The Northwest Minnesota Foundation is one of six Minnesota Initiative Foundations (MIFs), established in 1986 through The McKnight Foundation’s leadership and a visionary experiment in rural philanthropy. The MIFs delivered a counterpunch in a difficult economy that resounded across America. Each MIF is managed by local people making decisions about how to improve the quality of life in the region.
The Northwest Minnesota Foundation (NMF) is soliciting grant submissions from organizations that are actively engaged in the development of high-quality child care solutions and/or the development of...more
"We were blown away by the many folks during important social enterprise work throughout Greater Minnesota," said Brian Voerding, Initiative Foundation...more
Social enterprise ventures are for-profit or nonprofit businesses that are created to achieve a mission. Mark Van Herr's story. Marc Van Herr is a...more
The Initiators Fellowship, launched by the Initiative Foundation in 2016, is available to social entrepreneurs in its 14-county service area including the counties of Cass, Crow Wing, Mille Lacs,...more
BEMIDJI -- Headwaters Music and Arts invites amateur singers to take part in ... The program is designed to assist the region's most talented Native ... financial support to fund creative time and/or...more
When Hannah Davis traveled to China to teach English, she noticed how Chinese workers and farmers were often sporting olive green army-style shoes. Those shoes served as her inspiration to create her own social enterprise, Bangs Shoes.