Our Community Partners

A Hand in Health: Promotes quality health care and education in The Gambia, West Africa. Manages and directs smaller individual projects and supports initiatives that arise due to existing needs.

Abbott Northwestern Hospital: Provides comprehensive health care for patients and their families.

AccessAbility: Provides programs and services to meet the needs of patients with disabilities and economic disadvantages. Programs include finding work in the community, training to enhance social involvement, and providing engagement in the community.

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

Achieve Minneapolis: Works to help students succeed in their education while providing programs that support the students' career goals and their becoming productive members of the community.

Advocates for Human Rights: Works to fight injustice, advocate tolerance, save lives, restore peace and build the human rights movement by strengthening accountability mechanisms and raising awareness of refugees and immigrants, women, ethnic and religious minorities, children, and other marginalized communities whose rights are at risk.

Aeon: Develops quality housing for people with low or moderate incomes. Also serves homeless families, youth, and adults looking to strengthen their lives and the community.

Aliveness Project: Encourages self-empowerment and provides direct services for people living with HIV/AIDS.

America Reads / Early Literacy Program: Reaches out to the community to provide reading programs to improve children's reading skills..

American Red Cross / Early Literacy Program: A humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, provides relief to victims of disaster and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.

The American Swedish Institute: Showcases Swedish glass, decorative and fine arts, textiles, and other items from Sweden while exploring the local Swedish-American community and culture.

Amicus: Partners with inmates, ex-offenders, juvenile offenders and communities to build successful lives and stronger communities.

Ascension Place: Provides transitional housing and a supportive environment for women to build opportunities and explore options for their future.

Asian Media Access: Uses multi-media and technology for education and communication, in order to mobilize communities, and young people about Pan Asian issues.

Asian Women United of Minnesota: Works to end violence against Asian women and children by building stronger and safer communities.

ACES: An after-school tutor/mentor program with a mission to close the academic achievement gap for at-risk urban youth.

Augsburg Fairview Academy for Health Careers: Motivates and challenges high school students to achieve post secondary readiness, vocational certification, workplace experience, and early college credit.

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

The Bakken: Furthers the understanding of the history, cultural context, and applications of electricity and magnetism in the life sciences and their benefits to contemporary society.

Bedlam Theatre: Builds culture and community through and around experimental performing arts and their audiences. Produces radical works of theater with a focus on collaboration and a unique blend of professional and community art while creating an atmosphere of dialog with artists and audience.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities: Matches young people with adult, volunteer mentors to build long-term, one-to-one relationships. Volunteer mentors provide friendship, emotional support and hope to young people.

Bisexual Organizing Project: Advocates for equal acknowledgement and recognition of bisexual identities and communities by providing resources and information to the community. Creates a safe community for bisexuals and allies within and outside of GLBTA spaces.

Bolder Options: Pairs adult mentors with youth through a program that focuses mainly on fun and challenging athletics such as running and biking to redirect and change negative behavior.

Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities: Provides programs to youth in sports, fitness and recreation; education and career; the arts; health and life skills; and character and leadership development so they can realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Brain Injury Association of Minnesota: Educates the community about brain injury through prevention, research, education and advocacy.

Brian Coyle Community Center: Serves the Cedar-Riverside community by providing economic and legal assistance, immigrant advocacy, educational help, food shelf, bookmobile, youth programs, and more.

Building Community Within: Works with at-risk youth on tutoring, life skills coaching, and mentoring to inspire and prepare them to achieve their individual goals.

Cabrini Partnership: Provides housing and services to support homeless adults with mental illness and chemical dependency to strengthen lives, families, and the community.

Catalyst Learning Center: A nonprofit math learning center for students of all economic backgrounds.

Catholic Charities: Offers low-income families and the homeless support, food, a safe haven, health care, and opportunities for growth.

Cedar Riverside Adult Education: Teaches adults the skills and provides the support necessary to pursue personal educational and employment goals.

CAPI: Assists immigrants and refugees in becoming increasingly self-sufficient and contributing members of their communities. Offers programs in employment and training, social services, and cultural education.

Center for Victims of Torture: The Center for Victims of Torture works to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families and their communities and to stop torture worldwide.

