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
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