SEARCH MENU Who We've Funded Who We've Fund Tabs FEATURED PEOPLE ORGS Search grantees from 1985 to the present Keyword GO COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTEES 2020 ECOSYSTEM GRANTEES IMPACT INVESTMENTS BUSH PRIZE WINNERS EDUCATION RESET SEARCH SORT "COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTEES" RESULTS BY MOST RECENT A-Z ACER 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Brooklyn Park, MN — This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation Grant aimed at elevating the profile of microbusinesses, accessing data on needs and practices, and creating a pipeline to resources and funding. This important work is developing and testing an idea that has the potential to transform the ecosystem of support for microbusinesses that have not received adequate visibility or resources to date. ACER will uplift those unmet needs and work to improve the ability of public agencies to provide rapid response to microbusinesses impacted by crises. ALL GRANTS Akiing 8th Fire 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Callaway, MN — Intertribal hemp cooperative development and demonstration project ALL GRANTS Akiptan 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Eagle Butte, SD — To test and support Akiptan's agriculture-lending model for Native American farmers and ranchers ALL GRANTS Alliance for Metropolitan Stability 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation Grant to surface innovative strategies that prevent gentrification and displacement. With this work, the Alliance and its partners hope to use the critical momentum around eviction prevention to explore and establish sustainable wins for renters in Minnesota that will provide benefit long after the temporary eviction moratorium ends. ALL GRANTS City of Lakes Community Land Trust 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To establish the Commercial Land Trust Initiative to demonstrate the need for, and viability of, using the community land trust mechanism to preserve the availability and affordability of community-owned commercial space ALL GRANTS 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — Communities United Against Police Brutality is the fiscal sponsor for Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence (FSFAPV). FSFAPV has a track record of supporting individuals impacted by police violence to be advocates for change. This grant would build on that work, creating a new approach that combines culturally responsive healing and self-care with support to play leadership roles in organizations to influence public safety systems change. ALL GRANTS Family Housing Fund 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To have first-time home buyers from BIPOC communities become owner-occupant landlords of 2–4-unit properties in Saint Paul in several inner ring suburbs ALL GRANTS Headwaters Foundation for Justice 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To administer the final year of a Community Innovation Grants program that supports community problem-solving in Minnesota. This work is to follow up with existing grantees and close out the program that made grants from 2013-2021. No new grantees will be selected. ALL GRANTS Helpline Center 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Sioux Falls, SD — This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation grant. Helpline Center will test the coordinated social services delivery model they developed in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in two new cities: Brookings and Watertown. They will document their efforts to share with others. The work in Sioux Falls has been very successful and as the state explores what is possible for a statewide system, having two medium-sized towns pilot the Sioux Falls model will further contribute to the efforts to build a statewide network. ALL GRANTS Hennepin Healthcare Foundation 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To pilot a trauma-informed primary care model at Hennepin Healthcare's East Lake Clinic as an incubator with plans to implement the model system-wide ALL GRANTS Lakota Funds 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Kyle, SD — To develop an online mapping resource that spans and connects Lakota history, culture and place through a community-led process ALL GRANTS Latino Economic Development Center 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Paul, MN — The Latino Economic Development Center leads a collaborative that includes a broad range of immigrant business owners who are served by the African Economic Development Solutions, Council on American-Islamic Relations - MN Chapter, and African Development Center. This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation Grant effort that supports the collaborative's long-term strategy to transform past disinvestment in the immigrant community. Collaborators will provide immediate access to financial resources to impacted immigrant business owners and rural areas. ALL GRANTS Lead For America 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Dodge City, KS — Lead For America will establish Waseca, MN as a "demonstration city" serving as a hub for rural economic and community development. This will build on the success they have had in supporting a diverse cohort of young, rural leaders to be effective leaders in their hometowns. Once developed, the hub will be a lab and training center to test and spread ideas that work across communities. ALL GRANTS Lower Phalen Creek Project 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Paul, MN — To create a model of public-private partnership with government agencies that will transform the way government respects and honors Dakota history and cultural beliefs in managing lands and waters ALL GRANTS Minneapolis Area Synod, ELCA 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — This grant supports the Minneapolis Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to expand the use of its community organizing model to protect consumers where payday lending is prevalent. This effort aims to make payday lenders modify terms of loan products under more competitive market conditions and