Past Program Grants
Since 2017, the Pohlad Family Foundation has made over $60 million in grants to Twin Cities organizations committed to ending homelessness and achieving racial justice. We are proud of our grantee partners and honored to help meet the needs of our community.
Search our recent grants below.
| Year | Organization | Amount | Grant Description | Program Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | American Indian Community Development Corporation | $261,000 | The American Indian Community Development Corporation (AICDC) will use funds to open and operate a 25-person overnight Drop-in Center to be located in the basement of Anishinabe Wakiagun as a part of the Governor's Winter Homelessness Initiative. Funds will provide culturally specific services and address rising numbers of unsheltered homelessness within American Indian communities. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | People Serving People | $25,000 | Grant will be used to serve 25 families impacted by the Drake hotel fire in securing emergency shelter and longer-term housing stability services. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Hennepin History Museum | $2,500 | Funds will be used to bring Richard Rothstein, author of the Color of Law, to speak at an event on housing segregation and its continued impact today. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Model Cities of St. Paul | $40,000 | Funds will be used by Model Cities to offer low-barrier, culturally affirming emergency shelter in Ramsey County as a part of the Governor's Winter Homelessness Initiative. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Project for Pride in Living | $60,000 | Funds will be used to provide gap rental assistance to 20 households at risk of homelessness as a part of the Governor's Winter Homelessness Initiative. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul | $75,000 | Funds will be used to expand emergency shelter capacity for families in Ramsey County as a part of the Governor's Winter Homelessness Initiative. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless | $1,000 | Sponsorship of Minnesota Coalition to End Homelessness Day on the Hill and rally at the State Capital. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | The Link | $66,200 | The Grand Challenge is a national initiative of A Way Home America that has a goal to end homelessness for LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color, setting the path to end homelessness for all youth. The Link was selected by its peers to anchor Hennepin County's participation. Funds will be used for youth compensation, staffing and coordination of this collaborative effort. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia | $100,000 | Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia is responding to COVID-19 by organizing a mutual aid system among members to meet material needs including a user-run food bank. Members are also preparing to interface with the public and elected officials to ensure that their voices and experiences are helping to shape the policy response to the pandemic and ensuing economic downturn. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | American Indian Community Development Corporation | $75,000 | For American Indian Community to purchase Personal Protective Equipment for staff and residents, hire professionals to clean and sanitize the Overnight Drop-in Center, assist housing tenants with rent payments. Staff the Community Safety Patrol with members of the Urban American Indian community to encourage social distancing, keep residents safe and serve as a valuable conduit for outreach to connect individuals with case managers. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Dakota County Social Services | $99,900 | Dakota County is responding to triple the number of requests for prevention assistance resulting from job loss, decreased income, lack of childcare, and high rent burden of low-income families. Funding provides rental assistance to prevent homelessness for families impacted by COVID-19. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | CommonBond Communities | $50,000 | Funds will help CommonBond Communities to respond to the immediate needs of low-income, at-risk residents during the COVID-19 health crisis including rental assistance, staff continuity, technology and equipment, and immediate response funds. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative | $100,000 | Support Beacon in sustaining emergency shelter for families experiencing homelessness and ongoing operations at 18 affordable and supportive housing developments. Emergency funds due to COVID-19 to maintain the health and safety of residents and shelter guests, and continuity of supportive services for those with histories of homelessness and housing instability. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | The Link | $100,000 | Youth who are experiencing homelessness and/or sexual exploitation have access to critical supports to keep them healthy and safe. The Link continues to provide emergency response through street outreach, emergency shelter, housing, and supportive services as we meet the increasing and immediate COVID-19 needs of the vulnerable young people in our community. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Agate Housing and Services | $100,000 | To meet the needs of Agate clients and guests, as emergency overnight shelters have temporarily moved to 24/7 operations, and our street outreach services have temporarily moved from five to seven days per week in response to COVID-19. Funds support staffing and operations needs to allow expanded services for people experiencing homelessness. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Project for Pride in Living | $50,000 | PPL is responding to the COVID-19 intensified housing needs of more than 3200 individuals who rely on PPL each night to keep them safe and stably housed. Funds provide the basic and emerging needs of very low-income households sheltering at home; increased cleaning and maintenance in PPL housing, including cleaning supplies and personal protective equipment; increased building security; and hazard pay for essential property staff. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Connections to Independence | $40,000 | Connections to Independence will provide direct assistance for rent, utilities, and basic needs for young adults who have aged out of foster care and have lost jobs due to Covid-19. Technology inequalities will be addressed to ensure e-learning, to seek out resources, and follow mandates to stay-in-place. Funds will also be used to stabilize the organization and increase staff to provide additional services and resources. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul | $100,000 | Interfaith Action is responding to new and increased demands on the organization to serve families hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Emergency funding provides additional shelter space, motel vouchers, or other housing opportunities that promote health/safety, hygiene/sanitation supplies, staff costs, and rental and legal assistance. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Amherst H. Wilder Foundation | $50,000 | Support families connected to Wilder services who have lost income or increased expenses as a result of COVID-19 through direct financial assistance. Funds will focus on families across all Wilder service lines identified by program staff as precariously housed or at-risk of homelessness. Funds will also support increased sanitation and 24-hour staff costs at our site-based housing programs. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Simpson Housing Services | $40,000 | Funds support added COVID-19 related expenses and ongoing operations. Simpson Housing Services continues to modify services, respond to the needs of the shelter guests and supportive housing participants, and navigate these unprecedented times as a community. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | People Serving People | $100,000 | People Serving People supports the safety and security of our guest families, staff, and community. In response to COVID-19 and to increase social distancing, building access is restricted and meals are delivered to individual rooms. Strict cleaning regimes have been implemented, internet bandwidth increased to facilitate distance learning, and provides hazard pay for front line staff. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Agape Oasis | $75,000 | To stabilize and respond to the rise in need for vital services AGAPE OASIS provides to families impacted by domestic violence and financial abuse within North Minneapolis due to COVID-19. Limiting disruptions in programming and hiring contractors to extend staff coverage, utilize digital services, provide emergency safe housing/shelter including rent help, food, clothing, household and personal hygiene supplies. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Avenues for Youth | $30,000 | Grant will support of two months of increased staffing costs (salary increases and overtime) that we are incurring during the pandemic; extra food and cleaning supplies, increased utilities, and other unanticipated costs related to the COVID 19 Pandemic. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Face to Face | $50,000 | Face to Face meets the needs of youth who are unstably housed or experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes providing rental assistance to prevent and reduce homelessness, hotel vouchers to house those who can't access long-term housing, emergency needs (food, hygiene, cleaning supplies), and cell phone service to access completely online resources. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Our Saviour's Community Services | $50,000 | Staffing, food, and relocating emergency congregate shelter guests to individual hotel rooms will greatly decrease their risk of COVID-19 transmission and expand shelter space in Hennepin County. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Oasis for Youth | $40,000 | Oasis is responding to COVID-19 by focusing on outreach efforts and mobile case management assisting both homeless youth and those at risk of being homeless. Funds support capacity for staff positions and compensation, protect the health program participants, and provide rental and/or legal assistance to very low-income households. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Minneapolis Public Housing Authority | $50,000 | Funds are used to support low-income, elderly and disabled, formerly homeless and non-English speaking households who are MPHA public housing residents or Housing Choice Voucher participants. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | 180 Degrees | $40,000 | Provide immediate, short-term, financial relief to sustain ongoing emergency shelter, food, education, crisis case management, and connections to stable housing for unaccompanied youth and adults. Offset 180 Degrees projected operational projected loss directly due to COVID-19. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis | $50,000 | Alleviate increased expenses and response to COVID-19 pandemic. Support Catholic Charities increased staffing expenses, food/meal delivery and cleaning/sanitizing supplies. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | HOPE 4 Youth | $30,000 | HOPE 4 Youth will meet COVID-19 immediate needs of youth experiencing homelessness in and around Anoka County. Funds ensure increased outreach, homeless youth are able to safely stay in place, have basic needs (food, clothing, hygiene items), access to 24-hour crisis management support, and ongoing case management, economic benefits, and physical, mental, and COVID related health resources. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Hmong American Partnership | $100,000 | Hmong American Partnership provides housing stability to Immigrant and refugee communities, particularly low-income Southeast Asian individuals and families who have been heavily impacted on personal, financial, and vocational levels by the COVID-19 outbreak. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | American Indian Family Center | $23,000 | American Indian Family Center will provide culturally specific services to families who are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Funds will be used to assist with basic needs, rental assistance, and added staffing costs as a result of the pandemic. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Amherst H. Wilder Foundation | $50,000 | To create an emergency fund for 40 alumni of Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood (SPPN) People’s Fellowship, an innovative and comprehensive homelessness prevention initiative serving Saint Paul families providing rental/legal assistance and cover unexpected costs incurred as a result of COVID-19. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | YouthLink | $80,800 | In response to COVID-19 YouthLink is adjusting its service delivery model to offer a mobile outreach “pop-up” effort regularly stopping at rotating youth-defined engagement “hot spots” in downtown Minneapolis. Additional staffing of the mobile outreach team will include a “co-responder” approach to integrate mental health, physical health, and housing stabilization expertise. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | CAPI USA | $100,000 | CAPI will address the accelerating housing instability concerns and basic needs of Minnesota’s immigrants and people of color due to COVID-19. Measures include direct rental/utility assistance to CAPI-enrolled clients, the deployment of two 50%-time Phone Navigators (1 Hmong-speaking, 1 Spanish-speaking) and implement a sanitization regimen that helps to safely reopen the Immigrant Opportunity Center. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Community Stabilization Project | $59,000 | To mitigate the risk of contracting COVID-19 for people experiencing homelessness by enabling Community Stabilization Project to accelerate move-in-readiness for low-wealth, BIPOC individuals, families, and youth moving out of homelessness and into safe, stable housing. This support will provide rent relief for current renters experiencing reduced or lost income, provide support for sanitation and protective gear supplies, and will enhance staff’s capacity to effectively work at home, to appropriately serve renters on-site. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Ain Dah Yung Center | $82,060 | Help youth across all Ain Dah Yung Center programs by increasing sanitation services, direct food and hygiene supports, and increased staffing costs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Model Cities of St. Paul | $40,140 | Supports Model Cities in maintaining a continuum of safe shelter and housing opportunities during COVID-19 for high-risk, low-income communities in St. Paul, among whom the majority are people of color. Funds provide expanded sanitation and janitorial services at the housing sites; hazard pay for shelter staff; remote case management; rental assistance fund for housing clients; and basic needs. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid | $25,000 | Supports the immediate need for expanded housing policy advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic by Mid Minnesota Legal Aid. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Aeon | $50,000 | Respond to increasing resident basic needs due to the escalation of COVID-19. Support operations due to rental revenue loss and support AEON services including applying for public programs, secure basic needs, request personalized payment plans, and stay safe and housed during and beyond the pandemic. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Research in Action | $67,000 | Funding will support two primary activities: (1) engage a panel of customers (people who have experienced housing instability) in reviewing the County’s specific request for implementation of redesigned emergency rental assistance programs and plan for improved customer experience and (2) provide the County with the requested technical assistance for a continuous quality improvement system to improve customer outcomes and experience over time. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) | $100,000 | COVID 19 Latino Families Emergency Relief Fund prevents additional homelessness, hunger, and other potential hardship assisting with rent, food, and other essential needs for low-income immigrant families. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | YWCA St. Paul | $70,000 | To expand YWCA St. Paul’s COVID-19 response by providing rental assistance, temporary placement for sick residents, food, infant support, school technology, hygiene/cleaning supplies, and other household goods to low-income individuals and families adversely affected by the pandemic. | COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund |
