Northland Foundation awards grants
DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) — The Northland Foundation has provided thousands of dollars to a dozen area nonprofits.
The Northland Foundation awarded $585,000 through its Quarterly Grant program.
It will help to address care services and operating expenses within child care centers, homeless shelters and veterans groups.
Recipients include Life House, True North Goodwill and Valley Youth Centers in Duluth.
The Violence Prevention Center in Grand Marais was also supported, along with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids.
Grants totaling $95,000 were made to four child care businesses located in the communities of Hoyt Lakes, Duluth and Tamarack.
The foundation’s president, Tony Sertich, said that without childcare, our economy doesn’t work.
“While we are not going to completely solve our region’s childcare shortfall with this funding, we must continue to chip away at it,” Sertich said. “We are grateful that people throughout the state are paying attention to childcare and that legislators are prioritizing this as an issue.”
Quarterly Grants awarded October 1 – December 31, 2024:
- Life House Inc, Duluth: $30,000
- Divine Konnections, Duluth: $50,000
- Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans, Saint Paul: $20,000
- Koochiching Aging Options, International Falls: $25,000
- ANGELS of McGregor, McGregor: $20,000
- North Shore Health Care Foundation, Grand Marais: $30,000
- Community Action Duluth, Duluth: $25,000
- True North Goodwill, Duluth: $25,000
- Voices for Ethnic and Multicultural Awareness, Chisholm: $30,000
- Ignite Empower Transform, Duluth: $35,000
- Violence Prevention Center, Grand Marais: $30,000
- Advocates Against Domestic Abuse d/b/a HOPE, Aitkin: $50,000
- First Witness Child Advocacy Center, Duluth: $35,000
- ServeMinnesota, Minneapolis: $20,000
- Tamarack Learning Center Child Care, Tamarack: $50,000
- Young Minds Learning Center, Duluth: $20,000
- Lakeside Early Learning, Duluth: $20,000
- Danielle Jarvala, Hoyt Lakes: $5,000
- Hartley Nature Center, Duluth: $15,000
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids and Greenway, Grand Rapids: $30,000
- Valley Youth Centers, Duluth: $20,000
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