Centro: Serves the Latino and Chicano community to minimize and eliminate barriers for self-sufficiency. Offers support programs in education, health, culture, and wellness.

Centro Guadalupano: Provides educational programs and human services for immigrant families and the economically disadvantaged.

Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha: Encourages workers to build power to lead the struggle for fair wages, better working conditions, basic respect, and a voice in our workplaces.

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.

Citizens for a Safer Minnesota: Raises awareness about incidents of gun violence in the community and educates the public about practical strategies for prevention.

Clean Energy Resource Teams: Helps community members connect with the technical resources needed to identify and implement community-scale energy efficiency and clean energy projects.

Clean Water Action Alliance of Minnesota: Works to empower people to protect water from pollution. Organizes strong grassroots campaigns about environmental and community problems..

Cleveland Neighborhood Association: The Cleveland Neighborhood Association works to improve Minneapolis' Cleveland neighborhood through neighborliness, urban Appeal and safety.

CommonBond Communities: Creates affordable housing as a stepping stone to success for the community. Promotes economic independence, academic achievements, and independent living.

Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio (CLUES): Provides linguistically and culturally appropriate services for the Chicano/Latino community, including mental health, chemical health, employment, education, and elder wellness.

Communities United Against Police Brutality: Empowers local people to end police brutality.

Compassionate Action for Animals: Creates respect and justice for animals by reducing their suffering through outreach, social events, and distribution of vegan foods.

Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota: Strengthens the capacity of Somalis in Minnesota to become contributing members of society, while preserving their culture.

CornerHouse: Maintains an intervention system for children alleged to be victims of abuse and violence by investigating, coordinating forensic interview services, and providing training for professionals to prevent child abuse.

Council on Crime and Justice: Develops effective responses to the causes and consequences of crime by providing research, advocacy, and services.

Crisis Connection: Provides 24-hour crisis counseling by telephone and rely on trained volunteers and paid staff who answer calls 365 days per year.

Cristo Rey Jesuit High School: Embraces the spirit of "community" not only within the walls of the school but by reaching outside of them also, where real-world participation encourages open dialogue with the general public.

The Dignity Center: The Dignity Center is an outreach ministry of Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church. It is a three morning a week program that brings support, opportunities and resources for people in transition as they regain stability and move toward self-sufficiency.

Do It Green! Minnesota: Educates Minnesotans about going green and living sustainably, and promotes building healthy local communities.

Domestic Abuse Project: Promotes safe and healthy family relationships through education, advocacy, and therapy services.

East Side Neighborhood Services: Fosters the healthy development and well-being of individuals and families while strengthening their diverse community. Provides programs such as youth tutoring, family violence intervention, and senior programs.

Ebenezer: Partners with Fairview Health Services to provide programs that make sure senior citizens live more independent, healthful, and meaningful lives.

Edison Senior High School: Focuses on innovation through academic challenge, career preparation, arts and athletic programs, and extracurricular activities that build well-rounded, engaged and prepared students.

Elder Care Rights Alliance: Offers solutions, awareness, and prevention strategies regarding elder care and safety issues including confidential services for victims of elder abuse.

EMERGE: EMERGE Community Development serves individuals and families by helping connect people who need jobs and housing with the sources they need to be successful in all aspects of life.

Employment Action Center: Empowers and prepares individuals to achieve economic success while building diversity and actively opposing racism. Provides comprehensive education, employment, and family support to low income youth, adults, and families to ensure academic achievement and family stability.

English Learning Center: Empowers immigrants, refugee adults, and their families to achieve self-determination by providing literacy and English fluency programs.

Eureka Recycling: Demonstrates waste reduction and recycling practices through advocacy and educating the community.

The Family Partnership: Offers counseling, education and advocacy services for children and families.

Franklin Learning Center: Helps people prepare for their GED and U.S. citizenship tests by providing free services to adults in reading, writing, and math.

Fraser: Serves children and adults with special needs through comprehensive education, healthcare, and housing services.

Free Arts Minnesota: Uses art and mentorship to teach children to build their self-esteem and express their emotions in a safe and productive way.

Gardening Matters: Serves as a central clearinghouse for community gardeners interested in the resources and expertise of the local gardening community.

