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Mary Anne Welch

Changes in giving at Target, Wal-Mart and Big Lots

June 19, 2021 by Mary Anne Welch

“Restaurants, grocery stores, bodegas, discount stores, and lots of other retail stores are reopening now that most folks have been vaccinated (although vaccination numbers in BIPOC and rural communities are dreadfully below those in White urban communities).

In honor of our reunification with our old companions, the shopping carts, this month we’re talking about philanthropy from Big Box retailers (Target, etc.) and Big Bag grocers (Hy-Vee, etc.).

Big Box Funders: Grant Applications Are With Soap and Detergents

Three “Big Box” retailers –Target, Wal-Mart, and Big Lots – have all recently announced big changes in their corporate and foundation giving programs. All of these affect you.

WALMART

Walmart has several new processes, such as an online application process through CyberGrants, and new definitions of its four giving areas: Creating Opportunity, Advancing Sustainability, Strengthening Community, and Center for Racial Equity.

Two big new interests are Retail Opportunities (how to use retail work as job training, economic development, and entrepreneurship partnerships), and Healthier Food for All.

Walmart is keeping the local store grants, but organizations may only submit a total of 25 applications and/or receive up to 25 grants within the 2021 grant cycle (what am I going to do with this 26th application?), but they’ve done away with the state-by-state giving deadlines. Rolling deadlines begin February 1 and end on December 31.

TARGET FOUNDATION HOMETOWN FUNDING

These are LOCAL grants, awarded only to Minnesota groups (with a focus on the Twin Cities). According to the Foundation’s press release, “The Foundation will prioritize support for organizations which:

Strengthen networks, coalitions, and movements: Driven by the understanding that social change is complex and is not solely in the purview of the nonprofit sector or the mission of a single organization, collaborative networks of organizations within a field, as well as across sectors that are aligned around a common agenda, are an important condition of success

Pursue systems change through advocacy, policy, and communications: Given the scale of challenges relative to any foundation’s resources, efforts to effect social change need to address policies at the local, state, and federal levels that will inevitably affect the region. This requires reliable data, effective messaging, engaged and empowered residents and strong advocates.”

TRANSLATION: We have four interest areas:

— Entrepreneurship and Small Business – training, financial services, and network building
— Workforce Development – career pathways and job training
— Housing – affordable,, fair and just housing, and sustainable home ownership
— Asset Building – financial education, financial supports, and services.

Hometown grants will range from $25,000-$200,000. If this is the first time you’re hearing about the Target changes, you’ll have to wait until late fall, or early winter to apply, as the current round ended on June 2nd.

BIG LOTS FOUNDATION

Big Lots has stores in the metro area, but no offices or regional distribution centers, so we aren’t a big funding focus.

Big Lots is a new and relatively struggling corporate giving program. You can tell they’re struggling by the fact that there is no actual foundation, just a corporate giving program that uses the foundation name. Most corporate giving newbies also don’t announce their past recipients and don’t give their grant range. We think it’s better for a corporation (or any funder) to provide this type of information which tends to limit requests. You can also tell they’re new because they have twice as many “ineligible” criteria as “eligible” criteria.

Nevertheless, they are making grants and if the Google search for “Big Lots grants” is any indication, most are in the $2,500 to $7,500 range. The next grant round ends July 1. It helps to have a Big Lots associate involved as a board member. (When Walmart had a similar preference, one of our clients walked into a store and signed up the woman in charge of the pet section as a temporary board member). These are Big Lots funding priorities:

— Healthcare • Improving healthcare through research and education • Providing preventative education and care • Providing affordable, critical medical care
— Housing • Preventing families or individuals from losing their housing • Providing affordable, stable housing • Providing emergency shelter for families and individuals
— Hunger • Providing nutritious food or meals • Providing emergency food assistance • Educating families or individuals about the importance of healthy eating
— Education • Providing service-learning curriculum that aligns with education standards • Promoting servant leadership through academic and experiential learning • Improving classroom learning outcomes through innovation.

Big Bag Funders: Clean Up on the Philanthropy Aisle

The “big bag” picture of mega grocery chains in Minnesota has changed in the last couple years:

— Rhode Island-based United Natural Foods Inc (UNFI) ate up two of Minnesota’s favorites grocery stores: SUPERVALU and Cub Foods
— SpartanNash merged with Minnesota’s largest and oldest wholesale food company, Nash Foods, making SpartanNash the fifth largest food distributor in the U.S.
— Des Moines-based Hy-Vee projects that the Twin Cities will now be its largest market
— Meantime, Aldi, Fresh Thyme, Target, Costco, and Trader Joe’s and other chains have all made inroads in the Minnesota retail grocery market.

