2017 Grants
| Grant Recipients | Amount |
|---|---|
Minneapolis, MN Stand Up Participate (SUP) "Stand Up Participate" Initiative provides Career Assessment, Entrepreneurship/Multimedia Technology Training and on-going Service Learning opportunities for youth age 14-24 to improve their social/emotional skills, and opportunities to work in a high-demand IT careers. | $14,000.00 |
Minneapolis, MN Raises Youth Social Entrepreneurship Program Centro Tyrone Guzman engages low-income Latinx teens from the well-established Raices ("Roots") Youth Development Program in the planning and development of a new youth social entrepreneurship (YSE) program. The culturally-grounded YSE will engage youth in raising funds to support Raices activities of their choice and promote the well-being of Latinx communities. | $10,000.00 |
Minneapolis, MN Cookie Cart Capital Campaign Cookie Cart is creating a vibrant economic hub in the Payne-Phalen neighborhood of St. Paul that is dedicated to giving teens within the neighborhood the opportunity to build real world employment, life and leadership skills using the YSE "earn to learn" training model. | $25,000.00 |
Cycles for Change St. Paul, MN Youth Apprenticeship Job Training and Leadership Development Program Cycles for Change's Youth Apprenticeship program provides a positive learning environment and job training program for a dynamic group of 20 engaged, inspired low-income youth and youth of color to build their skills as bike experts and community transportation leaders. Through a paid year-long program, youth apprentices learn bike mechanics skills, explore career opportunities in the bike industry, and think critically about bicycling as a tool to promote healthy living and build sustainable communities. | $14,000.00 |
Dream of Wild Health St. Paul, MN Native American Youth Leadership Program Dream of Wild Health engages Native American youth in community awareness by experiencing the cultural grounding and operation of food-related enterprises growing specialty agricultural crops and indigenous foods. DWH promotes youth engagement and leadership in its farmers markets and Indigenous Food Share (CSA) programs, food donations, feasts, advocacy for healthy food policies, and life-ways at community events and conferences addressing youth social entrepreneurship, food access, and community change. | $15,000.00 |
FilmNorth St. Paul, MN JuiceMedia JuiceMedia is an after-school filmmaking collective of high school students from the Twin Cities metro area. In collaboration with teaching artists from the local professional filmmaking industry, JuiceMedia teaches youth the skills of filmmaking, and the business of media arts to improve academic achievement, promote civic engagement, and prepare students for careers in filmmaking. | $10,000.00 |
Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest Maplewood, MN JA Company Program The JA Company Program brings high quality business and entrepreneurship education for young people by preparing them for success in the 21st Century workplace. Through immersive entrepreneurial programs, student groups develop their own businesses from the ground up with the support and mentorship of local business and community volunteers. | $10,000.00 |
Keystone Community Services St. Paul, MN Youth Express Bike Shop Apprenticeships Keystone provides 75 low-income St. Paul teens with work readiness training, including paid apprenticeships at Keystone's, Express Bike Shop, IT training at the Best Busy Teen Tech Center, and community engagement at other youth programs, and food shelf sites. | $20,000.00 |
Lakes Center for Youth And Families Forest Lake, MN Tried and True Small Engine Youth Social Enterprise Program The Lakes Center for Youth and Families is in year two of "Tried and True Small Engines Repair Shop". Youth ages 15-18 gain skills and training by repairing donated small engines with a professional mechanic while also learning how to manage a small business. Youth also have the opportunity to sell the products back to the community and to build the Tried and True Small Engine program as a self-sustaining effort. | $20,000.00 |
MIGIZI Communications Minneapolis, MN First Person Productions – Youth Led Enterprise First Person Productions is a program of MIGIZI Communications and, as a youth-led production company, works to develop the skills of youth as they strive toward their desired future careers in the media industry. They learn about video production and the traits necessary to succeed in this profession. They are a local company to whom people can turn for quality video projects all with a fresh Native touch. | $15,000.00 |
Omprakash, Fiscal Agent Seattle, WA CEPIA Asociación Support CEPIA (Costa Rica) A second 10-month entrepreneurial youth development programs. | $5,000.00 |
Pillsbury United Communities Minneapolis, MN Sisterhood Boutique The Sisterhood Boutique employs and trains East African immigrant young women and girls through an intensive four-month internship program. Training includes entrepreneurial thinking, business management of a clothing retail store, design and development of new fashion statements, the development of community events, mentoring, and leadership development. | $10,000.00 |
Spark-Y Minneapolis, MN Jobs for Youth: Creating continuity between Spark-Y programs The year-round paid apprenticeship program at Spark-Y's Urban Ag Lab develops continuity between Spark-Y's school programs and Spark-Y's summer internship programs. | $20,000.00 |
St. Paul Youth Services St. Paul, MN St. Paul Youth Services focuses on reducing racial disparities for African American youth in all four priority areas (Housing Stability, Education, Economic Opportunity, and Mental Health/Well-being Support) through livable wage employment, holistic personal growth, leadership development and exploration/innovation for Black youth through their own creation of sustainable tools and strategies for youth-led policy change, participatory and representative democracy, community organizing, and wealth creation. | $14,000.00 |
The Lift Community Development Corporation St. Paul, MN Shifting Power to Young Urban Leaders The Lift is changing the guard by empowering urban young leaders to lead, and manage all of the programs and to obtain the solid training and support that will ensure their success. | $20,000.00 |
