Awarded Grants

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Listed below are 2022 grants in our areas for interest. You may scroll to see all areas, use the navigation links at bottom, or use a search to find grants.

2022 Expanding Opportunities for Youth and Families

Organization Organization Website Purpose Amount Awarded
30,000 Feet www.30kft.art Unrestricted $50,000
Advancing Equity Coalition www.advancingequitycoalition.org Unrestricted $20,000
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation www.wilder.org Child Development Center $40,000
Athletes Committed to Educating Students (ACES) www.aces4kids.org Unrestricted $20,000
Augsburg College www.augsburg.edu Debate Team $25,000
Baby's Space: A Place to Grow www.babyspace.org Unrestricted $25,000
Black Men Teach www.blackmenteachtc.org Unrestricted $20,000
Breakthrough Twin Cities www.breakthroughtwincities.org Unrestricted $35,000
Centro Tyrone Guzman www.centromn.org Unrestricted $30,000
Children's Defense Fund Minnesota www.cdf-mn.org Freedom Schools $35,000
CLUES www.clues.org Youth in Action (YA!) Program $25,000
ComMUSICation www.commusicationmn.org Unrestricted $20,000
Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Acción Latina (or COPAL) www.copalmn.org Unrestricted $20,000
Cultural Wellness Center www.culturalwellnesscenter.org Unrestricted $30,000
East Side Learning Center www.eastsidelearningcenter.org Unrestricted $15,000
Ed Allies www.edalliesmn.org Unrestricted $25,000
Education Evolving www.educationevolving.org Unrestricted $20,000
Educators for Excellence-Minnesota www.e4e.org/chapters/minnesota/ Unrestricted $35,000
Great MN Schools www.greatmnschools.org Unrestricted $20,000
Greater Minneapolis Community Connections www.gmcc.org GMCC Family and Youth Development $20,000
Greater Twin Cities United Way www.gtcuw.org Generation Next $20,000
Hallie Q. Brown Community Center www.hallieqbrown.org Childcare Center $25,000
Headway Emotional Health www.headway.org Infant Home Visits and Spirit Program $20,000
Hiawatha Academies www.hiawathaacademies.org Parent Engagment $25,000
Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul www.interfaithaction.org American Indian Youth Enrichment $20,000
Jeremiah Program www.jeremiahprogram.org Unrestricted $25,000
Ka Joog Nonprofit Organization www.kajoog.org Unrestricted $20,000
Karen Organization of Minnesota www.mnkaren.org Unrestricted $20,000
Keystone Community Services www.keystoneservices.org Unrestricted $30,000
KIPP Minnesota www.kippminnesota.org Kipp through High School $25,000
Minnesota African Women's Association, MAWA www.mawanet.org Unrestricted $20,000
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership www.mneep.org Unrestricted $25,000
Minnesota Parent Union www.mnparentunion.org Unrestricted $20,000
Neighborhood House www.neighb.org Parent and Early Childhood Education $30,000
New Vision Foundation www.nu-viz.org Unrestricted $20,000
Northside Achievement Zone www.northsideachievement.org Unrestricted $150,000
Northside Boxing Club www.northsideboxing.org Unrestricted $20,000
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center www.phylliswheatley.org Unrestricted $25,000
Plymouth Christian Youth Center www.pcyc-mpls.org Unrestricted $35,000
Project for Pride in Living www.ppl-inc.org Youth and Parenting Services in Supportive Housing $25,000
Reading Partners www.readingpartners.org/location/twin-cities/ Reading Partners Twin Cities Tutoring $30,000
Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood www.wilder.org/community-impact/saint-paul-promise-neighborhood Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood $60,000
ServeMinnesota www.serveminnesota.org Family childcare reading Corps $25,000
Southside Family Nurturing Center www.ssfnc.org Unrestricted $25,000
Teach For America, Inc. www.teachforamerica.org Unrestricted $25,000
The Banyan Community www.banyancommunity.org Unrestricted $75,000
The Blake School www.blakeschool.org LearningWorks $20,000
The Family Partnership www.thefamilypartnership.org Multicultural Therapeutic Preschool $45,000
The Minneapolis Foundation www.minneapolisfoundation.org Unrestricted (Northside Funders Group: MPS school grants) $15,000
The Sanneh Foundation www.thesannehfoundation.org Unrestricted $25,000
Think Small www.thinksmall.org Unrestricted $25,000
Urban Roots MN www.urbanrootsmn.org Unrestricted $20,000
Voices for Racial Justice www.voicesforracialjustice.org Unrestricted $25,000
Washburn Center for Children www.washburn.org Unrestricted $30,000
Way to Grow www.mplswaytogrow.org Unrestricted $55,000
WE WIN Institute, Inc. www.we-win.org Unrestricted $20,000
Wildflower Schools www.wildflowerschools.org Twin Cities Early Learning $20,000
YMCA of the North www.ymcanorth.org Beacons Program $25,000
Youthprise www.youthprise.org Minnesota Afterschool Advance $30,000