transform how individuals access loans. This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation grant to support this work. ALL GRANTS Native American Community Clinic 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — This grant supports the Native American Community Clinic to adapt its telehealth visit model to meet an urgent need for coordinated health care for Native Americans living in Minneapolis. This work will transform the existing health care system serving Native Americans, prepare for when extra state funding ends and a possible recurrence of COVID-19. This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation grant to support this work. ALL GRANTS Niibi Center 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Callaway, MN — Niibi Center will partner with community members and organizations to recommend guiding standards and regulatory practices that support the Rights of Manoomin ('good berry' in Ojibwe and refers to wild rice) law on White Earth Nation and beyond. ALL GRANTS North Dakota Council on the Arts 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Bismarck, ND — Dakota Legacy, a sponsored organization of North Dakota Council on the Arts, seeks to work in partnership with community, arts, and education organizations to “repatriate, contextualize, and make more accessible traditional Lakota songs recorded on the Standing Rock reservation” by ethnomusicologist Frances Densmore between 1911-1914. Many of these songs are currently stored at the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress and remain inaccessible to Indigenous communities. ALL GRANTS OneHeart 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Rapid City, SD — To provide transitional housing with wrap around assistance to reduce the reoccurrence of homelessness in Rapid City, South Dakota ALL GRANTS Oyate Hotanin 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Paul, MN — This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation grant aimed at expanding and embedding an innovative partnership model between community members and juvenile justice system leaders to transform Ramsey County justice system practices. With this grant, Oyate Hotanin will help Ramsey County expand alternatives to detention through community-based restorative justice strategies, as well as explore increasing the criminal categories that are eligible for this alternative pathway. The goal is to launch this work in Ramsey County, with the intention of implementing it in nearby tribal communities. ALL GRANTS Prairie Island Indian Community 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Welch, MN — To address the lack of a culturally sustaining food systems and energy insecurity to support the food system in alignment with traditional values and principles ALL GRANTS Prison Fellowship 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Landsdowne, VA — Prison Fellowship will spread the practice of using a Prison Culture Assessment (PCA) to improve prison environments in North Dakota and Minnesota. Results from the PCA will be used to reform rehabilitation programs within correction systems and enable correctional leaders to channel resources for better functioning prison environments. ALL GRANTS Propel Nonprofits 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To develop a community hub for the creation and application of culturally-relevant education resources ALL GRANTS Rosebud Economic Development Corporation 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Mission, SD — The Wolakota Buffalo Range (WBR) is a dynamic, multidimensional project that will regenerate the land, people, and economy of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate by returning buffalo at a scale essential to ensuring they survive and thrive. With a capacity to support 1,500 animals, the WBR will become North America’s largest Native American owned and managed buffalo herd and will model how to integrate large herds within Native nations in the region and beyond. This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation grant to support this effort. ALL GRANTS RoundtableRx 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To develop Minnesota’s first prescription medication repository program and make it accessible to communities with the greatest needs ALL GRANTS Running Strong for American Indian Youth 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Alexandria, VA — This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation Grant for the Mni Wizipan Wakan (Water Bundles) Project. This work aims to manage and protect water rights on the Ihanktonwan (Yankton) Reservation by creating a political, scientific and legal basis for tribal-federal government co-management of the landscape and hydroscape of the Missouri River Cultural Basin that passes through tribal lands. This grant supports developing and testing an idea that has the potential to transform the way tribes manage water. ALL GRANTS Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Mckinleyville, CA — To develop energy self-reliance to the benefit of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe ALL GRANTS South Dakota Community Foundation 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Pierre, SD — To administer the final year of a Community Innovation Grants program that supports community problem-solving in South Dakota. This work is to follow up with existing grantees and close out the program that made grants from 2013-2021. No new grantees will be selected. ALL GRANTS Springboard for the Arts 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Paul, MN — To test shifts in opportunity, power and narrative through a Guaranteed Income Pilot for artists, culture bearers and creatives in St. Paul, MN ALL GRANTS Tanka Fund 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Kyle, SD — This is the first phase of work to establish new markets for Native-raised, grass-fed beef and buffalo. Tanka Fund will create the Tanka Resilient Agricultural Company as a social enterprise to build the capacity of individual Native cattle and bison producers and create and test a new collective marketing approach. ALL GRANTS The Consensus Council 