Genesis II for Families, Inc.: Promotes social change by strengthening families and re-creating safe and healthy homes by eliminating child abuse and improving parenting skills.

Ginew/Golden Eagle Program: Helps inner-city Native American youth develop skills they need to make positive life choices by strengthening their cultural identity.

Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery: Works to end child abuse and neglect, creating strong, healthy families. The Crisis Nursery supports families in crisis 24 hours a day, 365 days a year through our free, voluntary services.

HandsOn Twin Cities: Links volunteers with meaningful volunteer opportunities throughout Twin Cities agencies and companies to increase volunteerism in the wider community. Works with corporate, philanthropic and other sponsors to invest in volunteer projects to improve communities, empower participants and strengthen their own organizations.

Harrison Neighborhood Association: Fosters the quality of life within the Harrison community by educating residents about effective procedures for resolving problems, initiating neighborhood improvements, and uniting the community in raising and acting on issues of common concern.

Hennepin County Adult Probation Field Services: Serves offenders at different points as they move through the criminal justice system.

Heading Home Hennepin: Aims to end homelessness in Minneapolis by 2016 by using grassroots activities to brings together federal, state, and local government representatives, businesses, nonprofits, faith and philanthropic communities, and homeless citizens.

Hennepin County Juvenile Probation: Provides probation supervision and programming by conducting prehearing investigations and holding children accountable for their behavior, in partnership with the Juvenile Court.

Hennepin County Libraries: Offers resources such as employment, reading, art, and academic help for its communities.

Hennepin County Medical Center: Provides the continuum of health care services necessary to improve the health status of all Hennepin County citizens in the context of a public teaching hospital.

Hmong International Academy: Provides K-8 students with daily opportunities to engage in activities that enhance their understanding of the Hmong culture and language.

Home Line: Provides free legal, organizing, educational and advocacy services so tenants throughout Minnesota can solve their own rental housing problems.

Honor the Earth: Creates awareness of and support for environmental issues by using music, the arts, the media, and indigenous wisdom to develop financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities.

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

Hope Lodge: Offers guests a wide variety of cancer programs and services that provide information, resources and support to ease the cancer journey.

Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts: Provides artists with disabilities opportunities for creative expression, artistic growth, professional performance, and exhibition, and opportunities to earn income from their work.

Intermedia Arts: Uses art as a tool to build understanding among people while premiering multicultural and multidisciplinary works. Provides a gathering place to share stories through visual arts, theater, dance, music, media, and literature, from folk arts to hip-hop culture.

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

Jefferson Community School: A K-8 school in the heart of Uptown where children are nurtured and encouraged, where creativity and kindness are cherished, and kids are held accountable and mentored to find their gifts and paths to success.

The Jeremiah Program: Assists single mothers and their children to break the cycle of poverty. Provides safe affordable housing, developmental childcare, life skills programming, individual coaching, and empowerment training.

Joyce Preschool: Provides quality early education to children. We have a strong emphasis on kindergarten readiness, second language acquisition, parent involvement in education and development of early literacy skills.

Kaleidoscope: Provides a creative, educational, and nurturing environment for children to learn and grow in the Phillips community.

KFAI Radio: Broadcasts information, art, and entertainment programming for an audience of diverse racial, social, and economic backgrounds to foster the values of democracy and social justice.

La Conexion de las Americas: Empowers the Latino community throughout the Twin Cities by providing and connecting participants with resources and educational, economic and community engagement opportunities.

La Oportunidad: Provides bilingual and bicultural family-centered educational and supportive programs to help Latino children, youth, and adults achieve greater capacity, develop practical skills, nurture healthy relationships, and build a stronger community.

Land Stewardship Project: Fosters an ethic of stewardship for farmland; promotes sustainable agriculture and communities.

Lifetrack Resources: Works to develop the strengths within children, families, and adults facing challenges. Serves people overcoming physical and mental disabilities, poverty, lack of education, trauma, and isolation.

Linea Legal Latina: Provide efficient advice and referrals to Spanish-speaking individuals who have little or no access to legal advice.