Let’s face it, grocery stores work on the slimmest of profit margins, so we don’t see a lot of cash philanthropy from this sector. But here’s a quick view down their philanthropy aisles.

— SpartanNash awarded 58 grants worth $750,000 since 2018 to Minnesota groups
— UNFI Foundation just 3 reported Minnesota grants worth $20,000 in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties to Farmers Legal Action Group and the Minnesota Food Association. Like nearly every other grocery store, UNFI also has a big food donations program. We expect to see a much bigger giving program in the next year or so
— Hy-Vee has no published grants in Minnesota, but they have a food give-away program, charitable store programs, and a big scholarship program in Des Moines and other markets. Expect MN students to get part of that action soon
— Aldi has more than 70 stores in Minnesota (second only to Cub Foods). Like many European owned companies, Aldi isn’t big on corporate giving, but they do have the Aldi Smart Kids program, with a focus on kids’ health and well-being: food insecurity: and diversity, equity, and inclusion programs
— Costco has Warehouse (aka stores) Donations for smaller local groups and grant applications for larger groups. The Costco Foundation is all about personal care for employees and their families. No cash there for your group.
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Filed Under: Foundation Notes

This year’s philanthropy celebrities: Evaluating the Gates Foundation

June 19, 2021 by Mary Anne Welch

The personal changes in the Gates family have prompted a lot of analyses of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). There’s lots of speculation about changes in governance, spin-offs, and the endowment. Most of all, there’s been new scrutiny of the BMGF’s overall grantmaking effectiveness and their treatment of beneficiaries.

First off, BMGF is a great organization. In a few short years, they vibrantly transformed institutional philanthropy, re-invented philanthropic collaborations, and offered a much better model for funders to become proactive. These changes dramatically altered 21st-century institutional philanthropy.

HOWEVER…

since the Foundation’s inception in the early 90s, scholars, funders, and grantseekers have voiced concerns about its handling of educators, parents, and students; malaria/measles victims; and farmers touched by BMGF’s African Green Revolution.

Like many things philanthropic, Minnesota played a quiet, but noteworthy, role in this BMGF “ultimate beneficiary” analysis. Three years ago, a young researcher from University of Minnesota studied how BMGF’s African Green Revolution treated African farmer-beneficiaries.

Since Dr. Rachel Shurman’s publication of this work in World Development in 2018, many scholars worldwide have affirmed her conclusions about how BMGF treat African farmer and have suggested the beneficiary treatment patterns that Dr. Schurman found could also be seen in other Gates projects, and in fact, in several other mega funders’ grantmaking work.

These are three of the beneficiary-treatment patterns that concerned Dr. Schurman and other researchers about Gates and other mega funders

The “culture of smartness” that characterizes the BMGF distances and insulates its staff from the field
BMGF treats farmers as passive objects of development rather than as complex social actors
Through its norms, interactions, and demands, BMGF shapes other development organizations’ priorities and practices.

Sound familiar? These very smart and very well-meaning mega funders need to better track the impact of their work on the ultimate beneficiaries.

The Fluff-Free Point: While Dr. Schurman wasn’t focused on changes in philanthropy, many of the recent challenges to grantmakers for greater diversity, equity, and inclusion are constructed on Dr. Shurman’s work. We thank her.

AND REALLY… Have Melinda & Bill considered just unplugging and rebooting?

Filed Under: Philanthropy Trends

GRANTMAKER JOBS

June 19, 2021 by Mary Anne Welch

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Please note, these are not paid job advertisements. We believe Minnesota will be better served if Minnesotans are hired by national foundations. Stuff about local funders is just interesting.

