Nonprofits We Fund
We are proud to invest in community-led solutions and partner with nonprofit organizations doing incredible work. Explore the organizations that have received grants from the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation in recent years.
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Thinking Engineering Science Technology Sports (TESTS)
YES, We Count-Invisibles no M!
Census Outreach 2020
Paths Forward on Safe Communities
Mediation to Prevent Eviction and Displacement
Transitional Development Support
Lifetrack Transitional Bridge Funding and Strategic Growth Planning
Shaping/Empowering School Environments to Close Discipline Disparities
The Payne-Phalen Community Plan: Collaboratively Creating a Shared Vision for a Bright and Equitable Future
Changing the Narrative and Improving the Commercial Office Environment in Downtown Saint Paul
Culturally Responsive Caregiver Support and Dementia Service- Saint Paul
Saint Paul Bolder Options Mentoring Program
CLUES Arte y Cultura Capacity Building
Building Community Voice with Fosters
Supporting A Changing, Aging Population: Expanding In-home Services to Help Seniors and Caregivers Plan for Aging in Place
Year 2 Transition Funding
Everyone Counts MN
Year 3-Outside In Outreach to Saint Paul Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
Support for community based facility transition
Parent Engagement - Pilot Project
Safe and Stable Housing for Individuals and Families in the 2-3 year Asylum Hearing Process
YES, We Count-Invisibles no Más!
College and Career Success for Underserved Students
Hmong Renter Engagement 2019-2020
The HUB: Growth in East Metro
Ramsey County Drug Free Coalition - Year-Two
Improving the lives of at-risk children and families by empowering communities to prevent child abuse and support families.
Transitional operating funding for office relocation
Equitable Development Scorecard Expansion
Economic Stability in Action
Support for youth culturally-rooted academic support, fitness, and identity development.
Expanding the Mentored Troops Initiative into St Paul and the East Metro
Expanding Access to Housing: Removing Tenant Screening Barriers
Implementation of Integrated Services Model
Model Cities Transitional Operating Grant
Project for Pride in Living Building Ladders Campaign
Operating Funds to increase capacity to support HERbeat program
Childrens Home Kinship Foster Care Transitional Funding
Year Two of Leadership for Equity in Action Pipeline (LEAP) Program
Building the River Capital
Roseville Area Schools Career Navigator
MIGIZI's continued program expansion in St. Paul for American Indian Youth
Establishing New Vision Foundation's Headquarters in St Paul, MN
Ragamala Rooted: Fires of Varanasi
Voices against Violence: preventing abuse through workshops about healthy relationships
Economic Opportunity: Capacity Building
Circle in the Field: Dementia
Build Out of COMOTION: Center for Movement Performance Venue
Generation Next: Creating and Sustaining Systems Change
Training Through Full-Time Employment: Tech Dumps Program For Adults with Barriers to Employment
MCFS Warehouse Build Out for Expanded On-Site Programming
Transitioning Ordway Arts Education to a new model, in response to the loss of funding from multiple traditional sources.
Building Community Resilience for Youth Mental Health
Theatre 55 Capacity Building
Equitable Development for Saint Paul and Ramsey County
Saint Paul Police Civilian Internal Affairs Review Commission (PCIARC)
Face to Face Transitional Funding
Green Card STEM Voices: Exhibits and Panels at St. Paul High Schools
JA Meda Fellows Saint Paul Cohort
Building Relational Networks to Counter Hate in Minnesota
Crisis Intervention & Social Services
More Than A Bridge: Engaging Community for a Rondo Land Bridge Year Two
Building Fund Development Capacity
Testing The Theory of Change: Phase Two
Close Gaps by 5 Transitional Operating Support
East Side Table (EST)
Skills-Based Volunteer Capacity-Building
LEDC - Phase 2: Long Term Commitment to the East Side
Aging Together Minnesota
A New Page-Leadership Transitions
Sahan Journal Seed Investment
Ramsey County Eviction Prevention Project
Going Home Program
Culturally Sensitive Trauma Informed Mental Health Care (CSTIMHC)
Como by the Lake Green Renovations Capital Request
