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Since 2021 we’ve invested a total of $12 million in our Direct Impact program and supported the work of 45 organizations.
Organization: 180 Degrees
Grant amount: $150,000
Program/project summary: Transitional Living Programming at Brittany’s Place. The program meets an acute need for trauma-informed, accessible supportive housing for girls at risk of housing instability or homelessness as a result of sexual exploitation and trafficking.
Organization: Ain Dah Yung Center
Grant amount: $400,000
Program/project summary: Funding will support ADYC’s culturally responsive permanent supportive housing for Indigenous youth 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.
Organization: American Indian Family Center
Grant amount: $300,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation
Grant amount: $200,000
Program/project summary: Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood (SPPN), an initiative housed at Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (Wilder Foundation), is seeking funding to expand and deepen The People’s Fellowship (TPF), an innovative and comprehensive homelessness prevention initiative.
Organization: Asian Women United of Minnesota
Grant amount: $250,000
Program/project summary: 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. Provide immediate emergency shelter, outreach, advocacy, direct financial assistance, and support to families in accessing safe and sustainable housing.
Organization: Avenues for Youth
Grant amount: $50,000
Program/project summary: To engage at least 10 youth through the Abule Collective Housing program. This 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.
Organization: CAPI USA
Grant amount: $200,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Children’s Law Center of Minnesota
Grant amount: $250,000
Program/project summary: Support interim case reviews for clients 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.
Organization: Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties
Grant amount: $150,000
Program/project summary: Community Action’s Housing Stability Assistance Program is an innovative homelessness prevention program to support people 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.
Organization: Community Stabilization Project
Grant amount: $50,000
Program/project summary: Support for Community Stabilization Project strengthens our capacity to move low-wealth, BIPOC families and individuals from homelessness into safe, affordable housing. We accomplish this through education, advocacy, coalition building, and direct action to preserve and increase the supply of affordable housing.
Organization: Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES)
Grant amount: $400,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Connections to Independence
Grant amount: $500,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Face to Face Health & Counseling Service
Grant amount: $300,000
Program/project summary: Face to Face will provide housing and direct assistance, intensive case management, and wraparound support for young people experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Our work is a direct investment in the lives of BIPOC and otherwise marginalized young people to help eliminate disparities in housing.
Organization: Haven Housing
Grant amount: $150,000
Program/project summary: Moms Matter is a holistic housing stability program. This new 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.
Organization: HOME Line
Grant amount: $250,000
Program/project summary: General operating support to maintain and increase the capacity of the 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.
Organization: Housing Justice Center
Grant amount: $250,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia
Grant amount: $250,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Isuroon
Grant amount: $335,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Karen Organization of Minnesota
Grant amount: $150,000
Program/project summary: Increase staffing and direct 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.
Organization: Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota
Grant amount: $350,000
Program/project summary: 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 Minnesota.
Organization: Love First and 30kft.art
Grant amount: $150,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Lutheran Social Service
Grant amount: $350,000
Program/project summary: This project allows the StreetWorks Collaborative to increase our 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.
Organization: Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid
Grant amount: $350,000
Program/project summary: Through Legal Aid’s community clinic partnerships, people from BIPOC communities will meet with a knowledgeable housing lawyer in their trusted, neighborhood space. 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.
Organization: Minneapolis Public Housing Authority
Grant amount: $300,000
Program/project summary: Support for an 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.
Organization: Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center
Grant amount: $400,000
Program/project summary: The 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.
Organization: Model Cities of St. Paul
Grant amount: $200,000
Program/project summary: For the 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.
Organization: MoveFwd
Grant amount: $200,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center
Grant amount: $300,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Oasis for Youth
Grant amount: $150,000
Program/project summary: Oasis works to be the trusted resource for youth experiencing, or at risk for, housing instability in Bloomington, Richfield, and Edina. We serve youth 16-24, 88% are BIPOC and predominantly Black/African American. We achieve this by offering five key programs: Drop-In, Outreach, Housing Supports, Workforce Innovation and Youth Voice.
Organization: People Serving People
Grant amount: $350,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: PERIS Foundation
Grant amount: $315,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Project for Pride in Living
Grant amount: $300,000
Program/project summary: Help PPL’s Family Supportive Housing Program provide 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.
Organization: Rebound, Inc.
Grant amount: $500,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: The Bridge for Youth
Grant amount: $300,000
Program/project summary: Support for 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.
Organization: The Link
Grant amount: $300,000
Program/project summary: To provide expanded services to Black youth through our Northside Homeless Prevention Program and support our Housing Coordinator Program.
Organization: Tubman
Grant amount: $200,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: Ujamaa Place
Grant amount: $350,000
Program/project summary: Ujamaa Place serves formerly incarcerated African American men 18-30 years. Funding supports 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.
Organization: Urban Homeworks
Grant amount: $200,000
Program/project summary: Create more units of stable, dignified, affordable housing for those who are most in need, increase homeownership opportunities for low-income households, support the maintenance of our existing properties, and conduct community engagement and equity work alongside our neighbors and residents.
Organization: Violence Free Minnesota
Grant amount: $300,000
Program/project summary: Support 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.
Organization: WE WIN Institute
Grant amount: $150,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: West Side Community Organization
Grant amount: $100,000
Program/project summary: Through our housing justice work, the West Side Community Organization (WSCO) will utilize community organizing and culturally-responsive engagement with the 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.
Organization: Women’s Advocates
Grant amount: $150,000
Program/project summary: Over two years, Women’s Advocates will provide housing 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.
Organization: YMCA of the North
Grant amount: $200,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: YouthLink
Grant amount: $200,000
Program/project summary: 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.
Organization: YWCA St. Paul
Grant amount: $350,000
Program/project summary: Support for the Housing Stability Initiative – a unique approach developed for African American families receiving public assistance benefits. This successful program will serve 30 African American families with a culturally specific approach that affirms participants’ core identities and lived experiences.
