Resource Library: Mn Initiative Foundations

Reports, research, and web-based resources — created both by McKnight and by our partners and other field leaders — that address the ideas and issues at play in our work.

• Factsheet: Minnesota Initiative Foundations

  June 2011 - Detailed information about the Initiative Funds.
  PDF, 275KB

• Local Food Systems as Regional Economic Drivers in Southern Minnesota

  June 2012 - A joint report by Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation and The McKnight Foundation
  PDF, 2.4 MB

• Minnesota Early Childhood Initiative: Lessons Learned 2003-2006

  November 2006 - The story of the early childhood coalitions organized by the six Minnesota Initiative Foundations in Greater Minnesota.
  PDF (1.2 MB)

• Initiative Foundation

  Serving the counties of Benton, Cass, Chisago, Crow Wing, Isanti, Kanabec, Mille Lacs, Morrison, Pine, Sherburne, Stearns, Todd, Wadena, and Wright.
  http://www.ifound.org/

• Northland Foundation

  Serving the counties of Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, and St. Louis.
  http://www.northlandfdn.org/

• Northwest Minnesota Foundation

  Serving the counties of Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, and Roseau.
  http://www.nwmf.org/

• Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation

  Serving the counties of Blue Earth, Brown, Dodge, Faribault, Fillmore, Goodhue, Freeborn, Houston, LeSueur, Martin, Mower, Nicollet, Olmsted, Rice, Sibley, Steele, Wabasha, Waseca, Watonwan, and Winona.
  http://www.smifoundation.org/

• Southwest Initiative Foundation

  Serving the counties of Big Stone, Chippewa, Cottonwood, Jackson, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Lincoln, Lyon, McLeod, Meeker, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Redwood, Renville, Rock, Swift, and Yellow Medicine.
  http://www.swifoundation.org/

• West Central Initiative

  Serving the counties of Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Stevens, Traverse, and Wilkin.
  http://www.wcif.org/