Our Community Partners

Minneapolis Community Partners

A Chance to Grow: Dedicated to providing better health care to children with learning problems, developmental delays and brain injuries.

A Circle of Women: Helps pregnant women and new mothers with a history of substance abuse, supporting them through home visits, parenting groups, family events and more. Works to reduce fetal alcohol syndrome.

Abbott Northwestern Hospital: Provides comprehensive health care for more than 200,000 patients and their families from the Twin Cities area and throughout the Upper Midwest.

AccessAbility: Provides training, work and recreational opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities and economic disadvantages.

AccountAbility: Provides free tax preparation and accounting assistance to low-income individuals and small businesses.

Achieve Minneapolis: An organization working to help all Minneapolis Public School students succeed in school and become productive members of society.

Aeon: A nonprofit developer of quality housing for the Twin Cities Metro Area; their mission is to create and sustain quality housing that strengthens lives and communities.

America Reads / Early Literacy Program: A national literacy effort (sponsored by the U of M and other schools) that trains and sends tutors into local communities.

American Red Cross: Provides relief to victims of natural disasters; teaches first-aid and community safety; facilitates blood donations.

American Swedish Institute: The museum showcases Swedish glass, decorative and fine arts, textiles, and items from Sweden and explores the local Swedish-American community, sharing Swedish cultural and aesthetic traditions with the community and enhancing cultural relationships with modern Sweden.

Ascension Place: Provides transitional housing and a supportive environment for women in need.

Asian Women United of MN: A community-based, nonprofit organization committed to ending violence against Asian women and children, empowering Asian women and girls, and building stronger and safer communities.

(ACES) Athletes Committed to Educating Students: A tutoring/mentoring program dedicated to helping inner-city youth succeed academically and personally.

Aurora Center: Provides free and confidential crisis intervention to victims of sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking and harassment.

AVID: AVID is a national program currently in 3 middle and 4 high schools in St. Paul. It is a college prep program for students in public schools who are underrepresented students at colleges and universities.

Bolder Options: A youth mentoring program that uses running and biking to redirect and change negative behavior.

Boys and Girls Club of the Twin Cities: Provides programs in sports, fitness and recreation, education and career, the arts, health and life skills, as well as character and leadership development. Our mission is to inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Brain Injury Association of MN: Our mission is to create a better future through brain injury prevention, research, education and advocacy. We serve the needs of the 94,000 Minnesotans who live with a disability due to brain injury.

Brian Coyle Community Center: A neighborhood center serving Cedar-Riverside, one of the most populous and culturally diverse communities in Minnesota. Provides economic and legal assistance, immigrant advocacy, ESL classes, food shelf, bookmobile, youth programs and more.

Catholic Charities: One of the largest providers of social services in the Twin Cities. Provides low-income families and the homeless with support, food, a safe haven, health care, and opportunities for growth.

Cedar Riverside Adult Education: The Cedar Riverside Plaza was built in the 1970s as an urban-renewal project near the U of M West Bank. Provides classes in ESL, math, computers, and citizenship.

Center for Homicide Research: A unique, volunteer-driven, nonprofit addressing the issue of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) homicide. Located near the U.

Centre for Asians and Pacific Islanders: Assists immigrants and refugees in becoming increasingly self-sufficient and contributing members of their communities.

Centro: Serves the Latino community, and whose mission is to empower Chicanos/Latinos and to minimize and eliminate barriers for self-sufficiency.

Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota: Provides family-centered pediatric services and works to meet the special health care needs of children and their families.

Chrysalis: Provides effective health and human service programs to women, children, and families.

Clean Water Action Alliance of Minnesota:Organizes strong grassroots groups and coalitions, and campaigns to solve environmental and community problems, and to elect progressive and pro-environment candidates at every level.

CommonBond Communities: Minnesota's largest nonprofit provider of affordable housing. Over 5,000 people call CommonBond Communities home.

Communidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio (CLUES): A leading provider of linguistically and culturally appropriate services for the Chicano Latino community. Services areas include mental health, chemical health, employment, education, and elder wellness.

Communities United Against Police Brutality: The goal of Communities Against Police Brutality is to create a climate of resistance to abuse of authority by police organizations and to empower local people with a structure that can end police brutality.

Compassionate Action for Animals: Works to create respect and justice for animals in our world.

Corner House: Our mission is to assess suspected child sexual abuse, to coordinate forensic interview services and to provide training for other professionals.

Council on Crime and Justice: Creates effective responses to causes and consequences of crime by providing research, advocacy, and a wide range of services to individuals and organizations.

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School: A private, college-preparatory high school that challenges each student to reach his or her fullest potential.  Serves many low-income families of any faith or culture.

Danza Mexica Cuauhtemoc: Works to service the Chicano/Latino community using culturally relevant teachings rooted in the Azteca and Mexica culture as a means for building community, fighting racism, building cultural identity and promoting unity among people.

Division of Indian Work: Empowers American Indian people through culturally based education, counseling, advocacy, and leadership development.

Domestic Abuse Project: Offers advocacy and therapy services to families experiencing domestic violence.

East Side Neighborhood Services: ESNS' mission is to foster the healthy development and well-being of individuals and families while strengthening their diverse community. Provides a range of different programs, from youth tutoring to family violence intervention to senior programs.

Ebenezer: Helps older adults and others make their lives more independent, healthful, meaningful, and secure.

Employment Action Center: Empowers and prepares individuals to achieve their employment potential while building diversity and actively opposing racism.

English Learning Center: Promotes literacy and English fluency. Helps immigrant and refugees in the Phillips Neighborhood.

Even Start Family School: A school for adults and children. While the adults attend English, math, and computer classes, their children attend school in adjacent classrooms.

Fairview Health Services: Fairview treats the whole person by providing the finest health care while addressing the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of individuals and their families.

Family and Children’s Services: Our unique combination of counseling, prevention, intervention and systems change programs focus on building strong families, vital communities and capable children.

Family Opportunities for Living Collaboration (FOLC): Our mission is to inspire, connect, administer, support individuals and organizations as they partner together to provide programs that address the health and family needs of community members living in Cedar Riverside and surrounding Minneapolis neighborhoods.

Franklin Learning Center: An adult literacy, GED, and citizenship center located in the Franklin Library.

Free Arts Minnesota: Uses art and mentorship to teach children to build their self-esteem and express their emotions in a safe, productive way while building positive relationships with adults.

Genesis II for Families, Inc.: Provides programs that promote social change by strengthening families and the community. These programs encourage self-determination, self-sufficiency and healthy family lifestyles.

Ginew / Golden Eagle Program: An after-school program serving Native American youth ages 5–18. Helps inner-city Native American youth develop skills they need to make positive life choices by strengthening their cultural identity.

The Green Institute / GreenSpace Partners: A nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote environmental stewardship and create economic opportunity through sustainable community development. Programs center on development, conservation, recycling, and other related efforts.

Harrison Education Center: Dedicated to improving the quality of education for all Harrison students, their families, and community by enhancing the students' social and emotional skills, building sound academic skills, and fostering a positive attitude towards education.

Harrison Neighborhood Association: A neighborhood association whose mission is to foster community awareness, to improve the quality of life within the Harrison community; to educate residents in the use of effective procedures for resolving problems or initiating improvements; and to unite all efforts within the community in raising and acting on issues of common concern

Hennepin County Juvenile Probation: Responsible for conducting pre-sentence, Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction and Adult Certification investigations for the Juvenile Court. 

Hennepin County Medical Center: A public teaching hospital committed to providing the continuum of health care services necessary to improve the health status of all Hennepin County and all citizens.

Homework ‘n’ Hoops: Homework ‘n’ Hoops is a tutoring program at the Bethlehem Community Center in south Minneapolis. Volunteers help youth with homework through one-on-one tutoring and help lead teamwork and social development activities.

