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Community
Grant Awards
The
Minneapolis Foundation and our funding partners awarded nearly $3 million
in Community Grants between February and July 2004.
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the:
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
Achieve!Minneapolis
$ 300,000
three-year grant for Phase II implementation of the Arts for Academic
Achievement Initiative in more than 50 elementary, middle, and high schools
in Minneapolis
Affirmative
Options Coalition
$ 50,000
two-year grant for a statewide coalition working to promote public policies
that create opportunities for low-income Minnesotans to achieve economic
security
All
Parks Alliance for Change
$ 30,000
continued support of the Manufactured Home Community Preservation Program
Centro
Legal
$ 150,000
two-year grant for full implementation of new advocacy programs on behalf
of low-income Latinos living in Minnesota
Children's
Defense Fund - Minnesota
$ 50,000
two-year grant for advocacy of universal child health coverage in Minnesota
Community
Reinvestment Fund
$ 100,000
development of new products and markets for community reinvestment in
low-income and under-financed communities in Minnesota
Energy
CENTS Coalition
$ 100,000
two-year grant to implement a community-based model for new utility and
energy service options that will increase local control on the Red Lake
Indian Reservation
Farmers'
Legal Action Group
$ 100,000
efforts to protect family farmers and rural communities
Greater
Minneapolis Day Care Association
$ 60,000
Spectrum of Care, an initiative which will link improvements in the quality
of child care with improved school readiness
Growth
& Justice
$ 150,000
two-year grant for building public support for progressive solutions to
education reform, tax reform, and economic development
Headwaters
Foundation for Justice
$ 100,000
capacity building activities for grassroots social justice and social
change organizations
Institute
on Race & Poverty
$ 75,000
to complete research and develop communications products in support of
transportation reform and strategic public investments
Jobs
Now Coalition
$ 125,000
Rural Route to Change, a project to organize residents in Greater Minnesota
around economic issues
Land
Stewardship Project
$ 75,000
Farm and Rural Organizing Project, which brings together family farmers
and other rural citizens to develop healthy local economies in rural communities
Metrowide
Engagement on Shelter and Housing
$ 45,000
two-year grant to create an operational workplan and implement a regional
response to homelessness that will bring county, shelter, and social services
systems together
Minneapolis
Consortium of Community Developers
$ 150,000
two-year grant to expand capital funds and loans for small business development
and policy advocacy on behalf of nonprofit community developers
Minnesota
Association for Children's Mental Health
$ 50,000
Parent to Parent support and education program for immigrant and refugee
families of children with mental health disorders
Minnesota
Coalition for the Homeless
$ 140,000
two-year grant for advocacy efforts to change existing county, state,
and federal systems and investment to effect an end to homelessness in
Minnesota
Minnesota
Senior Federation - Metropolitan Region
$ 50,000
two-year grant for consumer education and advocacy through the Health
Access Initiative
Minnesota
Smoke Free Coalition
$ 150,000
efforts to achieve tobacco control policy goals
Mount
Olivet Rolling Acres
$ 150,000
two-year demonstration project called the Partnership and Support Network,
integrating the delivery of services for people with developmental disabilities
Project
504
$ 75,000
implementation of a lay advocate program to assist low-income tenants
living in substandard housing
Renewing
the Countryside
$ 78,500
the Growing Rural Economies through Sustainable Tourism Project
SAFPLAN
(Statewide Association for Family Planning)
$ 45,000
three-year grant to increase access to family planning services, especially
for low-income, teenage, and immigrant women to prevent unwanted pregnancies
Transit
for Livable Communities
$ 120,000
two-year grant for building a broad-based coalition in support of legislation
for a dedicated transit funding source in Minnesota
YouthLink
$ 100,000
launching a new collaborative between YouthLink and Project Foundation
YWCA
$ 50,000
the Leadership Registry project, which is designed to increase the participation
of women and people of color on nonprofit boards and public commissions
in Hennepin County
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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.
Greater
Minneapolis Crisis Nursery
$ 50,000
acquisition and renovation of a South Minneapolis shelter for residential
child care and family support services
League
of Women Voters of Minnesota Education Fund and Minnesota
Women's Consortium
$ 50,000
the Minnesota Women's Building Renovation, part of the Power of 3 Campaign
Minneapolis
Community and Technical College Foundation
$ 60,000
purchase equipment for the English as a Second Language lab
People,
Inc.
$ 75,000
build new facilities on a campus in North Minneapolis
Tibetan
American Foundation of Minnesota
$ 50,000
to establish a Tibetan Community Cultural Center
Walker
Methodist Foundation
$ 73,000
addition of a media/communications room to a $4.3 million building conversion
and remodeling project
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