Business Leaders Fund

Human Development Center, Duluth
$8,000 for “Look it in the Eye Northland”

Lake Superior Youth Chorus, Duluth
$3,000 to implement marketing communication plan

University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
$2,845 for Celebrating the Art of Collaboration with Libby Larson program


Michael Adam Carroll Memorial Fund

Friendship Ventures, McGregor
$1,000 for Financial Assistance Program

New Horizons Northern-Lifespan Respite Network, Bayfield County
$1,000 Lifespan Respite Care Northern Network

Community Leaders Fund

College of St. Scholastica, Duluth
$2,738 for “Promoting Pluralism: A Multicultural Leadership Orientation” session

Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Duluth
$4,000 event organizing and outreach for Connecting the Dots

Western Lake Superior Habitat for Humanity, Duluth
$4,000 for A Brush with Kindness volunteer coordinator

WTIP North Shore Radio, Grand Marais
$2,000 for Voices of the North Shore Arts Community

YWCA of Duluth, Duluth
$4,000 for Girl POWER!

Community Opportunity Fund

Challenge Center, Inc., Duluth
$5,000 for community based supported employment

Community Action Duluth, Duluth
$10,000 for Jump Start Duluth program

Damiano of Duluth, Inc., Duluth
$5,000 for Clothes that Work program

Duluth Children’s Museum, Duluth
$5,000 for Museum on the Move—Exhibit Explorations pilot project

Duluth Festival Opera, Duluth
$5,000 for “Opera in the Park”

Friends of the Center Alliance, Bayfield County
$4,000 for Evening Shepherd Community Event Staffing

Grant Community School Collaborative, Duluth
$15,000 for Collaborative Youth Development Program merger

Kinship of Aitkin County, Aitkin
$8,500 for Youth Development program

Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Duluth
$4,000 for event organizing and outreach for “Connecting the Dots”

Minnesota Land Trust, St. Paul
$15,000 for North Shore Protection Initiative

Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women, Duluth
$5,000 for Pathways Program of Northeastern Minnesota

Town of La Pointe, La Pointe, WI
$4,000 for La Pointe Harbor Long Range Plan and Feasibility Study

United Way of Greater Duluth, Duluth
$4,153 for 2-1-1 Information and Referral Program Expansion to Superior/Douglas County

Douglas County Disaster and Welfare Fund

Just Kids Dental Health, Superior
$2,000 for Superior Schools fall school dental clinics

United Way of Greater Duluth, Duluth
$847 for 2-1-1 Information and Referral Program Expansion to Superior/Douglas County

Four Cedars Environmental Fund

Bad River Wastershed Association, Bayfield County
$5,000 for community assessment of Bad River Watershed

Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory, Inc., Duluth
$8,000 in core mission support

Voyageurs National Park Association, International Falls
$2,500 for the Voyageurs Volunteer Rendezvous: Helping Hands program to restore the park’s shoreline habitat

Lone Wolf Fund

Friendship Ventures, Savannah, MN
$1,500 for Outdoor Education Program Improvement at Camp New Hope in the Savannah State Forest

Voyageurs National Park Association, International Falls
$3,125 for an Environmental Education Interpreter

Wetherby Fund

Damiano of Duluth, Inc., Duluth
$5,000 for Kids Café program

Northwest Wisconsin CEP, Inc., Douglas County
$1,023 for CREX Conservation Camp Scholarships

School District of Superior, Superior
$2,000 for Gender Study