Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation issued its first Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Progress Report. Will such reports become a standard annual thing for major foundations? We hope so.
Minneapolis Foundation – has three news items on grants made or grants to come:
- Micro Grants Support Community Efforts to Promote Healing, Connection.
- $4.2 Million Awarded in Racial and Economic Justice Grants.
- Main Street Grants Will Support Small Business Recovery In Minneapolis.
Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation – another tried and true Metro area family foundation, the Butler Family Foundation continues to grow in financials and in wisdom. Although we aren’t crazy about the closed Invited Grants program, we understand this is a generations old family fund with its own family traditions. See the latest round of grants.
A Few Other National Opportunities:
- Levitt Foundation AMP Your City awards for live music in mid-sized towns.
- Ben & Jerry’s national Grassroots Organizing grant program– bigger than Vermont!
- Clif Family Foundation (Clif Bar) Operational Support grants for smaller groups – health, food, environment (no in-kind donations!)
US Agency for International Development recently announced plans to invest $50 million in global childcare infrastructure. USAID will invest $50 million in the World Bank’s Childcare Incentive Fund to expand global access to quality childcare and early learning programs.
People on the Move:
We welcome CEDRICK BAKER, the McKnight Foundation’s new Chief of Staff, who recently served as Chief of Staff for Saint Paul Public Schools. NA ENG, previously Communications Director at the McKnight Foundation, has been named new Chief Communications Officer at People for the American Way (PFAW).