Tree Trust St. Louis Park, MN Planning and launch of "Green Teens" pilot program Green Teens is an extended learning and work opportunity for underserved youth who have excelled in the very popular Tree Trust summer program. In collaboration with partners, Green Teens will introduce youth to careers in the green sector – particularly landscaping and urban arboriculture, with opportunities for advanced career experiences and summer internships. | $14,000.00 |
Urban Boatbuilders St. Paul, MN Urban Boatbuilders Apprenticeship Program The Apprenticeship Program provides paid job training to underserved youth facing one or more barriers to employment. Youth work together in cohorts of peers to build boats, and along the way build technical, social, and emotional skills. | $20,000.00 |
Urban Roots St. Paul, MN Building Youth Social Entrepreneurship through Food, Healthy Eating, and Conservation Urban Roots provides holistic, paid youth internships to 60 diverse, low-income teens that live and/or attend school on the East Side of St. Paul. Through a progressive leadership program model, youth increase their work/life skills and explore 21st Century careers in local food production, entrepreneurship, and conservation. Youth educate their peers and community members while providing service to the East Side through the Market Garden, Conservation, and Cook Fresh programs. | $20,000.00 |
Urban Strategies St. Louis, MO Green Garden Bakery Support to strengthen networking and coordination while providing services and other supports to youth who are precariously housed in Minnesota. | $500.00 |
Minnesota Social Impact Center Minneapolis, MN Supportive Services for Homeless Youth More than 100 homeless youth move from surviving to thriving every year thanks to the holistic support services at Avenues for Homeless Youth's two youth shelters – Minneapolis Avenues and Brooklyn Avenues – with an emphasis on the Education and Career Specialists, and Mental Health Therapists. | $10,000.00 |
HOPE 4 Youth Anoka, MN Support for Homeless Youth HOPE Place is the first and only transitional housing project, and residence to homeless young people, serving the north metro suburbs of Hennepin, Ramsey, and Anoka Counties. | $22,000.00 |
The Link Minneapolis, MN Supportive Housing for Homeless Youth The Link provides 202 units of site-based and scattered-site supportive housing for vulnerable youth ages 16-24, with unique programs that meet the needs of specific groups of homeless youth, including seven programs, one which focuses on housing for young families, one which focuses on youth who identify as LGBTQ, three which focus on youth with disabilities, and one which focuses on youth experiencing homelessness in the suburbs. | $15,00.00 |
Tubman Minneapolis, MN Safe Journeys Transitional Housing for Youth Tubman's Safe Journeys Transitional Housing for Youth provides safe housing and supportive services for youth and their children who have experienced relationship violence and exploitation, including sex trafficking. Youth of all genders, ages 13 to 24, and their children will receive critically needed trauma-informed services to meet short-term needs and to help them build a path to a better life. | $23,000.00 |
Enderta Regional Development Association Aurora, CO Support of Elementary Schools #5 and #6 The Enderta Regional Development Association will complete the construction of elementary school #5 and #6 to accommodate the needs of 670+ students. These funds are matched by an Ethiopian government contract that pays for teacher salaries, school maintenance, operations and supplies. | $10,000.00 |
Mano a Mano International Partners St. Paul, MN Heavy Equipment Operation Training for Street Youth Mano a Mano Nuevo Mundo works with heavy equipment building roads and water projects that benefit rural communities and which will increase the earning potential of young men and/or street youth from Cochabamba Bolivia. | $1,500.00 |
Marnita's Table Minneapolis, MN Intentional Social Interaction The Intentional Social Interaction (ISI pronounced Izzy) creates new patterns for society where people of color, the disenfranchised, the GLBT, the poor, the unheard and the fragile (the "other") are automatically included, and valued at the policy-making and resource-sharing table. | $750.00 |
Metro-wide Engagement for Shelter & Housing (MESH-MN) Minneapolis, MN General Operations Metro-wide Engagement for Shelter & Housing (MESH) is a unique collaboration of more than sixty nonprofits, government agencies, elected officials, Tribal governments and providers of shelter and affordable housing services to foster partnerships and strengthen capacity to end homelessness. | $500.00 |
Minnesota Council on Foundations (Fiscal Agent) Minneapolis, MN Social Impact Strategies ConnectUP/MN The Social Impact Strategies program ConnectUP/MN provides outreach to, and involvement of low-income youth, who are involved in Youth Social Entrepreneurship programming in the Twin Cities Metro area. | $1,500.00 |
Montessori American Indian Childcare Center Saint Paul, MN Apprenticeship Program MAICC provides opportunities for caring, cultural identity, and learning. Children have the opportunity to see and be cared for by American Indian staff, hear Native languages and oral stories, feel welcome and safe in a beautiful, culturally-reflective environment, explore and experience the wonder of the world around us, speak and develop their native languages, and share and learn that "we are all related." | $1,500.00 |
Peace Corps Washington DC Health Post Wall and Capacity Building in Senegal The Health Center did not have a wall, and the community felt that women would seek prenatal care more frequently with a wall. It will offer a place for money, medicine and expensive medical equipment to be stored. The youth will paint murals illustrating health problems and their solutions. These murals will then teach all in the community how to prevent illnesses. | $1,000.00 |
Penumbra Theatre Minneapolis, MN General Operations Penumbra Theatre, Minnesota's only professional African American theater, illuminates the human condition through the prism of the African American experience. Penumbra's Education and Outreach activities impact more than 5,000 students each year. | $750.00 |