BEMIDJI — The
Northwest Minnesota Foundation
recently awarded $350,000 in grant funding to 12 local organizations through the Otto Bremer Trust Community Responsive Fund.
The funds will support services and programs addressing crucial needs in our local communities, a release said.
Otto Bremer Trust identified four categories through which NMF was to align funding: basic needs; community asset building; health and wellbeing; and restorative and responsive.
NMF received 28 applications totaling more than $1 million in requests.
The following area organizations were awarded funding:
- Red Lake Homeless Shelter received $75,000.
- Marshall County Group Homes, Inc. in Argyle received $50,000.
- Northwoods Battered Women’s Shelter in Bemidji received $50,000.
- Clearbrook-Leonard Senior Center received $38,000.
- BIO Girls, Inc., serving different locations throughout Northwest Minnesota, received $25,000.
- Youth Emergency Shelter and Supports in Park Rapids received $25,000.
- Bemidji Community Table received $20,000.
- Family Safety Network in Walker received $20,000.
- Community Resource Connections in Bemidji received $16,500.
- Warren S.O.S. received $13,000.
- Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Bemidji received $10,000.
- Tri-Community Movers/Block Nurse Program in Newfolden received $7,500.
“We are incredibly thankful to the Otto Bremer Trust for this opportunity,” Cory Boushee, NMF’s Director of Programs, said in the release. “This funding enabled us to contribute no-strings-attached operational dollars to our local partners who are delivering vital impacts across our region.”
Since its founding, OBT has invested more than $1 billion in people, places and opportunities in its region.