| 2020 | Headwaters Foundation for Justice | $50,000 | Grant to the Headwaters Foundation for Justice COVID-19 response fund. Funds will be regranted to support BIPOC-led organizations as they respond to COVID-19 related needs and challenges within BIPOC communities. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation | $50,000 | Grant to the Minnesota Council on Foundation's disaster relief fund for COVID-19 assistance to nonprofits statewide. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | African American Leadership Forum | $45,000 | The African American Leadership forum will convene cross sector listening sessions to develop a framework centering the African American Community that will be catalyst for longer term systematic and policy change. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Sanctuary Covenant Church | $50,200 | Supporting recovery efforts BIPOC communities along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Grant will supply 500 families/week impacted by COVID 19 and unrest with fresh produce and meat weekly through food distribution at Sanctuary Church. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Tasks Unlimited | $65,000 | Grant will fund pre-development planning and fundraising for Envision's micro-homes and shared spaces housing development. Envision was formed to develop and operate facilities to house between 15-40 people who are homeless, at risk of becoming homeless, or experiencing housing instability in a self-governed, self-managed intentional community. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Amherst H. Wilder Foundation | $75,000 | Funds will be used to research racial disparities in homelessness, including determining the scope and scale of disparities and contributing factors. Wilder will also provide an estimate on the gap between white households and Black and Indigenous households, and specific number of households who would need to be housed to effectively close the disparities gap. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | SPIRAL Collective | $10,000 | Quinones Victims of Police Violence Resource Coalition will subsidize travel and workshop related costs for families who have experienced loss of a loved one through police violence to attend the Mother’s March and Retreat. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | American Indian Community Development Corporation | $250,000 | AICDC will use funds to acquire and renovate a building for culturally specific emergency shelter to address unsheltered homelessness in American Indian communities. Funds are part of a larger campaign that will increase emergency shelter capacity by 50-60 beds. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Greater Twin Cities United Way | $250,000 | Funding will support creating a centralized intake process via United Way 211 while building capacity that can be leveraged longer-term to centralize access to emergency rental assistance. Funds will be used to help develop the infrastructure and staffing that will be needed to deliver more than $100M in COVID housing assistance. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Lake Street Council | $50,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Grant to the We Love Lake Street Recovery Fund. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation | $50,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. St Paul Area Chamber of Commerce “We Love St. Paul/We Love Midway Fund” will provide larger grants of $30,000+ to businesses navigating evictions and insurance estimates. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | African Economic Development Solutions | $100,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to culturally focused BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. African Economic Development Solutions (AEDS) provides technical assistance to African immigrant owned small businesses. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Latino Economic Development Center | $100,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to culturally focused BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Latino Economic Development Center specifically focuses on Latino owned businesses. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Neighbors United Funding Collaborative | $100,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Neighbors United Funding Collaborative (NUFC) provides support to residents, small businesses, and organizations benefitting the St. Paul Midway Neighborhood. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Asian Economic Development Association | $100,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Asian Economic Development Association focuses on Southeast Asian owned businesses. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Northside Economic Opportunity Network (NEON) | $100,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to culturally focused BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. NEON specifically focuses on African American/Black owned businesses in North Minneapolis. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | West Broadway Business and Area Coalition | $50,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Funds will contribute to the West Broadway Business and Area Coalition Restore North Fund. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Latino Economic Development Center | $200,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Latino Economic Development Center focuses on Latino businesses. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | West Broadway Business and Area Coalition | $260,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Provide West Broadway Business and Area Coalition with the capacity to build and sustain the Transformation and Rebuilding of the West Broadway Corridor and develop a comprehensive assessment and plan for recovery needs. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Lake Street Council | $200,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Lake Street Council will provide financial and technical assistance to the more than 450+ businesses impacted along the Lake Street Corridor. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Hmong American Partnership | $150,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Hmong American Partnership will provide immediate financial relief to small businesses and support bilingual staff in providing time-intensive, culturally informed technical assistance to immigrant and refugee small business owners. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Northside Economic Opportunity Network (NEON) | $400,000 | Supporting capacity building, infrastructure, and recovery efforts to BIPOC owned small business along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. NEON focuses on African American/Black owned businesses. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Metropolitan Economic Development Association | $213,600 | Catalyst is a consortium of six Minnesota-based organizations that support minority entrepreneurs and their businesses. Funds will be used to create the Minnesota Inclusive Growth Fund which will allow member organizations to attract and provide additional capital and capacity building services to minority owned businesses. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Healing Justice Foundation | $70,000 | Planning grant for Black-led town hall series on community healing and policy action to address long standing injustice and the murder of George Floyd. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Hopewell Fund | $500,000 | Grant will help actively confront suppressive voting laws and practices in court with a particular focus on promoting and protecting voting rights of minority and young voters. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Family Housing Fund | $30,000 | Funding will be used to help staff a position within Minnesota's Interagency Council on Homelessness that will bring additional planning and response capacity to meet needs during the pandemic. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Institute for Community Alliances--Central Office | $16,440 | Grant to help create a regional data dashboard using homeless management information system (HMIS) data to determine racial disparities in family and youth homelessness. Dashboard will help in assessing the homeless system's response and if results are equitable by race. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Align Minneapolis | $50,000 | Grant to support direct financial assistance and rent relief for households facing loss through Align’s Emergency Rent Relief Program. Funds will be used to help families directly stabilize in their housing through financial assistance administered by Align. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Sanctuary Covenant Church | $10,000 | Grant to support the holiday meal program at Sanctuary Church for families in need. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Healing Justice Foundation | $300,000 | To support the planning, development, and public communications for A Time of Reckoning Series. A Time of Reckoning is rooted in a community- driven approach that centers impacted people in developing data, strategies, policy and action. The model aims to flip the power dynamic so that Black leaders and community members set the agenda, recommendations and priorities for policy and structural change. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Urban League Twin Cities | $5,000 | General operating grant to the Urban League. Funds will be used for Urban League's Unity Ball and fundraising efforts to sharing their vision for the future and to celebrate and honor individuals and organizations making a difference in the lives of African descendants in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | National League of Cities | $65,000 | Develop an overview of the design for technical assistance and peer learning, support the process in procuring technical assistance providers, and onboard key partners to advance the Collaborative Solutions to Reduce Harm initiative. Collaborative Solutions is intended to Innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Minnesota Twins Community Fund | $20,000 | General operating support | Twins Community Fund |
| 2020 | YWCA Minneapolis | $75,000 | Supporting recovery efforts to culturally focused BIPOC communities along cultural corridors within the Twin Cities impacted by civil unrest. Grant will be used to continue to distribute emergency food and basic supplies to community residents at YWCA Minneapolis Midtown location. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2020 | Agape Oasis | $25,000 | AgapeOasis is a culturally-specific, faith-based domestic violence organization serving families and children in North Minneapolis. In its third decade, Oasis has provided outreach and advocacy to 15,000 families impacted by domestic violence and trauma using culturally specific methods to reach underserved communities. Oasis has seen an increase in demand for services and is an important entry point for families who often would not otherwise seek help. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Community Stabilization Project | $25,000 | Community Support Program (CSP) is a fully black-led, grassroots tenant rights organization serving Saint Paul's Frogtown neighborhood. CSP reaches underserved families who are not eligble for other programs and are described by other providers as a "go to source" when no other resources are available. CSP has seen a recent growth in programs and is increasingly influencing tenant rights policies in Saint Paul. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Connections to Independence | $25,000 | Connections to Independence (C2i) is a culturally-specific organization that serves young people aging out of fostercare. The majority C2i's board and leadership are people of color who have themselves been in foster care. C2i has played a key role in shaping Hennepin County policies and practices for youth aging out of foster care, a group that is at high risk of becoming homeless. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Foster Advocates | $50,000 | Foster Advocates is a nonprofit led by and for youth who've aged out of fostercare - focusing on policy and practice improvements that ensure fosters are successful into adulthood. Foster Advocates will use funds for continued policy, research, and advocacy work to improve housing and education outcomes with fosters and growing organizational capacity. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia | $25,000 | Inquilinos Unidos (IX) is a grassroots tenants rights organization serving Minneapolis, reaching residents who are often exploited by unscrupulous landlords. IX has also engaged City leaders in Minneapolis, shining a light on predatory landlord practices and substandard conditions resulting from poor compliance with existing City policies. IX has continuously grown its programs since its founding in 2014 and funds will be used to continue to grow organizational capacity. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center | $25,000 | MIWRC is a non-profit social and educational services organization committed to the holistic growth and development of American Indian women and their families. MIWRC is located in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis, which has the third largest urban American Indian population in the United States. MIWRC's programming has grown exponentially including a pivotal role in responding to unsheltered homelessness. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Model Cities of St. Paul | $25,000 | Model Cities is a black-led nonprofit in Saint Paul's Rondo neighborhood that provides a range of social services, including supportive housing for families transitioning out of homelessness and emergency shelter. Model Cities is an entrepreneurial organization, continuing to evolve and be responsive to the community it serves. Funds will be used to continue to grow organizational capacity and strategic planning. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | HousingLink | $50,000 | HousingLink will use funds to develop an online application for low-income renters and homeowners to apply housing assistance via the $100M Covid-19 Housing Assistance Program (CHAP), administered in partnership with the State of Minnesota and a network of nonprofit providers. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Minnesota Housing Finance Agency | $250,000 | Funding will be used to enable the State to expand and extend processing of COVID Housing Assistance Program funds beyond the restrictions of federal allowances. | Housing Stability Initiatives |