Montessori American Indian Childcare Center
Career Education at Higher Ground St. Paul
Capacity Building - Hire Part-Time Volunteer Coordinator
Improving Dental Outcomes for Head Start Students in the East Metro by Combining Treatment with Targeted Oral Health Education for Parents
Children's Law Center of Minnesota: Growing Our Impact
Creative Community Expanding youth development for at-risk teens through the arts
Recovering Stolen Wages and Developing Worker Leadership in the East Metro
EMERGE Enterprises St. Paul: Addressing Inequity through Job Creation
Including Everyone in Falcon Heights: Creating Inclusion, Securing Safety
A sustainable future on 94.1 FM: WFNU-LP Frogtown Community Radio
Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from a ST. PAUL High School: Exhibit and Book Readings at St. Paul high schools
Karen Chemical Dependency Collaboration - Phase 2: Deepening Engagement
Hope Dental Evening Clinic
Indigenous Roots Growth and Capacity Building
East African Youth at Work-Saint Paul
Taqwa Free Dental Clinic
Adapting the Minority Business Development Ecosystem
Merger support MHR and Minnesota Alternatives
Building Public Will for Stable Housing
AmeriCorps Promise Fellows: Supporting student success in SPPS Middle Schools
Technical Assistance for the East Metro Job Creation Loan Fund
Culturally-based TA Provider Cohort
East Metro Parent Mentors
Outside-In Year Two: Continuing our Partnership Connecting Individuals to Housing and Services
PPL 2018 Program Transitional Costs
Project to Increase Reclaim's Development Capacity Year Two
Fresh Grounds Vocational Training Program
Summit Academy OIC - East Metro Initiative
American Indian Youth Enrichment: reaching American Indian children with culturally specific academic enrichment
YouthPower Leadership Institute
Organization Transition
In Focus: Digital Media Arts & Youth Leadership
The Park at Griggs Street
St. Paul Facilities and Maintenance Career Pathway for Adults with Barriers to Employment
Building Capacity for Youth Internship Programs
Attorneys for Second Chances
Prior Crossing
Community Ambassadors Initiative
YWCA Minneapolis Early Childhood Education (ECE) Teacher Workforce Development Program
Adult Education West 7th/Highland Park Expansion
Daily Work Capacity Building Campaign
Dougherty Family College-College Transfer and Transition Program
Better OUTcomes Initiative
Saint Paul Urban Teacher Residency Program
Parent College Connection
Culturally Sensitive Trauma Informed Mental Health Care
St. Paul Freedom School / Youth Undoing Institutional Racism
Buniyaad/Foundation III
Better Futures Capacity Building Campaign
Raise the Roof Capital Campaign
Community Connect St. Paul
Close Gaps by 5: Communication and Development Support
Creative Community Youth development for at-risk teens through the arts
Emprendedores, Madres Y Padres
Emma Norton: Increasing Visibility & Donors through a New Responsive Website
Leadership Transition Support
Community School Collaborative School-Based Mental Health
Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from a St. Paul High School
Inclusion in Carsharing: A Community Engagement Initiative
Keystone Matching Gift Campaign Grant
Expanding Community Engagement Through Inclusive Volunteerism
East Metro Job Creation Loan Fund and Technical Assistance Program
Strategic planning and organizing to expand affordable housing
Building Remediation Project
Expanding AmeriCorps Promise Fellows in St. Paul
East Side Saint Paul Pilot - Phase 2
A New Vision for Social Connections and Digital Opportunities for Immigrant Youth in the East Metro
East Metro Parent Mentor Program
Outside-In: A Collaborative Connecting Individuals to Housing and Services
Transitional Operating Grant for Prepare + Prosper
Regions Hospitals New Birth Center
Fresh Grounds Vocational Training Program
Transitioning to a 501c3 Organization
Opportunity Saint Paul
Pre-Charge Diversion Program
Multiplying the Impact Campaign
In Focus: Digital Media Arts & Youth Leadership
Expanding Equity in the East Metro
Mental Health & Wellness Center Project
Connecting Youth to Opportunity
Take Responsibility Building Community Capacity
MN Compass
Community Ambassadors Initiative
Transition, Change Management & Capacity Building Initiative
Parents Radically Organized Launch
2018-2020 Capacity Building
