DULUTH, MN (KDAL) – Between January 1st and March 31st the Northland Foundation made 62 grants totaling over a million dollars to benefit the people and communities of northeastern Minnesota.
An additional three grants were awarded in April by the middle and high school students on the Youth In Philanthropy board.
Youth In Philanthropy grants may be up to $1,000 each and support children-and-youth driven projects. This experiential learning program is made possible by funding from the Scott and Holly Martin Family Foundation, as well as donations from members of the Northland Foundation’s Emeritus Trustee Group.
The two largest grants were made through the foundation’s $3 million Integrated Rural Community Aging Program to help grow the workforce providing care for older adults.
The Arrowhead Area Agency on Aging and the Applied Learning Institute received $100,000 and $95,000 respectively. Both grantees are using the funding to implement innovative, multi-year projects in designed to attract, train, and retain more people to careers that provide care to the region’s fast-aging population.
