Grantee Database

This database contains a representative list of grants approved since 2004. Grants appear alphabetically by organization name, with most recent grants first. Unless otherwise specified, grants are for general operating support.
1186 results found

University of Malawi

Lilongwe

Legume Best Bets to Acquire Phosphorus and Nitrogen, and Improve Family Nutrition

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $434,676

to purchase a vehicle for the project entitled Legume Best Bets to Acquire Phosphorus and Nitrogen, and Improve Family Nutrition

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $35,000

University of Malawi

Lilongwe

for the project Scaling Up Integrated Soil Fertility Management: Economics, Policy, and Extension Strategies to Improve Human Nutrition and Soils in Malawi

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $126,000

for the project Development and Promotion of Bambara Groundnuts for Improved Human Nutrition in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $71,000

for the project Best Bets Two: For a Changing World

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $258,500

for the project Development and Promotion of Alectra Resistant Cowpea Cultivars for Smallholder Farmers in Malawi and Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $159,000

to support MSc. program student training in Food Science and Human Nutrition at Bunda College of Agriculture, University of Malawi

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $20,000

for the project Development and Promotion of Bambara Groundnuts for Improved Human Nutrition in Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $166,000

University of Minnesota Foundation

Minneapolis MN

For a fellowship program for photographers

Program Area: Arts
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $195,516

To support the Green Lands, Blue Waters initiative

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $90,000

For CitySongs, an afterschool and summer youth performance choir and community development program

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $120,000

For a study about the economic and aesthetic impact of organizational and physical spaces on Minnesota artists

Program Area: Arts
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $55,000

For a conference to educate leaders about regional issues

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $23,000

To support the Regional Growth Initiative, which is exploring ways communities can effectively plan for and manage growth

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $200,000

For the direct design assistance program of the Metropolitan Design Center

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $100,000

For the Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization Program, which improves the ability of neighborhood organizations to complete projects

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $180,000

To engage parents in the community

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $415,000

To place student/faculty teams in Minnesota Initiative Foundations communities to assist with community building efforts and research

Program Area: Rural
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $75,000

For the project, "Fostering the Farm-School Connection"

Program Area: Environment
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $80,000

to develop and conduct outreach programs that make available research findings from the Center for Transportation Studies' Access to Destinations Study

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $225,000

to provide support and skills development to help Twin Cities neighborhood groups improve their communities

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $63,986

for the Direct Design Assistance program of the Metropolitan Design Center, and for the under-the-bridge Lake Street Project

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $240,000

for the evaluation of a professional development tool for infant and toddler caregivers and an education resource for parents

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $185,000

for support of the Edge Project, which helps rapidly growing communities on the edge of the region better plan for future development

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $180,000

to purchase translation devices to be used at community multilingual meetings and events

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $45,000

for the Minnesota Works Together project

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $120,000

to develop a knowledge base and technical assistance program to promote sustainable affordable housing design in the region

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $400,000

to support the Minnesota Saves Network program

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $86,000

to inspire the creation of a dynamic pedestrian environment around and under the elevated Lake Street LRT station and Hiawatha Bridge making the area safer and more appealing for pedestrians

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $50,000

for general operations of the Institute on Race and Poverty

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $300,000

for the Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization Program, which improves the ability of neighborhood organizations to complete projects, and to support a Hmong student organizer

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $220,000

to support the Green Lands, Blue Waters initiative

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $70,000

to expand the Center for Early Education and Development's contributions to the emerging early care and education system in Minnesota

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $375,000

for CitySongs, a year-round youth choir and youth development program

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $35,000

to support the work of the Children, Youth, and Family Consortium to address Minnesota's educational disparities through parenting skills building and a parent educators network

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $146,966

for a research project on space and resources for Ojibwe artists in Minnesota

Program Area: Arts
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $50,000

for a summer youth transportation collaborative on the east side of St. Paul, and for public artwork for the West Side Circulator's bus stops

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $40,000

to establish a regranting program to provide small grants to neighborhood organizations to increase outreach and partnerships

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $200,000

for the Direct Design Assistance program of the Metropolitan Design Center

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $100,000

for support of the Edge II Project, which helps rapidly growing communities on the edge of the region better plan for future development

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $400,000

to support a training program for Twin Cities neighborhood organizers, and to build organizational capacity

