Supporting Minnesota's Youth:
The State of the State's
Youth Development Funding
May 2004
Overview
"Supporting Minnesota's Youth: The State of the State's Youth
Development Funding" examines the current issues and challenges of youth development funding in
Minnesota, and related implications for youth and our communities. The report seeks to contribute to
a public conversation about how to strengthen the positive development of Minnesota's youth, and to
help identify and advance ways in which nonprofits, grantmakers and other funders can work together
to support youth development.
Based on personal interviews with Minnesota's largest private youth development
funders and a survey of youth-serving nonprofits in the state, the report shows
that only 12 percent of nonprofits say their youth development programs are
well-funded from all sources. As a result, more than 90 percent of nonprofits
say that recent declines in funding have forced them to cut staff and hours,
eliminate programs and/or reduce service levels and quality for their youth
development programs, and 25 percent say they have been forced to serve fewer
youth.
Minnesota's youth are being impacted in many negative ways by these cuts in
youth development funding and programming, according to nonprofits, including
more idle time out of school, fewer interactions with positive adult role models
and more negative societal behaviors. The report also identifies the major
perceived gaps in Minnesota's youth development support.
Youth development funders and nonprofits believe the most serious funding gaps
are for after-school programming, general operating support, transportation,
prevention and early intervention programs, and family support programs,
particularly parenting programs.
The report marks the Council's first-ever comprehensive, qualitative
research on youth development funding. The research is based in large part on personal interviews
with the state's largest private youth development grantmakers and a survey of youth-serving
nonprofits.
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the Report
Order the Report
Free print copies of "Supporting Minnesota's Youth: The State of the
State's Youth Development Funding" are available (one per organization) from the Council, while
supplies last. To order a copy, use MCF's
resource
order form.
Questions?
Contact
the Minnesota Council on Foundations:
612.338.1989,
info@mcf.org
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