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
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
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
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
Columbia, MD — To pilot a peer learning community in South Dakota for increasing homeownership opportunities and creating a mortgage ready environment in tribal communities
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
Minneapolis, MN — To collaborate with medical, behavioral health and housing agencies to provide Native Americans experiencing homelessness with improved access to services
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
Mission, SD — The Wolakota Buffalo Range, a dynamic, multidimensional project that will regenerate the land, people, and economy of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Saint Paul, MN — Technical Assistance to support the unexpected increase in construction cost for Community Innovation grant #17-60986, given for the GROW-IT Center, an innovative response to maximize an unused capital resource for university and community groups
Washington, DC — Technical Assistance to continue the support to further develop a multi-tribal power authority and to plan workforce development of a utility-grade wind power installation