The Otto Bremer Foundation will focus its 2009 Twin Cities funding on programs and initiatives to relieve poverty, including emergency assistance and longer-term poverty reduction. The foundation is especially interested in supporting efforts to help families and individuals meet immediate basic needs — such as food, warm and stable housing, health care, and reliable transportation — as well as efforts that address the underlying conditions that can help people achieve long-term economic stability. Find more information at www.ottobremer.org.
The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation is expanding its grantmaking guidelines for the Community Opportunity Fund and other unrestricted funds to include one-time general operating support. “This change is a direct reaction to what regional nonprofits are telling us they need most,” said Holly C. Sampson, foundation president. “By providing limited general operating support to organizations that are providing critical services to those most in need, we feel we can alleviate some of the tremendous pressures regional nonprofits are facing right now.” The next deadline is April 1. Find more information at www.dsacommunityfoundation.org.