Closing Disparities in Health Care Access: Physician Volunteerism Program
More Than A Bridge: Forming ReConnectRondo and Engaging Communities for a Rondo Land Bridge
East African Healing Services Stabilization
Suburban Housing Program
Igniting Asian Civic and Census Power
Bimaadiziwin Mikana (The Path of Life) Parent Mentor Program
Buniyaad/Foundation II
Start-Up Operations
Ramsey County Top Shelter Users Initiative Year 2
Dakota County Birth - Eight Collaborative Initiative
Cookie Cart Saint Paul Youth Career, Life and Leadership Skill Building Program
DARTS Circulator LOOPS Transportation Expansion
Positioning Emma Norton Services for Future Growth through Development and Marketing
Jump Start to the New You
College and Career Success for Underserved Students
Leaders of Tomorrow
Career Pathway Expansion and Capacity Building
Housing Hub Software Development
North End Arts Initiative
Healthy Foods in Ethnic Stores Community Project
Expanding Community Engagement through Inclusive Volunteerism
Merrick Capital/Capacity Campaign
Startup costs for MIGIZI program expansion for youth in East Metro
Karen Youth Chemical Health Outreach/Education
Model Cities Capacity Building Project
Technical Assistance for the East Metro Job Creation Loan Fund
Capital funds to support rehabilitation of our 1880's home/office into a homeownership center
Founder Succession and Generations Forward Campaign
Training the Next Generation: Increasing Access to Care
Central Towers, PHS Community
2020 Election Readiness
Start-up operating expenses - Hugo emergency housing shelter
Reading Corps in Family Child Care
Saint Paul College Savings Account Program
South St. Paul Public Schools and Innocent Technologies: Seeing the "Good" in Every Child
East Side Community Health and Wellness Hub Implementation
Comprehensive Capital Campaign for The Sanneh Foundation at Conway Community Center
Tubman Shelter and Services Relocation
Developing and Implementing a Plan for Data Collection, Processing and Reporting
Project Manager needed to put plans into action for the Victoria Theater Arts Center
Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Addiction in the Vietnamese and Karen Community
Community Equity Pipeline: From Community to Capitol
Community Ambassadors Initiative
Donor Insight and Targeting Project
Transitional Operating Support
Realizing the Dream: Expanding and Enhancing Food Safety and Produce Quality Among Hmong Farmers
Expanding Access to Housing: Removing Tenant Screening Barriers
Teatro Stabilization Project
New Intensive Residential Treatment Services (IRTS) Facility
C.O.R.E. Drop-In Center and Street Outreach Program
Thinking Engineering Science Technology Sports (TESTS)
Bimaadiziwin Mikana (The Path of Life) Parent Mentor Program
Testing Theory Change through direct programming for system change.
Literacy Program
Transitional Operating Grant
Transitional Operating - Merger
General Corporate Purposes
COPAL's 5 Core Strategies in the St. Paul Area
Equity-Centered Leadership Transition
Creating Equitable Access to College-Level Courses in East Metro Schools
Using Mediation to Reduce Evictions by 50% in Ramsey County
College Success and Internships for Disadvantaged College Students
Minnesota Young Adult Leadership Academy (MYALA)
HIRED's Career Pathways Expansion & Capacity Building Project
Hastings Arts and Culture Planning Project
North End Arts Initiative
East Side Enterprise Center Business Development
General Corporate Purposes
Equitable Development for Saint Paul and Ramsey County
Expanding Nonprofit Capacity to Advance Equity in State Policy Work and Its Outcomes
East Metro STAR-Lite: Learning Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience in a Single Day (STAR-Lite) Training Project 3.0
Young Authors' Book Project
Many Cultures Many Traditions One CommUNITY
Together Works Better Initiative: Peer Mentoring Internship Pilot Project
Impact Evaluation, Contracted with Third-Party Evaluator
Powered by Playworks and Group Management Trainings
A Vibrant Future for Minnesotas Theatres of Color
Civic Engagement at the Capitol
Saint Paul College Healthcare Career Pathways
Family Child Care Reading Corps
Equity on Ice
We Vote, We Count Integrated Voter Engagement and Census Education Campaign
Our Space Is Spoken For II
St Paul Conservatory of Music: Home on the Hill!