Honor the Earth: Supports frontline Native environmental work by building an informed Native and non-native constituency able to strategically coalesce around specific environmental justice and survival issues.

Hope Community: Building a sustainable neighborhood model through community organization, active education, leadership, and affordable housing development.

Immigrant Workers' Rights Center (Centro de Derechos Laborales): The Centro provides a common space for immigrant Latino workers to inform and educate each other, and to reflect on their right to organize, find solutions, and mobilize to improve their situation. A program of the Resource Center of the Americas.

Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts: At Interact, adult artists with disabilities explore and expand their creativity as actors, writers, painters, sculptors and musicians.

Intermedia Arts: Serves as a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.

International Self-Reliance Agency for Women: Provides refugee and immigrant women and girls with opportunities that promote long-term self-sufficiency to improve the quality of life for themselves, their family and community.

International Teaching Assistant Program: Prepares international graduate students for teaching assistant duties by focusing on spoken proficiency in the U.S. English and on teaching methods commonly used at the University.

Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies: Archives the history of the GLBT community internationally. The Collection provides research opportunities for community members and provides historical exhibits about any aspect of GLBT culture and history.

The Jeremiah Program: Serves single mothers with children under the age of 4 to achieve self-sufficiency through access to affordable housing, support services, childcare, education and meaningful employment.

Kaleidoscope: Offers five different programs to meet specific needs of its community. Through creative and practical programming, achievement, and increase the sense of personal responsibility in the children and families of the Philips Neighborhood.

KFAI Radio: Exists to broadcast information, arts, and entertainment programming for an audience of diverse racial, social, and economic backgrounds.

La Escuelita: Works to create and implement development strategies that increase Latino youth academic success in Minneapolis.

Land Stewardship Project – Policy Office: Fosters an ethic of stewardship for farmland, promotes sustainable agriculture and sustainable communities.

League of Women Voters: A non-partisan, political organization that encourages and trains citizens to become informed and active voters.

Lincoln Adult Education Center: Provides English as a Second Language (ESL) classes to adult immigrants and refugees. We also teach a basic math and a citizenship class, and are involved with workforce ESL classes.

Lincoln International High School: Institute for New Americans: Serves refugee and immigrant communities in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas of Minnesota by providing access to quality education and support services

The Link: The Link's mission is to build a supportive community network that links youth and their families to their inner strength through life skills, education, advocacy, supportive housing, and a dynamic network of social services to transform lives.

Luxton Park:Provides youth sports programs that emphasize skill building and sportsmanship in a fun, positive atmosphere for youth and coaches.

Marcy Open School: Offers a learning climate emphasizing academic achievement as well as personal development that promotes lifelong learning and individual goal setting.

Minneapolis Park and Recreation: Includes five divisions to provide administration, planning, programs, development, maintenance, and police protection for the city's recreational facilities. Programs and services are provided for all ages and abilities.

Minneapolis Public Schools, Adult Basic Education: Provides education to adults in ESL, GED, literacy, basic math, basic computer skills and preparation for the citizenship test.

Minnesota African Women's Association (MAWA): Promotes the health and well-being of African refugee and immigrant women and their families in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul through research, education, advocacy and programming.

Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP): Envisions a world free of AIDS. MAP's mission is to lead Minnesota's fight to stop HIV and enhance the well-being of those affected.

Minnesota Council of Churches – Refugee Services: Refugee Services became a program of the Minnesota Council of Churches in 1982, and is a part of the network for two national resettlement agencies, Church World Service and Episcopal Migration Ministries.

Minnesota Internship Center Charter School: A charter high school serving students ages 15–20 in south and north Minneapolis. Students at the south site are all ESL students from a variety of countries but especially east Africa and Spanish-speaking countries.

