Community Grant Awards

The Minneapolis Foundation and our funding partners awarded the following Community Grants between August 2003 and January 2004.

View a list of the grants awarded in 2002-03 (pdf format).

Affordable Housing

Community Stabilization Project
$ 30,000
efforts to increase membership from and activities in low-income communities across the region through targeted community organizing


Greater Minnesota Housing Fund

$ 175,000
predevelopment planning and education of public officials for affordable housing projects in Cambridge and North Branch

Hearth Connection
$ 100,000
continued work on a state demonstration project addressing the problem of homelessness

Minnesota ACORN
$ 50,000
the Foreclosure Rescue Scam Prevention and Solution Project

Subtotal for Affordable Housing $ 355,000

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Economic Opportunities

Latino Economic Development Center
$ 40,000
technical assistance and business development services for Greater Minnesota Communities with large concentrations of Latino immigrant populations

Metropolitan Economic Development Association
$ 100,000
the acquisition and integration into MEDA's infrastructure and service options of the Procurement Technical Assistance Center, which provides help to minority-owned businesses in securing government contracts

Neighborhood Development Center
$ 60,000
entrepreneur training and technical assistance for low-income Latinos and Islamic financing opportunities

North American Water Office
$ 150,000
a three-year grant for community organizing activities in rural Minnesota, including development of local and community-based ownership of wind generation capacity in Lincoln, Pipestone, Nobles, and Murray counties

Resource Center of the Americas
$ 60,000
the Globalization and Workers' Rights Projects of the Global Realities Local Communities Initiative to assist local Latino immigrants with immigration and labor issues

White Earth Land Recovery Project
$ 50,000
the Wild Rice Initiative, which seeks to protect the integrity and control of native wild rice

WomenVenture
$ 10,000
Jobs in Trade program to prepare women to obtain and retain jobs with good entry-level wages and lifetime earnings


Subtotal for Economic Opportunities $ 470,000

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Educational Achievement

Minnesota Meeting
$ 50,000
ALL KIDS LEARN series on K-12 public education

Save Our Schools Minnesota
$ 50,000
continued parent advocacy to ensure adequate funding of Minnesota’s public schools


Subtotal for Educational Achievement $100,000

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Health and Well-being of Children, Youth, and Families

Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation
$ 50,000
capital support of the Multi-Cultural Child Care Business Development Project in partnership with the Minneapolis YWCA and the Development Corporation for Children


Advocating Change Together
$ 50,000
overall support of an organization that trains and organizes people with disabilities to advocate on their own behalf

African American Men Project
$ 200,000
two-year grant for systems-change efforts associated with the African American Men Project

Alliance of Early Childhood Professionals
$ 40,000
the Leaders Circle to enhance the capacity of culturally diverse communities to provide child care

Battered Women's Legal Advocacy Project
$ 80,000
development and implementation of an initiative to coordinate the homeless/housing and domestic violence service systems

Elderberry Institute Living at Home/Block Nurse Program
$ 100,000
a two-year grant for expansion and support of the network of Living at Home/Block Nurse Programs in Minnesota

HACER
$ 28,000
two research studies: "The Other Family: How Gangs Impact Latino Families and Communities" and "The Economic Impact of Latino Entrepreneurship"

ISAIAH
$ 80,000
a two-year grant for the Campaign to Preserve Immigrant Families, a community organizing project to influence public policy to support immigrants and refugees

MAP for Nonprofits
$ 100,000
a two-year grant for expansion of strategic management and organizational development services

Metropolitan Alliance of Community Centers
$ 100,000
a two-year grant for the creation of centralized management services and communications/civic engagement plans

Midtown Greenway Coalition
$ 65,000
the Our Place in the Region Initiative, a model for community engagement and community leadership around transit-oriented development across several public systems

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
$ 150,000
a two-year grant for activities that apply international human rights standards to domestic issues

Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
$ 91,000
a public education and advocacy campaign relating sprawling development and transportation to health issues negatively impacting children and the elderly living in the Twin Cities

Minnesota Directors' Forum
$ 30,000
support for the transition from an informal to a formal nonprofit multicultural coalition that assists its member organizations, representing various immigrant and refugee populations, with advocacy and capacity-building activities

Minnesota Rural Partners
$ 65,000
Community Video Minnesota, a collaborative, youth-led video project involving nine Greater Minnesota communities, bringing together youth from diverse cultures to become actively engaged in civic life and create social change in their communities

Multicultural Specialty Providers Mental Health Network
$ 50,000
an independent network of specialty mental health service providers working to gain policy and systems reform of mental health practices, financing and access to managed care contracts, changes in certification processes, and other activities to benefit clients from communities of color

Our Children: Our Future
$ 150,000
a statewide collaborative to affect public policy to reduce racial disparities in out-of-home placement of children

Rural Enrichment and Counseling Headquarters
$ 25,000
a model service delivery system demonstrating best practices for providing human services in rural communities

Second Harvest Heartland
$ 34,800
Development of "Minnesota Hunger 101," an advocacy program to raise public awareness of hunger issues and the need to support food banks

StreetWorks Collaborative
$ 60,000
a two-year grant for collaborative planning and policy reform initiatives to address youth homelessness

University of Minnesota Foundation
$ 57,583
a three-year grant for direct costs of an office specialist and community outreach activities for the Gamble-Skogmo Chair in Child Welfare and Youth Policy

University UNITED
$ 100,000
a two-year grant for community-based engagement in transit-oriented development along the University Avenue corridor in Minneapolis and St. Paul

Subtotal for Children, Youth, and Families $ 1,706,383

 

Grand Total - All Community Grants: $ 2,631,383