The board of trustees and staff of the Northland Foundation awarded 68 grants totaling $403,613.61 during the third quarter of 2015.
Locally, Care Partners of Cook County will receive $4,300 to develop marketing and outreach materials for services to older adults and their caregivers.
Among some of the special awards made this past quarter was nearly $20,000 aimed at helping strengthen the pre-k through grade 3 continuum in order to improve school readiness and educational outcomes for children in the region. A total of 14 grants have been made to community/school district teams that participated in the Northland Foundation’s Early Childhood Summit held in April.
In addition, the Northland Foundation provided critical school supplies to eight school districts whose student populations qualifying for free/reduced cost lunch are 40 percent or more. Northland leverages its vendor relationships and bulk purchase discounts to provide many more supplies than could be purchased otherwise.
Since 2000, Northland has donated $57,913 in supplies to northeastern Minnesota students in need.
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