Lincoln Adult Education Center (Institute for New Americans): Provides tutoring programs in English as a Second Language (ESL) and basic math for adults who need help getting their citizenship.

The Link: Builds 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.

Little Brothers/Friends of the Elderly: Works to reduce social and emotional isolation, loneliness, and mental health difficulties among seniors while promoting well-being and independence.

Marcy Open School: Offers a learning climate where the student is the center, emphasizing academic achievement as well as personal development that promotes lifelong learning and individual goal setting.

Mano a Mano: Creates partnerships with impoverished Bolivian communities to improve their health and increase their economic well-being by building clinics, schools, and housing.

Minneapolis Parks and Recreation: Provides places and recreation opportunities for all people to gather, celebrate, contemplate, and engage in activities that promote health, well-being, community, and the environment.

Minneapolis Public Schools Area Learning Center: Offers a variety of alternative programs to help students increase academic growth, recover credits, explore career options and make the right decisions that will lead to graduation and a brighter future beyond..

Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP): Enhances the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS by providing prevention education and advocating for the rights of those affected.

Minnesota Council of Churches: Builds relationships between denominations and within the larger religious community as well as with other organizations, agencies and institutions within the nonprofit and public sectors across the state. Works to manifest unity in the church and to build common good in the world.

Minnesota Internship Center Charter School: Provides academic and career resources to students in alternative school settings.

Minnesota GLBTA Campus Alliance: Offers events, programming, and opportunities aimed at building community, developing leaders, and creating welcoming, affirming, and safe environments for GLBTA individuals. Unites students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members working for change on college and university campuses about GLBTA issues.

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

Neighborhood Health Source (Freemont Clinic): Provide high quality primary health care for people regardless of health insurance status.

Northpoint Health and Wellness Center: Strives to improve the physical and socio-economic health of the North Minneapolis community through an integrated model of multi-specialty medical, dental and mental health services as well as human services.

Open Arms of Minnesota: Prepares and delivers nutritious meals to people living with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses.

Out 4 Good: Works to create safe and supportive schools for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students, families, teachers, and staff in Minneapolis Public Schools.

OutFront Minnesota: Provides resources to eliminate homophobia and heterosexism by delivering programs and services to the GLBT and allied community through public policy, anti-violence, education, training, and the law.

PFund: Provides vital resources and community builders for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and allied communities by providing grants and scholarships, developing leaders, and inspiring giving. Actively seeks LGBT-friendly investments, particularly in organizations with fair and non-discriminatory employment practices.

Pangea World Theater: Illuminates the human condition, celebrates cultural differences, and promotes human rights by creating and presenting international, multi-disciplinary theater.

Patrick's Cabaret: Supports artists in their growth and development by serving the needs of local performing artists, artists of color, GLBT/queer-identified artists, and those with disabilities.

PEASE Academy (Peers Enjoying a Sober Education): Provides a high school education in an alternative setting for students recovering from drug or alcohol use.

People Serving People: Provides emergency shelter assistance to families by offering a safe and sober environment while promoting self-sufficiency and responsibility.

Phyllis Wheatley Community Center: Works with the community to support, strengthen, and empower families to increase their ability to achieve wholeness and effective living.

Planned Parenthood MN/SD/ND: Creates a world where every child is planned, wanted, and has choices about the health care available to them.

Plymouth Youth Center: Serves youth and families who are facing significant barriers in life as they strive toward full growth and active citizenship through education, community programs, and community development.

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign: Unites the poor across color lines for a broad movement to abolish poverty by advancing economic human rights as named in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, such as the rights to food, housing, health, education, communication, a living wage job, and access to quality education.

Pratt Community School: Strives to provide 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.

Pro-Choice Resources: Provides a full span of reproductive health services to women and youth through advocacy, access, education, and empowerment.

Project Footsteps: Promotes social change and youth development by providing learning environments for young people of all ages that foster self-exploration and community advancement.

Project for Pride in Living: Assists lower-income families toward self-sufficiency through housing, employment training, support services, and education.

Project Success: Works with students over a six-year period from middle school to high school. Provides in-school goal-setting workshops, an innovative theater program, and after-school individual services to help students learn to make informed choices and plan for meaningful futures.