| 2020 | Greater Minnesota Housing Fund | $400,000 | Heading Home Minnesota Funders Collaborative (Funders Collaborative) is seeking to build a strong and sustainable regional response to homelessness within the seven-county Twin Cities region. Funds will support a full audit of the homeless response system (performance and governance), dissemination of audit results, and development of system transformation blueprint that will focus on racial disparities and engaging communities disproportionately impacted by homelessness. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2020 | Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless | $400,000 | The Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless established the Regional Expert Network (REN)to engage people experienced with homelessness statewide in helping to inform local and state policies on homelessness and affordable housing. REN engages individuals, families and youth statewide, helping bring diverse voices to multiple tables that influence policy and funding decisions. Funds will be used to increase participation, provide wages and professional development for lived experience advocates, and incorporate best practices in community engagement. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2021 | 180 Degrees | $150,000 | Transitional Living Programming at Brittany’s Place meets an acute need for trauma-informed, accessible supportive housing for BIPOC girls at risk of housing instability or homelessness because of sexual exploitation and trafficking in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Ain Dah Yung Center | $400,000 | Funding will support ADYC’s culturally responsive permanent supportive housing for Indigenous youth in St. Paul ages 18-24 as they transition out of unsheltered and long-term homelessness, while supporting conversion to property-based Section 8 vouchers, expanding our capacity to offer long-term housing choice vouchers to residents who complete at least one year in housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | American Indian Family Center | $300,000 | The Thinica Owichakiyapi Thipi (Helping the Homeless Build), a program of the American Indian Family Center in St. Paul, will increase its capacity and breadth of services to reach and serve more American Indian families with services designed to achieve housing stability and create equitable outcomes for American Indian families. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Amherst H. Wilder Foundation | $200,000 | Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood (SPPN), an initiative housed at Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (Wilder Foundation), will use funds to expand and deepen The People’s Fellowship (TPF), an innovative and comprehensive homelessness prevention initiative. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Avenues for Youth | $50,000 | Avenues for Youth will use funds to engage at least 10 youth through the Abule Collective Housing program. The program supports people who identify as Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) where community members share their home and resources with youth experiencing homelessness or housing instability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | CAPI USA | $200,000 | CAPI’s BIPOC Housing Stability Project will employ a new full-time Housing Counselor who will team with 17+ diverse CAPI Economic Empowerment staff to provide comprehensive housing stability services for 260 Asian, African and Latinx immigrants and U.S. born populations of color living in North Minneapolis, Northwest Hennepin County and South Minneapolis. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) | $400,000 | CLUES will provide bilingual, relationship-based, and culturally anchored Homelessness Prevention services to low-income Latino families who have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and are at high risk of losing housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties | $150,000 | Community Action’s Housing Stability Assistance Program is an innovative homelessness prevention program to support people in Ramsey and Washington Counties at highest risk for eviction, by coupling direct rental assistance awards with the opportunity to partner with a Resource Navigator who will bolster participants’ efforts to achieve housing stability and other goals to overcome poverty. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Community Stabilization Project | $50,000 | Community Stabilization Project strengthens our capacity to move low-wealth, BIPOC families and individuals from homelessness into safe, affordable housing. CSP does this through education, advocacy, coalition building, and direct action to preserve and increase the supply of affordable housing in the Ramsey County area. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Connections to Independence | $250,000 | With this grant C2i will reduce the disproportionate racial disparities in homelessness and housing by stabilizing BIPOC youth, prevent episodes of homelessness/eviction through programs and direct financial assistance, and increase affordable housing by master leasing two housing properties. Funding for two consecutive years enables C2i to make direct impact. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Face to Face | $300,000 | Face to Face will provide housing and direct assistance, intensive case management, and wraparound support for young people in St. Paul experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Face to Face's work is a direct investment in the lives of BIPOC and otherwise marginalized young people to help eliminate disparities in housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Haven Housing | $150,000 | Moms Matter is a holistic housing stability program. This program for young, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) mothers will provide two years of individualized and culturally competent support with parenting, chemical and mental health, and employment and financial wellbeing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia | $250,000 | IX’s asambleas are a program for predominantly BIPOC housing-insecure renters across Minneapolis to come together to analyze their housing problems, strategize, organize, and mobilize around those problems. Our Tenant Unions connect renters across campaigns to stabilize their housing and create affordable, dignified, and long-term homes for all. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Karen Organization of Minnesota | $150,000 | The Karen Organization of Minnesota will increase staffing and direct financial assistance to prevent and reduce homelessness among Karen/Burmese families and youth. The Family Assister and Youth Case Manager will provide immediate relief for families/youth at risk of losing housing and strengthen skills and resources to increase long-term housing stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Cultural Wellness Center | $150,000 | We will reduce the number of youth on the verge of or in the crisis of homelessness. We are targeting youth 16 to 24 years of age in St. Paul who are primarily African Descendants of Slaves. The work involves community-centered restorative healing, direct financial assistance and culturally centered development. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Minneapolis Public Housing Authority | $300,000 | Minneapolis Public Housing will use funds to support their education-linked Housing Stability Fund. The Housing Stability Fund is one piece of a broader, comprehensive housing assistance program currently administered by MPHA, the City, MPS, and Hennepin County, known as Stable Homes Stable Schools, the program will support children in Minneapolis Public Schools to prevent homelessness and stabilize families long term. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center | $400,000 | The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center’s Urban Native Family Housing Case Management department will support individuals and families in addressing barriers to permanent housing, securing and moving into short- and long-term accommodation, reunifying with children, and successfully transitioning from living unsheltered to stabilizing in transitional or permanent housing in the Minneapolis area. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Model Cities of St. Paul | $200,000 | Model Cities will use funds for their Supportive Housing Initiative comprised of Families First Supportive Housing, Sankofa Apartments, and BROWNstone Lofts housing developments, as well as Resident Connect!, a new tenant rights education and empowerment program. Program will serve primarily BIPOC families in the St. Paul area. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Oasis for Youth | $150,000 | Oasis works to be the trusted resource for youth experiencing, or at risk for, housing instability in Bloomington, Richfield, and Edina. Oasis for youth serves youth 16-24, 88% are BIPOC and predominately Black/African American. Work is achieved through five key programs: Drop-In, Outreach, Housing Supports, Workforce Innovation and Youth Voice. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Project for Pride in Living | $300,000 | PPL’s Family Supportive Housing Program provides new access to housing for 46 families experiencing homelessness, and will continue stabilizing, housing-based services to 310 families exiting homelessness. PPL implements a Housing First approach with voluntary onsite support services that are trauma-informed and culturally responsive in the Twin Cities metro area. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Rebound, Inc. | $150,000 | Rebound, Inc. will expand residential program offerings to support corrections involved youth, through six (6) income-based transitional housing units for 16-21 year olds in North Minneapolis with onsite therapeutic, enrichment, and case management supports; and expansion of access to our shelter beds to include acceptance of self-referred clients. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | The Link | $300,000 | The Link is a youth and adult led organization based out of Minneapolis providing services, shelter and housing for youth experiencing homelessness, sex trafficking or are in the juvenile justice system. The Link requests funding to provide expanded services to Black youth through our Northside Homeless Prevention Program and support our Housing Coordinator Program. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Tubman | $200,000 | Youth and families who are homeless due to domestic violence will be safely, stably housed. Tubman’s growing transitional housing, rapid rehousing, and homelessness prevention programs are designed by, with, and for BIPOC survivors of violence and exploitation. Comprehensive, relevant, voluntary services help clients achieve immediate and lasting stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Urban Homeworks | $200,000 | Funding will help Urban Homeworks to create more units of stable, dignified, affordable housing for those who are most in need, increase homeownership opportunities for low-income BIPOC households, support the maintenance of existing properties, and conduct community engagement and equity work alongside our neighbors and residents in the North Minneapolis area. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | West Side Community Organization | $100,000 | Through their housing justice work, the West Side Community Organization (WSCO) will utilize community organizing and culturally responsive engagement with the St. Paul's West Side’s diverse population to create systemic change that leads to greater housing stability for all West Side community members, including immigrants, people of color, and lower-income residents. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Women's Advocates | $150,000 | Women’s Advocates will provide housing direct financial support and advocacy services to ensure 130 formerly homeless survivors of domestic violence can access safe, stable housing and transition to economic independence and community life. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | YMCA of the North | $200,000 | Funds will support the YMCA of the North’s Safe StaY program, providing emergency non-congregate shelter and housing support to youth aged 18-24 who are experiencing homelessness. Safe StaY helps youth increase their immediate safety and access basic needs, giving them time, space, and 1:1 support to access permanent housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | YouthLink | $200,000 | YouthLink will increase organizational capacity for fostering long-term stability of housing and greater prevention of future housing needs for BIPOC youth. Activities will include staff training and professional development in culturally responsive, trauma-informed practices, as well as the addition of a new Equity Coordinator, Housing Navigator, and AfterCare Specialist. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2020 | Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago | $75,000 | Funds to support the New Opportunities: Youth Homelessness Prevention Initiative. Funds will be used for participatory research and policy analysis focused on a comprehensive prevention strategy to youth homelessness, with the goal of embedding more robust prevention approaches into national and local policy and programs. | Housing Stability Systems |
| 2021 | Minnesota Council of Churches | $25,000 | Start-up funds to hire two co-directors (Black and Indigenous) to launch and lead the development of a truth and reparations campaign to address historic harms to African American and Native American communities in Minnesota. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2021 | CultureBrokers | $20,000 | CultureBrokers will use proven performance improvement and stakeholder engagement methods to work with Minnesota Housing to assess the effectiveness and racial equity of services and results of the COVID-19 Housing Assistance Program (CHAP). Insights gained will be used to help inform future iterations of emergency rental assistance programs and services. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2021 | Greater Minnesota Housing Fund | $325,000 | Grant will help NEW RULES, a Black-owned participatory real estate collective, acquire and redevelop a 25-unit apartment building that will provide affordable housing in North Minneapolis. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2021 | African American Leadership Forum | $10,000 | General operating grant for the African American Leadership Forum. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2021 | Rise Research | $73,900 | RISE Research will partner with Hennepin County to evaluate processes and outcomes associated with their Emergency Assistance Redesign, develop a resident feedback tool that can be used for ongoing continuous improvement, and assist the County in beginning to implement a system of continuous improvement. Both the evaluation design and implementation efforts will prioritize the experiences and insights of people with lived experiences. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2021 | One2One | $200,000 | Implement a community driven approach for transforming public safety. “Change Minnesota,” will help develop a new vision and comprehensive plan for public safety that creates safer and more equitable outcomes for communities of color. One2One’s process brings key strategies into alignment while empowering local communities to be catalysts for change. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Legal Rights Center | $30,000 | Legal Rights Center will use the grant to provide community education and restorative processing during the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Funds will be used for the creation and dissemination of information about the trial, ongoing analysis during the trial, and live community sessions for information and healing circles. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2021 | Ampers | $50,000 | Grant will support a partnership between Ampers and the Minnesota Humanities Center to establish the Minnesota Racial Equity in Reporting project. Project includes a team of BIPOC journalists and reporters will ensure that press coverage of the Chauvin Trial is done through a BIPOC lens. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2021 | Friends of Global Market | $25,000 | The gift will be used for the Midtown Global Market COVID-19 Survival Campaign. Supporters of the Market have launched a $2.2 million three-year strategic campaign that will support infrastructure improvements intended to help the Market build a stronger future and help small, BIPOC owned businesses inside the Market. