2023 Grants
In 2023 the Foundation provide 70 grants totaling $1,160,050. Highlights include supporting: a new public art installation at the Cook County Historical Society’s Johnson Heritage Post; renovating the community center playground at Grand Portage; support for mobile markets by Community Action Duluth to increase food security; and many other great efforts up and down the North Shore.
2023 Grant Totals
Dollars Granted
Grants Awarded
2023 Grant Recipients
Arts & Culture
- Prove Gallery
$3,500 – Waiting for Beds Exhibit - Cook County Historical Society
$20,000 – Johnson Heritage Post Art Gallery Mosaic - Grand Marais Art Colony
$20,000 – Ceramics Studio Renovation (Phase I) - Grand Marais Playhouse Inc
$20,000 – General Operating Support - North House Folk School
$25,000 – Advancing emerging craft and nonprofit leaders: expanding the Craft Education Internship Program - Knife River Heritage & Cultural Center
$10,000 – Build a Shelter Over a Commercial Fishing Exhibit - Finland Minnesota Historical Society
$16,000 – Outdoor Community Venue Upgrades - Rocky Wall Entertainment
$3,500 – 2023 Music in the Park - Choice Unlimited
$10,000 – BOLD-choice Theatre Company Outreach Performances - Duluth Art Institute Association
$20,000 – General operations support to continue core services/close the funding gap presented due to required move to a new gallery space. - Duluth Chamber Music Festival
$3,500 – DCMF’s Second Season Performances & Community Engagement - Duluth Playhouse Inc
$15,000 – General Operating Support and $3,500 – ASL Interpreter for the Duluth Playhouse Summer Intensive - Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra
$15,000 – Celebrating Unheard Voices – Women Composers - Harbor City International School
$3,500 – Theater lighting needs repair - Lake Superior Youth Chorus Inc
$15,000 – General Operating Support - Twin Ports Choral Project
$15,000 – 23-24 Twin Ports Choral Season
Community & Economic Development
- North Superior Ski and Running Club Inc
$15,000 – Groomer Replacement - Northwoods Food Project
$10,500 – Tofte Community Garden - WTIP Cook County Community Radio
$45,000 – Community Media Expansion and Development 1 - Friends of the Finland Community
$38,000 – Outdoor Oven and Awnings at the Clair Nelson Center in Finland, MN - Friends of the Silver Bay Public Library
$25,000 – Library Expansion & Renovation - Silver Bay Blue Line Club
$10,000 – Silver Bay Outdoor Recreation Center - Duluth Library Foundation
$20,000 – Community Informed Building Redesign - Local Initiatives Support Corporation Duluth
$25,000 – General Operating Support - One Roof Community Housing
$30,000 – One Roof Community Housing – Plover Place Capital
Education
- Cook County Higher Education
$70,000 – Student Support Services & Scholarships - Great Expectations School
$10,000 – Teaching Healthy Behaviors - Library Friends of Cook County
$9,000 – Agency and Authenticity in Works of Fiction - Sawtooth Mountain Clinic
$20,000 – Oral Health Task Force - World Press Institute
$3,500 – World Press Institute Fellows Grand Marais Visit, Community Engagement & Public Forum - Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
$50,000 – Community Center Playground upgrade and $3,500 – A History of Indigenous Treaties and Relations with the United States - Finland Children In Nature Group
$3,500 – Professional Development and Yard Improvement - Lake Superior School District
$5,000 – Minnehaha Arts and Imagination - Northland Foundation
$15,000 – AGE to age: (Re) Building Healthy Connections Across Generations - Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center
$25,000 – Science Center Roof - Duluth Area Family YMCA
$20,000 – Harbor Highlands Program Support - Duluth Community Garden Program
$20,000 – Community Outreach Programs - Hartley Nature Center
$15,000 – Strategic Planning - The Kako Foundation
$2,500 – Hiking in Harmony 2023 - Kids Closet of Duluth
$10,000 – Kids Closet Clothes for Young School Students - Northern Expressions Arts Collective
$3,000 – Strategic Planning - Proctor Public Schools
$3,000 – Proctor Public Schools Check & Connect Support
Environment
- Cook County Local Energy Project
$20,000 – Rural Climate Action Resiliency Leadership - Minnesota Environmental Partnership
$5,000 – Get the Lead Out Two Harbors - Superior Hiking Trail Association
$15,000 – SHT Volunteers Clear the Path for A Sustainable Future - Conservation Corps Minnesota
$15,000 – Summer Youth Corps - Minnesota Land Trust
$15,000 – Headwaters Partnership Community Engagement and Environmental Justice
Social Welfare
- Care Partners of Cook County
$20,000 – General Operational Support - North Shore Health Care Foundation
$25,000 – Building Capacity for Incubator Programs and Heath - North Superior Ski and Running Club Inc
$2,500 – Support for youth Nordic skiing programming. - Sawtooth Mountain Clinic
$42,050 – Early Childhood Connections in Cook County - Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
$10,000 – Grand Portage Reservation Pilot Oral Health Program - Two Harbors Area Food Shelf
$3,500 – Meeting Increasing Demand - Harbor Centers Inc
$3,500 – Assistance For Publishing Senior and Caregiver Guide–General Operating Needs - Second Harvest Northland
$30,000 – Nourish the Northland Capital Campaign - Western Lake Superior Habitat for Humanity
$10,000 – Habitat Home Adaptations for Safety and Accessibility - American Red Cross Northland Chapter
$10,000 – Home Fire Prevention & Response - Community Action Duluth
$20,000 – Mobile Market - Damiano of Duluth, Inc.
$30,000 – Damiano Community Kitchen - Goodwill Industries Vocational Enterprises Inc- True North Goodwill
$20,000 – Database Upgrades - Housing for Inmates
$3,500 – Start-up Costs - Life House Inc
$25,000 – Youth Outreach and Engagement - Lincoln Park Children and Families Collaborative
$10,000 – LPCFC Capital Campaign Consultant - Men As Peacemakers
$20,000 – Making Equal Genders Awesome Program - Mentor North
$15,000 – Support for Leveraging Community Partnerships - PAVSA
$25,000 – PAVSA Mental Health Services and Outreach - Union Gospel Mission
$15,000 – General Operating Funds - Veteran Resilience Project
$10,000 – EMDR Therapy Outreach to Alleviate Veteran PTSD - YMCA Duluth
$20,000 – Operating support for YWCA Duluth
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