Quorom: Strengthens links between GLBTA and GLBTA-friendly business people and business organizations. Connects businesses who would like to promote the Twin Cities GLBTA economic community both locally and nationally and those who would like to enhance their careers, businesses and organizations through education, training, research and networking.

Rainbow Health Initiative: advancing the health and wellness of the LGBTQ communities through education, research, and advocacy.

Rainbow Rumpus: Offers informative and entertaining articles, stories, reviews, and more in an online magazine for kids with GLBT parents.

Rape and Sexual Abuse Center: Provides caring, competent, and affordable services to survivors of sexual abuse and assaults. Educates professional colleagues and the general public about sexual trauma.

Rebuilding Together: Brings together volunteers and communities to improve the homes and lives of low-income homeowners. Ensures that these homeowners – particularly older adults, individuals living with disabilities, and families with children – live independently in homes that are safe, warm and dry.

RESOURCE: Empowers people to achieve greater personal, social, and economic success. Provides employment, training, mental health, and chemical health services and strives to undo racism and promote diversity.

Restorative Justice Community Action, Inc.: Works in Minneapolis neighborhoods to enhance offender accountability for urban livability crimes by empowering local citizens to participate directly in the justice process and employing restorative practices.

Ronald McDonald House Charities Upper Midwest: Creates, finds and supports programs that provide a caring community for families with seriously ill children while increasing children's access to health care services.

St. Anne's Place: Provides short-term housing for up to sixteen homeless women and their children. Programs are geared towards developing strong and stable families through support services for parents and youth activities for children.

St. Stephen's Human Services: Offers shelter, housing and employment services, outreach, advocacy, and recovery support to people who are experiencing homelessness or poverty.

Safe Place Homework Help: Offers afterschool tutoring to meet the needs of youth in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood.

Sexual Violence Center: The Sexual Violence Center empowers our community by providing prevention and intervention services to all people affected by sexual violence.

Sierra Club (Northstar Chapter): Advocates for environmental protection through educational programs and political activism.

Simpson Housing Services: Provides shelter and affordable housing with support services to homeless men, women, and children.

Southeast Como Improvement Association: Works to maintain and enhance the physical, social, and economic environment of the neighborhood. Strives to foster a sense of community and to promote the neighborhood as a vibrant place to live and work.

Southeast Seniors: Coordinates health care, transportation, household, and other services to help seniors 65 and older remain independent and safe while still living in their homes.

Southside Family Charter School: Educates children to become independent-minded citizens who respect themselves and other. Offers small class sizes and innovative curricula that focus on social justice and hands-on learning.

Sustainable Resources Center: Sustainable Resources Center works to build vital communities that meet people's needs today while enhancing the environment for future generations. We focus our efforts on lead issues, energy use, and healthy homes.

Tubman: Serves individuals and families in addressing and preventing domestic and family abuse by offering shelter and counseling services for families in need.

Trans Youth Support Network: Provides advocacy, support, social, empowerment, signposting and training opportunities to young trans people and young people unsure of, questioning, and generally exploring their biological sex, gender or gender identity in any way at all.

University of Minnesota Medical Center Fairview: Provides health care resources while addressing the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals and their families.

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

Upstream Arts: Enhances the lives of adults and youth with disabilities by fostering creative communication and social independence through the power of arts education.

Upward Bound: Works with low-income and educationally disadvantaged high school students on a long-term and intensive basis to help them generate the skills needed to succeed in post-secondary education.

Urban League (Minneapolis Urban League): Links African descendants and other people of color to opportunities that result in economic success and prosperity, and effectively advocates for policies that eradicate racial disparities in accessing quality employment, housing, education, social services, and health care.

Volunteers of America-Minnesota: Offers a wide variety of services for children, adolescents and their families, older adults, students, persons with disabilities and special needs, and ex-offenders. Programs include senior support, housing, mental health services, and education.

Waite House: providing human services and community building activities to the Phillips Neighborhood. Facilities available include a kitchen, gymnasium, classrooms and meeting space, and a food shelf.

WATCH: Works to make the criminal justice system more effective and responsive. Improves the way the courts handle cases of violence against women and children by training volunteer court monitors to observe hearings.