— Bush Foundation is looking for a Native Nations Program Officer
— Overdeck Family Foundation needs an Associate Grants Administration Manager. They are relatively new (2011), but already have a great reputation in preK-12 funding
— Bill and Melinda are looking for a way out of marriage, but their foundation is looking for a Senior Program Officer, Education Product
— Tupperware Brands Foundation wants Global Social Impact Foundation Specialist
— Brown Foundation of Houston needs an Associate Grants Officer. They give to national and regionally important groups in 25+ states, but 80% stays in Texas
— Central Minnesota Community Foundation needs an Executive Director
— Ford Foundation needs a Grants Manager for their Civic Engagement and Government-US (CEG-US) program. They also need a variety of Program Officers in other areas
— Patrick J. McGovern Foundation is dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence and data science solution. They need a Grants Manager
— Strategic Philanthropy Inc. needs both a Philanthropic Advisor and a Grant Administrator. SPI is a philanthropy consulting firm for individuals, families, and businesses. They research, vet, and manage grants for clients
— Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation needs a Senior Program Officer in their global work area. STBF is one of the premier U.S. women’s funders and in lots of other areas. It’s one of the Warren Buffett family of family funds, and is based in Omaha
— Park City Community Foundation (UT) still needs an Executive Director
— McKnight Foundation is looking for a new Senior Communications Officer
— GHR Foundation needs a Twin Cities Racial Equity Senior Program Officer
— Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies needs a U.S. Jewish Grantmaking Program Associate. The Foundation is one of the leading Jewish grantmakers in America, creating several grantmaker collaborations in the field
— Campbell’s (as in soup) needs a Specialist, Community Affairs who will handle employee giving, volunteerism and grants (not a big part of their operation)
William and Flora Hewlett and Annie E. Casey foundations are still looking to fill the jobs we described last month
— Youthprise wants an entry level Grants Associate

And if none of these jobs interest you, the Boston Debate League needs a new Executive Director. Your dream job – managing Boston debaters. It pays more than the Bush Foundation job.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized

Grantseeking mistakes

June 19, 2021 by Mary Anne Welch

Five silly grantseeking mistakes:

Philanthropy Daily newsletter and blog are published by American Philanthropic, a conservative-leaning philanthropy research and consulting group. Lots of good content. With support from funders and fundraisers, they’ve put together their favorite Five Silly Grantmaking Mistakes:

— Missed deadlines
— Proposals lacking in content
— Too much selling
— Not doing your homework
— Giving up too soon (YES, WE ABSOLUTELY AGREE!)

Filed Under: Fundraiser's Toolbox

Re-engaging with mid-level donors

June 19, 2021 by Mary Anne Welch

Guess who is also back? Mid-level donors. In fact, they never really left. We just sort of stopped asking for gifts from folks who make personal gifts between $1,000 and $5,000.

But the pandemic shifted fundraising methods and targets. According to Sea Change Strategies, several major national nonprofits re-engaged with mid-level donors and found huge retention rates in both the first year and for several years afterward.

Besides greater retention, mid-level donors are now much easier to solicit and engage ONLINE. That’s a big shift for many donors who average more than $1,000 per gift.

But most mid-level donors still like old-fashioned solicitations. For example, they still like:

Personal engagement
Individualized emails
Telephone calls
Handwritten notes.
If you need help thinking through how you might develop a mid-level donor campaign, talk to one of AP’s senior advisors. Call Gail ([email protected]) to arrange a time.

RELATED – A LITTLE MORE THAN MID-LEVEL DONORS

A study of high net wealth philanthropy says REALLY rich millionaires give a larger % of their income to charity than anyone. BUT the study also reports that:

People who have an income between $200,000 and $500,000 proportionally give more than people with greater income — ranging between $500,000 and $2 million.
People with annual income of less than $200,000 but with liquid assets of more than $1 million give more than either of the $200,000+ donor groups.

BY THE WAY…

According to several small family foundation owners/staff people, attractive, handwritten postcards are still one of the most effective ways to be remembered.

Filed Under: Philanthropy Trends

Minneapolis Foundation’s return to the old ways – Micro& Safety Grants

June 19, 2021 by Mary Anne Welch

In the old days (pre-Gates), community foundations were often the nonprofit incubators in their neighborhoods, supporting the most creative and sometimes riskiest new things to come along. In the Jim Shannon and Tom Beech days of the Minneapolis Foundation, the organization was often the most enthusiastic supporter of groups no one had ever heard of.

Fundraising pressures and new standards in institutional philanthropy drew major funders (including community foundations) toward larger and more traditional grantees, however.

But recently, the Minneapolis Foundation announced its final round of Micro Grants intended to address community trauma and promote wellness. The first round of these small grants ($2,000 to $5,000) has gone mostly to smaller, newish, less traditional groups for creative community-making.

