Access Philanthropy

Women’s Foundation of Minnesota

105 Fifth Ave S Suite 300 | Minneapolis, MN 55401-2549

from the foundation’s website:

Investing in Innovation to Drive Gender
& Racial Equity in Minnesota

As a statewide community foundation, we make grants, invest in research, advocate policy, and forge cross-sector partnerships to ensure community-based, community-led solutions across Minnesota.

What We Do

Our goal is to raise transformational gifts to make the maximum investment in and with communities across the state to create a world of equal opportunity for women and girls.

See our Framework for Impact & Growth

RESEARCH

Research drives our work and sets our annual grantmaking and policy agenda. Everything we do is grounded in qualitative and quantitative research.

GRANTMAKING

By increasing investments to organizations, we create conditions for leaders and organizations to do their best work.

STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS

Through strategic communications, we work to change systems and societal norms.

CROSS-SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS

We engage in participatory learning, conducting research and relationship building, to create transformational change.

POLICY

By resourcing innovation, we scale from the local to the regional to the state and national across the women’s funding movement.

 

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