MN Forward Pooled Fund Grant Program emphasizes efforts created and led by communities impacted by the short- and long-term effects brought on by federal shifts.
Donor Name: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/22/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Types of Grants
- Fortify Grants
- Fortify Grants will support the strategic planning and response efforts of organizations and coalitions/collaboratives as they address effects brought on by federal shifts. Fortify Grants will support:
- Multi-stakeholder planning or strategy development
- Scenario planning
- Ecosystem mapping
- Training, cohorts, leadership development
- Merger, acquisition, closure, entity creation exploration and planning
- Convening & collaboration
- Planning community safety & security
- Growing digital/technological resiliency
- Rest, care, healing for impacted leaders.
- Fortify Grants will support the strategic planning and response efforts of organizations and coalitions/collaboratives as they address effects brought on by federal shifts. Fortify Grants will support:
- Futuring Grants
- Futuring Grants will support organizations and coalitions/collaboratives building for futures beyond the current moment with 10-, 20-, and 30-year visions where impacted communities are leading and thriving. Future Planning Grants will support:
- Protecting current civil liberties, documenting/archiving current democratic practices for future use and/or growing efforts that advance a multiracial participatory democracy
- Systems change, building alternative structures and imagining/co-creating the future of civil society and/or community care infrastructure
- Developing, experimenting, growing, maintaining and/or returning to culturally specific practices/ways of being.
- Futuring Grants will support organizations and coalitions/collaboratives building for futures beyond the current moment with 10-, 20-, and 30-year visions where impacted communities are leading and thriving. Future Planning Grants will support:
Priorities
- The MN Forward Pooled Fund will emphasize efforts created and led by communities impacted by the short- and long-term effects brought on by federal shifts.
- Priority for groups supporting multiple organizations or leaders. Emphasis placed on applications that demonstrate impacted communities and geographies are in leadership, have informed and formed the process and solution, will benefit from the effort being funded. Grants are available to groups working across many disciplines including but not limited to:
- Advocacy
- Organizing
- Services
- Capacity building
- Training/facilitation
- Arts & culture
- Healing.
Funding Information
- At present the pooled fund has at least $1 million available for funding this round.
- $50,000 per grantee.
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants are available for Minnesota-based, Minnesota-serving organizations and/or coalitions/collaboratives with an annual budget of $3 million or less. (For coalitions/collaboratives this refers to the budget of the collaborative effort not the total budgets of all participating groups.)
- Eligible organization types include 501c3, 501c4 and 501c6 organizations, LLCs that provide services to nonprofits, groups with a fiscal sponsor, and tribal government programs with program budgets of $3 million or less.
For more information, visit SPMCF.
