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: Metropolitan Council

  ​The Metropolitan Council is the regional planning organization for the seven-county Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area.

• Impact Story: Ten Thousand Things

  ​Ten Thousand Things brings lively, intelligent theater to people with little access to the wealth of the arts.

• Impact Story: MacPhail Center for Music

  ​MacPhail Center for Music seeks to provide students of all backgrounds and abilities access to exceptional music learning experiences.

• Impact Story: In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre

  ​In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre creates vital, poetic theater for all ages and backgrounds

• Impact Story: Lake Region Arts Council

  ​Lake Region Arts Council serves nine counties, including Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Traverse, and Wilkin.

• Impact Story: The Nature Conservancy

  ​The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

• Impact Story: Irrigate

  Irrigate is an artist-led creative placemaking initiative spanning the six miles of the Central Corridor Light Rail Transit line during the years of its construction.

• Impact Story: Youthprise

  ​Youthprise aims boldly for the vision that Minnesota will lead the nation in accelerating leadership and innovation beyond the classroom.

• Chamber Music Society of MN

  ​The Chamber Music Society of Minnesota is a classical music ensemble founded in 1992.