MLC Learning Center-South Minneapolis: As a part of the Minnesota Literacy Council, we provide literacy services for adults, children and their families, volunteers, and community programs – serving thousands of Minnesotans last year.

MPIRG (Minnesota Public Interest Research Group): Advocates for social justice, good government, consumer rights and environmental protection; MPIRG trains and teaches students in the skills of activism in order to accomplish these advocacy issues.

Mu Performing Arts: Our mission of Mu Performing Arts is to be a premier artistic company that creates theater and Tai Ko from the heart of the Asian American experience. We strive to create works that move, provoke, and challenge our audiences to understand, embrace, and celebrate cultural diversity.

National Institute on Media and the Family: A national resource for research, education, and information about the impact of media on children and families.

Neighborhood Involvement Program (N.I.P.): Works to strengthen individuals and the community by providing health care, education and social services to underserved neighbors.

Non-Violent Peaceforce: In partnership with local groups, Peaceforce members apply research-based nonviolent strategies to protect human rights, deter violence, and help create space for local peacemakers to carry out their work.

Northeast Community Education Beacons: An after-school program that provides a secure environment where young people can learn skills that will help them to succeed in today's world and become tomorrow's leaders.

NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center: Provides outpatient assessment, diagnostic, and treatment services for children, adolescents, and adults with problems ranging from situational problems to serious and persistent mental illness.

Northside Learning Center-Minnesota Literacy Council: Provides literacy services to adults, children, volunteers and community programs around Minnesota.

Oh Day Aki Charter School: A K–12 grade charter school serving at-risk inner city American Indian students.

Old Arizona: Includes a performance space/production studio for film, video and photography, a dance studio, rehearsal loft, and art gallery.

One Voice Mixed Chorus: The Chorus mission is to build community and create social change by raising voices in song. They strive to create greater acceptance for GLBT people through music.

Open Arms of Minnesota: Prepares and delivers meals to people living with HIV/AIDS and other terminal illnesses in the Twin Cities metro area.

Our Saviour’s Housing: Offers both emergency shelter and transitional housing services, which include case management and community referrals.

Out4Good: Out4Good is a program that works to create safe and supportive schools for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender students, families, teachers and staff in Minneapolis Public Schools.

OutFront Minnesota: OutFront's goal is to eliminate homophobia and heterosexism in Minnesota through education and advocacy.

Peace Foundation: Working to end neighborhood violence, expand public dialogue about violence, and build bridges throughout the metro area and state to reduce local violence.

PEASE Academy: PEASE (Peers Enjoying a Sober Education) is an alternative school open to qualifying students recovering from drug or alcohol use.

People Serving People: Minnesota's largest homeless shelter providing emergency assistance to families in Hennepin County. PSP offers a safe and sober environment, while promoting self-sufficiency and responsibility.

Person to Person: Supports low-income people in Minneapolis as they strive for economic and emotional sufficiency.

Phillips Community Television: Works to empower young people to engage with their communities through learning, teaching, and making media.

Phyllis Wheatley Community Center: Committed to working with other groups to support, strengthen, and empower families in the Northside community and to increase their ability to achieve wholeness and effective living.

Planned Parenthood: Committed to creating a world where every child is planned and wanted, and everyone has true choices about the health care available to them.

Plymouth Youth Center: A nonprofit organization that serves families through education and social services in North Minneapolis.

Pratt Community School: Strives for an environment in which all children and families feel welcome and comfortable, diversity is embraced, and each child engages in individualized and active learning experiences, with a strong focus on academic achievement.

Pro-Choice Resources: Provides a range of reproductive health services. PCR works every day to reduce barriers to reproductive health access.

Project for Pride in Living: Assists low-income and moderate-income people to become self-sufficient by addressing their job, housing, and neighborhood needs.

Project Legos: An organization dedicated to social change and youth development, providing learning environments for young people of all ages that foster self-exploration, awareness of social change, and community advancement.

