The Northwest Minnesota Foundation is seeking applications for the Racial Equity Accountability Grants to support those working to improve outcomes for individuals who have experienced homelessness.
Donor Name: Northwest Minnesota Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/30/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
They support a Northwest Continuum of Care project aimed at identifying, dismantling, and de-colonizing instances of racism within the regional homeless response system.
These goals include:
- Increasing cultural competency of NWCoC staff:
- Grant expenses can cover costs associated with providing and organizing training and professional development for staff working with those living through homelessness
- Developing stronger relations between those living through homelessness and supportive housing staff
- This can be accomplished by providing more culturally relevant events and opportunities for the community to express their cultural identify and provide healing
- Examples include sweat lodges, traditional ceremonies, drum circles, talking circles, community meals, and support groups
- Events related to specific cultural and racial identifies
- Improving outcomes for individuals living through homelessness by increasing stabilization:
- Providing job training and acquisition opportunities for individuals leaving homelessness
- Covering costs needed to maintain stable housing and employment
- Clothing stipends, furniture stipends, food stipends, hotel vouchers, utility payments, vital document fees, vehicle insurance fees, gas vouchers, or any other services that would improve stable housing outcomes
- Covering grant expenses related to educational development, business development, or any other form of professional development/entrepreneurship:
- Professional development training/certifications, scholarship and loan application costs, business development, professional development for individuals living through homelessness, certifications needed to maintain or achieve employment, etc.
Funding Information
The maximum grant award is $7,500, with average funding expected to be between $2,000 and $7,500. Total funding available is $30,000.
Eligible Applicants
- 501c3 nonprofits, public agencies, and tribal organizations located within the Northwest Continuum of Care’s service area that includes the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Red Lake Nation, White Earth Nation, and 12 counties (Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake Falls, and Roseau).
- Eligible applicants include organizations in the non-profit, public, or private sector. Eligible applicants can also include individuals that have lived through homelessness and housing insecurity.
For more information, visit NMF.