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2021 | Westminster Town Hall Forum | $20,000 | The Westminster Town Hall Forum will include four special programs for May 2021 on racial justice. Each week in May, the Forum will host a different speaker to reflect on where we are one year following the murder of George Floyd. Funds will be used for production costs, videography, and dissemination of information via a variety of methods. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2021 | The Minneapolis Foundation | $250,000 | To fund initiatives that will transform public safety for the benefit of all Minneapolis residents by actively confronting racial disparities and a history of racism to improve safety, trust and greater wellbeing for BIPOC communities. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Healing Justice Foundation | $75,000 | The Time of Reckoning series provides ongoing, primarily virtual, support during the Chauvin Trial and Anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. Ensuring specific planned healing events, care packages, and grief space by compensating community healers, and coordinating both response and services as needed. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Pillsbury United Communities | $75,000 | The Community Healing Team provides healing spaces, indigenous ways of healing, and movement building. The focus is on public wellness and encourages one another to thrive. The Team helps community members process their pain and trauma impacted by the killing of George Floyd, learn coping methods, and provides safe circles, community healing gatherings and individual supports. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Foster Advocates | $20,000 | Foster Advocates will use funds to gather a group of LGBTQIA+ Fosters from across the state to participate in a paid human-centered design (HCD) and participatory action research (PAR) process to help more fully understand the experiences of LGBTQIA+ Fosters and gather culturally-specific ideas and solutions to address needs and opportunities to better serve this population. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2021 | University of Minnesota | $100,000 | Mapping Prejudice Project is continuing to mobilize people of all ages and backgrounds to map racial covenants. The project has developed an innovative methodology to map these covenants while catalyzing community conversations. The result is a digital, interactive map. The process of making that map ‒ and the dataset that undergirds it ‒ has proven a powerful vehicle for social change. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2021 | New York University | $100,000 | To support The Policing Project helping Minneapolis to better understand the public safety needs of the community, how best to meet them, reducing insofar as possible the footprint of policing, and to ensure community problems are met with the best solutions. Utilizing community participation and research to build a framework for Reimaging Public Safety in Minneapolis. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | City of Golden Valley | $250,000 | Innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Establish the Police Employment Accountability Community Engagement (PEACE) Commission to strengthen community outreach, certification for non-sworn responders, conduct a race equity policy audit, and develop data tools to increase transparency. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | West Broadway Business and Area Coalition | $45,000 | In partnership with Better Futures Minnesota, grant will support the West Broadway Ambassadors Program, helping to provide a visual presence of community members invested in improving the local community and engaging local BIPOC owned businesses in efforts to improve safety. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2021 | City of Saint Paul | $600,000 | Innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). To establish the St. Paul Rapid Response Team an optimal first response for people who require social service intervention in collaboration with community-based organizations. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | City of Minneapolis | $700,000 | Innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Support for a community-based 24-7 mobile behavioral health crisis 911 response and to procure an Early Intervention System (EIS) for police accountability. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | City of Brooklyn Center | $550,000 | Innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). Community Centered City strives to co-create with community to establish a civilian public safety response, promote community healing, and host police dialogues with community. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Leadership for a Networked World | $250,000 | The Minneapolis Community Safety initiative will develop a transformational vision and strategic plan for an integrated spectrum of multi-disciplinary and cross-organization human services and policing services that support thriving communities. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | American Indian Family Center | $200,000 | Funding will be used to support technology needs that were apparent and in need during the pandemic, space for healing ceremonies and sweat lodges and supporting community healers and elders. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | Ain Dah Yung Center | $200,000 | ADYC will use organizational development funds to address the pay gap created over time through their own growth and expansion and long-standing employees within the organization. ADYC is looking to bridge the pay gap to retain their current employees and provide more equitable pay and benefits. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | CAPI USA | $200,000 | CAPI will use funds to bring on an additional staff member to meet the needs of their current housing program and will also use funds to support additional administrative and staffing costs. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | Community Stabilization Project | $170,000 | Community Stabilization Project will build organizational capacity by adding Program Management staff to better serve constituents, improve operational systems that effectively shepherd financial resources and sustain a supportive working environment, and improve data collection and stories that celebrate new futures in thriving communities. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | Connections to Independence | $170,000 | C2i will reduce the disproportionate racial disparities in homelessness and housing by increasing organizational capacity in the administrative area so the organization can more effectively focus attention on all areas of the work; onboarding of new administrative support will help strengthen current programming, free up expertise of staff to focus on other areas of programming and systems work as well as grow opportunity toward greater financial stability. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | Karen Organization of Minnesota | $170,000 | The Karen Organization of Minnesota has been a hub for the Karen community and refugees in MN. The organization has been around for 10+ years meeting the needs of the community; they have identified key capacity building goals around staffing, data collection and development that will help strengthen their mission, services and program outcomes | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | Model Cities of St. Paul | $200,000 | Model Cities will used funds to support and strengthen their operations from technology and risk management to human resources, assessing staffing needs to better align roles and enhancing service delivery to address systemic barriers in housing and economic development. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | Rebound, Inc. | $170,000 | Rebound, Inc. will use funds to expand organizational capacity by engaging a research firm to guide the organization in assessing ever changing community needs and evaluate agency effectiveness in aligning with those needs, and a marketing firm to develop the agency’s “brand” around these needs and our vision for addressing them. Finally, the agency will recruit a grant writer/strategic gifts to clearly convey the agency’s strategic vision in a branded manner to potential funding partners thus expanding agency effectiveness, notoriety, and fundability. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | Urban Homeworks | $200,000 | Urban Homework’s will use organizational development funds to rebuild their donor base, grow capacity for staff and board and support the development of leadership. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia | $70,000 | IX will utilize general operating funds to focus on their most recent growth and expansion. Funds will support the organization in strengthening core operating pieces such as human resources, finance and governance. The growth of the organization will lead to increased housing stability for low-income BIPOC families across Minneapolis. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center | $70,000 | Capacity-Building funds will be used to assist us in further stabilizing agency operations and building capacity for the next stage of strategic growth in 2021 – 2023. Funds will be used to help the organization through this transition and focus on getting staff and facilities back up to where they were pre-pandemic. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2021 | Research in Action | $31,200 | Research in Action will convene a review panel of people who have experience housing stability in assessing Hennepin County's progress made on redesigning its emergency rental assistance programs and supports. The panel will produce recommendations to the County for continued improvements and to the Pohlad Foundation on continued funding for County redesign efforts. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2021 | National League of Cities | $60,000 | Develop an overview of the design for technical assistance and peer learning, support the process in procuring technical assistance providers, and onboard key partners to advance the Collaborative Solutions to Reduce Harm Initiative. Collaborative Solutions is intended to Innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Be Their Voices | $25,000 | To support Black-led organizations working to end police violence. Be Their Voices provides advocacy and seeks to end law enforcement violence within Minnesota jails. Efforts include establishing a 501c3, personnel compensation, operating expenses, and a healing retreat for families. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence | $25,000 | To support Black-led organizations working to end police violence. Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence holds weekly support groups for families of those killed by police and people who have survived police violence. FSFAPV also organizes events, marches, rallies, and advocates for legislative changes. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | All Square | $25,000 | To support Black-led organizations working to end police violence. Until We Are All Free focuses on building capital, resources, and support to provide pathways to civic and economic liberation for individuals disenfranchised by mass incarceration. Through this work, UWAAF hopes to help formerly incarcerated community members avoid future interactions with the criminal justice system. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence | $87,500 | To support Black-led organizations working to end police violence. Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence holds weekly support groups for families of those killed by police and people who have survived police violence. FSFAPV also organizes events, marches, rallies, and advocates for legislative changes. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Be Their Voices | $60,000 | To support Black-led organizations working to end police violence. Be Their Voices provides advocacy and seeks to end law enforcement violence within Minnesota jails. Efforts include establishing a 501c3, personnel compensation, operating expenses, and a healing retreat for families. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Greater Minnesota Housing Fund | $35,000 | Heading Home Minnesota Funders Collaborative will organize a series of community engagement sessions that include grassroots and government leaders to determine transformative change opportunities learned through the pandemic that may inform longer-term administration of emergency rental assistance programs and services. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2021 | National League of Cities | $275,000 | Coordinate Collaborative Solutions technical assistance to ensure clear goals, objectives, and milestones; coordinate training and peer learning; leverage national and local expertise; and coordinate evaluation. Collaborative Solutions to Reduce Harm Initiative is intended to innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | VEAP | $25,000 | Grant will help long-term hotel residents secure safe housing accommodations in time for redevelopment and pending displacement. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2021 | University of St. Thomas | $100,000 | Partnership between the Racial Justice Initiative at University of Saint Thomas, Augsburg College, and Twin Cities Public Television to document the history of race and policing in the Twin Cities. Grant will be used to research, document and collect accounts of police brutality in the Twin Cities and past reform efforts as an essential step to present day public safety transformation. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2021 | Ubuntu Care Services | $125,000 | Provide local technical assistance for the Collaborative Solutions Initiative by engaging diverse local stakeholders, facilitate training and education on racial disparities in public safety, deepen community engagement, and facilitate partner gatherings. The initiative is intended to innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Rainbow Research | $300,000 | To establish and implement an evaluation framework for the Collaborative Solutions to Reduce Harm Initiative that demonstrates impact on public safety and racial equity within individual sites and across the initiative. Collaborative Solutions is intended to innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Zion Baptist Church | $60,000 | To support Black-led organizations working to end police violence. The Racial Justice Network are community-based activists working on economic justice, criminal justice reform, and education justice with the intent to add political and electoral engagement. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Minnesota Justice Coalition | $60,000 | To support Black-led organizations working to end police violence. Minnesota Justice Coalition offers non litigatory legal services for people impacted by police violence or misconduct. Assistance includes case preparation organization, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, overall legal direction and strategy as well as access to volunteer attorneys to conduct expungement clinics and provide other pro-bono legal services. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Pillsbury United Communities | $60,000 | To support Black-led organizations working to end police violence. Don’t Complain Activate (DCA) helps community members advocate for themselves and build relationships. DCA’s focuses literacy, civic education, combating police violence, and criminal justice reform. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2021 | Tides Foundation | $60,000 | To support Black-led organizations working to end police violence. Minneapolis NAACP recognizes that meeting community members’ basic needs is crucial to community safety. In response to civil unrest and the pandemic Minneapolis NAACP assists community members with increased needs for emergency basic need assistance. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2022 | Asian Women United of Minnesota | $250,000 | Funding will support women who are experiencing domestic violence and seeking long-term housing stability support for themselves and their children. Programming is culturally specific and responsive and meets the needs of the Asian-Pacific Islander community. Pohlad funds will allow the program to provide immediate emergency shelter, outreach, advocacy, direct financial assistance, and support to families in accessing safe and sustainable housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | The Bridge for Youth | $300,000 | The Bridge for Youth is requesting a two-year Direct Impact Program Grant to support Marlene’s Place, offering critical services that provide housing stability and comprehensive support for pregnant and parenting youth and their children currently or at risk of experiencing homelessness. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Children's Law Center of Minnesota | $250,000 | Funds will support interim case reviews for client’s ages 14-17 who have been in foster care the longest, and investment in CLC’s specialized support, advocacy, and representation of CLC clients in Extended Foster Care (18-21). This work addresses the nexus of racial injustice and housing instability for foster care youth. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Connections to Independence | $250,000 | Connections 2 Independence requests funds to support staffing and operational expenses for two new housing programs that support youth aging out of foster care. Youth will receive case management, support in financial literacy, employment, education, personal wellness, housing, and direct financial assistance helping to ensure greater housing stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | HOME Line | $250,000 | HOME Line will use funds to maintain and increase the capacity of their tenant hotline service, eviction prevention project, and tenant organizing efforts—particularly as ongoing threats from the pandemic, the end of Minnesota’s eviction moratorium, and other rental market pressures continue to negatively impact low-income households. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | $350,000 | The StreetWorks Collaborative will increase capacity to address racial disparities in youth homelessness through outreach and direct connections to housing stability. Two Outreach Workers with culturally specific backgrounds and expertise will do street-based outreach, providing youth with vital basic needs supplies, rental assistance, and holistic case management. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid | $350,000 | Through Legal Aid’s community clinic partnerships, people from BIPOC communities will meet with a knowledgeable housing lawyer in their trusted, neighborhood space. Legal Aid will provide eviction prevention services. Community members will avoid the harmful impacts of evictions because they will have competent legal representation and the support of their community organization leading to greater housing stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | MoveFwd | $200,000 | The MoveFwd Transitional Living Program (TLP) will reduce racial disparities by helping 12 BIPOC youth and young single-parent families stabilize in their housing. Through this two-year housing program, youth who are experiencing homelessness build tenancy skills, increase their income, and transition into housing security. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center, Inc. | $300,000 | NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center is a BIPOC-led organization providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed, integrated health and human services to residents of North Minneapolis and nearby northern suburbs. Funds will be used to provide whole-person case management, rental and utility assistance, and financial literacy education for program participants, along with cultural competency training for property managers to address racial bias. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | People Serving People | $350,000 | People Serving People (PSP) requests support for comprehensive services for families experiencing housing instability. Using a trauma-informed, anti-racism approach, PSP empowers families to reach stability goals. This is accomplished through robust programming – prevention, shelter, advocacy, early childhood education – while also addressing the racist and sexist root causes of homelessness. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Rebound, Inc. | $350,000 | Rebound, Inc. will reduce homelessness among foster care youth by providing support and advocacy in accessing extended foster care benefits. Support will prevent homelessness and avoid a gap in services, and lead to long-term housing stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Ujamaa Place | $350,000 | Ujamaa Place serves formerly incarcerated African American men 18-30 years. Pohlad Foundation funding will support Ujamaa’s Theory of Transformation programming– a holistic approach to providing housing, education, workforce training, family relationships and ending criminal justice system involvement. Holistic and culturally specific services will help successfully prepare 350 Ujamaa Men for longer-term safe and secure housing and employment. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Violence Free Minnesota | $300,000 | Violence Free MN will use funds for the Survivor Fund program to reduce racial disparities in homelessness among BIPOC families. The program provides low-barrier access to direct financial assistance for survivors of domestic violence to obtain safe, sustainable housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | WE WIN Institute | $150,000 | Expanding on lessons learned through COVID, the Nia Project will promote housing stability with low-income Black households by educating them on tenant’s rights and providing individual mentoring culminating in organizing the families into a community of mutual support to advance each family’s housing stability goals. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | YWCA St. Paul | $350,000 | YWCA St. Pau l will use funding to support their Housing Stability Initiative developed for African American families receiving public assistance benefits. The program will serve 30 African American families with a culturally specific approach that affirms participants’ core identities and lived experiences. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Housing Justice Center | $250,000 | HJC will use funds to prevent displacement and expand equitable, affordable housing opportunities for low-income individuals and families using a combination of direct service, legal tools, tenant advocacy, education, and research. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Isuroon | $335,000 | Isuroon proposes culturally enhanced housing case management and coaching for Somali community. By engaging case workers and financial literacy coaches and providing comprehensive supporting services, the program will stabilize housing for 150 families in the Metro Twin Cities. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota | $350,000 | Lao Assistance Center of MN will use funding to support Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Housing Stability Collaborative. The funds will be utilized by five (5) partner agencies to provide in-language, culturally relevant housing stability services to the Lao, Hmong, Bhutanese, Cambodian and Karen communities in MN. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | PERIS Foundation | $315,000 | The Young Person Empowerment Fund will provide critical direct support for young people who have aged out of foster care in their transition into adulthood, empowering youth residents of PERIS Hill, to identify, secure and manage items and experiences that increase their chances of success and long-term housing stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2021 | Greater Minnesota Housing Fund | $500,000 | Funding will be used to establish a regional coordination structure led by people with lived experience of homelessness and include BIPOC leaders, key government entities that oversee housing and homelessness funding, philanthropy, and other key influencers. The structure will establish regional priorities and goals toward reducing racial disparities in homelessness and housing instability. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2021 | The Alliance | $500,000 | Funding will support grassroots organizing and advocacy toward greater racial equity and housing justice. Funds will support both The Alliance and partner organizations involved in grassroots organizing and advocacy focused on racial equity in homelessness and housing stability. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2021 | Simpson Housing Services | $500,000 | Grant to support Simpson Housing Services' Build Up Campaign, a $40M campaign to expand and enhance services include: dignified emergency shelter for chronically homeless adults (70 beds); first step, permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless adults (40 units); and new administrative offices and service center to accommodate growth of the organization and family programs. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2021 | Minnesota Twins Community Fund | $20,000 | General operating support | Twins Community Fund |
| 2021 | Build Wealth MN | $500,000 | Grant will be used to launch the “9,000 Equities Fund” to provide affordable first mortgages and downpayment assistance to African American households. The disparity in homeownership between Minnesota’s African American and White households equals 52%—a racial wealth disparity that BWM aims to reduce by 15% by helping 9,000 households become new homeowners over 5 to 7 years. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2021 | Irreducible Grace Foundation | $500,000 | Irreducible Grace Foundation (IGF) is seeking to create a “safe house” of healing for Black youth in Saint Paul’s Frogtown Neighborhood. Funds will be used to develop The Black Youth Healing Arts Collective (BYHAC), a space for Black youth to confront and replace the historical “less than” narrative of their past, and include affordable housing for 16 youth who have experienced homelessness. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2021 | City of Brooklyn Center | $50,000 | Funds will be used to co-creating a safe space for peaceful protesting in Brooklyn Center during the trial of Kim Potter for the killing of Daunte Wright. Funds will go to 2 Black-led nonprofit organizations to support community engagement and healing sessions and provide basic needs to protestors (water, food, counseling, etc). | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2021 | Dakota County Social Services | $250,000 | Regional coordination on housing instability and homelessness across 7-Counties. Funds would be used to bring Counties together to form a more coordinated approach to homelessness prevention that will include engagement of people with lived experiences in regional coordination and design efforts. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2022 | Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul | $15,000 | Building the Beloved Community – Convening BIPOC faith leaders and congregations to deepen insight into public safety priorities and issues they are seeing in their communities. Public safety reform recommendations will be provided to the State Department of Public Safety. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2022 | Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light | $15,000 | Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light provides healing and restorative justice circles for activists and organizers who were arrested during protests. Activists will have the option to participate in a restorative justice approach vs. prosecution and criminal record for protesting/exercising their first amendment right. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2022 | Pillsbury United Communities | $95,000 | Grant will be used by Black Women's Wealth Alliance to purchase and develop affordable townhomes in North Minneapolis that will create homeownership opportunities for African American Women and their families. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2022 | Minnesota Housing Partnership | $50,000 | This grant will fund MHP’s efforts leading collaborative research and advocacy on Emergency Rental Assistance and eviction prevention, to ensure that the historic aid enacted by Congress reaches the lowest-income and most marginalized renters it is intended to help. We are working to eliminate rental indebtedness caused by the pandemic, prevent evictions, and create support for long term policy changes to end housing instability and homelessness. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2022 | Great North Innocence Project | $100,000 | Grant funds will be used to help the State of Minnesota establish a Convictions Review Unit (CRU) in partnership with the Attorney General's Office. The CRU provides an opportunity for those who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes and are suffering injustices of the criminal legal system. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2022 | Research in Action | $15,500 | Grant will support a written report summarizing the culmination and recommendations of the Time of Reckoning (TOR) series. TOR, using a healing justice approach, convened a series of intentional conversations with Black community members and leaders to surface systems and structural change needed to advance racial justice within Black communities. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2022 | Greater Minnesota Housing Fund | $65,000 | Grant will be used to cover unpaid rent, enabling residents to stay stable in their homes while also enabling NEW RULES, a Black-led participatory real estate collective, to cover accounts payable and move forward with development of Bell Lofts. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2022 | Foster Advocates | $100,000 | Foster Advocates invests in “Fosters” (youth involved in foster care) through education, advocacy, and leadership development. The organization engages foster youth in advocacy, researching issues related to foster care systems, and specific policy change that will lead to greater stability and success for fosters into adulthood. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2022 | Asian Women United of Minnesota | $200,000 | AWUM will use funds to support the increase of staff wages to keep pace with other competitive entry level service industry jobs. They will also use funds to retain a contracted attorney for clients needing multiple legal supports (custody, divorce, and immigration), and lastly AWUM seeks supports to build out a volunteer engagement plan and board recruitment that will both grow and enhance program impact. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2022 | Face to Face | $200,000 | Face to Face will use funds for staff professional development, increasing staff wages for greater pay equity, and building meaningful partnerships with other community based organizations. Face to Face will improve pay equity by adjusting the salaries and benefits of our dedicated staff to align with the broader market, especially those who have traditionally been underpaid and work directly with youth. Inadequate compensation and inability to compete with the market directly affects the organization’s ability to attract and retain a diverse and talented group of staff, as well as perpetuates pay inequity for BIPOC communities. Having experienced and well supported staff will ultimately increase housing stability for youth. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2022 | West Side Community Organization | $200,000 | WSCO will use capacity-building funds to increase staff wages and fill other staffing gaps for internal operating support that will focus on finance, contract management, fundraising, and office management. Additionally, funds will be used to provide professional development training for staff and increase training and knowledge for all staff related to contract management and compliance with government funds. