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Women’s Foundation Announces New Community Response Fund Grants

The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota (WFM) announced $40,000 in Community Response Fund grants to four organizations. Through the Community Response Fund, the Women’s Foundation invests in programs that respond quickly to emerging needs and help ensure safe and healthy lives for women, girls, and gender-expansive people.

WFM grants support general operating expenses, which provide greater flexibility, crucial for organizations to build stability around community-sustaining programs. Applications are by invitation only. For more information and eligibility, please contact the team through WFM’s community office hours. 

Grantee-Partners: 

Foster Advocates | $10,000 (St. Paul) – To support a series of restorative and healing circles for staff and Community Board and expand their healing circles to a larger network of foster leaders so they can show up holistically well as community organizers and advocates. The organization leads advocacy, policy change, and organizing with and for Minnesota Fosters, and believe that child welfare systems change should be led by the people most impacted by out-of-home foster care.

Inquilinxs Unidxs por Justicia/United Renters for Justice | $10,000 (St. Paul) – To support tenant leaders in building leadership, capacity, and power for policy advocacy in Semillas de Esperanza / Seeds of Hope, a women- and tenant-led policy advisory. The organization works for permanently affordable housing and structural changes like tenant unions, rent stabilization, stronger enforcement of renter protections, and community-owned housing.

Minnesota Seeds of Justice | $10,000 (St. Paul) – To support and sustain community ambassadors and leadership who assisted families displaced by devastating floods in Worthington, and to establish an organizational emergency fund. Minnesota Seeds of Justice envisions a community that celebrates diversity, creates systems change, and builds an infrastructure that serves its growing, diverse populations in Worthington and surrounding areas in southwest MN.

Women’s Environmental Institute | $10,000 (St. Paul) – To support its Incubator Farm Program, in partnership with the Somali American Farmer’s Institute, so that up to 15 women farmers can receive the technical and cultural resources to succeed as new farmers. The Women’s Environmental Institute’s (WEI) is a place for women and allies to renew, learn, and organize for environmental justice.

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