Explore The Origin Story Regional Stories Learn More The Minnesota Initiative Foundations have been the solution for economic and community development in Greater Minnesota for over 40 years. Amid the farm crisis of the 1980s, the Minnesota Initiative Foundations were created to meet a moment. Today, they stand as a powerful model for rural philanthropy, …
Welcome to the McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) visual asset download page. Please note: these resources are exclusively for the use of the CCRP Leadership Team and can only be accessed via this unique URL. As such, please do not share or distribute this link without permission from the McKnight Foundation. Mission, Vision …
Welcome to the McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) visual asset download page. Please note: these resources are exclusively for the use of the CCRP Leadership Team and can only be accessed via this unique URL. As such, please do not share or distribute this link without permission from the McKnight Foundation. Mission, Vision …
Olivia Rasmussen joined McKnight in November 2024 as a program and grants associate for Grants & Program Operations, the team that provides the grantmaking and program operations structure, resources, and expertise needed to advance overall program results. In this role, Olivia supports all aspects of the grantmaking process for Arts & Culture grantee partners. Olivia …
Explore Meet the Honorees Submit a Nomination Nominations are open April 1st through May 15th Celebrating people who are the pulse of Minnesota’s caring and connected communities. For 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 …
NDC is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that empowers aspiring under-resourced entrepreneurs to build businesses in their neighborhoods, often the most economically strained in the Twin Cities. The organization describes itself as a character lender and points to its wraparound support for entrepreneurs—both pre-loan and post-loan—for achieving a high degree of repayment. NDC’s lending …
March 2014 – A case study about the McKnight Foundation’s recently completed knowledge management discovery process. (Read the related blog post at Stanford Social Innovation Review.) Getting strategic about how you organize and redistribute knowledge can help just about anyone achieve their goals more efficiently. We at the McKnight Foundation often find ourselves at the …
2003 – Content and images from our 2002 annual report, in Adobe Acrobat format.
2004 – Content and images from our 2003 annual report, in Adobe Acrobat format.
We've seen how like-minded investors can build new and more sustainable market infrastructure. McKnight uses its voice as an institutional investor to do our part to build more transparent, responsive markets. Making Progress Together While we work alongside many dedicated mission-oriented investors with longstanding programs, impact investing is still a relatively new area of practice. …