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2022 | Love First | $200,000 | Funds will be used to retain an office space where youth can come for services and other programming. Additionally, with their founding board and staff, they will use funds to provide training in nonprofit governance and financial management. Lastly, LoveFirst will use funds to establish a reporting, data base and tracking system for program and operating support. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2022 | Cultural Wellness Center | $150,000 | A planning grant to co-design and administer a racial justice fellowship geared toward Black descendants of enslaved Africans wo are local activists, advocates, and change makers. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2022 | Research in Action | $10,000 | Funds will be used for the dissemination of the final report and recommendations of the Time of Reckoning (TOR) series. TOR was led by and for Black people via a healing justice framework, leading to identification of policy and systems change needed to improve wellbeing in Black communities. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2022 | Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless | $7,500 | Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless Annual Conference sponsorship and need based discounted registration. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2022 | Healing Justice Foundation | $100,000 | To plan and organize a Black mental health ecosystem in the Twin Cities. The initial phase of the work will include: mapping the current ecosystem (providers and allies); identifying shared interests and needs toward building broader individual organization and ecosystem capacity; and establishing recommendations on how to better address community needs during incidents of violence and trauma; Connect the ecosystem efforts to larger Black-led social change. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2022 | Little Earth Residents Association | $200,000 | Funding to provide Little Earth residents with eviction prevention services and promote housing stability via education, empowerment, and emergency assistance. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | West Side Community Organization | $100,000 | Through their housing justice work, the West Side Community Organization (WSCO) will utilize community organizing and culturally responsive engagement with the St. Paul's West Side’s diverse population to create systemic change that leads to greater housing stability for all West Side community members, including immigrants, people of color, and lower-income residents. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Native American Community Clinic | $100,000 | NACC requests $100,000 in funding to support our new capacity-enhancing initiative that will address a critical and unmet need among our community’s most vulnerable populations who are being served by NACC presently, and those who will be preparing to move into our culturally-responsive housing complex, slated to open in 2024. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2022 | Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless | $250,000 | The Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless established the Regional Expert Network (REN) to engage people with lived experience of homelessness in advocating for local and state policies on homelessness and affordable housing. Funds will be used to increase participation in REN, provide wages and professional development for lived-experience advocates, and incorporate best practices in community engagement and policy change. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2022 | Greater Twin Cities United Way | $500,000 | Greater Twin Cities United Way (GTCUW) plays an integral part in helping people access social supports through its resource and referral line, United Way 211. United Way 211 played a crucial role through the pandemic in helping households in Minnesota access more than $449M in emergency rental assistance from COVID rental assistance programs. Funds will be used to support an ongoing, human-centered design to administering emergency rental assistance beyond the pandemic, including coordination and infrastructure needed to streamline access. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2022 | Family Housing Fund | $200,000 | The Family Housing Fund (FHF) is focused on disrupting the harmful policies and practices that make affordable housing inaccessible to some, replacing them with those that shape a strong, equitable and resilient regional housing system. FHF will use funds to research best practices from COVID emergency rental assistance programs; analyze publicly funded programs, practices and policies that can improve mainstream supports; and convene a human-centered design process to strengthen eviction prevention programs. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2022 | Greater Minnesota Housing Fund | $250,000 | The SHIP Collective is a group of 15 people with lived experience of homelessness who are facilitating the convening of regional leaders to align efforts toward a more coordinated response to preventing homelessness. Funds will be used to compensate members for this work, and provide professional development. The SHIP Collective embodies “nothing about us, without us,” ensuring that people with lived experience are leading the way in setting regional goals and priorities while holding systems accountable to achieve better and more equitable results. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2022 | Lake Street Council | $100,000 | Assist BIPOC owned small business to purchase their own properties, expand and launch marketing efforts to increase patrons to businesses along Lake Street and support Lake Street Council’s small business emergency relief fund - a low barrier fund that for entrepreneurs of color/immigrant entrepreneurs to access small grants to of up to $5,000. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2022 | Metropolitan Economic Development Association | $80,000 | Scale Catalyst Coalition advocacy efforts and expand their policy coalition to build capacity of their network, establish its own legal entity and build a fundraising structure by hiring additional staff support. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2022 | Latino Economic Development Center | $100,000 | Latino Economic Development Center (LEDC) staff retention providing culturally specific organization providing technical support, translation, and being a cultural liaison between the small business owners and government agencies and financial institutions. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2022 | Friends of the Hennepin County Library | $5,000 | Funds will support the "Testify: Americana from Slavery to Today Exhibit" at the Hennepin County Library. Exhibit will be complemented by conversations facilitated by The Loft and ACLU of Minnesota. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2022 | Minnesota Justice Research Center | $10,000 | General operating grant to support the Minnesota Justice Research Center for their work in re-imagining a criminal legal system that is fair, equitable, accountable, and restorative in delivering justice. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2022 | Cultural Wellness Center | $2,100,000 | To co-design and administer the Racial Justice Fellowship geared toward Black descendants of enslaved Africans wo are local activists, advocates, and change makers. The programming includes a financial stipend, opportunities to connect with others, and to grow or nurture cultural awareness. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2022 | Equal Justice Initiative | $300,000 | General operating grant for the Equal Justice Initiative to support criminal justice reform, racial justice advocacy, and public education. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2022 | Minnesota Twins Community Fund | $20,000 | General operating support | Twins Community Fund |
| 2022 | Northpoint Health and Wellness | $1,000,000 | Funds will be used to pay past-due rent to help families avoid eviction as federal COVID rental assistance runs out. BIPOC families have been disproportionately impacted by housing instability and are at greatest risk for eviction. Financial assistance will be provided to families who have been called to eviction court, and will be paired with legal services, case management, and landlord mediation. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2022 | Minneapolis Public Housing Authority | $250,000 | Funds will be used to help families pay past due rent of up to $3,000 – helping 75-80 families stay stable in their homes. Services are targeted to elementary schools that have a large number of homeless and highly mobile students within low-income communities. Early identification of families who are experiencing housing instability is made possible through partnering with school social workers who are often approached by families in need regarding community resources. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2022 | Ain Dah Yung Center | $150,000 | Ain Dah Yung Center (ADYC) provides culturally specific emergency shelter and housing to Indigenous youth and families. Grant will provide emergency funds to support the Beverly A Benjamin Youth Lodge Transitional Living Program (TLP) after sudden loss of federal funding. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2022 | Northside Economic Opportunity Network (NEON) | $200,000 | Funding will support NEON’s capacity to continue to serve the needs of business owners and entrepreneurs on the Northside, including technical assistance, access to capital via micro-grants and low-interest loans, and continued work with tenants in buildings impacted by unrest to pursue ownership of commercial properties. | Racial Justice Rebuild/Recovery |
| 2022 | Face to Face | $100,000 | To promote Black mental health, healing, and wellbeing focused on Black Youth by increasing walk-in therapy hours, designing an integrated health model, and providing paid internships to Black students pursuing mental health credentials. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2022 | Irreducible Grace Foundation | $100,000 | To promote Black mental health, healing, and wellbeing by expanding The Black Youth Healing Arts Collective (BYHAC). This program addresses an under processed historical race-based trauma and oppression, connects youth to Indigenous and cultural customs, and provides opportunities for youth to attain their full potential. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2022 | Ubuntu Care Services | $100,000 | To promote Black mental health, healing, and wellbeing by creating a mental health resource center for Black adults, youth, and families in South Minneapolis. The center will provide mental health resources, counseling, and support groups by employing Black therapists, practitioners, and healers as well as providing stipends to Black student interns currently working towards mental health licensure. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2022 | Center for Leadership and Neighborhood Engagement | $50,000 | To promote Black mental health, healing, and wellbeing in North Minneapolis through community organizing, fellowship, and convenings. Focused on Black voices and youth engagement for healing and creating beloved community. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2022 | Indigenous Roots | $25,000 | To promote Black mental health, healing, and wellbeing with no cost access to therapeutic services for BIPOC individuals with financial barriers and to expansion offerings of an eight-week Race Based Trauma Therapy Group. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2022 | Fiscal Sponsorship Allies | $25,000 | To promote Black mental health, healing, and wellbeing by providing no cost Sanctuary memberships to Black advocates/change makers with financial barriers with access to mental health therapy, massage therapy, yoga and fitness classes, and culturally curated wellness events. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2022 | Minnesota Engagement on Shelter & Housing | $80,000 | Funding will be used for continued compensation of the Directors Council and partial funding for the Continuum of Care Coordinator for the Suburban Metro Area Continuum of Care. The Director’s Council is a group of people with lived experience of homelessness who elect and oversee the Suburban Metro Area Continuum of Care (CoC) Governing Board and influence policy, practice and use of federal funding in the suburban metro area Counties. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2022 | Youthprise | $100,000 | Youthprise requests support to co-design and implement a Direct Cash Transfer (DCT) pilot that involves youth-driven supportive solutions to end youth homelessness. Co-designed with youth and young adults, Youthprise is building an empowering and cost-efficient approach to reduce youth homelessness, advance racial equity, and support young people’s self-defined paths for thriving. Direct Cash Transfers address the gap between a young person’s income and the cost of rent by providing cash directly to young people who are at risk of or experiencing homelessness. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2022 | Volunteer Lawyers Network | $25,000 | Grant will support the Volunteer Lawyer's Network (VLN) Habitability Fund. The Habitability Fund provides low-income tenants with rental assistance at court, helping them pay back rent, so they can raise repair or other habitability defenses against their landlords. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2022 | Juxtaposition Arts | $20,000 | Black Army Brigade will design, implement, and produce the results of a first of its kind youth-based evaluation study to determine the short and long-term effectiveness of supportive housing services on Black young people (ages 16-26). Starting with a minimum of two metro area youth supportive housing service providers, the study will be conducted from a racial equity lens with direct engagement from youth recipients with lived experience in both short term and long-term programs. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2022 | Center for Leadership and Neighborhood Engagement | $100,000 | To promote Black mental health, healing, and wellbeing in North Minneapolis by providing access to holistic wellness services including yoga, meditation, fitness, self-care, mental health and trauma healing circles, acupuncture, nutrition, aroma therapy, and art/music therapy. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2022 | Propel Nonprofits | $100,000 | Propel will provide organizational capacity-building support to fifteen Housing Stability grantees. Priorities for grantees will vary and will be identified through an organizational assessment process. Propels proposed approach includes strategic services lead by experienced practitioners that will help grantees determine their greatest area of need and provide tailored supports and projects to fit their organization. Use of funds includes staffing and coordination of grantees capacity-building efforts, and project management of all technical assistance activities and grantee engagement for capacity-building implementation. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2023 | Agape Oasis | $150,000 | Agape will support BIPOC women and families leaving domestic and/or sexual violence to stabilize in their homes, including those that are at risk of imminent homelessness. Funding will enable Agape to hire an additional full-time employee and serve an additional 100 families in seeking safety and housing stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Ain Dah Yung Center | $400,000 | Funding will support ADYC’s culturally specific permanent supportive housing program for Indigenous youth ages 18-24 as they transition out of unsheltered and long-term homelessness. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | All Square | $100,000 | Grant to All Square to support the Legal Revolution Initiative, including the Prison to Law Pipeline and the Law Firm. The Legal Revolution is a movement to transform the law with those most impacted by it through creating a pipeline of ABA-accredited law degrees and paralegal degrees for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated legal scholars. