Who We've Funded

Eagle Butte, SD — To test and support Akiptan's agriculture-lending model for Native American farmers and ranchers

Minneapolis, MN — To establish the Commercial Land Trust Initiative to demonstrate the need for, and viability of, using the community land trust mechanism to preserve the availability and affordability of community-owned commercial space

Minneapolis, MN — To pilot a trauma-informed primary care model at Hennepin Healthcare's East Lake Clinic as an incubator with plans to implement the model system-wide

Kyle, SD — To develop an online mapping resource that spans and connects Lakota history, culture and place through a community-led process

Rapid City, SD — To provide transitional housing with wrap around assistance to reduce the reoccurrence of homelessness in Rapid City, South Dakota

Welch, MN — To address the lack of a culturally sustaining food systems and energy insecurity to support the food system in alignment with traditional values and principles

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a community hub for the creation and application of culturally-relevant education resources

Minneapolis, MN — To develop Minnesota’s first prescription medication repository program and make it accessible to communities with the greatest needs

Mckinleyville, CA — To develop energy self-reliance to the benefit of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Saint Paul, MN — To test shifts in opportunity, power and narrative through a Guaranteed Income Pilot for artists, culture bearers and creatives in St. Paul, MN

Porcupine, SD — For the Regional Equity Initiative to address inequities that exist for women in the Pine Ridge community by supporting women's leadership, traditional women’s societies and honoring champions of change

Brooklyn Park, MN — To elevate the profile of microbusinesses, access data on needs and practices, and create a pipeline to resources and funding

Minneapolis, MN — To create a Community Investment Fund using an integrated capital model to promote access for black communities and work towards eliminating the racial wealth gap

Rapid City, SD — To improve data collection and analysis by Rapid City Collective Impact for its Affordable Housing Initiative

Saint Cloud, MN — To establish Minnesota Safe Harbor for All, a statewide effort to address sex trafficking and prostitution

Minneapolis, MN — Partners in Change: Building Resiliency within Minnesota’s Muslim Community, and Equipping Communities to Respond to and Prevent Bias in Greater Minnesota

Memphis, TN — To develop a demonstration farm in Beadle County, South Dakota to improve soil and water health with input from producers such as farmers, ranchers and landowners in the James River Valley region

Sioux Falls, SD — To create a Sioux Falls Area Childcare Collaborative staffing pool

Columbia, MD — To pilot a peer learning community in South Dakota for increasing homeownership opportunities and creating a mortgage ready environment in tribal communities

Minneapolis, MN — To increase the sustainability and supply of high quality child care in sovereign Native nations within the Bush Foundation region

Grand Forks, ND — To improve access to behavioral health services for low-income individuals in North Dakota through service provider supports

Minneapolis, MN — To contribute additional funds to the Bush Foundation donor advised fund at the Headwaters Foundation for Justice

Moorhead, MN — To establish the New American Loan Fund and related services to help low-income, low-wealth and disadvantaged immigrant business owners join the economic mainstream in the Fargo-Moorhead region

Grand Rapids, MN — To partner with justice-involved youth and their families in Itasca County to design and pilot a whole-family solution led by Itasca County Public Health that is appropriate, sustainable, and impactful

Saint Paul, MN — To support and rebuild immigrant-owned businesses in the Twin Cities

New York, NY — For community engagement to advance social impact investing and equitable development in designated Opportunity Zones

Minneapolis, MN — To collaborate with medical, behavioral health and housing agencies to provide Native Americans experiencing homelessness with improved access to services

Saint Paul, MN — To create capacity and support for African American businesses to survive and recover during COVID-19

Bismarck, ND — To contribute additional funds to the Bush Foundation donor advised fund at the North Dakota Community Foundation

Mandan, ND — Implementation and evaluation of a rural grocery redistribution hub to demonstrate how distribution channels can be modified to improve rural food access and to benefit the regional economy

Saint Paul, MN — Expand and embed an innovative partnership model between community members and juvenile justice system leaders to transform Ramsey County justice system practices

Minneapolis, MN — To address emergency operational needs and sector wide problems faced by affordable housing providers due to COVID 19

Mission, SD — The Wolakota Buffalo Range, a dynamic, multidimensional project that will regenerate the land, people, and economy of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate

Alexandria, VA — Mni Wizipan Wakan (Water Bundles) Project to manage and protect water rights

Mandan, ND — To facilitate a healing process that addresses long-standing shared trauma between Native and non-Native community members

Saint Paul, MN — To identify regional solutions to reduce unsheltered homelessness in the seven-county metro area of the Twin Cities

Saint Paul, MN — To mobilize a collaborative effort to ensure families receive meals during the COVID-19 outbreak

Sioux Falls, SD — To pilot the use of a Housing Retention Specialist to prevent evictions in the City of Sioux Falls

Agency Village, SD — Dakod Ohna Wasagic’iyapi, to strengthen yourself through the Dakota language

Pierre, SD — To contribute additional funds to the Bush Foundation donor advised fund at the South Dakota Community Foundation

Brookings, SD — Conducting community deliberations to enhance inclusion among Brookings area businesses

Minneapolis, MN — To build a community-based overdose prevention site in Minneapolis

Hutchinson, MN — To pilot a local network of employers from Kandiyohi, Meeker, Renville and Redwood counties in Minnesota

