NDC is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that empowers aspiring under-resourced entrepreneurs to build businesses in their neighborhoods, often the most economically strained in the Twin Cities. The organization describes itself as a character lender and points to its wraparound support for entrepreneurs—both pre-loan and post-loan—for achieving a high degree of repayment. NDC’s lending …
March 2014 – A case study about the McKnight Foundation’s recently completed knowledge management discovery process. (Read the related blog post at Stanford Social Innovation Review.) Getting strategic about how you organize and redistribute knowledge can help just about anyone achieve their goals more efficiently. We at the McKnight Foundation often find ourselves at the …
2003 – Content and images from our 2002 annual report, in Adobe Acrobat format.
2004 – Content and images from our 2003 annual report, in Adobe Acrobat format.
Doupe Fellowship Allison Doupe was deeply connected to the McKnight Endowment Fund. She received a McKnight Scholar Award in 1993 and joined the scholar award committee in 2006. She took over as chair of the scholar committee in 2010 and joined the McKnight Endowment Fund board at that time. Additionally, Allison was an amazing mentor …
Family Housing Fund protects and creates affordable housing in the Twin Cities metro area. It also created the Twin Cities Community Land Bank to strategically invest in land and buildings. Investment $5 million 10-year loan at 2%; originated in 2009. Exited in 2022 (success). Rationale Capital to ease the foreclosure crisis in the Minneapolis-St. Paul …