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In addition to our program grants, we provide flexible, responsive grantmaking. This allows us to support a variety of opportunities as they arise. Foundation leadership makes recommendations and approves these types of grants to ensure that they align with our existing initiatives. Please note that we do not accept unsolicited proposals. These are the responsive grants we have made to date:
Organization: African American Leadership Forum
Grant amount: $10,000
Grant purpose: Support for the AALF Leadership Conference: Leadership by Any Means Necessary.
Organization: Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations
Grant amount: $50,000
Grant purpose: Racial Reckoning: The Arc of Justice reporting project for BIPOC journalists covering the trial of Derek Chauvin.
Organization: Black Women’s Wealth Alliance
Grant amount: $95,000
Grant purpose: North Minneapolis lot acquisitions to develop affordable townhomes and ownership opportunities for African American women and their families.
Organization: Build Wealth MN
Grant amount: $500,000
Grant purpose: Contribution to the 9000 Equities Fund, providing affordable first mortgages to communities of color to reduce the racial divide in homeownership in the Twin Cities.
Organization: City of Brooklyn Center
Grant amount: $50,000
Grant purpose: Costs associated with creating a safe space for peaceful protesting during the Kim Potter trial.
Organization: Cultural Wellness Center
Grant amount: $150,000
Grant purpose: Co-creation and management of a racial justice fellowship for Black activists and organizers in the Twin Cities.
Organization: Friends of Global Market
Grant amount: $25,000
Grant purpose: Midtown Global Market COVID-19 Survival Campaign for small business owners.
Organization: Great North Innocence Project
Grant amount: $100,000
Grant purpose: Development of conviction review unit with the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office to overturn wrongful convictions.
Organization: Healing Justice Foundation
Grant amount: $370,000
Grant purpose: Support the capacity needed to launch and implement the Healing Justice Foundation’s speaker series, Time of Reckoning, and the work of Dr. Brittany Lewis and Dr. Joi Lewis.
Organization: Hopewell Fund
Grant amount: $500,000
Grant purpose: Support efforts to litigate voting rights cases that have the greatest impact on the 2020 elections by challenging voter suppression laws in key states where BIPOC communities may be disproportionately affected.
Organization: Legal Rights Center
Grant amount: $30,000
Grant purpose: Community Action Plan for the trials of officers involved in the murder of George Floyd including community education on the trials, restorative processing, and protecting community during protests.
Organization: Minnesota Council of Churches
Grant amount: $25,000
Grant purpose: Support the Council’s truth and reparations initiative and contribute to their start-up fund.
Organization: National League of Cities
Grant amount: $65,000
Grant purpose: Technical assistance for the creation of the Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative Solutions program.
Organization: Quinones Victims of Police Violence Resource Coalition
Grant amount: $10,000
Grant purpose: Support families who have experienced loss of a loved one through police-involved violence in conjunction with the National Mothers March Against Police Violence on July 12, 2020.
Organization: Research in Action
Grant amount: $15,500
Grant purpose: Report on the Healing Justice Foundation’s Time of Reckoning community egagement project on racial equity in public safety.
Organization: University of St. Thomas
Grant amount: $100,000
Grant purpose: Support for Exploring the History of Race and Policing in the Twin Cities Research and Documentary Project.
Organization: Urban League Twin Cities
Grant amount: $5,000
Grant purpose: General operating needs to implement the League’s first Virtual Unity Ball held in December 2020.
Organization: West Broadway Business and Area Coalition
Grant amount: $45,000
Grant purpose: Better Futures West Broadway Ambassadors program, a cleaning & maintenance and community engagement project.
Organization: Westminster Town Hall Forum
Grant amount: $20,000
Grant purpose: To host four weekly speakers to reflect on the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd.
