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Minnesota Grantmaker News
and Notes
June 2009
Alice M. O'Brien Foundation
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The Alice M. O'Brien Foundation Updates Grantmaking
Guidelines
(Press
Release) In honoring the Alice M.
O’Brien and the William O’Brien family, the mission of the Alice M. O’Brien
Foundation is to support both individual and common family interests, with
focus on conservation/preservation, education and health, particularly
chemical dependency, lung disease and auto immune diseases such as diabetes. |
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June 1, 2009:
The CHS Foundation has awarded 50
$1,000 in scholarships to two-year college students studying
agriculture. The CHS Foundation is the major giving entity of CHS
Inc., an energy, grains and foods Fortune 200 company.
“This year’s scholarship recipients include 50 bright, promising
agriculture students from some of America’s top two-year schools,”
says William J. Nelson, CHS Foundation president. “The CHS
Foundation is proud to help educate these next-generation leaders in
agribusiness and production agriculture.”
June 15, 2009:
The
CHS Pergola
was recently dedicated in Mankato’s Sibley Park. |
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More than 250 Boston Scientific Corporation
employees and family members from the Minneapolis area volunteered
at five local community sites on Saturday, June 20 in celebration of
the company’s 30th anniversary. The employees painted, cleaned,
restored and revitalized buildings at Sacred Heart Catholic
Charities, Eastside Neighborhood Services, Eden Park and Lilydale
Park. In addition, volunteers painted two 4x8 murals at the
Sabathani Community Center around the themes of community and
diversity. |
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June 1, 2009:
The Bush Foundation awarded Bush
Medical Fellowships for 2009 to 13 physicians who seek to have a
greater impact on the health of the communities they serve.
Since the Bush Medical Fellows Program began in
1979, it has chosen more than 300 fellows from Minnesota, North
Dakota and South Dakota to sharpen their skills, change their career
directions and improve the health of their communities.
June 15, 2009:
The Bush Foundation has released it's
2008 Annual Report: Ready, Set,
Goals for a Decade
Bush Foundation Awards $1 Million in Fellowships, Grants
to Artists
(Press
Release) The Bush Foundation in St.
Paul, Minnesota, has announced the 2009 recipients of its Enduring Vision
Awards and fifteen fellowships through the Bush Artist Program. |
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The Jerome Foundation announces
2009 Travel and Study
Grant Program. The General Mills Foundation, the Art and Martha
Kaemmer Fund of HRK Foundation and the Jerome Foundation announce
the 2009 Travel and Study Grant Program recipients. Thirty-three
grants totaling $127,827, ranging in size from $1,275 to $5,000,
were authorized. The Travel and Study Grant Program awards grants to
emerging artists in Minnesota and the five boroughs of New York
City, and arts administrators in Minnesota. |
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The
Headwaters Foundation announced its
2009 Social Change Fund Grantees.
The Foundation is distributing $215,000 to 24 Minnesota-based
not-for-profit organizations. In keeping with Headwaters’ mission to
support grassroots organizations and promote social, racial,
economic and environmental justice, grants are given to
organizations that address issues at the core rather than trying to
fix the symptoms of injustice. |
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Ten Organizations Given Grants by
Nonprofit Group
(St.
Cloud Times) The Initiative
Foundation of Little Falls has given out 10 grants for a total of
$31,000 to some Central Minnesota communities. The St. Cloud Area
Somali Salvation Organization received a $2,000 grant for hosting
five early childhood mental health focus group meetings with Somali
parents. |
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Knight Foundation Announces $15M Initiative to Spur Reporting
(Miami-Dade Herald) A $15 million
initiative to spur new financial models for investigative reporting
was announced by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Saturday
during a gathering for reporters and educators in Baltimore.
Knight Foundation
Announces Winners: News Experiments to Help Transform Community Life
(Knight
Foundation Press Release)
Nine projects that use crowdsourcing, mobile technology and digital
investigative journalism to bring news and information to
communities in new ways have been named winners of the 2009 Knight
News Challenge.