Great work, Chanda and all, at the Foundation. Welcome back to a golden era of community foundations, when re-engaging with tiny new organizations was a perilous, but hugely, important (and satisfying) part of your work

Filed Under: Philanthropy Trends

5.21 Fluff Free News Digest

May 19, 2021 by Mary Anne Welch

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May, 2021
 
Has it been one year already?! So nice to see some of those lovely plywood window treatments begin to disappear. Hopefully, the funders’ commitments to justice and accountability won’t get stored in the garage alongside the plywood.
 
BIG NEWS AT ACCESS!
 
Beginning the week of May 17th 1st, our friend, and AP Senior Advisor Matt Ladhoff ([email protected]) will become our Manager Partner. He’s a wonderful, knowledgeable, high-interest, and high-performance guy, and we couldn’t be happier.
 
“I am a lifelong learner who loves connecting with others and applying business acumen towards impact-oriented solutions. I earned my MBA from the University of Minnesota, where I currently serve as an adjunct faculty member. 
 
I have previous experience leading Career Programs at Wallin Education Partners, a Twin Cities-based education equity nonprofit. Additionally, I worked at 3M for six years, working in corporate social responsibility, as well as strategic sourcing, while leading 3M’s New Employee Opportunity Network (NEON). Above all, I am an optimist and a life enthusiast. I am proud of the work of Access Philanthropy and the clients we serve. I look forward to joining the team!” s/Matt Ladhoff
 
A GOOD TIME TO INTRODUCE MORE GREAT NEW AP PEOPLE
The new guys. Catch their bios on the AP homepage (www.accessphilanthropy.com)

— John Munger, Senior Advisor
— Mary Hartnett, Senior Advisor
— Kathy Jenkins Hart, Senior Writer
— Mary Beth Schleif, Senior Writer
— Jodi Vannett, Senior Writer
— Justin Spenner, Senior Writer
— Laura Wilson, Research Crew

 
They join our current great crew

— Mike Newman, Senior Advisor
— Greg Lais, Senior Advisor
— Jo Seton, Lead Writer
— Christine Schwitzer, Lead Writer
—  Katie Selinsky, Senior Writer
—  Mary Anne Welch, Digital Assets and Database Guru
— Gail Morrison, Everything Coordinator
— Jana Simmons, Lead Research Wizard

 
THIRTY MINUTES WITH AN AP SENIOR ADVISOR?
AP continues to offer free thirty-minute telephone/zoom chats with an AP Senior Advisor. Sometimes we talk grants, sometimes general fundraising planning, and often we include a few minutes on how you are handling the latest pandemic. Email [email protected]
 
FUNDER NOTES
Union Pacific Foundation Community Ties: Greatly expanded areas of interest, and a specific contact person for Minnesota. Application timeframe has been moved to June 1-July 31. 
 
Otto Bremer Trust: Trustees will continue to control grantmaking, but will no longer serve on the banking operation’s board of directors.
 
Bush Foundation: Has committed $100 million toward increasing the wealth of Black and Native American people. Currently, they’re looking for two organizations to act as re-grantors.
 
Skoll Foundation: National funder, based in Northern CA. Used to be ONLY about social entrepreneurship in almost any form. Now, the foundation is returning to interest areas: health systems reform, effective government, global security, racial equity, and climate change.
 
TCF/Huntington Bank: TCF Bank, based in Detroit for the last couple of years, was purchased by Columbus, OH’s Huntington Bank. When you’re two degrees of separation from the home bank (like Minnesota and Huntington), you get regional or state presidents (see JPMorgan, Bank of America, PNC). For TCF, Darrel German is the new Minnesota regional president.
 
Bill and Melinda Gates are getting a divorce after 27 years of wedded philanthropy. Some time, remind me to tell you my Bill Gates vs. Saint Francis of Assisi story …
 
The Asian American Foundation: a new foundation intended to support Asian American empowerment movements. Lots of investment types on the board, but it also includes several well-respected Asian American community leaders No grants yet.
 
EARMARKS
The Congressional Community Project Funding process, otherwise known as “earmarks,” is underway for all 435 members of Congress. Each member is allowed up to ten requests of just about any size (think millions, rather than thousands). Many members’ requests/earmarks are already being “considered” by Congressional Committees, while some members haven’t even started their application process.
 
