WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

​31:8 Project 

• $30,000 for launching the “Finding New Colors” program, a therapeutic arts initiative supporting survivors of human trafficking in North Dakota.

Junior Achievement North

• $75,000 for developing a video library to enhance mentorship opportunities for rural students.

South Sudanese Foundation

• $150,000 is being spent on creating a series of African cultural events to promote community cohesion and cultural exchange.

Aurora Nights (Minot Commission on Aging) 

• $81,000 for hosting quarterly events that connect local food, arts, and culture in Minot.

Drake Community Foods 

• $28,000 for establishing a hybrid grocery model to restore access to essential food services in rural Drake.

Minot Commission on Aging 

• $130,000 for expanding meal delivery services and intergenerational programs to combat senior isolation in rural areas.

Northern Cass Community Health & Wellness Center 

• $50,000 for developing a multi-service wellness center to provide essential health and childcare services.

Sacred Pipe Resource Center 

• $150,000 for piloting a culturally adapted group care model to improve Indigenous health outcomes.

Arts Center Jamestown

• $203,500 for expanding art therapy programs for youth to address mental health challenges.

Carrington Rainbow Gardens (Carrington, ND)

• $300,000 to re-establish a historic Japanese garden, associated cultural programming, and landmarks.

Communities Acting Together for Change & Hope (CATCH; Anamoose, ND):

• $300,000 to develop a program of advocacy and facilitation to pilot communities to demonstrate rural places can grow their communities by recruiting newcomers to live and work there.

Forest River Hutterite Colony (Near Fordville, ND):

• $33,125 to develop a pictorial database of Hutterite ancestry and appropriately copy sacred texts

Kirat Cultural Society (Fargo, ND):

• $151,370 to perform and conduct cultural programs to promote social harmony, peace, and healthy relationships among all communities in the Fargo-Moorhead area.

Long X Arts Foundation (Watford City, ND):

• $300,000 to establish, research, connect, and execute the “Cultural Connections” as an incubator for community building and the creative sector.

Nyeri Ma’di Cultural Dance Group (Grand Forks, ND):

• $85,968 to teach financial literacy through cultural dance and programming.

North Dakota Full-Service Community Schools Consortium (Minot, ND):

• $300,000 to strengthen and scale the full-service community schools model across rural North Dakota.

South East Education Cooperative and Child Care Aware of North Dakota (Fargo, ND):

• $220,000 to create a shared services model for child care providers and programs in North Dakota.

Standing Rock Community Development Corporation (Fort Yates, ND):

• $284,976 to document elder stories, recipes, and audio of the Lakota and Dakota Languages, which will then be written into a cookbook for language education.

Upper Missouri Ministries (Epping, ND):

• $300,000 to leverage hydroponic technology with the Camp Umm community to provide fresh food for the northwest.

Ka Joog

• $300,000 for spreading a culturally attuned 4-H program into the Fargo area for New American families. Testing whether the model may work across the state with Native American populations.

Community of Sheyenne

• $150,000 for testing a community-owned financing tool within a rural community to catalyze community agency.

South Sudanese Foundation

• $300,000 for developing and testing narrative change strategies to support New American women to enter the workforce and remain in the workforce. Testing wraparound support tools to support New American women to enter the workforce and remain in the workforce.

The Journal

• $100,000 to spread a youth literacy strategy and supplemental tool across North Dakota to increase literacy rates among youth, which may lead to greater long-term community news literacy and greater support for Democracy.

Rolla JDA (Rolla, ND)

• $100,000 to test a community revolving fund to support short-term and long-term economic and community development through property renovations.

Native Max (Greater ND)

• $40,000 to spread Creatives Indigenous, a six-week start-up program for Native entrepreneurs, into North Dakota.

Bismarck Global Neighbors (Bismarck & Mandan, ND)

• $30,000 to develop the foundation of an immigrant-led and immigrant-cultivated leadership incubator to support more New Americans to engage in leadership and to advocate for themselves.

The Arts Center (Jamestown, ND)

• $26,400 to develop and test strategies that utilize the arts as a catalyst for behavioral change in youth.

Youthworks (Fargo & Bismarck, ND)

• $18,900 to develop a Youth Participatory Action Model to increase youth leadership and engagement for LGBTQ+ populations

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