Wellstone International School: Offers accelerated English language development and a basic high school curriculum to newer refugees aged 17-21 with limited English skills.

Women Against Military Madness (WAMM): Creates a system of social equality, self-determination, and justice through education and the empowerment of women to dismantle systems of militarism and global oppression.

Women's Prison Book Project: Provides women and transgender–identified persons in prison with free reading materials covering a wide range of topics from law and education (dictionaries, GED, etc.) to fiction, politics, history, and women's health.

Yinghua Academy: Yinghua Academy is the first Chinese immersion charter public school in the U.S. and the first Chinese immersion school in the Midwest. Yinghua is a bilingual, tuition-free, public charter school with an international perspective.

YMCA University Branch: Seeks to develop the ethical leadership capacities of students in a context of social issues by combining cross-cultural and community-based experiences with reflective learning.

Youth Care (Youth for Cultural Appreciation & Racial Equality): Directs leadership development, multi-cultural, and educational programs and services for urban youth, 7-18 years old, with a strong emphasis on bringing together youth from diverse ethnic, cultural and racial backgrounds.

Youth Farm and Market Project: Nurtures relationships between urban youth and their families, their communities, and the earth around them. Engages youth in growing, cooking, eating and selling healthy food, setting them on the road to lifelong health using local, traditional, and cultural foods.

YouthLink: Provides services to meet the multiple needs of homeless and precariously housed youth, guiding, encouraging and advising them toward self-sufficiency, self-empowerment and healthy connectedness.

St. Paul Community Partners

180 Degrees, Inc., Resiliency Program of Ramsey County: Works with youths who are involved in the juvenile system. Uses a strength-based and restorative justice approach to help youth address their needs, develop their own identity, and build self-confidence and esteem.

Academia Cesar Chavez: Provides a quality dual-language education which prepares critically thinking, socially competent, values driven, and culturally aware bilingual and bi-literate learners by advocating Latino cultural values in an environment of familia and community.

Ain Dah Yung Center: Provides a healing place within the community for American Indian youth and families to thrive in safety and wholeness.

Arc Greater Twin Cities: Provides 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.

Asian Media Access: Uses multi-media and technology for education and communication, in order to mobilize communities, and young people about Pan Asian issues.

Breakthrough St. Paul: Helps highly motivated, under-resourced middle school students from Saint Paul Public Schools succeed in rigorous honors coursework and get to college.

Breaking Free: educates and provides services to women and girls who have been victims of abuse and commercial sexual exploitation (prostitution/sex trafficking) and need assistance escaping the violence in their lives.

Camp Fire USA: Provides an array of out-of-school time and summer programs in partnership with housing communities, schools, libraries, and community centers throughout the Twin Cities, as well as at Camp Tanadoona in Chanhassen.

Casa de Esperanza: Mobilizes Latino communities to end domestic violence and to eliminate violence against women and children.

Center for Hmong Arts and Talent (CHAT): Strengthens the Hmong community by connecting them to the engaging and empowering benefits of art. Nurtures and develops Hmong artists to enhance the community and to create a place for the arts in daily Hmong life.

Central High School: Empowers an ethnically and racially diverse set of high school students through a multitude of college preparatory programs and extracurricular activities.

Cherokee Heights Elementary: Serves students in Pre-Kindergarten through Sixth Grade. Cherokee Heights offers a Spanish Bilingual Program option in grades K-2.

Children's Home Society and Family Services: Helps children thrive, build strength, and sustain individuality, family, and community life. Offers many programs to support the needs of children and their families, including adoption services, family and child support, and youth programs.

Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties: Mobilizes community resources to reduce poverty through programs like energy assistance, energy conservation, head start, and senior nutrition.

Dayton's Bluff Elementary School: Uses the Project for Academic Excellence (PAE) Design Model, which holds students, staff and school administrators to high standards, to ensure that all students meet or exceed the academic standards for their grade level.

East Learning Center: Works to Unlocking each child's potential through the foundation of reading. Tutoring Programs for K-4 students in St. Paul provided.

Foundations for Immigrant Resources & Education (FIRE) : The Foundation for Immigrant Resources and Education (FIRE) is an adult education organization dedicated to strengthening the lives of individuals, as well as the communities they live in.