Fifth District Representative Ilhan Omar just announced the ten groups that she will be presenting to the appropriate committees: Skills Training for Clean Energy Careers; Afro-LatinX Immigrant COVID-19 Workforce Re-Engagement; BC Health on the Go!;, All Roads Campaign; Sabathani Community Center Building Revitalization Project; North Commons Regional Vision; NEON Food Entrepreneur Incubation; Fire Protection Upgrades; Waadag Commons; and Hennepin Healthcare East Lake Clinic Rebuild.
 
NO EXCUSES
If you need to upgrade your Microsoft Office Suite for Nonprofits, TechSoup has a deal for $39 which includes free training.
 
GOBS AND GOBS OF JOBS
So many jobs this month! Many of them are simply unfilled from last month, but plenty of new opportunities, too, from major funders nationally and locally. BTW, these are not paid want ads. We believe that getting Minnesota people into national foundation jobs will be to the benefit of all Minnesota groups.
 
Yellow Chair Foundation (northern CA) needs Senior Program Officers for their Democracy and Justice, and Climate Advocacy and Equity Programs.
 
W.K. Kellogg Foundation wants a Vice President for its Place-Based Programs, to take care of its four geographic priorities – MS, MI, NM, and New Orleans.
 
Wallace Foundation (NYC) needs a Research Officer for Education Leadership.
 
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has LOTS of jobs available, with a special need for a Racial Justice Initiative Director.
 
San Francisco Foundation, a great community foundation with very interesting funding areas, is looking for a Chief Philanthropy Officer.
 
Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation (Seattle) needs an ED – public education, theatre, patient care, and career works.
 
Walton Family Foundation needs a lot of people, but if you know anything about NW Arkansas, you have a much better chance of grabbing one of the foundation’s Home Region positions.
 
Annie E. Casey Foundation is also looking for lots of new people, including a Director of Employment, Education and Training. 
 
Lots of other funding jobs are available at the Bill and Melinda Gates, Robert Wood Johnson, Astraea, Nationwide, and Morgan Family foundations, and the Catholic Community Foundation of San Diego.
 
FUNDRAISING REPORTS
A.    Virtual Events
According to Classy’s Why America Gives 2020, virtual fundraising did okay during the last year.

— Nearly one-third of U.S. consumers said they have supported or participated in a virtual charity event since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic
— Of those, the majority (60%) said they donated and/or raised more in the virtual environment than they have for past in-person events
— Preferences between in-person and virtual donations differ somewhat among the various age groups.

 
B.    Interest Areas Giving
Also from Why America Gives 2020 report, American donors noted these giving preferences.
 
2020 Donor Preferences

— Health – 46%
— Disaster Relief – 34%
— Education – 31%

 
2019 Donor Preferences

— Disaster Relief – 46%
— Health – 37%
— Environment – 37%

 
2018 Donor Preferences

— Disaster Relief – 43%
— Health – 37%
— Environment – 36%

 
We spent many hours last year (and this) Zooming with funders and donors. Many of these folks believe several major nonprofits (e.g., museums and housing groups) vividly reframed themselves as now being health organizations.
 
While some donors were offended by what they believed was “hiding behind the pandemic,” other donors were happy to support old non-health friends who they believed were shifting their programs to support the community’s urgent need. Many nonprofit leaders agree with the latter – shifting to health messaging helped their constituents deal with the pandemic.
 
So, whether you are changing or just shifting a little to health programs, maybe now is a good idea to think about how you handle “re-messaging.”
 
C.    Crowdfunding: A Less Religious, Single, and Young Person’s Game
Indiana University released a survey on crowdfunding. Key findings:

— Turns out most people know about crowdfunding (91%), but less than one in three people (31%) contribute through the mechanism
— Both crowdfunding donors and non-donors have positive attitude about crowdfunding
— Crowdfunding donors tend to be younger, less religious, and are more likely to be single, compared to traditional charitable giving donors
—  Crowdfunding donors gave an average of $189, and most (52.5%) supported the charitable causes of a family member or close friend
— Overall, 20% of American donors give to social justice causes, but crowdfunding donors gave 27.7% of their support to social justice causes.

 
D.   Multi-Year General Operating Support Grants (MYGOS)
The grantseekers’ holy grail – multi-year general operating support grants will remain “more goal than gold,” according to the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), which found a huge gap between grantseekers’ and grantmakers’ attitudes toward MYGOS.
 