2022 Strengthening Developing Communities

Central America
Organization Organization Website Purpose Amount Awarded
Agua Para La Vida www.aguaparalavida.org/en/home/ Cenizabú Drinking Water and Sanitation Project $23,740
ANADESA (fiscally sponsored by Natik Esperanza) www.natik.org/en/anadesa Unrestricted $11,000
Common Hope www.commonhope.org Unrestricted $30,220
CREA www.creanicaragua.org Unrestricted $16,200
Educate2Envision International www.educate2envision.org Unrestricted $10,000
Fabretto Children's Foundation www.fabretto.org Unrestricted $50,000
Glasswing International www.glasswing.org Community Schools $21,600
Groundswell International www.groundswellinternational.org Unrestricted $32,400
Guatemalan Tomorrow Fund Inc www.thegtfund.org Unrestricted $43,200
Mama Hope www.mamahope.org Unrestricted $30,000
Pueblo a Pueblo, Inc (fiscally sponsored by Natik Esperanza) www.puebloapueblo.org Unrestricted $23,760
Seeds for Progress Foundation www.seedsforprogress.org Unrestricted $21,600
Tejiendo Futuros www.tejiendofuturos.wordpress.com Unrestricted $27,000
Thousand Currents www.thousandcurrents.org Unrestricted $80,000
West, East, and Southern Africa
Organization Organization Website Purpose Amount Awarded
African Visionary Fund (fiscally sponsored by KBFUS) www.africanvisionary.org Unrestricted $23,740
AFRICE (fiscally sponsored by Gaia Foundation) www.africeug.org Unrestricted $11,000
Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!) www.createaction.org Unrestricted $21,600
Eastern Congo Initiative www.easterncongo.org the Asili project $75,000
Friends of Raising the Village Incorporated www.raisingthevillage.org Unrestricted $50,000
Mavuno (fiscally sponsored by KBFUS) www.mavuno.org Unrestricted $23,740
One Village Partners www.onevillagepartners.org Unrestricted $75,000
Partners in Food Solutions www.partnersinfoodsolutions.com Loan Fund $21,600
Root Capital www.rootcapital.org Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo $43,200
The Chain Collaborative www.thechaincollaborative.org Unrestricted $27,000
The Nature Conservancy www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/minnesota/?vu=minnesota Tuungane Project $80,000
Wandikweza www.wandikweza.org Unrestricted $10,000
WellShare International www.wellshareinternational.org Unrestricted $32,400

2022 Sustaining Environmental Systems

Organization Organization Website Purpose Amount Awarded
Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy www.climategen.org Youth Environmental Activists Program $50,000
Community Members for Environmental Justice (fiscally sponsored by Juxtaposition Arts, Inc) www.cmejustice.org Unrestricted $30,000
Dream of Wild Health www.dreamofwildhealth.org Unrestricted $100,000
Friends of the Mississippi River www.fmr.org Unrestricted $20,000
Frogtown Green (fiscally sponsored by Propel Nonprofits) www.frogtowngreen.com Unrestricted $9,000
Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER) www.hacer-mn.org Latines in Action $45,000
Honor the Earth www.honorearth.org Water and Treaty Rights Anishinabe $65,000
Hope Community, Inc. www.hope-community.org Food, Land, and Community Program $60,000
Kinnickinnic River Land Trust www.kinniriver.org Kelly Creek Community Life Learning Lab $36,000
Lake Street Council www.lakestreetcouncil.org Lake Street Recovery $20,000
Land Stewardship Project www.landstewardshipproject.org Farm Beginnings and Land Access $40,000
Lower Phalen Creek Project www.lowerphalencreek.org Daylighting of Phalen Creek $25,000
Metro Blooms www.metroblooms.org Community Engagement in Bassett Creek $20,000
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy www.mncenter.org Environmental Justice Partnerships $40,000
Minnesota Land Trust www.mnland.org Boreal Wetlands Restoration $30,000
Mississippi Park Connection www.parkconnection.org Unrestricted $35,000
MN350 www.mn350.org Unrestricted $60,000
Northside Residents Redevelopment Council www.nrrc.org Healthy Urban Living $30,000
Philadelphia Community Farm www.buttermilkcsa.com Liberation and Land Healing $20,000
Pilot Knob Preservation Association www.pilotknobpreservation.org Indigenous advisory council $20,000
Rainbow Research www.rainbowresearch.org Environmental Justice Action Research $65,000
Sierra Club North Star Chapter (fiscally sponsored by Sierra Club Foundation) www.sierraclubfoundation.org Unrestricted $50,000
The Food Group www.thefoodgroupmn.org Enabling Solar Facility $80,000
The Good Acre www.thegoodacre.org Unrestricted $50,000
Urban Roots MN www.urbanrootsmn.org Conservation Youth Internship Program $25,000