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $40,000

to support the Community Assistantship Program for Greater Minnesota

Program Area: Rural
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $60,000

to support the Charles R. Krusell Fellowship Program for Community Development

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $610,000

to support the Minnesota Center for Neighborhood Organizing

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $330,000

for an educational video documentary about the Mississippi River in Minnesota

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $130,000

to support the Early Childhood Research Collaborative

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $499,596

for an evaluation of a legislative program that provides funds to improve outreach and services to family, friend, and neighbor childcare providers

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $100,000

for an outcome evaluation research project of the Baby's Space Partnership

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $75,000

to support the third annual policy conference of the Minnesota legislature

Program Area: Other Grantmaking
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $10,000

to support the Minnesota Saves Network program

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $130,000

for the Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization Program, which improves the ability of neighborhood organizations to complete projects

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $210,000

to support an assessment of restoration options for the Mississippi River Gorge

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $44,000

for an information sharing and technical assistance program to promote sustainable affordable housing design in the region

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $337,600

for the Direct Design Assistance program of the Metropolitan Design Center

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $85,000

for a regranting program to provide small grants to neighborhood organizations to increase outreach and partnerships

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $100,000

to support the fourth annual policy conference of the Minnesota legislature

Program Area: Other Grantmaking
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $10,000

for the Community Growth Options program

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $175,000

to support the work of the Children, Youth, and Family Consortium to address Minnesota's educational disparities through parenting skills building and a parent educators network

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $120,000

for general operations of the Institute on Race and Poverty

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $125,000

for the Direct Design Assistance program of the Metropolitan Design Center

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $85,000

to support the Minnesota Center for Neighborhood Organizing

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $300,000

to support the Community Assistantship Program for Greater Minnesota

Program Area: Rural
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $60,000

to reduce polluted runoff from livestock operations in Minnesota

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $99,000

to build capacity of a program to develop and promote perennial crops and continuous living crop systems

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $125,000

to examine alternative models for the coordinated management of natural resources of the Mississippi River

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $23,000

to develop a comprehensive basin-wide approach for reducing streambank erosion in the Minnesota River Basin

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $75,000

for the Neighborhood Planning for Community Revitalization program

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $230,000

for the Local Government Services Redesign Guide

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $25,000

to support the fifth annual policy conference of the Minnesota legislature

Program Area: Other Grantmaking
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $10,000

to support the Neighborhood Partnership Initiative

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $240,000

to develop a Twin Cities Urban Sustainability Forum

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $20,000

to maximize the potential of Twin Cities transitways in promoting regional competitiveness and social equity

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $99,376

for the Direct Design Assistance program

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $200,000

to provide technical assistance and outreach to affordable housing developers, designers, and the construction industry through the Center for Sustainable Building Research

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $150,000

for community engagement and outreach activities related to the HUD Sustainable Community Regional Planning Grant project

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $40,000

for a fellowship program for dancers

Program Area: Arts
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $347,000

for a fellowship program for choreographers

Program Area: Arts
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $408,000

to support the 2012 One Minnesota Legislative Policy Conference

Program Area: Other Grantmaking
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $10,000

for a scoping study to design a Minnesota Water Congress

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $25,000

for a partnership with education and nonprofit agencies to provide intensive and continuous educational and family-support services targeting students from preschool to third grade

Program Area: Education & Learning
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $250,000

to provide research support for the Integrated Monitoring, Evaluation, and Planning team

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $103,000

to support the Community Assistantship Program

Program Area: Rural
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $60,000

to support the Institute on Race and Poverty

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $120,000

to support the Minnesota Center for Neighborhood Organizing

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $300,000

to research an EB-5 investor program in Minnesota

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $25,000

to support the Green Lands, Blue Waters program

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $143,000

to establish on-going and more effective communications apparatus for the Transitway Impact Research Project based at the Center for Transportation Studies to impact policy decisions and advance sustainable regional development

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $30,000

to build local capacity to assess the fiscal impacts of development

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $10,000

to fund the Neighborhood Partnership Initiative re-granting program

Program Area: Other Grantmaking
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $250,000

to support the 2013 One Minnesota Legislative Policy Conference

Program Area: Other Grantmaking
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $10,000

for the Kris Nelson Community Based Research Program

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $250,000

to support the Bell Museum of Natural History's Artist Research Projects

Program Area: Arts
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $75,000

to fund the Minnesota Platform

Program Area: Arts
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $15,000

to develop a more systematic post occupancy evaluation system with Minnesota Housing to inform best practices in the design, sustainability, and management of affordable housing

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $12,000

for the Direct Design Technical Assistance Program that fosters integrative planning and development that is economically efficient, environmentally sound, and socially equitable through innovative, design-oriented solutions