According to CEP, “Our findings reveal a sobering disconnect between attitudes of foundation leaders and the experience of nonprofits … We are left to conclude that a majority of foundation leaders simply have not felt it a fit with their approach, or important enough to prioritize shifting their funding practices [to MYGOS grants].”
 
E.    Memberships
According to an M+R Benchmarks 2021 survey, revenue from nonprofit membership programs with defined, tangible benefits increased by 17% in 2020.
 
F.    Email Fundraising for Small Organizations
Also from M+R research, it turns out that small nonprofits received a better response rate for email solicitations during 2020 than did large and mid-sized groups.
 
So many opportunities and discussion points here. Think about how this works for you. Or just call an Access Philanthropy Senior Advisor ([email protected]) to chat.
 
NOTHING PERSONAL, OF COURSE
Mark Twain wrote, “God first made idiots (that was for practice) then He made…Boards!”
 
FUNDING REPORTS
 
Asian Americans: A new Asian American Pacific Islander report finds that foundation funding designated for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities accounts for only 0.2 percent of all U.S. grantmaking, about the same as the 1992 report.
 
That means for every $100 awarded by foundations, only $0.20 was designated for AAPI communities. Overall, AAPI foundation 2018 funding totaled $174 million, a drop from 2009.
 
Since 2018 2,000 funders awarded grants to, or for, AAPI communities. But the top five funders accounted for nearly 40% of AAPI funding (California Endowment, Ford, Doris Duke, and W.K. Kellogg. Top interest areas were arts, youth services, and basic human services.
 
In Minnesota, the top five AAPI grantmakers in 2018 were Minneapolis Foundation and its donor-advised funds, Otto Bremer, Wells Fargo, St Paul/Minnesota Foundation, and its donor-advised funds, and the Bush Foundation.
 
TAKING IT UNDER ADVISEMENT
Edgar Villanueva, partner in Decolonizing Wealth Project co-authored an interesting piece in the Chronicle of Philanthropy on white philanthropy. He writes that one of the clearest indicators of white colonial philanthropy is when funders respond to a grantee with, we’ll take that under advisement.”
 
As a former Catholic seminarian who was on the giving and receiving side of that defense, I think that language is closer to a mortal sin than a venial sin. 
 
EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU DON’T HAVE TIME, make time to tip a glass to the memory of George Floyd on the first anniversary of his death. May the many murals, photos, and depictions of Mr. Floyd remind us of why we are committed to a better universe.
Need to talk to someone about fundraising? Let Gail know ([email protected]).

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Filed Under: Uncategorized

Otto Bremer Trust Changes

May 19, 2021 by Mary Anne Welch

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May 21, 2021
 
Below is a message from the Otto Bremer Trust that I received today and wanted to share with you:
 
 
We are pleased to announce that our new application process is now live.
 
Designed with great care and vision by our entire organization, this process will allow us to review more grant applications with thoroughness, efficiency, and, most importantly, fairness.
 
To start an application, please first review the guidelines on our How to Apply for a Grant page. There you’ll also find a link to begin a new application.
 
Some things to note about our new process:
 

— Our next application deadline is June 3. Applicants who submit by that date will receive a decision by mid-September. More deadlines are available.
— Same funding priorities. While we continue to grow our philanthropic work across the four-state region, our funding priorities and interest areas haven’t changed. Learn more on our website.
— A more efficient process. The new application and related internal processes will reduce the amount of time between application and decision. Watch our website for updates on upcoming application deadlines.
— Fiscal sponsorship application. Applicants applying as a fiscal sponsor are required to first contact OBT program staff to receive an application.
— A new portal. As you may know, OBT launched a new portal in July 2020. If you’re unsure if you have an account in the new portal, write to [email protected].
— More questions? Review our frequently asked questions.

 
If you have questions about eligibility, please reach out to our program teams. You can find the right contact by visiting the Where We Work section of our website, or call our office (651-227-8036 or 888-291-1123) and ask to speak with a program officer.
 
If you need technical assistance with the portal, write to [email protected]
Thank you.
 
Otto Bremer Trust
30 E. 7th St. Ste. 2900, St. Paul, MN 55101-2988
Main 651 227 8036 Toll-free 888 291 1123
 

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Filed Under: news, Foundation Notes

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