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| Alliance of Early Childhood Professionals | Minneapolis | MN | $40,000 | Wicoie Nandagikendan Urban Immersion Project | To support the Wicoie Nandagikendan Urban Immersion Language Project. |
| Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School | Bena | MN | $35,000 | Niigaane Immersion Program | To support the K-3rd grade Niigaane Immersion Program. |
| Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School | Bena | MN | $60,000 | Effectiveness Research | To support the second year of research efforts to determine the effectiveness of culturally-based education on student academic achievement. |
| Dakota Language Society | Minneapolis | MN | $35,000 | Master-Apprentice Project | To support a master/apprentice learning relationship. |
| Duluth-Superior Area Educational Television Corporation | Duluth | MN | $20,000 | Native Report | To support its Native Report series which will air on Minnesota public television stations. |
| Lakota Language Consortium, Inc. | Bloomington | IN | $15,000 | The New Lakota Dakota Dictionary Project | To support the final production costs for the publication of the New Lakota-Dakota Dictionary. |
| Native American Community Board | Lake Andes | SD | $20,000 | Yankton Sioux Language and Heritage Preservation Program | To implement a summer project that promotes youth interaction with tribal elders and among family members. |
| Red Cloud Indian School, Inc. | Pine Ridge | SD | $20,000 | Michante Etan Wowaglake: My Heart is in My Words | To implement a comprehensive planning process for its Lakota language project, Michante Etan Wowaglake—My Heart is in My Words. |
| University of Minnesota Sponsored Projects Administration | Minneapolis | MN | $50,000 | Gekinoo’imaagejig Ojibwe Language Immersion Nest: Enwayaang | To support the newly created Gekinoo’imaagjig Ojibwe Language Immersion Nest, Enwayaang, based at the Duluth campus. |
| University of Minnesota Sponsored Projects Administration | Minneapolis | MN | $35,000 | Fourth Minnesota Indigenous Language Symposium | To promote learning, sharing, and building community awareness and long-term sustainability for learning heritage languages. |
| Waadookodaading: An Ojibwe Language Immersion School | Hayward | WI | $60,000 | Ojibwe Language Teacher | To support language revitalization efforts by funding an Ojibwe language teacher, language/curriculum development, and staff training. |
| White Earth Tribal and Community College | Mahnomen | MN | $35,000 | Teacher Education Program | To support the activities of the newly created teacher education program. |
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| African American Adoption and Permanency Planning Agency | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | General Operating Support | For general operating support. |
| Afton Historical Society Press | Afton | MN | $10,000 | To Be Free | To supply 1,000 copies of To Be Free to schools, youth-serving nonprofit organizations, and libraries throughout Minnesota. |
| Aishah Center for Women, Inc. | Minneapolis | MN | $7,500 | General Operating Support | For general operating support. |
| aMaze | Minneapolis | MN | $20,000 | General Operating Support | To promote positive learning environments for all children by introducing diversity through the common theme of family. |
| Athletes Committed to Educating Students (A.C.E.S.) | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | General Operating Support | For general operating support and program needs associated with its after-school tutoring/mentoring program for inner-city youth. |
| Aurora St. Anthony Neighborhood Development Corporation | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Community Development Work | To support its community development work. |
| Avenues for Homeless Youth | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | Nurse Case Management and Health Support Program | To provide comprehensive nursing case management to clients. |
| BLIND, Inc. | Minneapolis | MN | $8,500 | Buddy Program | to provide Blind children, ages 9-14, with the skills, self-confidence, and knowledge about blindness that they need to function successfully in their home, school, and community environments. |
| Children’s Law Center of Minnesota | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | General Operating Support | For general operating support for legal representation to children in MinnesotaХs foster care system. |
| City of Lakes Community Land Trust | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | General Operating Support | For general operating support to work for affordable housing in Minneapolis. |
| Community Stabilization Project | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Tenant Remedy Act Project | To support the Tenant Remedy Act Project. |
| Dads Make a Difference | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | General Operating Support | For general operating support. |
| East Side Learning Center | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | General Operating Support | To support direct literacy service to economically disadvantaged children. |
| Everybody Wins! Minnesota | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Power Lunch Program Evaluation | To partially fund a comprehensive program evaluation of its Power Lunch reading program. |
| Free Arts for Abused Children of Minnesota | Minneapolis | MN | $20,000 | Weekly Mentorship Program | To support the continuation and expansion of its Weekly Mentorship Program to abused, neglected, at-risk, and homeless children. |
| Haboon Magazine | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Haboon African Youth Journalism Program | To support the Haboon African Youth Journalist Program. |
| InnerCity Tennis | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | Kidspeed Programming at the Colin Powell Youth Leadership Center | To expand outreach programs in the Central and Phillips neighborhoods of Minneapolis. |
