Community Grant Awards

The Minneapolis Foundation and our funding partners awarded nearly $3 million in Community Grants between August 2004 and January 2005.

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Systems and Policy Change Grants

The following grants were made for systems and policy change activities within the Foundation's four funding goal areas:

      • Affordable Housing
      • Economic Opportunities
      • Educational Achievement
      • Health and Well-being of Children, Youth, and Families

Alliance for Metropolitan Stability
$60,000
the development of Community Benefits Agreements in communities and along corridors that are economically challenged

Child Care WORKS
$100,000
a two-year grant for advocacy and issue organizing related to early childcare and education

HOME Line
$50,000
the Outreach and Advocacy Project focusing on the Section 8 voucher program

ISAIAH
$30,000
community organizing to expand the state's investment in public education

Jewish Community Action
$100,000
a two-year grant for advocacy and organizing to effect policy change resulting in a community reinvestment approach by the Minnesota State Board of Investments

Local Initiatives Support Corporation
$150,000
a two-year grant for enhancing suburban affordable housing development and creating public policy change

Metropolitan Economic Development Association
$75,000
expansion of the Procurement Technical Assistance Center

Metropolitan Federation of Alternative Schools
$35,000
the implementation of an accountability project at 22 community-based alternative schools serving 2,000 at-risk students

Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance
$130,000
a two-year grant for the Legal Services Advocacy Project, research and advocacy on behalf of low-income Minnesotans

Midtown Greenway Coalition
$70,000
general support to leverage the region's investment in the Midtown Greenway and the surrounding community

Minneapolis American Indian Center
$50,000
Continued court monitoring of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act and the Minnesota Indian Family Preservation Act

Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board
$50,000
the Children's Agenda 2020, an agenda and set of action steps for enhancing healthy children and youth development over the next 15 years

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
$150,000
a three-year grant for civic engagement by nonprofits

Nonprofits Assistance Fund
$30,000
financial management technical assistance to health-care nonprofits in Minnesota as part of the Minnesota Primary Care Loan Fund

Northwest Minnesota Foundation
$200,000
a two-year grant for the Minnesota Early Childhood Initiative, a statewide effort to promote the well-being of children from birth to age six

PACER Center
$100,000
the Bullying Prevention Project interactive website and on-line resource center

Ready 4 K
$250,000
a public education campaign to increase public awareness and support for improved school readiness

Somali Action Alliance
(no web site)
$35,000
start up of an emerging Somali grassroots social change organization

The Trust for Public Land
$37,500
the Initial steps to implement a Parks for People project in Minneapolis/St. Paul and the first-ring suburbs

Twin Cities RISE!
$50,000
the expansion of a successful employment and training model to serve prison inmates while in the last six weeks of confinement and following their release

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Capital Grants

The following grants were made for capital expenses. Capital grants are awarded only to Twin Cities metro area organizations.



Courage Center
$50,000
the capital campaign, "Imagine the Possibilities: A Campaign for Courage"

Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library
$1,000,000
capital support for Teen Central at the New Minneapolis Central Library

Friends of the Minneapolis Public Library
$200,000
capital support for a community meeting room and a conference room at the New Minneapolis Central Library

Hmong American Partnership
$50,000
the capital campaign to construct a new Hmong Community Center and headquarters in St. Paul serving the Twin Cities Hmong community

Minneapolis American Indian Center
$100,000
the capital campaign to renovate MAIC's facility

Minnesota Children's Museum
$75,000
the Capital and Endowment Campaign to improve existing galleries, build a new rooftop gallery, expand the traveling exhibit program, and create a new endowment

Neighborhood Development Center
$100,000
pre-development costs for the Global Marketplace, a 60,000-square-foot international marketplace on the first floor of the Midtown Exchange, the former site of the Sears complex in south Minneapolis

Neighborhood Involvement Program
$50,000
the capital campaign to renovate NIP's facility

Project for Pride in Living
$1,000,000
capital support for The Learning Center

Safe Haven for Youth
$25,000
construction of a Prior Lake facility at the Shepard Path development providing administrative and program space

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