Building Community and Accountability: How the Legal Rights Center Advances Restorative Justice in Minneapolis
Headquartered in Minneapolis, the Legal Rights Center works with communities to seek justice and promote racial equity for those to whom it has been historically denied. In addition to being a legal services nonprofit, the organization creates spaces where harm is acknowledged, accountability is taken, and healing becomes possible, nurturing relationships and trust that strengthen […]
Building Solidarity: A LinkingLeaders Conversation with the Tiwahe Foundation
The LinkingLeaders Partnership is a coalition strengthening solidarity for racial justice and equity through a cross-racial, cross-cultural partnership in the Twin Cities. Bringing together more than 5,500 leaders in the region’s Black, Asian, Latine, and Native communities, LinkingLeaders seeks to identify strategies and best practice models to create connections and strengthen ties amongst leaders of […]
Building Solidarity: A LinkingLeaders Conversation with LatinoLEAD
The LinkingLeaders Partnership is a coalition strengthening solidarity for racial justice and equity through a cross-racial, cross-cultural partnership in the Twin Cities. Bringing together more than 5,500 leaders in the region’s Black, Asian, Latine, and Indigenous communities, LinkingLeaders seeks to identify strategies and best practice models to create connections and strengthen ties amongst leaders of […]
From Harm to Healing: CMEJ Aims to Transform Former Industrial Site in North Minneapolis
Community Members for Environmental Justice (CMEJ) is leading a movement to reclaim and heal neighborhoods recovering from environmental racism in the Twin Cities. Based in North Minneapolis, the grassroots coalition is powered by residents who have lived through a legacy of industrial pollution. This legacy disproportionately harms nearby areas that are home to low-income and […]
Building Solidarity: A LinkingLeaders Conversation with the African American Leadership Forum
The LinkingLeaders Partnership is a coalition strengthening solidarity for racial justice and equity through a cross-racial, cross-cultural partnership in the Twin Cities. Bringing together more than 5,500 leaders in the region’s Black, Asian, Latinx, and Indigenous communities, LinkingLeaders seeks to identify strategies and best practice models to create connections and strengthen ties amongst leaders of […]
Our Commitment to Community
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 […]
Reviving Nature and Community: Wakaŋ Tipi’s Phalen Creek Daylighting Project
Wakaŋ Tipi Awaŋyaŋkapi, which means “those who care for Wakaŋ Tipi” in Dakota, is a Native-led environmental stewardship nonprofit in Saint Paul. Wakaŋ Tipi is a Dakota sacred site located in what is now Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary. The organization engages people to honor and care for natural places, along with their sacred and cultural […]
Insights into Philanthropy: Mortenson Family Foundation’s Path in Community-Centered Giving
Earlier this year, the nonprofit OneVillage Partners invited Mortenson Family Foundation to write an article for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS). The article was meant to share our learnings in philanthropy as we continue to focus on centering community voices in the work we do. For decades, the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors have […]
Mortenson Family Foundation Introduces New Community Relationship Officers to Enhance Local and International Impact
Minneapolis, MN [May 5, 2023]—The Mortenson Family Foundation is excited to introduce the community relationship officers who have joined its grantmaking team in the last 10 months. Their expertise supports the Foundation’s mission of building community-driven partnerships to advance equity, opportunity, and sustainable systems. Margretta Getaweh started at the Foundation on April 12, 2023, as […]