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The McKnight Foundation, a family foundation based in Minnesota, advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive.

Minneapolis, MN
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We send regular updates about our work and programs. Sign up for our newsletter and select your email subscription preferences:
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Check out the McKnight website and blog to learn about our programs, grantmaking, impact investing, and more:
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Our mission: Dedicated to advancing a more just, creative, and abundant future.
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McKnight Foundation
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As we reflect on 2023, we recognize and honor the community and grantee partners, climate leaders, working artists and culture bearers, researchers and farmers, and neuroscientists who inspire and push us toward a better future where all people and our planet will thrive.
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In total, we invested $107,998,200 in 2023, through 688 grants to incredible organizations in Minnesota, the Midwest, and across the globe working to advance a more just, creative, and abundant future.
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We unveiled new grantmaking approaches, celebrated leaders in the arts, community, climate, neuroscience, and global foods, and invested in organizations working to advance a more just, creative, and abundant future.
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We celebrated landmark legislation & milestone progress toward investment & policy solutions to make MN and beyond a better place for everyone. With other funders & coalition partners, we made a $1B down payment on expanding wealth-building opportunities through #GroundBreakMSP.
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2023 was a whirlwind year for McKnight and our partners! Take a look at our highlights from last year: 🧵
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2023 was a whirlwind year for McKnight and our partners! Take a look at our highlights from last year.
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Fresh Energy
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Fresh Energy's Margaret Cherne-Hendrick and @MNCommerce's @PeteWyckoff3 will be guests on @MPRnews from 9-10 a.m. tomorrow, January 16, to answer listener questions about the energy transition! Tune in 👇👇👇
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Conversations about life in Minnesota and how the state is changing, weekdays at 9 a.m. Call us at 651-227-6000.
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Council on Foundations
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Over 200 orgs have signed on supporting our joint amicus brief with @IndSector, including over a dozen nonprofits in Michigan. Read why our partners are standing up for @FearlessFund's right to give according to its values in @crainsdetroit by @SherriWelch https://t.co/TAlJQYraGi
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McKnight looks forward to providing continued support as they launch the Community Grantmaking for Environmental Justice project! #climateresilience #environmentaljustice
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This grant will strengthen & build the capacity of grassroots environmental justice organizations across the upper Midwest. We applaud their hard work and commitment to serving historically underserved communities across the region.
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ICYMI: 🎉Congratulations to our partners at @mplsfoundation, Midwest Environmental Justice Network, @reamp, and @ndncollective on securing a $50M award through the @EPAEnvJustice Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program!
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U.S. EPA
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.@EPAEnvJustice has selected 11 Grantmaking partners to help distribute grant funding to communities that need it most. 🤝 Through this program, EPA is reaffirming our commitment to #EnvironmentalJustice and reducing barriers to grant funding. https://t.co/QBoxpjMEmh
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The Pivot Fund
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📝 The first newsletter of the new year is here, highlighting our Midwest expansion supported by @JoyceFdn and @McKnightFdn (two Press Forward founders!), a reporting role at a new-ish nonprofit newsroom, a fellowship for Black women writers and more:  https://t.co/x0XaxDrn1c
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McKnight Foundation
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Huge thanks to tireless community leaders Andrea Reese, Mikeya Griffen, Jeff Corey, and Jeff Washburne for your powerful work in the CLT movement, and your contributions to this story! 🎥 Video by @lnbrkmedia and writing by @cinnamonjanzer.
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Thank you to @the_CLCLT, Rondo CLT, One Roof Community Housing, the MN CLT Coalition, and all of the #CommunityLandTrusts working to create a sustainable path to affordable homeownership for people across Minnesota.
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Through our housing strategy, we stewarded early catalytic funding of the MN Community Land Trust Coalition, and we are proud to continue supporting a thriving CLT movement across Minnesota.
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