Courageous Character: Jeanelle Austin
Jeanelle Austin’s life’s work centers around pursuing racial justice with joy, and helping give others the tools to do the same.
Sea Change for Equitable Climate Investment: Q&A with Ben Passer
The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will deploy $27 billion in funding to mobilize private capital and deliver clean energy and climate solutions like heat pumps, solar, and electric vehicles to communities across America, particularly those with the greatest need and opportunity. Ben Passer shares more about the impact in the Midwest and McKnight’s support that led to this historic moment.
Knowledge Democratization Approaches for Food Systems Transformation
A recent article published in Nature Food by Jane Maland Cady and Paul Roge, among many others, found that broadening what counts as knowledge and expanding participatory research methods is key to growing more equitable food systems.
Standing in the Gap: The Case for Family Sustaining Wages in Minnesota
Research released by the Center for Economic Inclusion and funded by the McKnight Foundation outlines how providing family sustaining wages for workers in essential jobs in Minnesota – most of them disproportionately held by women of color and essential to our community’s day-to-day operations – would also benefit employers and the larger Minnesota economy.
Nominations Open for 2024 Virginia McKnight Binger Heart of Community Honor
Celebrating people who are the pulse of Minnesota’s caring and connected communities. McKnight is delighted to announce our newly revamped awards program: the Virginia McKnight Binger Heart of Community Honor (formerly the Virginia Binger McKnight Unsung Hero Awards), which is now open for nominations. In partnership with the Minnesota Council of Foundations, this awards program …
Virginia McKnight Binger Heart of Community Honor
Explore Meet the Honorees Submit a Nomination Nominations will re-open in May 2025 Celebrating people who are the pulse of Minnesota’s caring and connected communities. For nearly four decades, the McKnight Foundation has honored individuals who have had a significant impact on the state of Minnesota and its communities but who have not been widely recognized …
Courageous Character: Katherin Meza
Courageous Character Katherin Meza is leading agroecological research with smallholder potato farmers in the Peruvian highlands to build just Andean food systems in collaboration with Grupo Yanapai, Colorado State University, AGUAPAN, and International Potato Center.
Viva La Papa: 20 Years of Collaboration for Sustainable Food Systems in the Andes
Potato guardians and researchers in Peru are working together to grow Indigenous knowledge, livelihoods, and power through a 20-year-old Andes Community of Practice, creating just and agroecological food systems across the region and globe.
McKnight Joins Impact Investors Calling for Renewed Commitments to Climate Change Among Major Financial Institutions
McKnight Foundation president Tonya Allen joins fellow impact investing leaders in a joint statement to urge major financial institutions leaving Climate Action 100+ to recommit to their climate pledges and to their engagement with the corporate sector.
Muneer Karcher-Ramos
Muneer Karcher-Ramos joined McKnight in March 2024 as Vibrant & Equitable Communities (Communities) program director. The Communities program works to advance a vibrant future for all Minnesotans with shared power, prosperity, and participation. Muneer brings more than 15 years of experience working in and with communities to create greater opportunity for many residents in our …