Project Success: Through in-class workshops and an innovative theater program, provides kids with the tools and resources necessary to plan for and take action in their lives.

Rainbow Rumpus: An online magazine for kids with LGBT parents.

Renewing the Countryside: Provides inspiration, ideas, and assistance to individuals and communities, who are looking for sustainable ways to strengthen their rural communities and reduce poverty.

Resource Center of the Americas: Informs, educates and organizes to promote human rights, democratic participation, economic justice and cross-cultural understanding in the context of globalization in the Americas.

Restorative Justice Community Action, Inc: Established the first-of-its-kind neighborhood-based restorative justice program in September 1997 as a way to improve offender accountability for urban livability crimes in the central neighborhoods of Minneapolis.

St. Anne's Place: A small short-term shelter for 16 homeless women and their children. Programs are geared toward developing strong and stable families through support services for parents, and youth activities for children.

Seward Neighborhood Group: Works to make Seward a neighborhood where all people feel safe, youth are nurtured, the arts are celebrated, our differences are respected, and each individual can achieve their full potential.

Sierra Club: The oldest and largest grassroots-based conservation organization in the country. It is a non-partisan group that advocates for environmental protection through public, legal and political systems.

Simpson Housing Services: Provides emergency shelter and transitional housing with support services to homeless men, women, and children and advocates for their civil and human rights.

Southeast Seniors: Helps people 65 and older remain independent and safe while still living in their homes.

Southside Family School: A small elementary school, which educates children to become independent-minded citizens who respect themselves and others.

Special Olympics Minnesota: Believes that people with intellectual disabilities can, with proper instruction and encouragement, learn, enjoy and benefit from participation in individual and team sports, adapted as necessary to meet the needs of those with intellectual and physical disabilities.

St. Paul Central Touring Theater: Maintains a safe space for youth to create, perform, and tour original theatre to diverse audiences throughout the Twin Cities area.

Success in Education: Safe Place: Trinity Lutheran Congregation started the Safe Place tutoring program as a response to tutoring needs in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood.

Tubman Family Alliance: Serves individuals and families in addressing and preventing domestic and family abuse in Washington, Ramsey, and Hennepin County areas.

University of Minnesota Recycling – ReUse Program: Redistributes unwanted campus assets to other university buildings at no charge or sells the used item to the general public.

University YMCA: Seeks to develop the ethical leadership capacities of students in a context of social justice issues. The University YMCA serves more than 500 college students and 600 youth each semester.

Upward Bound: Serves high school students who will be the first in their families to attend college. The program offers a variety of programs and services ranging from weekly after-school supplemental courses to tutoring to workshops to social events to a summer residential program.

WATCH: A nonprofit organization whose mission is to make the criminal justice system more effective and responsive in handling cases of violence, and to create a more informed and involved public.

Witness for Peace: Our mission is to support peace, justice, and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing US policies and corporate practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Women Against Military Madness (WAMM): A nonviolent feminist organization that works in solidarity with others to create a system of social equality, self-determination, and justice through education and the empowerment of women. WAMM's purpose is to dismantle systems of militarism and global oppression.

Women's Prison Book Project: Sends free books to women in prison across the country in response to their specific requests.

Women's Student Activist Collective (WSAC): Works to empower women and transgendered people to eliminate racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, classism and all interrelated forms of inequality.

Youth Farm and Market Project: The mission of YFMP is to nurture relationships between urban youth and their families, their communities, and the earth around them by growing, cooking, eating and selling healthy food.

St. Paul Community Partners

180 Degrees, Inc., Girls Resiliency Program of Ramsey County: Works with females ages 13–17 who are involved in the juvenile system. They use a strength-based and restorative justice approach for adolescent females to address their needs, develop their own identity, and build self-confidence and esteem.

AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination): A college prep program for students in public schools who are underrepresented students at colleges and universities.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities: An organization that provides one-on-one friendships with interested volunteers and youth in the Twin Cities area.