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2023 | American Indian Family Center | $350,000 | The Thinica Owichakiyapi Thipi (Helping the Homeless Build will increase its capacity and breadth of services to reach and serve more American Indian families with services designed to achieve housing stability and create equitable outcomes with American Indian families. Funds will be used to hire an additional Housing Outreach Specialist and provide direct financial assistance to families facing homelessness. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Avivo | $2,500 | General operating support | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | Be The Change MN | $25,000 | General operating support | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2023 | Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative | $250,000 | Beacon will provide deeply affordable, supportive housing for youth and families transitioning out of homelessness. Funds will also help grow resident engagement which will increase resident influence within the organization and support residents as change-makers in the greater community. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative | $300,000 | Funding will support the "Bring it Home Campaign" - a coalition of organizations advocating to create a Minnesota rent voucher program to serve all low-income, cost-burdened renters. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2023 | Bridging | $27,858 | Purchase furniture and cleaning supplies for families transitioning out of homelessness into housing stability. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | Build Wealth MN | $500,000 | Grant to support the 9000 Equities Initiative, a comprehensive effort to unapologetically close the disparity gap in homeownership for Foundational Black Americans by 15% over a seven-year period using a host of trusted community partners and mortgage professionals. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2023 | Canopy Roots | $50,000 | Provide technical assistance to the Collaborative Solutions Initiative specific to community-based response, including assessment of plans, program development, strategies to support alternative response models, and training for mental health and crisis response teams. Collaborative Solutions to Reduce Harm Initiative is intended to innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2023 | Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES) | $400,000 | CLUES will use funds to address a critical gap in housing services by offering a comprehensive, bilingual, and culturally anchored model that will stabilize 100 low-income Latino and immigrant families who experience disproportionate inequities obtaining and maintaining safe, affordable housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Connections to Independence | $100,000 | Grant will be used by Connections to Independence to purchase their first property that will reduce barriers to housing for former foster youth in need of stable housing and provide long-term housing support and services. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | Cornerstone | $2,500 | General operating support | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2023 | Envision Communities | $300,000 | Grant will be used to build and operate a pilot project of micro-homes for people who’ve experienced unsheltered homelessness to live as an intentional community. Envision Communities leaders, all who are people with lived experience, have been involved in every aspect of design, advocacy, and development. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | Face to Face | $200,000 | Face to Face will provide housing assistance and intensive wraparound support for youth experiencing homelessness and housing instability. The program directly invests in the lives of BIPOC youth and families to eliminate racialized housing deprivation. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Family Housing Fund | $250,000 | Grant will support an emerging coalition of affordable housing providers who are organizing and advocating for structural changes in the way affordable housing is funded at the state and local level. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | Foster Advocates | $200,000 | Foster Advocates is building the first foster-directed and foster-focused housing navigation program in Minnesota. In addition to expanding on existing support programs and crucial low-barrier financial assistance, the organization is shifting the housing ecosystem to be more foster-informed and identifying broader system opportunities for lifting Minnesota fosters out of homelessness. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Frogtown Neighborhood Association | $125,000 | FNA will use funds to build out their leadership development, employee compensation plan and youth organizing work, this includes hiring youth employees who will work to develop and lead organizing efforts with BIPOC youth in the Frogtown neighborhood who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2023 | Frogtown Neighborhood Association | $100,000 | Frogtown Neighborhood Association’s Development Without Displacement initiative is an innovative homelessness prevention strategy that lives at the intersection of the fields of housing access & stability, policy work, wealth building and community ownership models, funding will support FNA’s housing advocacy and affordable housing efforts supporting BIPOC youth and families toward greater housing stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Greater Minnesota Housing Fund | $25,000 | Grant will provide direct financial relocation assistance for residents of Bell Lofts who were displaced after a pipe burst and building was condemned. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | GroundBreak Coalition | $5,000,000 | GroundBreak Coalition is a group of over 40 corporate, civic, and philanthropic leaders committed to demonstrating that a racially equitable future is possible – first in Minneapolis-St. Paul and then across the country. The Foundation’s pledge will be directed specifically toward Black homeownership with the goal of creating 11,000 new homeowners over the next 10 years. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2023 | Heading Home Minnesota Funders Collaborative | $500,000 | Heading Home Minnesota Funders Collaborative (HHMFC) aims to invest in the leadership of individuals with lived experience by not just inviting them to sit at a table but supporting them to convene and lead a cross-sector regional table focused housing systems transformation. Funds will support advocacy, compensation for people with lived experience, and operating support HHMFC. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2023 | Hennepin County Human Services Department | $90,000 | Hennepin County Housing Stability Department will use funds to create a combined online application for homelessness prevention related resources. This online application will improve access while lowering the "run-around" people experience when trying to get emergency rental assistance. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2023 | Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia | $200,000 | Funds will be used to support additional staffing capacity and support IX in building out their volunteer program. Additionally, IX will use funds to support their longer-term development plan and communications. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2023 | Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia | $400,000 | IX’s Tenant Union program connects renters across campaigns and educates tenants on how to lead and organize to create affordable, dignified, and long-term homes. Through asambleas (tenant assemblies), low-income and BIPOC renters across Minneapolis come together to analyze their housing problems and strategize, organize, and mobilize for housing justice. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Little Earth Residents Association | $200,000 | Little Earth Capacity-Building funds will be used to support the hiring of core administrative staff including Finance and HR. Little Earth will also use funds to support and increase wages for frontline staff, many of whom are BIPOC employees. Further, LERA will use funds to develop a sustainable compensation plan, professional development opportunities and reduce staffing turnover. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2023 | Love First | $150,000 | Love First will reduce the number of youth on the verge of or in the crisis of homelessness. The program targets youth 16 to 24 years of age in St. Paul who are primarily African Descendants of Slaves. The work involves community-centered restorative healing, direct financial assistance, and culturally centered development. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | MicroGrants | $20,000 | Grant will support the Lights On Initiative of Microgrants. Lights On provides taillight and blinker repair vouchers in lieu of traffic violation tickets. Lights On is working with police, sheriff, and state trooper departments and issues printed vouchers to motorists in need during traffic stops. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2023 | Minneapolis NAACP Branch 4050 | $5,000 | General operating support for annual fundraising efforts. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2023 | Minneapolis Public Housing Authority | $300,000 | Funds will be used to prevent homelessness and help families stabilize in their homes through an education-linked Housing Stability Program. The Housing Stability Program is one piece of a broader, comprehensive housing assistance program currently administered by MPHA, the City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis Public Schools, and Hennepin County, known as Stable Homes Stable Schools. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless | $150,000 | General operating grant. As a public policy and advocacy organization that works to ensure statewide housing stability and economic security, MCH works with people experiencing homelessness and housing instability in partnership with its members from across the state. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2023 | Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless | $40,000 | To cover 20 scholarships for people with lived experience to attend the Annual MCH Conference (registration, lodging, food, mileage, etc) and conference sponsorship with no benefits. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | Minnesota Housing Partnership | $150,000 | Funding will support MHP’s efforts leading collaborative research and advocacy on emergency rental assistance and eviction prevention as a part of the ERASE Campaign. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2023 | Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center | $300,000 | Nokomis Endaad is a state certified program that offers culturally specific intensive outpatient treatment to Native women. We practice a culturally specific, integrated care model that embraces the concept of wellness signifies more than the absence of disease; it is the balance of environmental traits that together maintain good health. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Minnesota Justice Research Center | $100,000 | General operating support | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2023 | Minnesota Twins Community Fund | $20,000 | General operating support | Twins Community Fund |
| 2023 | National Forum for Black Public Administrators | $1,000 | Donation to the National Forum for Black Public Administrators | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2023 | Nexus Community Partners | $110,000 | Providing training and technical assistance on strategic planning, program design, fundraising development, communications, and organizational management to the Reimagining Public Safety Grassroots grantees. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2023 | Northside Achievement Zone | $177,000 | Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) pilot program seeks to test the feasibility, impact, and potential benefits of providing a regular, unconditional cash payment to North Minneapolis families with the goal of improving economic stability and addressing income inequality. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | Oasis for Youth | $200,000 | Funding will support services for youth experiencing, or at risk of housing instability in Bloomington, Richfield, and Edina. The program serves BIPOC youth 16 to 24, through five essential programs: Drop-In Center, Outreach, Housing Supports, Workforce Innovation, and Youth Voice. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Partnership for Equitable and Resilient Communities (PERC) initiative in St. Paul | $400,000 | Partnership for Equitable and Resilient Communities (PERC) is a national initiative whose mission is to transform public funding and investment practices toward racially equitable development – by centering collective power and expertise of Black, Indigenous and Latino/a/x communities. Grant will support efforts in Saint Paul and will focus on affordable housing for Black and Indigenous communities. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | Pillsbury United Communities | $20,000 | Grant to pay for hotel costs of families displaced by pipe burst and condemnation of Bell Lofts in North Minneapolis. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute | $5,000 | General operating support | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2023 | Project for Pride in Living | $400,000 | Funding will support PPL’s Family Supportive Housing Program providing new access to housing for 68 families experiencing homelessness, with continued wrap around supports and housing-based services to 310 families (155 annually) exiting homelessness who live in PPL supportive housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Project for Pride in Living | $500,000 | Grant will be used to establish a down payment assistance program for Foundational Black homebuyers who will be supported by PPL's homeownership counseling and education programs. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2023 | Propel Nonprofits | $100,000 | Propel will provide organizational capacity-building support to six BIPOC-led Housing Stability grantees. Use of funds include staffing and coordination of grantees capacity-building efforts, and project management of all technical assistance activities for capacity-building implementation. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2023 | Rainbow Research | $45,000 | To establish and implement an evaluation framework for the Collaborative Solutions to Reduce Harm Initiative that demonstrates impact on public safety and racial equity within individual sites and across the initiative. Collaborative Solutions is intended to innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2023 | Research in Action | $690 | Gift cards and interpreter fee for research study participants | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2023 | Research in Action | $95,000 | To support nonpartisan research and a written report with recommendations on improving emergency rental assistance programs in Minnesota. The report’s findings will be made widely available for full and fair discussion, including making a copy available to the State’s Working Group on Emergency Rental Assistance convened by Minnesota Management and Budget. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2023 | Rondo Community Land Trust | $300,000 | Rondo CLT utilizes resources to leverage the power of the land trust model as a means to prevent foreclosure, grow the availability of permanently affordable housing stock in Saint Paul and Ramsey County, thereby expanding the social and economic safety net for our most marginalized community members. Funding will support RCLT’s comprehensive affordable housing approach to families in the historically black Rondo community. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Simpson Housing Services | $300,000 | Simpson Housing Services will reduce disparities by building out their transformational model which empowers BIPOC families and youth to utilize and build upon their strengths and develop skills to achieve long-term housing stability. Funds will also provide comprehensive support services including direct financial assistance to mitigate barriers to securing housing for participants. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services | $300,000 | SMRLS will reduce racial disparities in housing stability with families in the East Metro through eviction defense and legal assistance. Through this program, SMRLS will develop a holistic framework for evaluation to define how a racial justice informed, client led, and community supported effort will help improve racial equity in housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | The Link | $100,000 | Grant will support advocacy efforts of the Youth Services Network (YSN), a coalition of youth serving organizations committed to ending youth homelessness. | Housing Stability Collective Impact |
