Recent Grant Recipients

2007 GRANT RECIPIENTS

The Woman's Club of Minneapolis is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, civic and social services, study and friendly association.

This mission dates back to the Club's founding in 1907 and continues to be fulfilled in ways that reflect the times and needs of the Twin Cities.

The charitable giving efforts of the Woman's Club have resulted in over $4,000,000 in grants to local organizations with an emphasis on the needs of women and children. Throughout our history, the Club has been part of the vanguard on initiatives such as the Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency, the Planning Commission of the city of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis School lunch program and the enactment of the state's child labor laws.

We continue that tradition in our support of organizations that serve otherwise unmet needs.

In 2007, the Woman's Club distributed an unprecedented $110,000 in scholarships and grants to local nonprofit organizations that benefit women and children. Programs that received grants in 2007 include:

The Assistance League of Minneapolis/St. Paul supports at-risk children and adults through several programs in the Twin Cities. Our funds will be used to provide school clothes and winter apparel for elementary school children.

Joyce Preschool has been a succesful inner city bi-cultural preschool for over 10 years. Their Spanish/English immersion program also has a strong parent component for nurturing readiness.

Mosaic Youth Center will use our funds to help with a "Work Wise" effort in Brooklyn Park. This will train economically disadvantaged students to find, secure and maintain quality employment - today and in the future.

Open Arms delivers cost-free meals to low-income families with a parent who is homebound due to a debilitating illness such as MS, breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, and ALS. Greater attention will be paid to the children's menus, thanks to our funding.

Phillips Community Television serves over 100 youth in the Phillips Neighborhood. For 14 years they have provided leadership training and media skills through creative projects in TV, magazines, photography, and web pages.

The Phyllis Wheatley Community Center, through its Northside Family Initiative, serves low-income single mothers to help them estalish family stability. They address finances, education, family planning, parenting, housing, and personal relationship issues.

Portico Healthnet reaches out to low-income, uninsured women and children in Hennepin County to help them navigate the complicated system of the health insurance that is available to them.

The Sexual Violence Center has provided intervention services to those affected by sexual violence for over 22 years. Our funds will support their Youth Prevention Education Programs and Youth Victim Services.

The Somali Health Project educates Somali women in Minneapolis about HIV/AIDS to increase their preventive knowledge and to help them access health care for such.

The Southside Family Nurturing Center will use Woman's Club funds to support their therapeutic early childhood education programs and services for low-income families, mostly headed by a single woman, to be effective and successful parents.

Store to Door delivers groceries and prescriptions to low-income homebound people, particularly senior citizen women, to help them continue to reside in their own homes. Clients pay for their groceries and prescriptions; volunteers do the shopping. Our funds will help defray the cost of delivery mileage.

Theresa Living Center has provided transitional housing for homeless women and children for over 20 years in Ramsey County. Woman's Club funding will help families learn how to live independently through a variety of life skills programs.

United Nations of MN will use our funding to support hundreds of economically disadvantaged youth in multiple skill development to become actively engaged citizens, learn more about diverse cultures and points of view, and better understand their place in the world.

WATCH engages highly trained volunteers to monitor child/domestic abuse cases in the Hennepin courts. Our funding will support their work for increased efficacy for security for victims and an overall more workable system for them.

Way to Grow offers services for at-risk Minneapolis families through their time-tested critical help with school-readiness. They reach over 3,000 parents and children (age 0-6) each year.

Young Audiences of Minnesota links the arts with other important learning skills through multi-cultural, interdisciplinary programs in the schools. They reach over 100,000 students annually.