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Ongoing Partnerships
The Foundation often works with outside partners to bring innovative approaches and sustained, comprehensive attention to bear on problems that are particularly challenging, large, or long-lasting. In these cases, grants are generally made only to designated organizations and agencies. Here are some of the special partnerships in which we are currently involved.
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Payne-Lake Community Partners
In 1994, we joined "Living Cities"-a coalition of 15 other private foundations and financial institutions around the country, as well as the federal HUD and HHS, that joined forces to strengthen urban neighborhoods.
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Regional Economic Development Group
In 2004, with the Blandin Foundation, we helped launch a public-private partnership called the Regional Economic Development Group (RED Group). This partnership seeks to create wealth in Greater Minnesota by aligning economic development resources regionally throughout the state.
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Smart Growth Organizing Project
In 2001, we gathered all the key stakeholders around the issues affecting balanced growth in the Twin Cities region-housing, transportation, open space protection, and growth management-and asked them to think about ways to work together more effectively.
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Embrace Open Space Campaign
In 2001, in partnership with a dozen Twin Cities nonprofits concerned with protecting open space in this region, we began a public engagement campaign called Embrace Open Space.
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Early Childhood Initiative
In 2000, we helped create a nonprofit-Ready 4 K-to lead the development of a statewide grassroots campaign on behalf of young children. The ultimate aim was to encourage policy changes at state and local levels that would ensure that all Minnesota's young children receive the kind of pre-school care and education that prepares them for success in school and in later life.
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