THE GARAGE -- An all-ages venue and music laboratory
Bethesda/SMRLS Healthcare Legal Partnership
VOBS Gordon Parks STRIVE Forward Partnership
FY2017 - FY2019 Executive Transition & Support for Incoming Leadership
Prior Crossing
Youthprise Accelerator Initiative Campaign
Transitional Operating Support
In Black Ink Capacity Building Initiative
Opportunity Zone Start-Up Fund
Building Community Engagement Program Staff Capacity to Better Serve Latin@ Families
Asian American Arts Administration Development Project
FastTrack to a Family
Action to Equity: Advancing Equitable Development on Saint Pauls West Side
General operating support for youth culturally-rooted academic support, fitness, and identity development
East Metro Manufactured Home Park Risk Assessment and Preservation
Continued Development of ANEW BAM Programming
Literacy Program (Year Two of Groves Academy Partnership)
MN Cavity Free Kids Pilot Project (MN CFK)
Circle in the Field: Family Caregivers
Enhancing Family Self-Sufficiency at CommonBond Communities
Organizational Capacity Building around Real Estate Development
Leadership Transition
Creating Equitable Access to College-Level Courses in East Metro schools
Saint Paul Tenant-Landlord Energy Project
Ramsey County Civic Project
Skills-Based Volunteer Capacity Building
Unleash the Potential: HAPs Capital Campaign for HAP Workforce Center
East Metro Food Shelf Collaborative
East African Family Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Program
Service Navigation for Underrepresented People with Disabilities
Strategic Facility Recommendations Report
Equitable Development for Saint Paul and Ramsey County
New facility for the Minnesota Museum of American Art in the Pioneer Endicott Building
East Metro STAR-Lite: Learning Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience in a Single Day (STAR-Lite) Training Project 2.0
MORE Development Position - Building Our Resources for Long-term Stability
Adult Education West 7th/Highland Park Expansion
Employment Program
Improving the lives of at-risk children and families by empowering communities to prevent child abuse and support families
Mission Outpost Dental Clinic
Building the Future Public Art Saint Paul: A Nonprofit at the Crossroads
New staffing to increase nonprofit capacity
Future Forward: A Vision-Driven Leadership Succession
Family Child Care Reading Corps
Strategic Plan Phase I Implementation
We Vote MN-St. Paul Coordinated Voter Engagement
Our Space Is Spoken For
Project Inclusion: Preventing Child Care Expulsion and Strengthening Families
THE GARAGE
Expanding Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Care for Patients with Limited English Proficiency
VocalEssence Singers Of This Age
Young Women's Initiative of Minnesota (YWI MN)
Equity and Access in Outdoor and Environmental Employment Building Sustainable Pathways
Creating a Pipeline for Integration for Somali Minnesotans
Commitments: Embodied Healing and Liberated Spaces
Engaging Men and Masculine Folks to Prevent Sexual Violence Across MN
Bolder Options Saint Paul
Culturally Responsive Caregiver Support and Dementia Consultation- Saint Paul Expansion
Right Track YJ02 internship program
Accessibility Improvements for Aging Minnesotans with Intellectual, Developmental and/or Physical Disabilities
180 Degrees East Campus
Permanent Supportive Housing Facility Project
Rush Line Corridor Project
Fast Track to a Family Evaluation Project
Groves Academy Partnership
Voices and Choices for Children Coalition - Year 3
Circle in the Field: Hospice
A Dynamic Approach to Neighborhood Communication
Increasing Economic Opportunity in the East Metro by Hiring a Twin Cities Community Outreach Director
Services to Oromo, Board Training, Staff Training and Technology, Staff Supervision
EVOLVE Foundation for the Future Campaign
Saint Paul Tenant-Landlord Energy Project
Building Community - St. Paul Giving Voice Chorus
Hepatitis B and C Surveillance Among At-Risk Communities in Minnesota
Hmong Exhibit Center Educational Outreach Initiative
Coaching for Academic Success and Mental Health
MEDA JA Fellows Saint Paul Pilot
Transition Year Funding for Listening House
Strategic Development and Marketing Capacity Building Grant Request
The GROW-IT Center
Core:IT Pathways
East Metro STAR-Lite: Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience Training Project
Higher Education Equity Scorecard
Mentor Recruitment and Training
LGBTQ Engagement and Leadership at Colleges and Universities: Queer Defender Network
Preventing Child Abuse Through Community Based Education and Support
Mission Outpost Dental Clinic
The Art of Food in Frogtown and Rondo
Indoor riding arena construction to increase capacity at Afton lesson site for equine-assisted activities and therapies
Setting the Stage for Collaborative Growth: Feasibility
Somali Youth Mental Health Program Expansion
Innocent Classroom Year 3
Building a Trauma-Sensitive School through Integrating Innocent Classroom and Restorative Practices at St Paul City School
Expanding St. Paul Teacher Placement and Leadership Development