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Bismarck, ND — To administer the final year of a Community Innovation Grants program that supports community problem-solving in North Dakota. This work is to follow up with existing grantees and close out the program that made grants from 2013-2021. No new grantees will be selected. ALL GRANTS Thunder Valley CDC 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Porcupine, SD — For the Regional Equity Initiative to address inequities that exist for women in the Pine Ridge community by supporting women's leadership, traditional women’s societies and honoring champions of change ALL GRANTS West Side Community Organization 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Paul, MN — The West Side Community Organization (WSCO) is developing a strategy that can improve and preserve naturally occurring affordable housing in the west side of Saint Paul, while providing a pathway for collective ownership by tenants. WSCO is developing a tenant union, which will organize and train tenant leaders to manage a trust that supports a tenant-driven ownership structure. WSCO will collaborate with Trust Neighborhoods to acquire and rehabilitate naturally occurring affordable housing, and will collaborate with Land Bank Twin Cities to grow tenant ownership of properties. ALL GRANTS World Wildlife Fund 2021 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Washington, DC — This grant builds on a previous Community Innovation grant to align the stewardship of Pine Ridge tribal lands with community needs and aspirations. The next phase of the work is to form an innovative public/Native nation partnership that indigenizes conservation by bringing the Oglala Lakota peoples' perspective to co-management of the 133,000-acre, tribally owned portion of Pine Ridge Reservation, designated the South Unit of Badlands National Park. This work has the potential to transform the way Native nations manage and regain cultural connections to their lands within national park boundaries. ALL GRANTS African American Leadership Forum 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To create a Community Investment Fund using an integrated capital model to promote access for black communities and work towards eliminating the racial wealth gap ALL GRANTS Black Hills Area Community Foundation 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Rapid City, SD — To improve data collection and analysis by Rapid City Collective Impact for its Affordable Housing Initiative ALL GRANTS Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Cloud, MN — To establish Minnesota Safe Harbor for All, a statewide effort to address sex trafficking and prostitution ALL GRANTS Council on American-Islamic Relations, Minnesota 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — Partners in Change: Building Resiliency within Minnesota’s Muslim Community, and Equipping Communities to Respond to and Prevent Bias in Greater Minnesota ALL GRANTS Ducks Unlimited 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Memphis, TN — To develop a demonstration farm in Beadle County, South Dakota to improve soil and water health with input from producers such as farmers, ranchers and landowners in the James River Valley region ALL GRANTS EmBe 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Sioux Falls, SD — To create a Sioux Falls Area Childcare Collaborative staffing pool ALL GRANTS Enterprise Community Partners 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Columbia, MD — To pilot a peer learning community in South Dakota for increasing homeownership opportunities and creating a mortgage ready environment in tribal communities ALL GRANTS First Children's Finance 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To increase the sustainability and supply of high quality child care in sovereign Native nations within the Bush Foundation region ALL GRANTS Grand Forks Housing Authority 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Grand Forks, ND — To improve access to behavioral health services for low-income individuals in North Dakota through service provider supports ALL GRANTS Greater Minnesota Housing Fund 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Paul, MN — To identify regional solutions to reduce unsheltered homelessness in the seven-county metro area of the Twin Cities ALL GRANTS Immigrant Development Center 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Moorhead, MN — To establish the New American Loan Fund and related services to help low-income, low-wealth and disadvantaged immigrant business owners join the economic mainstream in the Fargo-Moorhead region ALL GRANTS Itasca County 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Grand Rapids, MN — To partner with justice-involved youth and their families in Itasca County to design and pilot a whole-family solution led by Itasca County Public Health that is appropriate, sustainable, and impactful ALL GRANTS Local Initiatives Support Corporation 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS New York, NY — For community engagement to advance social impact investing and equitable development in designated Opportunity Zones ALL GRANTS Neighborhood Development Center 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Paul, MN — To create capacity and support for African American businesses to survive and recover during COVID-19 ALL GRANTS North Dakota Community Foundation 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Bismarck, ND — To contribute additional funds to the Bush Foundation donor advised fund at the North Dakota Community Foundation ALL GRANTS North Dakota Rural Electric Cooperative Foundation 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Mandan, ND — Implementation and evaluation of a rural grocery redistribution hub to demonstrate how distribution channels can be modified to improve rural food access and to benefit the regional economy ALL GRANTS Project for Pride in Living 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To address emergency operational needs and sector wide problems faced by affordable housing providers due to COVID 19 ALL GRANTS Sacred Pipe Resource Center 