Discover how Minnesota’s Indigenous culture bearers are spurring creativity, power, and connection across the state. Organizations like Duluth’s American Indian Community Housing Organization and St. Paul’s Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance are using art to drive change and empower Indigenous communities.
Dulce Monterrubio joined McKnight in December 2023 as a program and grants associate for grants and program operations, the team that provides the grantmaking and program operations structure, resources, and expertise needed to advance overall program results. In this role, Dulce supports all aspects of the grantmaking process for Arts & Culture program grantee partners. …
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McKnight Foundation is thrilled to announce that we will soon have a new home that will allow us to powerfully move our mission forward through our physical space in the decades ahead.
Also: Welcoming two new Investment Committee members and expressing gratitude for two long-standing Board members and two Investment Committee members.
The McKnight Foundation, in partnership with the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, announces four Minnesotans as recipients of the 2023 Virginia McKnight Binger Unsung Hero Award. The awards are given to individuals who have had a significant impact on the state of Minnesota and its communities but who have not been widely recognized for their work …
McKnight Foundation, along with 24 leading philanthropies involved with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, today at COP28 in Dubai issued a joint call for a tenfold increase in funding for regenerative and agroecological transitions to address urgent global agricultural and environmental challenges. Together these philanthropies urge that to align food systems with …
The assessment examines how advocates are working to transform the transportation system, and how philanthropy is supporting those efforts. The assessment looks at both mobility choices (walking, bicycling and transit) and electrification (moving from gas-powered to electric vehicles) as well as the specific challenges and opportunities inherent in each.
McKnight Foundation Leaders Comment on Legislation and Progress Toward Equitable Clean Energy Future (November 28, 2023) Earlier today, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a suite of clean energy legislation that moves the state closer to economy-wide decarbonization by committing Michigan utilities to provide their customers with 100 percent clean electricity by 2040, increasing energy efficiency …
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has dedicated its annual State of Food and Agriculture Report to examining the hidden costs of our current agrifood system on our health, the environment, and society, which they found amount to at least $10 trillion a year, representing almost 10 percent of global GDP.