| 2023 | The Link | $300,000 | The Link’s Northside Homeless Prevention Program addresses unmet needs in North Minneapolis and works to disrupt Minnesota’s racial inequities. The program offers homelessness prevention services to Black youth and families on the Northside and stably houses young people who fall through the cracks of Hennepin County’s homelessness response. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity | $2,500 | Support for the Black Foundational Homeownership Project | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2023 | Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity | $500,000 | Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity and Minnesota Homeownership Center will use funds to establish a special purpose credit program (SPCP) offering entry assistance for Foundational Black Americans. Advancing homeownership and emphasizing wealth building, the assistance will provide up to $50,000 through a forgivable loan per qualified buyer. | Racial Justice Transformative Change |
| 2023 | Ubuntu Care Services | $100,000 | Provide local technical assistance for the Collaborative Solutions Initiative by engaging diverse local stakeholders, facilitate training and education on racial disparities in public safety, deepen community engagement, and facilitate partner gatherings. The initiative is intended to innovate and transform traditional approaches to public safety, reduce negative encounters with law enforcement, and actively confront racial disparities to improve safety and trust among Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2023 | University of St. Thomas | $100,000 | Grant to support the Racial Justice Initiative and the "Over Policed, Under Projected" Initiative with Twin Cities Public Television. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2023 | Urban Homeworks | $200,000 | Capacity-Building funds will be used to help support the hiring of three additional staff members, upgrading to a new fundraising platform, updating the organizations five-year strategic plan and evaluation and assessment of programs to demonstrate continued need of appropriation funds and program expansion. | Housing Stability Capacity Building |
| 2023 | Urban Homeworks | $200,000 | Funding will help Urban Homeworks grow organization efficiency and capacity to provide dignified, affordable rental and homeownership opportunities for Black and Indigenous households in the community. Funds will support the hiring of additional staff and financial assistance for low-income, BIPOC households. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Urban League Twin Cities | $10,000 | General operating grant as a contribution to annual fundraising efforts. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2023 | Women's Advocates | $200,000 | Women’s Advocates Housing Stability program provides flexible financial assistance, housing navigation and advocacy, and eviction prevention services to majority BIPOC victim-survivors of domestic violence from their shelter program or living in the community who have lost or are at risk of losing their housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | YouthLink | $300,000 | YouthLink will increase housing stability with BIPOC youth and families by providing them with a deeper level of support through increased rental and direct financial assistance and wraparound services. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | Youthprise | $300,000 | Youthprise will co-design and implement a Direct Cash Transfer pilot that involves youth-driven supportive solutions to end youth homelessness. Co-designed with BIPOC youth and young adults, this effort is building an empowering a cost-efficient approach to reduce youth homelessness, advance equity, and support young people’s self-defined paths for thriving. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2023 | YWCA Minneapolis | $10,000 | General operating grant to YWCA Minneapolis for their mission of eliminating racism and empowering women. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2024 | 1 Day At a Time | $75,000 | 1 Day At a Time will use funds to provide low-barrier access to direct financial assistance for African American survivors of mass incarceration. Coupled with a Housing First approach, programming integrates voluntary supportive services that are trauma-informed and culturally responsive. The program will also provide direct financial assistance to help families access and stabilize in their housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Agate Housing and Services | $250,000 | Agate Housing and Services will use funds to support BIPOC families in a rental assistance only program to receive supportive services that will help families retain their housing, and provide holistic support to meet their mental health, physical health, and educational needs. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Asian Women United of Minnesota | $200,000 | Funding will support women who are experiencing domestic violence and seeking long-term housing stability support for themselves and their children. Programming is culturally specific and responsive and meets the needs of the Asian-Pacific Islander community. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Connections to Independence | $360,000 | Connections to Independence Housing Stability Program provides critical programming, services, pathways to stability, prevention, and housing opportunities for primarily BIPOC fosters, thwarting even a single day of unsheltered homelessness. Funds will be used for C2i’s Scattered Site Leasing Program, including rent and utilities, and other basic needs and emergency housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | EMERGE Community Development | $240,000 | EMERGE will use funds to support their existing Bridge the Gap program that serves BIPOC families experiencing a benefits cliff after leaving public assistance. Services will support families in building long-term financial security through continued housing stability and direct financial assistance. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | HOME Line | $300,000 | HOME Line will use funds to increase staffing capacity for their tenant hotline service, eviction prevention project, public legal education programs, and tenant organizing efforts. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Housing Justice Center | $300,000 | HJC will use funds to expand their advocacy on equitable affordable housing opportunities for low-income individuals and families, helping to prevent displacement by using a combination of direct services, legal tools, advocacy, organizing, education, and research. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Little Earth Residents Association | $200,000 | Little Earth will use funds to strengthen their culturally responsive Housing Stability program by providing direct assistance to residents, individualized budgeting support, new resident orientations, advocacy, empowerment/life skills programs, cultural healing opportunities, homeownership, and other necessary services to break down barriers and support Native individuals and families toward long term housing stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Little Earth Residents Association | $15,000 | Funding will help prevent families from having to enter emergency shelter by providing immediate housing support, and ensure that basic needs are met, as well as help minimize additional trauma to the families impacted by the fire. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2024 | Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota | $400,000 | The StreetWorks Collaborative will use funds to increase their capacity to address racial disparities in youth homelessness through outreach and direct connections to housing stability. Two Outreach Workers with culturally specific backgrounds and expertise will do street-based outreach, providing youth with vital basic need supplies, rental assistance, and holistic case management. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Metropolitan State University Foundation | $5,000 | Travel and speaker fees for public safety national experts participating in the Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration Conference. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2024 | Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid | $350,000 | Legal Aid will use funds to support their Minneapolis based neighborhood law clinics, with specific outreach to BIPOC families facing eviction. Participants will avoid the harmful impacts of eviction and maintain housing stability through the combined support of Legal Aid and their partnering community-based organizations. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless | $40,000 | To cover 20 scholarships for people with lived experience to attend the Annual MCH Conference (registration, lodging, food, mileage, etc) and conference sponsorship with no benefits. | Housing Stability Responsive |
| 2024 | Model Cities of St. Paul | $150,000 | Model Cities will use funds to meet the needs of under-resourced, majority BIPOC households at risk of housing instability and equip them to build life skills, grow financial capacity, and achieve housing stability. Programming will support 44 individuals ages 17-25 with a history of homelessness accessing affordable, service-enriched housing programs for single-parent families and young adults who are pregnant or parenting a child under the age of 3. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | MoveFwd | $250,000 | MoveFwd Transitional Living Program (TLP) will reduce racial disparities by helping 16 BIPOC youth and youth-led families to stabilize their housing. Funds will support youth in transitional supportive housing and help youth and youth-led families who are experiencing homelessness build tenancy skills, increase their income, reduce their exposure to traumatic experiences, improve their mental health, and transition into housing security. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | National League of Cities | $125,000 | Continued technical assistance to Collaborative Solutions grantees focused on project management and transitioning of technical assistance to local experts in 2024. | Racial Justice Reimagining Public Safety |
| 2024 | Native American Community Clinic | $200,000 | NACC will use funds to increase housing support services within their service continuum. NACC offers culturally specific and responsive services to help families obtain or maintain housing stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center, Inc. | $400,000 | NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center will use funds to support the NorthPlace Homeless Prevention Program. Funding will provide culturally responsive, integrated case management that includes financial literacy education, job training and employment assistance, benefits assistance, and support referrals that meet immediate basic needs and address the casual factors of housing instability for sixty families in North Minneapolis who are at risk of homelessness. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | People Serving People | $400,000 | PSP will use funds to provide comprehensive services for families experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Using a trauma-informed, anti-racism approach, PSP empowers and assists families to help them reach their stability goals. This is accomplished through prevention, shelter, advocacy, and childhood education programming | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Plymouth Christian Youth Center | $100,000 | General operating | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2024 | Rebound, Inc. | $350,000 | Rebound, Inc. will use funds to provide homelessness prevention and transitional support to youth transitioning out of juvenile justice and foster care systems. This support will take the form of case management targeted to the needs of each population, incentives for goal attainment, and rental subsidies. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | The Bridge for Youth | $250,000 | The Bridge for Youth will use funds to provide access to safe and stable housing for BIPOC youth currently or at risk of homelessness. The Bridge prioritizes comprehensive, person-centered, holistic, and trauma informed supports for both youth and staff valuing the well-being, housing stability, resiliency, and self-sufficiency for all. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Tubman | $200,000 | Funds will be used to support 60 BIPOC families and youth who are survivors of relationship violence. Programming will help provide safe housing and stability through Tubman’s transitional housing and rapid rehousing programs, including 8 new rapid rehousing units. BIPOC youth and families will be stably housed with improved education, employment, or financial skills for long-term stability. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Ujamaa Place | $250,000 | Ujamaa Place serves young, African American men who are transitioning from criminal justice systems. Their programming provides comprehensive services, including effective homelessness prevention strategies, educational attainment, job placement, child support, and reduced recidivism. Pohlad Foundation funds will specifically support Ujamaa men who are 18-24 years old. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Violence Free Minnesota | $300,000 | VFMN will use funding to support their Survivor Fund programming, a one-time, low-barrier cash grant to domestic and sexual violence survivors for the purposes of increasing and/or maintaining housing stability and building credit. Funds are accessed by survivors who are working with an advocate at a VFMN member program. 100% of survivors receiving funds are BIPOC. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | West Side Community Organization | $300,000 | Through the Tenant Union and other housing justice work, WSCO will use funds to support their community organizing and culturally responsive engagement with BIPOC families on St. Paul’s West Side's to create systemic change leading to greater housing stability for all West Side community members, including immigrants, people of color, and lower-income residents. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
| 2024 | Win Back | $30,000 | Creating a Day of Remembrance in honor of George Floyd in May. | Racial Justice Responsive |
| 2024 | YWCA St. Paul | $275,000 | Funding will support the YWCA St. Paul’s Housing Stability Initiative (YW HSI), a unique approach to preventing homelessness developed for African American families receiving public assistance through the Minnesota Family Investment Program. YW HSI will support BIPOC families with a trauma-informed approach to housing stability that affirms participants’ core identities and lived experiences and addresses barriers to safe and secure housing. | Housing Stability Direct Impact |