A collaboration to expand the Innocence Spoken Here initiative to child care providers in the Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood
Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project - Increasing and Sustaining Program Expansion
The Art of Voice and Choice
VocalEssence Youth Choir
Activate Opportunity: Wilders Campaign for Families
WomenVenture's Small Business Essentials Childcare (SBEC) course
BEING THE CHANGE East Metro In-School Pilot
Men and Masculine Folks Leadership Academy
BEtter OUTcomes Initiative
Flux Casting Access develops its vision, its offerings and strengthens partnerships
Creating the Great River Passage Conservancy
MSPWin
180 Degrees' Youth Vocational Program
Economic Opportunity and Security: Capacity Building
Partnership with St. Paul Schools
Transition Vision Program Interactive Website: Phase III
Roseville Warehouse Community Room Build-Out
African American Males Leadership Program (AAMLP)
Minnesota Capitol Pathways Paid Internship Program for College Students of Color
Volunteer Improvement Project (VIP)
Building Worker Leadership for a More Equitable East Metro Construction Industry
Building Organizational Capacity by Adding Full-Time Staff
SafeZone Technology Update
Frogtown Farm Start-up: Year 3
Building Community - Giving Voice St. Paul
East Side Table (EST)
Hmong Immigrant Outreach Project
Second Century Campaign
Resource Development Capacity Grant
Predesign Phase of the Wakan Tipi Center
Accelerating the Minority Business Development Ecosystem
Transitional Operating - Leadership Transition Year 2
Core: IT Workforce Development Training with Bridge Pathways
Expansion to Highwood Hills community
MTA program to recruit 6 PT part time tutors in order to receive more new applicants and to offer tutoring services from 4 d/wk. to 7d/wk
Start-up Support
Penumbra Theatre Company's RACE Workshop: The Art of Social Change
Organization Transition Year Two
Written in Water Year-Long Community Engagement Series
The Selby Milton Victoria Commercial Land Trust Build-out Fund
Youth Gang Violence Prevention Intervention Services/Housing Assistance
Consumer Law Pilot
Strengthening Innocent Classroom Implementation in SPPS and the St. Paul Promise Neighborhood
Bridges to Safety (BTS) Funding
Enhancing Volunteer Support for Asylum Seekers and Trafficking Survivors in the East Metro
Transitional Operating Support
Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project - Increasing and Sustaining Program Expansion
Building Fund Development Capacity
Education Equity: Parent Organizing Cohort
Community Equity Pipeline: From Community to Capitol
Development and Communications Capacity Building
Youth Service Bureau Capacity-Building Campaign
Advancing Economic Inclusion in the MSP Region
SPCO Digital Audience Development
DataArts in Minnesota
Sprockets: Deepening Impact on Saint Paul's Youth
Community Engagement Program Staffing
180 Degrees YoVoPro
Capital Request: Preserving NOAH in Ramsey County
Transforming St. Paul Schools
Expanding Successful Debate Programs in Saint Paul Middle Schools
Brownbody: Management Infrastructure Growth
General Corporate Purposes
Children's Law Center of Minnesota: Growing Our Impact
Como Harbor Seals and Seal Lions Habitat at Como Zoo
Recovering Stolen Wage and Developing Worker Leadership in the East Metro: Phase 2
Teacher Leadership Program Development
The JK Movement / Youth Group Sessions Program
Spinning Off: Support for the Sustainable Expansion of WFNU-LP Frogtown Community Radio
2018 Investor in GreaterMSP
Pilot of East Side Table
Hope Dental Evening Clinic
Family Unity Project
Critical Housing for East Metro Veteran Families
East Metro Job Creation Loan Fund and Technical Assistance Program
Transitional Operating Leadership Transition
St Paul Restorative Practices People of Color/Indigenous Collaborative (RP-POCI)
Ramsey County Drug Free Coalition
MSS Community Hub Expansion
Building Wealth through Worker Cooperatives
MAN UP for Success
Mental Health Trainee Program Expansion
Organization Transition
Reading Partners Twin Cities: Individualized literacy interventions for low-income students in St. Paul
The Selby Milton Victoria Commercial Land Trust and Senior Housing Project
Growing Mentoring Young Adults
Suburban Homework Starts with Home
Plant & Cultivate Capital Campaign
East Side Employment PLUS Program Expansion
The BrandLab - Strengthening St. Paul Classrooms
TNT: The 21st Century Model for Community Building and Equity
Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project - Operating and Program Expansion
Building Fund Development Capacity
OUR St. Paul
Expanding and Scaling the Promise Neighborhood Pathway to College and Career
Building Positive St. Paul Public School Communities Where Students Thrive
YWCA Minneapolis Early Childhood Education (ECE) Teacher Workforce Development Program
Communities In Schools Program Twin Cities Pilot
Launch the Center for Economic Inclusion
Generation Next
The Campaign for Minnesota Public Radio |American Public Media (MPR |APM)
Continued Capacity Building - Program Funding for One-on-One Reading Tutoring