Breaking Free: Assists prostituted women and girls and battered women involved in the criminal justice system to escape from violence in their lives.

Casa de Esperanza: Casa de Esperanza's mission is to mobilize Latinas and Latino communities to end domestic violence.

Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (CHAT): Meeting the media arts and information technology needs of Hmong artists to enhance individual talents and community.

Children’s Home Society and Family Services: Helps children thrive, build, strengthen, and sustain individual, family, and community life. CHSFS provides a variety of programs such as: adoption services, family and child support services, and children and youth programs.

CitySongs: An after-school program that uses music and performance to develop confidence, competence, and individual potential within youth in grades 4–8.

Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington: Mobilizing community resources to reduce poverty in Ramsey and Washington Counties through programs like Community Action, Energy Conservation, Head Start, and Senior Nutrition.

Friends of the Mississippi River: Strives to create positive changes that improve water quality, provide habitat for wildlife, create recreational and educational opportunities, and inspire widespread commitment to the Mississippi River.

Galtier Magnet Elementary School: A K-6 school with a magnet focuses in mathematics, science, and technology.

Girl Scout Council of St. Croix Valley: Provides an accepting and nurturing environment where girls build character and skills for success in the real world.

Girls International Forum: Provides a forum for girls to connect with each other, address issues of common concern, develop workable solutions to problems, take action, and communicate their ideas to the greater community – local, national, and international.

Goodwill/Easter Seals: Assists people with barriers to education, employment, and independence in achieving their goals. Also provides job trainings, job search, resume workshops, and ELL classes. 100% of what is sold in Goodwill/Easter Seals go right back into its programs.

Hmong American Partnership: Assists Hmong in achieving their full potential and participating actively in the community.

Hmong Cultural Center: Promotes the personal development of children, youth, and adults through Hmong cultural education while providing resources that enhance cross-cultural understanding between Hmong and non-Hmong people.

Hubbs Center for Life-Long Learning: Provides an opportunity for adults in the St. Paul area to prepare for their GED, work towards their high school diploma, learn English as a second language, or brush up on basic skills.

International Academy—L.E.A.P.: Offers English language classes and content classes adapted for English language learners. Students can earn a high school diploma and also receive support for moving into jobs or post-secondary job training.

Jackson Street Village: A multi-family supportive housing community that provides permanent housing and supportive services to 24 previously homeless or precariously housed families residing in Ramsey County who are also facing chemical abuse and/or mental health issues.

Jane Addams School for Democracy (JAS): An initiative in democratic education created by residents of St. Paul's West Side neighborhood, staff of the Neighborhood House, and students and faculty from the College of St. Catherine's, University of Minnesota and the Humphrey Institute.

Jewish Community Action: The mission of JCA is to bring together Jewish people from diverse traditions and perspectives to promote understanding and take action on social and economic justice issues in Minnesota.

Listening House: An inner city drop-in center that provides hospitality and practical assistance to people who are homeless, disadvantaged, or lonely. 215 Ninth Street W, St. Paul.

Lyngblomsten: Provides a continuum of quality senior care through residential facilities and in-home and community programs.

Minnesota Children's Museum: A unique educational and cultural resource that represents the community's interest and investment in our children and their childhood. The Museum provides playful learning experiences and environments where children, families and school and community groups discover and explore their world through participatory, interdisciplinary exhibits and programs in the arts, sciences, and humanities.

Minnesota Literacy Council: A nonprofit organization dedicated to improving literacy throughout our state. The MLC offers literacy services for adults and at-risk children, native-born citizens and recent immigrants, and urban and rural residents.

NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota: Works to protect reproductive freedom in Minnesota through election work, grassroots lobbying, and education.

Neighborhood House – West Side of St. Paul: A multicultural, multilingual community center with programming for all ages and open doors for all people. Neighborhood House is often a first stop for new immigrants and refugees in the Twin Cities.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: A catalyst for the artistic vitality of our community by hosting, presenting, and creating performing arts and educational programs that engage artists and enrich diverse audiences.