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Mandan, ND — To facilitate a healing process that addresses long-standing shared trauma between Native and non-Native community members ALL GRANTS Second Harvest Heartland 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Paul, MN — To mobilize a collaborative effort to ensure families receive meals during the COVID-19 outbreak ALL GRANTS Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Sioux Falls, SD — To pilot the use of a Housing Retention Specialist to prevent evictions in the City of Sioux Falls ALL GRANTS Sisseton Wahpeton College 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Agency Village, SD — Dakod Ohna Wasagic’iyapi, to strengthen yourself through the Dakota language ALL GRANTS South Dakota State University 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Brookings, SD — Conducting community deliberations to enhance inclusion among Brookings area businesses ALL GRANTS Southside Harm Reduction Services 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To build a community-based overdose prevention site in Minneapolis ALL GRANTS Southwest Initiative Foundation 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Hutchinson, MN — To pilot a local network of employers from Kandiyohi, Meeker, Renville and Redwood counties in Minnesota ALL GRANTS Spirit of Peace United Church of Christ of Sioux Falls 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Sioux Falls, SD — To create a fund and fill gaps in resources accessible to immigrant and undocumented communities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic ALL GRANTS Tasks Unlimited 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To develop a low-barrier housing model that can provide stable housing for individuals experiencing homelessness in Minneapolis, Minnesota ALL GRANTS The Enitan Story 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Fridley, MN — To facilitate the expansion of Minnesota’s Safe Harbor laws to include labor trafficking ALL GRANTS The Good Acre 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Falcon Heights, MN — To implement the Local Emergency Assistance Farm Fund ALL GRANTS TNT Kid's Fitness 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Fargo, ND — To adapt and test an online learning model created for students with special needs, their parents, and paraprofessionals in rural southeast North Dakota school districts ALL GRANTS Tuttle Rural Innovation Center 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Tuttle, ND — To create a rural community and economy that exists at the intersection of food, art and entrepreneurship ALL GRANTS University of South Dakota 2020 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Vermillion, SD — Advance Care Planning and Palliative Care: Quality Conversations to guide End of Life decisions ALL GRANTS Appetite for Change 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — Technical assistance to support increased capacity for Bush Prize grant #17-61458 to advance the organization’s charitable mission ALL GRANTS Black Hills Special Services Cooperative 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Sturgis, SD — To create a trauma-informed approach to building career pathways for low-income adult learners ALL GRANTS Concordia College, Moorhead 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Moorhead, MN — To develop long-term, community-based, proactive solutions to climate change in order to reduce vulnerability and reinforce the strengths of people, infrastructure and institutions of Moorhead-Fargo ALL GRANTS Domestic Violence Crisis Center 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minot, ND — To develop a Domestic Violence High Risk Team in Minot, North Dakota ALL GRANTS Dunn County 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Manning, ND — A collaborative process for landscape conservation in Western North Dakota ALL GRANTS Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Hayward, WI — To support Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia’s staff participation in activities to increase knowledge of nonprofit functions and skills in financial management ALL GRANTS Hope Community 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To pilot a Community Ownership model to preserve affordable housing and reduce displacement in the Phillips Neighborhood of Minneapolis ALL GRANTS Isuroon 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To reduce disparities in reproductive health care for African immigrant women in Minnesota with female genital cutting ALL GRANTS Itasca Waters 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Grand Rapids, MN — To develop a community-defined vision and action plan to protect Itasca County’s water resources ALL GRANTS Metropolitan Center for Independent Living 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Paul, MN — To collectively develop solutions to solve the Personal Care Assistants crisis ALL GRANTS Minneapolis Foundation 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To collaboratively develop a Muslim Chaplaincy program as a means to provide culturally grounded support to youth and families ALL GRANTS Minnesota Council on Foundations 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Minneapolis, MN — To achieve a fully inclusive 2020 Census count in historically undercounted communities in Minnesota by Minnesota Census Mobilization Partnership ALL GRANTS Oglala Lakota County School District 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Batesland, SD — To develop a model for Career and Technical Education that is grounded in Lakota culture that provides education for Native students in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ALL GRANTS Phumulani Minnesota African Women Against Violence 2019 COMMUNITY INNOVATION GRANTS Saint Paul, MN — To host African women’s tea ceremonies for African immigrant women to increase understanding of gender-based violence, build a community of support, and begin to generate ideas on preventing gender-based violence ALL GRANTS LOAD MORE Social Media TWITTER FACEBOOK YOUTUBE INSTAGRAM Footer HOME JOB OPPORTUNITIES BRAND GUIDELINES SUBSCRIBE CONTACT US