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.

Girl Scouts Council of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys: Offers girls unique opportunities to give back to their communities, try new activities, and feel proud of their accomplishments. Provides accepting and nurturing environments where girls build courage, confidence, and character.

Goodwill/Easter Seals of Minnesota: Assists people with barriers to education, employment, and independence in achieving their goals. Provides job training, job search, resume workshop, and ELL classes.

Guild Inc.: Provides psychiatric rehabilitation services that are essential to support recovery for those experiencing mental illness of a severe nature so they can lead quality lives.

Hmong American Partnership (HAP): Brief Provides resources and programs for the Hmong community, including refugee resettlement, cultural social services, and youth programs.

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 toward their high school diploma, learn English, 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: Provides permanent community housing and supportive services to families who previously were homeless and facing chemical abuse or mental health issues.

Jane Addams School for Democracy (JAS): Provides a democratic space where people of diverse backgrounds can come together to contribute their energy and wisdom to the public good.

Jewish Community Action: Brings Jewish people from diverse traditions and perspectives together to promote understanding and take action on social and economic justice issues.

The Lab: Inspires, encourages and empowers youth to discover, understand and share their voices and the truth of their lives through creative and experiential opportunities.

Lifetrack Resources: Works to develop the strengths within children, families, and adults facing challenges. Serves people overcoming physical and mental disabilities, poverty, lack of education, trauma, and isolation.

Listening House: Provides hospitality and practical assistance in an inner city drop-in center for people who are homeless, disadvantaged, or lonely.

Lyngblomsten: Provides a ministry of compassionate care and innovative services to seniors in order to preserve and enhance their quality of life.

Mexican Consulate of Minnesota: Provides services to Mexican nationals and dignitaries in Minnesota and the region.

Minnesota Children's 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: Works to improve literacy throughout our state by offering literacy services for adults, at-risk children, native-born citizens, and recent immigrants.

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency: Monitors environmental quality, offers technical and financial assistance, and enforces environmental regulations in Minnesota.

MN Circles of Support and Accountability (MnCoSA): Supporting people convicted of sexual offenses as they reenter the community and lead responsible, productive, and accountable lives.

Mississippi National River and Recreation Area: Offers outdoor programs for members of the community who are interested in history, recreational activities, and touring the river.

Murray Junior High

NARAL Pro-Choice Minnesota: Uses education, training, organizing, legal action, and public policy to support and protect the fundamental right of woman's freedom to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices.

Neighborhood House: Provides the first stop for new immigrants and refugees as a multicultural, multilingual community center with programming for all ages and open doors for all people.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: Hosts, presents, and creates performing arts and educational programs that engage artists and enrich diverse audiences, serving as a catalyst for the artistic vitality of our community.

Out for Equity: Works to reduce harassment and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students, staff, and families in Saint Paul Public Schools. Believes that families deserve a safe, supportive school environment that fosters positive self-esteem, respect for others, and academic success.

Payne-Phalen Living at Home/Block Nurse Program: Serves seniors 65 and older and their families, building a circle of care around the diverse elders and keeping them healthy and safe in their homes.

Phalen Lake Hmong Studies Magnet School: Offers students the opportunity to explore the culture, language, history, traditions, literature and art of the Hmong People.

Quatrefoil Library: Collects, maintains, and documents circulating gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer materials and information in a safe and accessible space.

Ramsey County Community Corrections: Provides a structured and positive environment for the development of responsible youth and adults with assistance from community partnerships and services within Ramsey County. Builds safe and healthy communities through interventions that promote personal change and accountability.

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

Ramsey County Sheriff's Literacy Plus Program: Provides after school programming and literacy education at McDonough Community Center.

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

Science Museum of Minnesota: Provides a place for the community to learn about science. Hosts and runs educational programs geared at schools, small groups, and families.

Shades of Yellow (SOY): Supports GLBT individuals within the Hmong community by providing services, health programs, educational advocacy and a safe space for Hmong LGBT individuals to freely express themselves.

Store to Door: Shops for and delivers groceries directly into the kitchens of homebound elderly, providing access to competitively priced food and personalized delivery.

