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Organization: Agape Child Development Center
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: For culturally-specific organizational capacity building. AgapeOasis is a culturally-specific, faith-based domestic violence organization serving families and children in North Minneapolis.
Organization: Align Minneapolis
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: For compensation, local travel costs, and speaker training costs supporting Street Voices of Change leaders with lived experience of homelessness
Organization: American Indian Community Development Corporation
Grant amount: $60,000
Program/project summary: Toward the acquisition of a property that would house 18 residents of the Hiawatha homeless encampment
Organization: Avenues for Youth
Grant amount: $20,000
Program/project summary: Support for a volunteer event for facility improvements including painting, installing ceiling tile, landscaping, cleaning, and other services.
Organization: Avivo
Grant amount: $75,000
Program/project summary: Support staffing costs for case workers to assist former residents of the Hiawatha encampment staying at the Navigation Center to find permanent affordable housing.
Organization: Catholic Charities of St. Paul & Minneapolis
Grant amount: $20,000
Program/project summary: Welcome baskets for new residents of the Dorothy Day Center.
Organization: Community Stabilization Project
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: For culturally-specific organizational capacity building focused on tenants rights in St. Paul.
Organization: Connections to Independence
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: For culturally-specific organizational capacity building focused on youth aging out of foster care.
Organization: CultureBrokers
Grant amount: $45,500
Program/project summary: Assist with the redesign of Hennepin County’s emergency assistance administration. The redesign goal is a streamlined, centralized way for families and individuals to seek direct financial assistance during a housing crisis.
Organization: Family Housing Fund
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: Support for a Hiawatha encampment project manager position and regional coordination of encampment response efforts.
Organization: Family Housing Fund
Grant amount: $200,000
Program/project summary: To reduce evictions and increase eviction expungements in Anoka and Dakota Counties by adapting Ramsey County’s holistic Housing Court Clinic model, which includes intergovernmental collaboration and expanding access to legal and mediation resources.
Organization: Foster Advocates
Grant amount: $50,000
Program/project summary: To increase the use of data to promote foster youth engagement with public policy decisions and to track long-term outcomes for youth aging out of foster care.
Organization: Friends of the Hennepin County Library
Grant amount: $2,500
Program/project summary: Assist with costs associated with Matthew Desmond’s speaking engagement at the downtown library.
Organization: Heading Home Minnesota Funders Collaborative
Grant amount: $150,000
Program/project summary: To implement strategic initiatives that have demonstrated success in amplifying philanthropy’s collective impact on homelessness and support the development of a unified regional approach to preventing and ending homelessness in Minnesota.
Organization: Hennepin County Health & Human Services
Grant amount: $325,000
Program/project summary: Toward the development of a new women’s shelter in north Minneapolis.
Organization: Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the City of Saint Paul (HRA)
Grant amount: $300,000
Program/project summary: Support and evaluative services conducted as part of a Rent Supplement Pilot Program, which provides rental assistance to up to 270 families with school-aged children at deeply affordable levels.
Organization: Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia (IX)
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: For culturally-specific organizational capacity building. IX is a grassroots tenants rights and eviction prevention organization serving Minneapolis.
Organization: Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia (IX)
Grant amount: $100,000
Program/project summary: Toward the development of the Boundless Sky Cooperative, a rent-capped and land trust protected cooperative owned and managed by tenants. Boundless Sky is intended to serve as a vehicle for community wealth building, a model for
future cooperatives, and homes for 69 low-income, people of color and immigrant families.
Organization: Juxtaposition Arts
Grant amount: $1,000
Program/project summary: Support for the development of a presentation on the “Social Service Run-Around Game.”
Organization: Metropolitan Interfaith Council on Affordable Housing (MICAH)
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: Stipends and transportation to people with lived experience of homelessness to enable participation in local policy and planning through Freedom from the Streets, an organization founded by people with lived experience.
Organization: Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
Grant amount: $1,000
Program/project summary: General support for the Homeless Day on the Hill at the Minnesota Legislature.
Organization: Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: General support for The Regional Expert Network (REN), which engages diverse people with lived experience of homelessness statewide, helping to inform local and state policies on homelessness and affordable housing.
Organization: Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: Support for the Regional Expert Network crisis fund, which provides direct assistance to individuals with lived experience of homelessness facing eviction.
Organization: Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
Grant amount: $65,000
Program/project summary: General operating support for the Coalition’s efforts to ensure that every Minnesotan has a safe, decent, affordable place to call home.
Organization: Minnesota Housing Partnership
Grant amount: $50,000
Program/project summary: General support for baseline data research, policy-focused communications, and collaborative policy and administrative advocacy, including the State of the State of Housing report.
Organization: Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center
Grant amount: $350,000
Program/project summary: Part of the Governor’s Minnesota Winter Homeless Initiative. Support for a nontraditional overnight shelter and general building improvements.
Organization: Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: For culturally-specific organizational capacity building. MIWRC provides social and educational services committed to the holistic growth and development of American Indian women and their families.
Organization: Model Cities of St. Paul
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: For culturally-specific organizational capacity building.
Organization: Nexus Community Partners
Grant amount: $25,000
Program/project summary: Support for the Community Engagement Institute to assist in organizing groups who engage people with lived experience of homelessness, helping to identify assets and opportunities for participants to influence local policies and practices.
Organization: St. Andrew’s Community Resource Center
Grant amount: $50,000
Program/project summary: Part of the Governor’s Minnesota Winter Homeless Initiative. Support for the Community Resource Center shelter.
Organization: St. Stephen’s Human Services
Grant amount: $11,070
Program/project summary: Support for Hennepin County’s Office to End Homelessness (OEH) compensation of residents with lived experience of homelessness or housing instability who participate in activities that assist in planning efforts to prevent and end homelessness in Hennepin County.
Organization: St. Stephen’s Human Services
Grant amount: $1,750
Program/project summary: To provide wages to people with lived experience of homelessness to participate in a grant review process for the selection of recipients of emergency shelter funding.
Organization: St. Stephen’s Human Services
Grant amount: $15,000
Program/project summary: To assist in the redesign of how Hennepin County emergency assistance is administered and provide funds for direct assistance for families. The redesign intends to create a streamlined, centralized way for families and individuals to seek direct financial assistance during a housing crisis.
Organization: Twin Cities Public Television (TPT)
Grant amount: $74,900
Program/project summary: For the creation of a multimedia resource hub designed by and for community to increase understanding about
local housing issues and solutions and to empower people to take action.
Organization: Voice of East African Women
Grant amount: $100,000
Program/project summary: Part of the Governor’s Minnesota Winter Homeless Initiative. Support for the Farhio House shelter.