| Inter-Tribal Elder Services | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | Grandparents Circle School Attendance Program | To assist American Indian grandparents who raise their grandchildren improve attendance for their grandchildren in grades K-5. |
| Kids ‘n Kinship | Apple Valley | MN | $8,000 | Program Support | For program support to conduct home visits to assess children’s needs, and to recruit, screen, and train appropriate mentors for them. |
| Kids Voting Minneapolis | Minneapolis | MN | $7,500 | General Operating Support | For general operating support. |
| L.E.A.D. (Leadership Empowerment And Development) | Minneapolis | MN | $7,000 | Organizational Development Services | To support the Organizational Development Services program that works to enhance the sustainability and effectiveness of at least thirty African-led nonprofit organizations. |
| La Escuelita | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | Program & Capacity Building Support | For program and capacity building support. |
| La Oportunidad, Inc. | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | El Camino and Latino Youth Program | To support its El Camino and Latino Youth Program. |
| Metropolitan State University Foundation | St. Paul | MN | $2,500 | 2008 President’s Lecture Series | To support the appearance of Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on April 11, 2008, as the keynote speaker for the Metropolitan State University PresidentХs Lecture Series. |
| Minneapolis Foundation | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | American Indian Family Empowerment Program | To support the grantmaking of the American Indian Family Empowerment Program. |
| Minneapolis Foundation | Minneapolis | MN | $15,000 | AIFEP Fund Development | To support the fund development activities of the American Indian Family Empowerment Program. |
| Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Endorsement Program | To support the introduction of the Endorsement Program. |
| Minnesota Fathers & Families Network | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Healthy Fatherhood Outreach Project | To support its Healthy Fatherhood Outreach Project. |
| Minnesota Historical Society | St. Paul | MN | $50,000 | Hill Family Papers | To co-underwrite the receipt, processing, and conservation or the Hill family papers. |
| Minnesota Minority Education Partnership, Inc. | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Research to Support Systemic Change | To expand its research function and community engagement around research results. |
| Minnesota Statehood Sesquicentennial Commission | St. Paul | MN | $1,000 | Minnesota Memories | To support the Minnesota Statehood Sesquicentennial in memory of Grotto Foundation founder Louis W. Hill, Jr. |
| Montessori Training Center of Minnesota | St. Paul | MN | $12,500 | MTCM Community Outreach Program | To support its community outreach program. |
| National Indian Child Welfare Association | Portland | OR | $5,000 | Protecting Our Children—Preserving Our Culture Conference | To support the 26th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, held April 20-23, 2008. |
| New Foundations, Inc. | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Crestview Community Program | To provide supportive housing and services to people in recovery. |
| Northern Voices | Roseville | MN | $10,000 | General Operating Support | For general operating support. |
| Our Saviour’s Outreach Ministries | Minneapolis | MN | $5,000 | English Learning Center | To support the English Learning Center. |
| Person to Person | Minneapolis | MN | $5,000 | Independent Living Skills Program | To support the Independent Living Skills project and curriculum. |
| Peta Wakan Tipi | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Dream of Wild Health | To support its Dream of Wild Health Program for Native youth. |
| Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Circle of Parents | To support expanding the Circle of Parents outreach to Native American communities. |
| Rural AIDS Action Network | Little Falls | MN | $10,000 | Increasing Awareness and Preventing Transmission of HIV/AIDS | To conduct a statewide rural community awareness and prevention campaign. |
| Ruth’s House of Hope | Faribault | MN | $10,000 | Emergency and Transitional Housing Program | For general operating support to support transitional services and programs for homeless women and their children. |
| SEWA-AIFW | Fridley | MN | $5,000 | General Operating Support | For general operating support. |
| Sexual Violence Center | Minneapolis | MN | $20,000 | Youth Prevention Education & Youth Victims Services | To support its Youth Prevention Education & Youth Victims Services. |
| SOAR Career Solutions | Duluth | MN | $15,000 | Case Management | To support new case management services for clients with significant barriers to employment success. |
| Somali Education Center | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | General Operating Support | For general operating support to continue providing after-school supplemental educational services and youth development programming for Somali immigrant youth. |
| TVbyGIRLS | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | General Operating Support | For general operating support. |
| VocalEssence | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | High Risk Student Arts Education | To support the WITNESS Education Program and Talented Tenth Apprentice Program (TTAP). |
| We Win Institute, Inc. | Minneapolis | MN | $15,000 | Rites of Passage Program | To expand its Rites of Passage Program. |
| YouthCARE | Minneapolis | MN | $10,000 | Young Women’s Mentoring Program | To support the Young Women’s Mentoring Program. |
| youthrive | St. Paul | MN | $10,000 | Juniors and Leaders Program | To expand the Juniors and Leaders PeaceJam program to Afrocentric Academy Middle School and Hall Elementary School in North Minneapolis. |
