Newsroom: Impact Stories

Stories that illustrate the impact of our funding in the lives of real people, reported to us by grantees and partners.

• Impact Story: My Village Organization

  ​My Village Organization operates in the Northeast provinces of Cambodia, working for indigenous peoples' rights and natural resources management.

• Impact Story: Brooklyn Center Independent School District #286

  ​With McKnight support, Brooklyn Center ISD #286 is creating a new literacy framework, within its comprehensive system of literacy education.

• Impact Story: St Paul Promise Neighborhood

  ​The Saint Paul Promise Neighborhood is a community-wide initiative to provide the academic and social supports children need to succeed in school and in life.

• Impact Story: Urban Homeworks

  Urban Homeworks is a faith-based, innovative community development organization that produces dignified housing for low-income families.

• Central Minnesota State Arts Board

  ​October 2012 - The Central Minnesota Arts Board has served Region 7W the four-county area of Benton, Sherburne, Stearns, and Wright counties since 1979.

• Impact Story: Neuroscientists in the News

  ​Newsworthy activities of board and committee members of The McKnight Foundation Endowment Fund for Neuroscience.

• Impact Story: State of the Artist blog

  To honor our fellowships program's 30th birthday, we started a blog all about artists.

• Impact Story: Commonweal Theatre Company

  Commonweal Theatre Company is a nonprofit, professional theater company dedicated to delighting and challenging audiences in its region.

• Impact Story: Action for Environment and Communities

  ​Action for Environment and Communities (AEC) works to help create a society that is just and humane with gender equality and economic opportunity.

• Impact Story: Arkansas Public Policy Panel

  ​The Arkansas Public Policy Panel is dedicated to achieving social and economic justice by organizing citizen groups around the state.

• Impact Story: Minneapolis Public Schools

  Minneapolis Special School District #1 is working to implement its comprehensive PreK through third grade Partnership for Early Learning program at two pilot sites

• Impact Story: Association of Uganda Professional Women in Agriculture and Environment

  ​AUPWAE was founded in 1992 to improve the welfare of rural Ugandan women and girls.

• Impact Story: Association of State Wetland Managers

  ​The Association of State Wetland Managers is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to protecting, conserving, and managing the nation's wetlands.

• Impact Story: Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis

  Catholic Charitiesof St. Paul and Minneapolis strengthens families and works to end poverty andhomelessness in the Twin Cities.

• Impact Story: Central Corridor Funders Collaborative

  ​The Central Corridor Funders Collaborative comprises local and national funders that support the Central Corridor Light Rail Line