Out for Equity, St. Paul: A program of the St. Paul Public School System; its mission is to promote a safe and affirming school environment for GLBT students, staff and family.

Payne Phalen Block Nurse Program: Serves elders 65 and older and their families in St. Paul's East Side Planning District 5.

Philanthrofund Foundation – Upper Midwest: Pfund is a catalyst in building communities in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest where gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people are celebrated and live free from discrimination, violence, invisibility and isolation.

Ramsey County Community Human Services Department: Provides human services programs to the citizens of Ramsey County who lack the resources necessary to meet their basic needs for food, clothing, shelter and medical care.

Raptor Center: Specializes in the medical care, rehabilitation, and conservation of birds of prey.

St. Paul Parks and Recreation: Facilities include more than 160 parks and open spaces, 41 recreation centers, three 18-hole golf courses, 24 bicycle and pedestrian paths, one indoor pool, two outdoor pools, a public beach, and sports facilities.

Science Museum of Minnesota: As well as providing a place for the community to learn about science, the Science Museum also hosts and runs educational programs geared at both schools and small groups.

United Hospital: Committed to providing patients with the best care, using state-of-the-art technology.

Wilder Foundation: Social Adjustment Program: A nonprofit health and human services organization that has served the greater St. Paul area since 1906. The Social Adjustment Program for Southeast Asians is a culturally specific mental health program serving Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian and Vietnamese immigrants and refugees living in the Twin Cities east metro area.

Women’s Advocates: Provides a safe crisis shelter for women experiencing abuse. It is a place where women and their children receive personalized support, information, education, resources and advocacy to end the violence in their lives.

WomenVenture: A nonprofit economic development organization whose mission is to assist women to secure their own economic success and prosperity.

Greater Twin Cities

Alexandra House, Inc.: Provides 24-hour emergency shelter, support services, and legal advocacy to battered women and families in Blaine and Anoka.

Arc Greater Twin Cities: Arc Greater Twin Cities’ mission is to secure for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families the opportunity to realize their goals of where and how they live, learn, work and play. Contact: Michelle Theisen, michelletheisen@arcgreatertwincities.org, 952-915-3670.

Challenger District (Special Needs Scouting): The special needs division of the Viking Council Boy Scouts. It serves boys, girls, men and women of all ages and all abilities because its program is based on cognitive, rather than chronological age. Located in Golden Valley.

Cornerstone: A community-based non-profit organization whose purpose is to prevent violence and provide comprehensive services to victims of domestic abuse and their children.

Courage Center: A national rehabilitation and resource center for people with physical disabilities, brain injuries, speech or vision impairments, or hearing loss. Located in Golden Valley.

Dakota County Community Center: Implements probation and treatment programs for juveniles, and adults using restorative justice concepts.

Lifeworks Services, Inc: Serves our community and people with disabilities as we live and work together.

Sholom Home West: Dedicated to helping each resident attain his or her optimal level of physical, social, and psychological well-being.

Sojourner Project, Inc.: Empowers women and children to triumph over domestic violence that results from the misuse of power and control.

Special Needs Scouting: Serves boys, girls, men and women of all ages, and all abilities through building participants' self-esteem, giving them a feeling of accomplishment and skills that will last a lifetime http://northernstarbsa.org/

Stop it Now! Minnesota: Stop It Now! Minnesota's mission is to prevent the sexual abuse of children before they are harmed and before an adult, youth, or child acts in a sexually inappropriate way towards a child.

Upstream Arts: The mission of Upstream Arts is to enhance the lives of adults and youth with disabilities by fostering creative communication and social independence through the power of arts education.

We Can Ride: Provides therapeutic horseback riding to disabled adults and youth who reside in the Twin Cities area.

Wildlife Rehabilitation Center: Provides free medical care for more than 170 different species of injured and orphaned wild animals.