The Racial Equity Accountability Grant is designed to support efforts aimed at improving the outcomes for individuals who have experienced homelessness.
Donor Name: Northwest Minnesota Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/04/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This grant opportunity supports the development and advancement of initiatives in Northwest Minnesota that will improve outcomes for individuals living through homelessness. Grant funding may support efforts such as increasing cultural competency, developing stronger relations between those living through homelessness and supportive housing staff, and increasing stabilization.
Goals
- 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, 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
- Total available funding is approximately $25,000
- Maximum grant awards are $7,500
- The average expected grant is estimated to be between $2,000 and $7,500.
Eligible Expenses
Expenses may include, but are not limited to: professional development, job training and acquisition expenses for individuals living through homelessness, staff and board training, purchasing professional licenses or certificates, travel, community/cultural events, technical assistance, organizational or operational audits, culture diversity education and awareness initiatives, or other efforts that increase stabile outcomes for individuals that have lived through homelessness.
Eligibility Criteria
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, the Red Lake Nation, the White Earth Nation, and 12 counties (Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake Falls, and Roseau).
For more information, visit NMF.
