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.

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. This branch through the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities sends tutors out to the community and schools to promote reading.

American Red Cross: Provides many programs, such as relief to victims of natural disasters; teaches first-aid and community safety to the public; and facilitates blood donations.

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 the culture.

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

AmeriCorps/ServeMinnesota: Works to inspire positive social change by providing community programs on education, youth, family, and volunteerism.

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

(ACES) Athletes Committed to Educating Students: Offers a tutoring/mentoring program dedicated to helping inner-city youth succeed academically and personally by involving sports themes to motivate them.

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.

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.

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 Club 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.

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

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.

Center for Homicide Research: Addresses the issue of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) homicide and promotes understanding of the nature of homicide through sound empirical research, critical analysis, and effective community partnerships.

Centre for Asians and Pacific Islanders (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.

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

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 get clean energy projects on the ground by connecting people 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 groups and campaigns about environmental and community problems.

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.

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.

Danza Mexica Cuauhtemoc:  Serves 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.

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.

El Milagro Lutheran Church (La Conexion): Promotes interdependency by connecting the Twin Cities Latino community to social services, encouraging education, and equipping leaders.

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.

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

Family Opportunities for Living Collaboration (FOLC): Provides programs to meet health and family needs in the Cedar Riverside community.

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 while building positive relationships with adults.

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

The Green Institute/GreenSpace Partners: Promotes environmental stewardship and creates economic opportunities through sustainable community development. Programs are centered on development, conservation, recycling, and related efforts.

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.

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

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 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 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 Academy Charter School: Partners with Hmong families and community leaders to help advance academic excellence, leadership, and future success for K-12 students, especially those facing the challenges and risks of adapting to a new culture.

Hmong American Mutual Assistance Association (HAMAA): Offers resources and support to the Hmong Community with programs in ESL, citizenship, youth work, and community activities.

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.

Hospitality House: Provides Christian outreach focused on the spiritual, intellectual, and physical development of urban youth. Offers programs that are educational, vocational, athletic, religious, and recreational.

Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts: Provides artists with disabilities skills and 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.

The Jeremiah Program: Assists single mothers and their children to break the cycle of poverty. Helps mothers change their lives so that they can provide a better future for their children. Provides safe affordable housing, developmental childcare, life skills programming, individual coaching, and empowerment training.

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 Escuelita: Works to create and implement developmental strategies that help increase Latino youths’ academic success through their after school, summer academic enrichment, and leadership development programs.

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.

League of Women Voters: Promotes civic participation by encouraging citizens to become informed, be active voters, and participate in current affairs.

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.

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.

Lincoln International High School (Institute for New Americans): Empowers a culturally diverse student body to participate in positive continuing education and make important career and life choices.

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.

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

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.

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

Minneapolis Public Schools Adult Basic Education: Teaches adults the skills and support necessary to pursue personal educational and employment goals. Offers classes in GED preparation, English Language Learning, reading, computer literacy, writing, math skills, and citizenship preparation.

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 through research, education, advocacy, and programming.

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 Immigrant Freedom Network (MIFN): Provides grassroots community organizing, media justice work, immigrant leadership development, bipartisan legislative work, education, and civic engagement in fixing the broken immigration system.

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

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.

National Institute on Media and the Family: Educates and informs the public to encourage practices and policies that promote positive change in the production and use of mass media.

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: Applies research-based nonviolent strategies to protect human rights, deter violence, and help create space for local peacemakers to carry out their work.

Northeast Community Development Corporation: Promotes the economic development of the Northeast community through community planning, promoting small businesses, and commercial and housing development.

Northeast Community Education Beacons: Transforms schools into active afterschool and summer youth centers. Provides youth development opportunities with an emphasis on school success, youth leadership, family engagement, and community-school connections.

Old Arizona: Serves inner city teenage girls who have an interest in performing, media, and visual arts. Programs offer positive leisure time activities in a supportive arts environment by successfully combining three crucial components: art, mentoring, and gender-specific programming.

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

Our Saviour’s Housing: Provides shelter, comfort, hope, and community for people who are homeless through emergency shelters and transitional housing services.

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.

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.

PEACE Foundation (Public Engagement and Community Empowerment): Works to end neighborhood violence, socio-economic isolation, systemic exploitation, and racial disparities that breed violence in North Minneapolis.

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.

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

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: 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.

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, with a strong focus on academic achievement.

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

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

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

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.

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

Rainbow Families: Connects and supports local gay and lesbian parenting groups while advancing the cause of the lesbian and gay parenting community. They ensure equality for GLBT families by building community, changing hearts and minds, and advancing social justice for all families.

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.

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.

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.

St. Anne's Place: Provides short-term shelter for homeless women and their children. Offers programs geared toward developing strong and stable families through support services for parents, youth activities for children, and links to the resources they need in order to achieve independent living.

Seward Neighborhood Group: Works to make Seward a neighborhood where all people feel safe, youth are nurtured, and the arts are celebrated.

Shriners Hospital: Works to improve the lives of children by providing pediatric specialty care, innovative research, and outstanding teaching programs.

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.

Special Olympics Minnesota: Provides proper instruction and encouragement so people with intellectual and physical disabilities can learn, enjoy, and benefit from participation in individual or team sports.

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

Success in Education - Safe Place: Offers afterschool tutoring to meet the needs of youth in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood.

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

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. Leads inclusive arts workshops around the metro area, in special education classrooms and in collaboration with local disability organizations.

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.

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.

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.

WISE Charter School: Works to ensure the academic and social development of students while restoring the essence of the family and community with an emphasis on academic achievement, cultural awareness, and responsible citizenship.

Witness for Peace: Supports peace, justice, and a sustainable economy by advocating change to U.S. policies and corporate practices that contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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. 

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 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.

Youth Link: 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.

YWCA of Minneapolis: Offers recreational programs, classes, and support groups to help empower women and girls and create social change.

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.

AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination): Offers college preparation for students in public schools who are underrepresented in higher education.

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.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities: Gives a child the valuable gift of friendship through spending time on a one-on-one basis together with a paired volunteer.

Casa de Esperanza: Mobilizes the 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.

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.

CitySongs: Uses music and performance to develop confidence, competence, and individual potential in youth. Draws on the disciplines of psychology, social work, and human ecology to promote healthy youth development, artistic achievement, and a community celebration of diversity.

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.

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: Focuses on developing excellent mathematics and scientific skills by using technology as a key learning tool. Uses methods that blend mathematics, science, and technology throughout the curriculum to teach students basic skills.

Girl Scout 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.  

Hmong American Partnership (HAP): 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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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, 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.

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.

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.

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

Wellstone Action!: Honors the legacy of Paul and Sheila Wellstone by continuing their work through training, educating, mobilizing, and organizing a vast network of progressive individuals and organizations.

Wilder Foundation - Southeast Asian Services: Serves and provides resources for Hmong, Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese immigrants and refugees who have mental health issues.

WomenVenture: Assists women in securing 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.

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.

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

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.

Polaris District (Special Needs Scouting): Serves males and females of all ages and abilities with programs that build participants' self-esteem and give them a feeling of accomplishment. Helps participants become contributing citizens and leaders in their families and build skills that will last them a lifetime.