The Minneapolis Foundation and our funding partners awarded the following Community Grants between August 2007 and January 2008.
All Parks Alliance for Change
$40,000
for organizing activities and public policy advocacy to preserve manufactured home parks as a source of affordable housing.
Battered Women's Legal Advocacy Project
$80,000
(two-year grant) for development of Domestic Abuse Response Teams and defining ways to track and assess systems changes in two rural Minnesota counties, focusing specifically on the needs and engagement of American Indian women and Latinas who are victims of domestic violence.
Center for Victims of Torture
$80,000
for the New Systems of Care: Transitioning to Community Leadership project which will transfer responsibility for development of a community-wide service system from Center for Victims of Torture to local communities.
Children's Law Center of MN
$200,000
(two-year grant) for preparation for impact litigation to ensure better outcomes for children in foster care.
Community Stabilization Project
$30,000
for grassroots organizing and advocacy for the preservation of existing and development of new affordable housing.
Council on Crime and Justice
$150,000
(two-year grant) for the Collateral Effects Initiative, an advocacy effort aimed at mitigating the collateral effect of a criminal history on a person's ability to gain employment, credit, education and housing.
Division of Indian Work
$150,000
for Project Phoenix, a three pronged approach to address trafficking and prostituting of juvenile American Indian girls.
Dunwoody Academy
$50,000
for costs not covered by standard per-pupil reimbursements for new charter school model serving low-income high school students.
Farmer's Legal Action Group (FLAG)
$100,000
(two-year grant) to help Minnesota's new immigrant/refugee farmers become economically successful.
Fund for an Open Society
$75,000
for the First Suburbs community collaboration in the Twin Cities, creating in one suburb, a community coalition of leaders and residents to create more open and fair housing opportunities.
Girls in Action
$150,000
(two-year grant) for expansion and continuation of Girls in Action programs in four high schools in the Minneapolis Public School District.
Hope Community
$50,000
for support for the Youth and Power Project that will directly engage, train and mentor youth as community leaders as a path to systems change.
Jewish Community Action
$80,000
for a community reinvestment initiative to enlist the private sector in improving and expanding lending, investing, and financial services in North Minneapolis low-income communities of color.
Kwanzaa Community Church
$60,000
(two-year grant) for support of a community organizing program to empower low-income, African-American youth who live in north Minneapolis.
Land Stewardship Project
$150,000
(two-year grant) for the “Thriving Farm and Rural Communities Policy Initiative,” to engage citizens and advance local and national food and agricultural systems.
Little Earth Community Partnership
$225,000
for phase one of a ten-year capacity building and program development initiative. (three-year grant)
Metropolitan Economic Development Association (MEDA)
$75,000
overall support for an organization working to achieve economic parity for communities of color.
Minnesota Children's Museum
$30,000
for development of a best practices model for museum community partnerships built on community strengths and interests of diverse communities while increasing the internal capacity of the Children's Museum to engage and support involvement of diverse, under-represented communities in museum programming and services.
Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
$75,000
for legislative advocacy to increase state investment to prevent homelessness.
Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
$100,000
for support of the development of four Centers for Working Families sites in Twin Cities urban neighborhoods as part of the LISC Sustainable Communities Demonstration Project.
Twin Cities RISE!
$100,000
for general operating support.
Wellstone Action Fund
$50,000
(two-year grant) for leadership and civic engagement programs for American Indian and immigrant women in Minnesota who are survivors of domestic and sexual assault.
Capital Grants
Ain Dah Yung Center
$100,000
(two-year grant) for support of the capital campaign completion, homeless youth program, administration, and strategic planning.
Bolder Options
$50,000
for support of the capital campaign: “Building a Bolder Future” for the purchase, renovations, and a reserve fund for future maintenance needs of a permanent home.
Centre for Asians and Pacific Islanders
$100,000
for the capital campaign for completing the renovation of the facilit .
Montessori Training Center of Minnesota
$65,000
for support for “Timeless Education for a New World ” capital campaign for the renovation and construction of a new facility on the East Side of St. Paul.