Foundation awards grants

During the final quarter of 2022, Duluth’s Northland Foundation awarded 18 grants totaling $431,000 to support people and communities for a thriving region.

Funding included $30,000 for the Li’l Lumberjacks Learning Center in Cloquet, a child care program expansion with funding provided by the State of Minnesota with support of the Northland Foundation.

The REACH Mentoring Program Youth Adult Partnerships based in Cloquet received $25,000 to support mentoring and enrichment programming to youth across Carlton County.

Funding of $81,000 went toward prevention/intervention work in relation to domestic and family violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Grants totaling $64,000 were awarded to three organizations serving survivors in northeast Minnesota communities.

Money was also awarded through the Northland Foundation’s recent Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relations grant opportunity, which was open to individuals or grassroots groups of Native nation citizens, descendants, or with kinship ties or affiliations to Indigenous communities.