International Media
Dialogue On Covering Immigration Receives Support From The John S.
And James L. Knight Foundation
(French-American
Foundation Press Release)
The French-American Foundation, with support from the Ford
Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is
organizing two international media symposia to improve the quality
and depth of reporting on immigration issues. Participants will
include immigration reporters and media executives from European,
Canadian, and U.S. news outlets. The events are scheduled for
November 13-15, 2009 at Euro RSCG in Paris and early 2010 in the
U.S. They will each convene around 70 attendees. |
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Third Annual “Nancy”
Awards Recognize Extraordinary Leadership In Improving The
Well-Being Of Young Children
(MCF
Press Release)
Honoring the legacy of Nancy Latimer, lifelong advocate for children
and families, the Minnesota Early Childhood Funders Network, a
network of the Minnesota Council on Foundations, today announced
that its Third Annual “Nancy” Award recipients are Dr. Glenace
Edwall and Zoe Nicholie. |
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Eighteen North Suburban High
School Graduates Named 2009 Medtronic Scholars
(Medtronic
Press Release) The Medtronic
Foundation today announced that 18 students have been selected as
2009 Medtronic Scholars. Each will receive a four-year scholarship
for $16,000, as well as support services to assist them in their
collegiate studies. Comprised of students from nine Twin Cities’
north suburban high schools, the class of 2009 Medtronic Scholars
will be honored at a June 18, 2009 celebration at Medtronic World
Headquarters in Fridley.
Medtronic Foundation Grants $1.4M to Teach for America
(The
Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal)
Teach for America will receive the grant over the next three
years. A portion of the grant will focus on the organization’s
national math and science initiative, to increase the number of
Teach for America math and science teachers. |
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State Arts Board Announces Process for Stimulus Grants
Working in partnership, the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Minnesota State Arts Board, and Arts Midwest are uniquely positioned
to provide funds to help preserve jobs in Minnesota’s nonprofit arts
sector that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other
support during the current economic downturn. Learn more at the Arts
Board
website.
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The Minneapolis Foundation today
announced it has distributed $500,000 through its “Crisis Assistance
Fund,” which was established this year to provide immediate food,
energy and housing assistance for Twin Cities residents most
affected by the current economic downturn.
The Minneapolis Foundation Announces New Strategic Plan and Grant
Guidelines
The Executive Summary of the strategic plan and grant guidelines is
available at the foundation's
website.
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At its April 2009 board meeting, the board of
directors of
The Saint Paul Foundation approved
39 grants totaling $1,400,700.
The Saint Paul Foundation is the community foundation for Saint Paul
and surrounding areas. It connects and supports donors, nonprofits
and partners to enrich lives and communities through philanthropy.
Since 1940, The Saint Paul Foundation has granted more than $500
million to nonprofit organizations contributing to the health and
vitality of the community. |
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Twins Community Fund Approves
$227,605 In Youth Baseball And Softball Grants
(Minnesota
Twins Press Release) The
Twins Community Fund board of directors announced today the approval
of $227,605 in grants to youth baseball and softball organizations
throughout the Upper Midwest. |
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Carleton College Receives a
$10,000 grant from the Xcel Energy Foundation
(KYMN
Radio) The grant will help
fund the school’s Cowling Arboretum project: Natural science in
Natural lands. Specifically, the grant will help provide training
for arboretum staff on state-of-the-art restoration methods and
increase opportunities for students and Northfielders to participate
in restoration activities.
Xcel Energy Foundation supports St. Catherine University EcoSTARS
program
(St.
Catherine University Press Release) Led by St.
Catherine University Education faculty Linda Distad and Lori
Maxfield, EcoSTARS is a unique environmental education collaboration
between St. Kate's and local elementary schools in the Prior
Lake-Savage, St. Paul, and Minneapolis school districts. |
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