Resource Library

News, speeches, opinion pieces, and other information that help illustrate our work and explain our position on issues.

Tag: environment

  • Stateoftheriver
    State of the River
    ​Companion website to the Friends of the Mississippi State of the River Report, which highlights 13 key indicators of river health and details the results in ways that non-scientists can understand.
    www.stateoftheriver.com
  • Fern_tn
    Food and Environment Reporting Network
    ​The Food & Environment Reporting Network, Inc., is an independent, non-profit news organization that produces investigative reporting on food, agriculture, and environmental health. 
    http://thefern.org
  • Headwaterstn
    Traveling Upstream: Improving Water Quality of the Mississippi River
    June 2005 - Results and recommendations from a Headwaters survey of nonprofits and state/federal agencies regarding opportunities to improve the water quality of the Mississippi River.
    PDF (247 KB)
  • A Study of McKnight's Mississippi River Program: Executive Summary
    December 2009 - Headwaters Group Philanthropic Services. Research and recommendations which informed the 2009 revision of McKnight's Mississippi River program guidelines. 
    PDF, 713 KB
  • User's Guide: Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act
    Follow-up to the McKnight-funded 2008 National Research Council report.
    PDF, 4 MB
  • Food for Thought Series: Cross-program Impact on Climate Change
    March 27, 2012 - Arabella Advisors, commissioned by The McKnight Foundation. The second installment of the Food for Thought Series, a collection of third-party reports that inform our program strategies and are shared with the fields we support.
    (PDF, 372 KB)
  • Defining "We" In Environmental Advocacy
    This new must-read booklet for every environmental advocate discusses the importance of language in explaining and advancing advocacy work.
    Full report (PDF, 430 KB)
  • Creating Common Ground
    May 2006 - Minnesota's Embrace Open Space nonprofit partnership as a case study in collaborative communications. Request printed copies.
    Full report (PDF, 193 KB)