St. Paul Central Touring Theatre: Maintains a safe space for youth to create, perform, and tour original theater works to diverse audiences.

St Paul Early Childhood Family Education: Offers parent and early childhood education for families with children between birth and kindergarten age. Works to strengthen families and enhance the ability of all parents to provide the best possible environment for the healthy growth and development of their children.

St. Paul Parks and Recreation: Facilitates the creation of active lifestyles, vibrant places, and a vital environment by managing more than 160 parks and open spaces.

Stop it Now! Minnesota: Provides online resources to prevent the sexual abuse of children before they are harmed and before anyone acts in a sexually inappropriate way towards a child, whether they are adults, teenagers, or other children.

TakeAction Minnesota: Unites the power of diverse individuals, communities, and organizations in active grassroots democracy that builds social, racial, and economic justice.

Women's Advocates: Women's Advocates is a safe place where battered women and their children can escape domestic violence. In addition to providing shelter, Women's Advocates provides advocacy, personalized support (including mental health therapy and aftercare services), education, and resources for nearly 1,000 women and children every year.

Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE): Providing opportunities for women and girls in the immigrant communities to achieve their full potential and to increase their skills towards economic success through college preparation, leadership development, and support circles.

WomenVenture: Assists women in securing their own economic success and prosperity.

Greater Twin Cities

Alaska Wilderness League: Alaska Wilderness League leads the effort to preserve Alaska's wilderness by engaging citizens, sharing resources, collaborating with other organizations, educating the public, and providing a courageous, constant and victorious voice for Alaska in the nation's capital.

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

American Cancer Society: Empowers and mobilizes communities to prevent cancer, save lives, and diminish suffering. Works to eliminate cancer as a major public health problem through voter education, awareness activities, and issue campaigns.

American Lung Association of Minnesota: Works hard to improve air quality indoors and outdoors and offers support groups for people with lung disease and people who want to quit smoking..

Cornerstone: Prevents violence and provides comprehensive services to victims of domestic abuse and their children.

Courage Center: Provides a rehabilitation and resource center for people with physical disabilities, brain injuries, speech or vision impairments, or hearing loss.

Crisis Connection: Provides 24-hour confidential crisis counseling, intervention and referral by telephone throughout Minnesota.

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

Dakota Communities: Partners with people with disabilities to realize their potential in their lives and communities. Dakota Communities provide Residential and Non-Residential services to people throughout the seven county metropolitan area of the Twin Cities.

The Garage: Provides a venue for teenage musicians to enjoy music-related activities, support groups, classes, awareness benefits, fundraisers as well as music, concerts and parties. Serves as a launching point for local bands.

How Are The Children Initiative: Works to mobilize support and resources for the benefit of children, youth and families who are struggling in Suburban Ramsey County.

Learning Disabilities Association of Minnesota (LDA MN): Maximizes the potential of children, youth, and adults with learning disabilities so that they and their families can learn more successfully and lead more productive and fulfilled lives.

Lifeworks Services, Inc.: Serves the community and people with disabilities as they live and work together. Provides customized services for people with disabilities that help them to live full and meaningful lives.

Perspectives Family Center: Provides programs that include a comprehensive supportive housing program for women and children, an extended day learning program for at-risk children, supervised visitation for non-custodial parents, and an extensive summer program for homeless and at-risk children.

Scholarship America: Distributes scholarship funds to thousands of college students and provides educational support by making postsecondary education possible for all students.

Sholom Home West: Provides a broad continuum of residential, social service, and health care services primarily for older adults and within a Jewish environment.

Three Rivers Park District: Three Rivers Park District is a park system in the west suburban Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area of Minnesota. We manage almost 27,000 acres of park reserves, regional parks, regional trails, and special-use facilities.

West Suburban Teen Clinic: Provide basic medical care, reproductive health care and education, and mental health counseling in an environment that is comfortable and welcoming to teens and young adults.

Wildlife Rehabilitation Center: provides quality medical care and rehabilitation for all injured, sick and orphaned wildlife, and shares its knowledge with the people who care about them.

Women of Nations: Provides domestic abuse shelter services, crisis intervention, and advocacy for Native American and all families in Minnesota.