Mortenson Family Foundation’s First Partner Convening: Reflecting on the Past, Grounding in the Present & Planning for the Future

  The Mortenson Family Foundation hosted our first-ever partner convening in partnership with the Carlson Family Foundation on December 11, 2025, at the Heritage Center of Brooklyn Center. The event brought together representatives from the Foundation’s partner organizations to engage in important discussions about how to be both responsive and responsible. These conversations focused on […]

Our Commitment to Community 

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Mortenson Family Foundation is guided by its mission to build partnerships to strengthen community-driven approaches that advance equity, opportunity, and sustainable systems. In this time of change and uncertainty, we’ve heard the magnitude of concerns and challenges from our grant partners, and in response, plan to hold steady in our work. This means for this […]

Stories of Change CEP Series includes Mortenson Family Foundation Learnings

Mortenson Family Foundation recently joined seven other foundations in a blog series with the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to share stories of change. Each story was created in response to the question:  Since early 2020, what is one of the most important changes that you made at your foundation that you plan to sustain […]