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Welcome to WCA Foundation |
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Recent Grants
WCA Foundation makes grants ranging in size from $5,000 to $15,000 to human service programs and agencies in the state of Minnesota. In 2009, the organization awarded 36 grants totaling $343,000. A sampling of those grants is shown below. |
Alexandra House – shelter plus services for victims of domestic abuse in Anoka County.
| $10,000
| | Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota – Project Learn Educational Enhancement Program seeks to help students improve reading skills and school test results. | $ 5,000 | | Goodwill/Easter Seals Minnesota – ReEntry Works program helps women offenders re-enter society upon release from prison. | $10,000 | | Intercongregation Communities Association – Housing & More program helps families maintain stable housing through one-time emergency grants. | $13,000 | | MicroGrants – makes $1,000 grants through cooperating organizations to individuals who have an approved plan to attain self-sufficiency. | $11,500 | | Na-Way-EE Center School – Children of the Seventh Fire Initiative is a pregnancy prevention, esteem-building program for teen students. | $12,500 | | Neighborhood Involvement Program – neighborhood clinic for un- and under-insured persons. | $10,000 | | Normandale Community College Foundation – scholarships for students attending the college. | $ 6,000 | | Open Arms of Minnesota – provides meals at no charge to persons with serious or life-ending illnesses. | $ 8,000 | | Perspectives, Inc. – Supportive Housing Program has array of services for chronically homeless and dually-diagnosed women and their children. | $12,000 | | Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association – Midtown Community Restorative Justice program works with offenders to make amends in the community. | $10,000 | | St. Louis Park Emergency Services Program (STEP) – broad array of services for financially disadvantaged people. | $10,000 | | TRUST, Inc. – Visiting Parish Nurse Project sends volunteers to homes of isolated elderly in need of medical or other attention. | $ 8,500
| | YouthLink – SISTERS program seeks out teens in the sex trade industry and offers services to help them change their lives and achieve self-sufficiency. | $10,000 | |
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