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $215,000

for a fellowship program for dancers

Program Area: Arts
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $534,000

to support data-driven research in workforce expenditures that informs and shapes policy reform

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $25,000

to support the Climate Adaptation Partnership Practitioners Conference

Program Area: Midwest Climate & Energy
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $5,000

for a fellowship program for choreographers

Program Area: Arts
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $653,000

to support the NPI:TECH re-granting program at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $200,000

to create a presentation that enhances the explanatory impact of the 2012 Maximize the Benefits of Transitway Investment research study through interactive and layered visualization of data, analysis method, and results summaries

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $13,000

to support a studentship

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $108,000

for the Community Assistantship Program to strengthen communities in Greater Minnesota

Program Area: Rural
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $60,000

University of Missouri - Columbia

Columbia MO

for the project Management of Climate Related Risks with Regards to Climate and Social Changes

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $77,000

for the project Seed Certification Processes and Social Certification: Improving Access For Widespread Impact On Households in Southern Africa

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $30,000

for the project, Management of Climate Related Risks With Regard to Social and Climate Change

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $80,000

University of Nairobi

Nairobi

for the project Towards Increased Agricultural Productivity and Food Security in East Africa Through Capacity Building in Agroecological Intensification

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $175,000

University of Nebraska Board of Regents

Lincoln NE

for the project Soil (Nutrient and Water) Management to Increase Soil Organic Matter, Sorghum Grain, and Stover Yields

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $106,000

University of Reading

Reading

Statistical Training for the CCRP West Africa and Andes Community of Practice

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $62,860

for the project Research Methods Support for The McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Program

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $1,322,000

for the project Research Methods Support for The McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Program

Program Area: International
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $1,200,000

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Madison WI

to explore wetlands restoration in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $120,000

University of Wisconsin-River Falls

River Falls WI

to support strategic planning for the St. Croix River Institute

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $50,000

University UNITED

St. Paul MN

For an organization that works to revitalize the University Avenue corridor by promoting transit oriented development

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $15,000

For an organization that works to revitalize the University Avenue corridor by promoting transit oriented development

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $110,000

for the Block by Block program, which provides architectural and business services to small businesses and property owners, and to open a new storefront Planning/Design Center

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $150,000

to support the general operations and merger of the Midway and St. Paul Transportation Management Organizations

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $50,000

to promote transit-oriented development in the University Avenue corridor

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $150,000

for general operating support

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $75,000

Upper Mississippi River Basin Association

St. Paul MN

to explore opportunities to improve interstate coordination on water quality issues

Program Area: Mississippi River
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $55,000

Urban Arts Academy

Minneapolis MN

For Arts Expression, an afterschool and summer arts and tutoring program for youth

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $15,000

for year-round arts enrichment programs for youth

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $15,000

for year-round arts enrichment programs for youth in south Minneapolis

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $30,000

for year-round arts enrichment programs for youth in south Minneapolis

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $60,000

to support year-round arts and education enrichment programs for K-12 youth

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $25,000

Urban Boatbuilders, Inc.

St. Paul MN

For a youth development program that teaches wooden boatbuilding, and for strategic planning

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2004
Grant Amount: $42,500

for a youth development program that teaches wooden boatbuilding

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2005
Grant Amount: $35,000

for a youth development agency that teaches wooden boatbuilding

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2006
Grant Amount: $35,000

for a youth development program that teaches wooden boatbuilding

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2007
Grant Amount: $35,000

for a year-round youth development program that teaches wooden boatbuilding

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2008
Grant Amount: $120,000

for general operating support

Program Area: Children & Families
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $40,000

Urban Homeworks, Inc.

Minneapolis MN
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for an affordable housing and community development organization

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $75,000

for general operating support

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $150,000

to support tornado relief efforts

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $75,000

to fill the financing gap on the Rental: Reclaim project portfolio refinancing and related capital improvements

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $215,000

for general operating support

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $200,000

Urban Land Institute

Washington DC

to support the Transportation and Infrastructure Initiative

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2009
Grant Amount: $42,500

to support the Connecting Transportation and Land-Use Systems Initiative

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2010
Grant Amount: $50,000

to support the 2011 Learning Conference on State and Local Housing Policy

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2011
Grant Amount: $15,000

to build a constituency and a set of commitments for a more sustainable and competitive region

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2012
Grant Amount: $75,000

to build a constituency and a set of commitments for a more sustainable and competitive region

Program Area: Region & Communities
Year Approved: 2013
Grant Amount: $150,000