Sioux Falls, SD — To create a fund and fill gaps in resources accessible to immigrant and undocumented communities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a low-barrier housing model that can provide stable housing for individuals experiencing homelessness in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Fridley, MN — To facilitate the expansion of Minnesota’s Safe Harbor laws to include labor trafficking

Falcon Heights, MN — To implement the Local Emergency Assistance Farm Fund

Fargo, ND — To adapt and test an online learning model created for students with special needs, their parents, and paraprofessionals in rural southeast North Dakota school districts

Tuttle, ND — To create a rural community and economy that exists at the intersection of food, art and entrepreneurship

Vermillion, SD — Advance Care Planning and Palliative Care: Quality Conversations to guide End of Life decisions

Minneapolis, MN — Thriving In Place: Surfacing innovative strategies to prevent the negative impacts of gentrification and displacement

Minneapolis, MN — Technical assistance to support increased capacity for Bush Prize grant #17-61458 to advance the organization’s charitable mission

Sturgis, SD — To create a trauma-informed approach to building career pathways for low-income adult learners

Moorhead, MN — To develop long-term, community-based, proactive solutions to climate change in order to reduce vulnerability and reinforce the strengths of people, infrastructure and institutions of Moorhead-Fargo

Minot, ND — To develop a Domestic Violence High Risk Team in Minot, North Dakota

Manning, ND — Go Local! changing the paradigm from an avoidance of scarcity to the promotion of prosperity in western ND counties

Hayward, WI — To support Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia’s staff participation in activities to increase knowledge of nonprofit functions and skills in financial management

Minneapolis, MN — To pilot a Community Ownership model to preserve affordable housing and reduce displacement in the Phillips Neighborhood of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, MN — To reduce disparities in reproductive health care for African immigrant women in Minnesota with female genital cutting

Grand Rapids, MN — To develop a community-defined vision and action plan to protect Itasca County’s water resources

Saint Paul, MN — To collectively develop solutions to solve the Personal Care Assistants crisis

Minneapolis, MN — To collaboratively develop a Muslim Chaplaincy program as a means to provide culturally grounded support to youth and families

Minneapolis, MN — To achieve a fully inclusive 2020 Census count in historically undercounted communities in Minnesota by Minnesota Census Mobilization Partnership

Batesland, SD — To develop a model for Career and Technical Education that is grounded in Lakota culture that provides education for Native students in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

Saint Paul, MN — To host African women’s tea ceremonies for African immigrant women to increase understanding of gender-based violence, build a community of support, and begin to generate ideas on preventing gender-based violence

Minneapolis, MN — To develop a statewide framework for collective impact focused on supporting Veterans in Minnesota

Mankato, MN — To support five rural communities in south central Minnesota in developing a model of pairing economic development with inclusion through the Welcoming Communities Project

Bismarck, ND — To continue to administer a Community Innovation Grants program that supports community problem-solving in North Dakota

New Town, ND — To unite MHA Nation community segments in Fort Berthold Reservation and overcome isolation

Grand Forks, ND — Tribal community conversations to identify the need for and methods of improving the competency of Lay Advocates who represent parties in criminal and civil cases before six tribal courts in North Dakota and Minnesota

Washington, DC — To align the stewardship of Pine Ridge tribal lands with community needs and aspirations

Bemidji, MN — To address structural oppression, institutional racism and systemic gaps in support for Indigenous and People of Color in the Bemidji area through the Healing for Justice (Gwekendam) process

Saint Paul, MN — To better understand the needs of sandwich generation caregivers and explore innovative solutions to better serve them

Minneapolis, MN — To assess the accuracy of current screening indicators as a predictor of successful tenancy and create more equitable, effective and accurate screening tools and an implementation plan

Finland, MN — To advance an interrelated food system that increases access to healthy foods and builds local wealth in Finland, Minnesota

Fargo, ND — To work at the Intersection of Hunger and Health to improve health outcomes for food insecure individuals

Bemidji, MN — To build a regional workforce recruitment approach guided by local industry projections

Bemidji, MN — To coordinate local transportation services for vulnerable people in the Headwaters Region

Sioux Falls, SD — To fund a coordinated social service system of care for low-income individuals called the Sioux Empire Network of Care

Minot, ND — To identify short-term and long-term collective strategies to address the opioid epidemic and create a regional hub for treatment and family services for people addicted to opioids in the Minot North Dakota area

Saint Paul, MN — To support the development of an LGBTQ+ health curriculum in partnership with Minnesota-based medical training programs to ensure more health professionals emerge from degree programs equipped and ready to serve LGBTQ+ patients

Devils Lake, ND — For a new college-linked Information Technology Apprenticeship Model in North Dakota, a public-private partnership to improve the growing state demand for skilled information technology professionals

Saint Paul, MN — To advance healing among the Dakota people harmed by disconnection from their spiritual homeland at Wakan Tipi, and to increase the number of neighbors of color who use St. Paul’s Swede Hollow Park

Duluth, MN — To develop an effective model of preventative strategies to eliminate sexual assault on major campus universities, using the University of Minnesota Twin Cities as a test site

Saint Paul, MN — To further the collaborative development of equitable workforce solutions through an exchange between employers and residents on the East Side of Saint Paul