Awarded Grants

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Listed below are 2023 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.

2023 Expanding Opportunities for Youth and Families

Organization Website Project Amount
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation www.wilder.org Child Development Center $40,000.00
Baby's Space: A Place to Grow www.babyspace.org Unrestricted $35,000.00
Centro Tyrone Guzman www.centromn.org Unrestricted $50,000.00
CLUES www.clues.org YA! Youth in Action $30,000.00
ComMUSICation www.commusicationmn.org Unrestricted $40,000.00
Cultural Wellness Center www.culturalwellnesscenter.org Unrestricted $45,000.00
Ed Allies www.edalliesmn.org Unrestricted $35,000.00
Education Evolving www.educationevolving.org Unrestricted $40,000.00
Educators for Excellence-Minnesota www.e4e.org/chapter/minnesota/ Unrestricted $40,000.00
GMCC www.gmcc.org GMCC Genius Labs and Tech Teens $20,000.00
Hallie Q. Brown Community Center www.hallieqbrown.org Early Learning Center/Youth Enrichment Program $35,000.00
Hmong American Partnership www.hmong.org Youth Job Skills Training Program (YJST) $40,000.00
Irreducible Grace Foundation www.irgrace.org Unrestricted $20,000.00
Juxtaposition Arts, Inc www.juxtapositionarts.org JXTALabs $50,000.00
Karen Organization of Minnesota www.mnkaren.org Unrestricted $40,000.00
Keystone Community Services www.keystoneservices.org Unrestricted $30,000.00
Mi CASA MN www.micasamn.org Unrestricted $50,000.00
Minnesota African Women's Association www.mawanet.org African Girls Initiative for Leadership and Empowerment (AGILE) $30,000.00
Minnesota Education Equity Partnership www.mneep.org Unrestricted $60,000.00
Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Incorporated www.americanindianmontessori.net/home.html Unrestricted $60,000.00
Neighborhood HealthSource www.neighborhoodhealthsource.org Mental Health Navigation in Northside Schools $80,000.00
Neighborhood House www.neighborhoodhousemn.org Unrestricted $40,000.00
Northside Achievement Zone www.northsideachievement.org Unrestricted $100,000.00
Northside Boxing Club www.northsideboxing.org Unrestricted $30,000.00
People Serving People www.peopleservingpeople.org Unrestricted $40,000.00
Phyllis Wheatley Community Center www.phylliswheatley.org Unrestricted $50,000.00
Project for Pride in Living www.ppl-inc.org Youth and Parenting Services in Supportive Housing $30,000.00
Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood www.wilder.org/community-impact/saint-paul-promise-neighborhood Unrestricted $60,000.00
Sol Of The Cities www.playwithsol.com Unrestricted $25,000.00
Somali Youth and Family Development Center www.somfam.org Unrestricted $50,000.00
Southside Family Nurturing Center www.ssfnc.org Unrestricted $40,000.00
Teach For America, Inc. www.teachforamerica.org Unrestricted $45,000.00
The Family Partnership www.thefamilypartnership.org Multicultural Therapeutic Preschool Program $45,000.00
The Minneapolis Foundation www.minneapolisfoundation.org Northside Youth Enrichment Fund (NYEF) $60,000.00
The Sanneh Foundation www.thesannehfoundation.org Unrestricted $50,000.00
Think Small www.thinksmall.org Unrestricted $25,000.00
All City Music (fiscally sponsored by Chops Inc.) www.allcitymusic.org Unrestricted $20,000.00
Urban Roots MN www.urbanrootsmn.org Unrestricted $35,000.00
Voices for Racial Justice www.voicesforracialjustice.org Unrestricted $25,000.00
Way to Grow www.mplswaytogrow.org Unrestricted $75,000.00
WE WIN Institute, Inc. www.we-win.org Unrestricted $40,000.00
YMCA of the North www.ymcanorth.org YMCA Beacons Program $35,000.00

