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Key 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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Central Corridor Funders Collaborative
Housed at the Saint Paul Foundation, CCFC is comprised of local and national foundations dedicated to unlocking the transformative potential of the proposed light rail transit line connecting Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
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Early Childhood Initiative
We helped create Ready 4 K to lead the development of a statewide grassroots campaign on behalf of young children. The aim was to encourage policy changes at state and local levels that would ensure that Minnesota's children receive preschool care and education that prepares them for success in school and in later life.
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The EDGE Project
Initiated in partnership with the University of Minnesota's Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, the EDGE Project examines how communities on the rural-urban edge of the Twin Cities metropolitan area deal with growth and development issues.
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Minnesota Compass
Led by Wilder Research, with support from McKnight and eight other area foundations, and built on the success of Twin Cities Compass, Minnesota Compass is a new indicators website that tracks data statewide to measure progress and inspire action.
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Nexus 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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