
provide heating assistance and for transitional housing. A grant to
Hope House of Itasca County will help the residential chemical
dependency treatment center begin architectural and financial
planning to relocate. The move would also allow the Grace House
homeless shelter to utilize the current Hope House facility on
Pokegama Avenue in Grand Rapids. |
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The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota
awarded $130,000 in grants to 10 nonprofit groups through its
girlsBEST (girls Building Economic Success Together) Fund. Division
of Indian Work received $10,000 to support the "Live It" Youth
Advisory Council, bringing together American Indian girls (ages
14-18) from statewide reservations and the Twin Cities to
participate in awareness and leadership training. Pearl Crisis
Center in Milaca received $15,000 to support the TADA (Teens Against
Dating Abuse) program.
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The Rochester Area Foundation
awarded $85,830 in grant funds to 10 local nonprofit agencies and
projects. Camp Victory in Zumbro Falls received $14,250 for the
Urban Leadership Initiative. Children's Dental Health Services in
Rochester was awarded $14,000 for a digital x-ray machine.
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The McKnight Foundation awarded 96
grants totaling $11.75 million in its third-quarter 2008
grantmaking. $705,000 went to six organizations working to engage
citizens along the Mississippi River in advocacy and related
environmental issues. Four Minnesota-based nonprofits received
funding: Bloomington's Friends of the Minnesota Valley was awarded
$210,000 over two years for its advocacy work protecting the lower
Minnesota River watershed; St. Paul's Minnesota Environmental
Partnership was awarded $220,000 over two years to strengthen its
communications and outreach efforts; Stearns County's Soil and Water
Conservation District received $130,000 over two years to protect a
31-mile stretch of the river in north-central Minnesota; and North
Branch's The Women's Environmental Institute at Amador Hill was
awarded $45,000 to educate vulnerable populations in the Twin Cities
about toxins in the Mississippi.
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Nonprofits Assistance received
$15,000 from The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation to expand
its Financial Management Networks and offer more Financial Needs
Assessments. NAF also received a two-year grant of $15,000 from the
Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation to enhance its board
training program, Financial Clarity for Nonprofit Boards. |
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The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux
Community awarded three grants to help fight violence against women.
According to a study by Amnesty International, violence against
American Indian women is reaching epidemic proportions; Native
American women are more than 2.5 times more likely to be sexually
assaulted than other women in the U.S. A $45,000 matching grant to
the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center will fund wiring
upgrades for the building, programming and software training. A
matching grant for $40,000 was awarded to Partners for Women's
Equality (PWE) for leadership training to improve the lives of women
and children who suffer from the violence in their communities. A
grant for $10,000 to the Southern Valley Alliance for Battered Women
will support general programming. |
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Wells Fargo's Metropolitan
Contributions Committee contributed more than $384,500 during the
second quarter to 13 nonprofit and community organizations in the
Twin Cities. Organizations and programs that received Wells Fargo
support include African Development Center, $12,500 for website
enhancement; Home Ownership Center, $75,000 for homebuyer education
workshops and mortgage loan counseling for potential homebuyers;
andMigizi Communications, $44,000 for youth career training program
and roof replacement. |
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The Northwest Area Foundation made a
$2.46-million grant to the Cheyenne
River Sioux Tribal Ventures organization to support its 10-year
strategic plan to reduce its 46-percent poverty rate on the
reservation in central South Dakota. An initial NWAF grant of $2.5
million Tribal Ventures in March 2006 funded individual, family and
community development; community capacity building; and economic
development. |
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AgStar Fund for Rural America gave
$10,000 to the Welcome Center of Austin Minnesota. The grant
provides the financial resources to implement a micro-farming and
business development training program for minorities. The Welcome
Center helps minorities interested in farming and other business
opportunities by connecting entrepreneurs with existing resources in
southern Minnesota, and offers programs that promote
self-sufficiency, job skill development, economic development and
assistance to help newcomers make a successful transition in their
new environment. |
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New Routes to Community Health, a
program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Benton
Foundation, is a new model for improving the health of immigrants in
the United States using media created by immigrants. Eight diverse
immigrant-led collaborations across the United States, including the
Twin Cities' Egal Shidad: Stories of Somali Health, are each
receiving $225,000 over three years to create locally-focused media
and outreach campaigns that speak directly to immigrants' health
concerns at the community level. Immigrant groups, media makers and
prominent community institutions are working together to produce
original content in English as well as in immigrants' first
languages. Media content created by the eight projects will be
housed at
www.newroutes.org. |
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Other grant lists:
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F.R. Bigelow Foundation (PDF)
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Mardag Foundation (PDF)
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Bush Foundation (PDF) |
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