Overview
As a statewide center for philanthropy, The Minneapolis Foundation draws the community together to tackle many of the toughest challenges our region faces. We accomplish this in many ways including public awareness, grantmaking, advocacy, and community initiatives.
Click on the icons below to learn more about our community initiatives and public information campaigns.
Education
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The Minnesota Dream Fund is a collaborative initiative among Minnesota Foundations to support efforts to ensure equal opportunity for achievement. The first effort of the Minnesota Dream Fund is focused on eradicating racism, gender inequities, and other systemic barriers to educational achievement by women, people of color, and tribal communities.
Visit the Minnesota Dream Fund website. |
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Destination 2010 is a student achievement and scholarship program for selected students in the Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools.
Visit the Destination 2010 website. |
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Measuring Up was a "report card" on the Minneapolis Public Schools, produced in 2001 and 2003 jointly by The Minneapolis Foundation, Minneapolis Public Schools, and the Greater Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce. The report documented progress made towards goals, provided measures of accountability and comparative school data, and helped Minneapolis families research and select schools for their children. |
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Housing
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Let's Fix This, a Minneapolis Foundation public information campaign on homelessness among Minnesota children, was conducted in 2001-02.
Visit the Let's Fix This website. |
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Immigration
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Discovering Common Ground, launched in October 2004 with a brochure and art exhibit, is a multi-faceted initiative on immigration in Minnesota. The 2004-05 season of Minnesota Meeting will also focus on this topic.
Visit the immigration website
Download the brochure (PDF format)
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Minnesota, Nice or Not? was a Minneapolis Foundation public information campaign on recent immigrants to Minnesota. The campaign was launched in 1999 and included a brochure, a website, radio ads, bus shelter posters, and other vehicles. Click on the images below to view PDF versions of the campaign ads.
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Statewide Advocacy
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"Why Minnesota Needs All-Day, Every Day Kindergarten" is a brochure produced by The Minneapolis Foundation, advocating for funding for statewide all-day kindergarten
Click here for more information about why Minnesota needs all-day kindergarten funded. |
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Deleted for Budgetary Reasons was launched to promote public dialogue and informed choices in addressing the state's budget crisis.
Visit the campaign website, www.GoodforMinnesota.org
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Think Twice Before You Cut, is a public information campaign jointly produced by The Minneapolis Foundation and the Minnesota Council on Nonprofits. The campaign was created in 2001 (launched in early 2002) in response to State funding cuts to nonprofits who deliver essential services to Minnesotans in need.
Visit the Think Twice website (by doing so you will leave The Minneapolis Foundation's website). |
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Other Issues
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Minnesota Meeting is a public affairs program of The Minneapolis Foundation. Three or four times a year, representatives of the corporate, public, and nonprofit sectors -- along with students and concerned citizens -- convene over lunch to share ideas and information about issues of shared concern to Minnesotans.
Visit the Minnesota Meeting website
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Nommo Forum is a public policy series designed to explore divergent perspectives on issues relevant to the African American community. The forums bring together preeminent Black authors and community leaders to engage in the experience of "nommo," the magic power of the word. The Minneapolis co-produced the inaugural season in 2002.
Visit the Nommo website. |
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Where There's a Will, There's a Way
This Minneapolis Foundation public information campaign encouraged the creation of wills, especially among African Americans.
Visit the Will campaign website -- please note that the images may take a few seconds to load. |
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