NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Cory Boushee, Director of Programs
email: coryb@nwmf.org
The Northwest Minnesota Foundation is now accepting grant applications to support efforts aimed at improving the outcomes for individuals who have experienced homelessness.
The maximum grant award is $7,500, with average funding expected to be between $2,000 and $7,500. Total funding available is $30,000. The deadline to apply is April 30.
These grants – named Racial Equity Accountability Grants – support a Northwest Continuum of Care project aimed at identifying, dismantling, and de-colonizing instances of racism within the regional homeless response system. The Racial Equity Accountability Project, or REAP, is focused on improving the region’s current system of coordinated entry, which is the primary way individuals access supportive housing services in the NWCoC service area.
The purpose of this grant is to provide grants out to the community working to improve outcomes for individuals who have experienced homelessness.
Some examples of funding potentials are:
- Increasing cultural competency: Grant expenses can cover costs associated with providing and organizing training and professional development for staff working with those living through homelessness.
- Developing stronger relations between those living through homelessness and supportive housing staff: This can be accomplished by providing more culturally relevant events and opportunities for the community to express their cultural identify, and provide healing, such as sweat lodges, traditional ceremonies, drum circles, talking circles, community meals, support groups; or events related to specific cultural and racial identities
- Increasing stabilization: Providing job training and acquisition opportunities for individuals leaving homelessness
Eligible applicants are nonprofits, public agencies, and tribal organizations located within the Northwest Continuum of Care’s service area that includes the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, the Red Lake Nation, the White Earth Nation, and 12 counties (Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Mahnomen, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake Falls, and Roseau).
For more details or to apply, please visit https://nwmf.org/grants-scholarships/grants/