2023 Strengthening Developing Communities

Central America
Organization Website Project Amount
Agua Para La Vida www.aguaparalavida.org/en/home/ Unrestricted $30,000.00
ANADESA (fiscally sponsored by Natik Esperanza) www.anadesa.org Unrestricted $20,000.00
Common Hope www.commonhope.org New Hope Community and New Hope School $25,000.00
CREA www.creanicaragua.org Unrestricted $20,000.00
Educate2Envision International www.educate2envision.org Unrestricted $20,000.00
Fabretto Children's Foundation www.fabretto.org Unrestricted $50,000.00
Glasswing International www.glasswing.org Unrestricted $30,000.00
Groundswell International www.groundswellinternational.org Strengthening Family Farmer Enterprises and Local Markets in Honduras $40,000.00
Guatemalan Tomorrow Fund Inc www.thegtfund.org Unrestricted $50,000.00
Mama Hope www.mamahope.org Localized Development Accelerator (LDA) $30,000.00
Pueblo a Pueblo, Inc (fiscally sponsored by Natik Esperanza) www.puebloapueblo.org Unrestricted $20,000.00
Seeds for Progress Foundation www.seedsforprogress.org Unrestricted $20,000.00
Tejiendo Futuros www.tejiendofuturos.org/en/inicio-eng/ Unrestricted $40,000.00
Thousand Currents www.thousandcurrents.org Unrestricted $75,000.00
West, East, and Southern Africa
Organization Website Project Amount
African Visionary Fund (fiscally sponsored by KBFUS) www.africanvisionary.org Unrestricted $40,000.00
AFRICE (fiscally sponsored by Gaia Foundation) www.africeug.org/ Unrestricted $20,000.00
Center for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!) www.createaction.org Unrestricted $30,000.00
Eastern Congo Initiative www.easterncongo.org/about/what-we-do/asili/ Unrestricted $100,000.00
Friends of Raising the Village Incorporated www.raisingthevillage.org Unrestricted $25,000.00
Mavuno (fiscally sponsored by KBFUS) www.mavuno.org Maarifa Project / Maarifa Learning Academy $20,000.00
One Village Partners www.onevillagepartners.org Unrestricted $50,000.00
Partners in Food Solutions www.partnersinfoodsolutions.com Unrestricted $25,000.00
Root Capital www.rootcapital.org Unrestricted $50,000.00
The CHAIN COLLABORATIVE www.thechaincollaborative.org Unrestricted $20,000.00
The Nature Conservancy www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/africa/stories-in-africa/tuungane-project/ Tuungane $50,000.00
Wandikweza www.wandikweza.org Unrestricted $20,000.00
WellShare International www.wellshareinternational.org Afya kwa Pamoja: Together for Health $30,000.00

2023 Sustaining Environmental Systems

Organization Website Project Amount
Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute www.anishinaabeagriculture.org Hemp-based Housing Eco. $70,000.00
Appetite For Change www.afcmn.org Urban Agriculture $60,000.00
Bancroft Neighborhood Association www.bancroftneighborhood.org Environmental Stewardship $50,000.00
Climate Generation www.climategen.org Youth Environmental Action $50,000.00
Community Members for Environmental Justice (fiscally sponsored by Tides Center) www.cmejustice.org Unrestricted $70,000.00
Dream of Wild Health www.dreamofwildhealth.org Unrestricted $70,000.00
East Phillips Neighborhood Institute www.epnifarm.org Unrestricted $70,000.00
Frogtown Green (fiscally sponsored by Propel Nonprofits) www.frogtowngreen.com Unrestricted $20,000.00
Hmong American Farmer Association www.hmongfarmers.com Training small-scale farmers $70,000.00
Hope Community, Inc. www.hope-community.org Food, Land and Community Program $60,000.00
Land Stewardship Project www.landstewardshipproject.org Equitable Land Transition Emerg. Farmers $50,000.00
Minnesota Land Trust www.mnland.org Boreal Wetlands Restoration $30,000.00
Mississippi Park Connection www.parkconnection.org Unrestricted $60,000.00
Northside Residents Redevelopment Council www.nrrc.org Healthy Urban Living $50,000.00
Philadelphia Community Farm www.phillyfarm.org Liberation and Land Healing $50,000.00
Prairie Island Indian Community www.prairieisland.org Food Sovereignty Initiative $45,000.00
The Belwin Conservancy www.belwin.org Anishinabe Academy $30,000.00
The Good Acre www.thegoodacre.org Unrestricted $60,000.00
Urban Roots MN www.urbanrootsmn.org Conservation Youth Internship $30,000.00
Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi (formerly known as Lower Phalen Creek Project) www.lowerphalencreek.org Daylighting of Phalen Creek $70,000.00