Bluestem Communications works in regions throughout the country building creative communication campaigns aiming to protect North America’s most precious land and water resources. They advance public awareness and understanding on select environmental issues and build widespread commitment to addressing those issues through individual actions and policies. The organization’s primary task is to meaningfully engage people …
Flying Foot Forum is a vibrant and bold performance company that fuses percussion and percussive dances with many other forms of music, dance, and theater. The group seeks to re-imagine the potential of all forms of percussive dance and percussion and to explore their full range of dramatic and musical possibilities. A recent production of …
The McKnight Foundation Midwest Climate & Energy program focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, at scale, as quickly as possible in the Midwest. In the last year, the program has been expanding support for climate solutions on natural and working lands—our rangelands, farms, and forestlands—that support life and livelihoods, recognizing that we need to partner …
Rain Taxi is a literary organization that champions literary culture through programs and publications that foster engagement with innovative writing. Their main vehicle is the award-wining print quarterly, Rain Taxi Review of Books, with coverage of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art, graphic novels, and more. The publication aims to connect readers to books of merit that …
Protecting our planet so everyone can thrive requires transforming how we produce and use electricity. The McKnight Foundation supports bold action on the climate crisis, recognizing the urgent need to reduce carbon pollution, at scale, as quickly as possible in the Midwest. Through its Midwest Climate & Energy program, McKnight supports clean energy policies, regulatory …
What began in 1965 as an amateur troupe of the area’s advanced ballet students has grown into the Minnesota Ballet, a highly professional company led by Robert Gardner, former dancer with the Joffry Ballet and Cleveland San Jose Ballet. The state’s northernmost ballet performs major works such as Salvatore Aiello’s Clowns and Others, classical ballets …
Diane Henry Freutel of McHenry County, Illinois recently inherited over a hundred acres of farmland along with several other properties. She never dreamt she’d be the last living family member and when her brother and father passed away in short succession, she felt overwhelmed and lost amid all of the information, programs, and decisions required …
Elizabeth McGeveran says $1 of every $3 McKnight invests goes to advancing its social goals. Photo credit: Molly Miles The following article was originally published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy on January 8, 2019 as part of a special series of stories on impact investing. It is reprinted here with full permission. Of the biggest foundations …
The West Broadway Business Area Coalition’s (WBC) mission is to create an inviting and vital West Broadway Corridor and to transform Minneapolis’ north side into a thriving economic community. WBC Builds capacity of businesses and entrepreneurs, highlights the positive and cultural assets of north Minneapolis, and engages the community in the ongoing revitalization of the …
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report confirms what communities around the globe, including here in the Midwest, have known for decades: climate change is affecting the lives of billions of people around the world—creating dangerous disruptions that hit under-resourced communities hardest. Too often, these same communities are left out of conversations about …