Funding in Minnesota

Summaries of funding programs are provided by RAC for your convenience. Please contact the funder directly for the most complete and current information.

2009 Minnesota Rural Flex Grant
The purpose of the program is to help rural communities preserve access to primary and emergency health care services.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Alex Stern Family Foundation
The foundation supports the arts, social welfare/human services, education, youth recreation, civic projects and health issues for the benefit of the greater Fargo-Moorhead area.
    Geographic Coverage: North Dakota and Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis

Blandin Foundation Rural Minnesota Grants
Funding for addressing on a statewide basis issues that impact rural Minnesota.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: Blandin Foundation

First Children's Finance Loan Fund
Loans and technical assistance to child care and early education businesses, especially those serving lower-income communities.
    Geographic Coverage: Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, or Texas
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: First Children's Finance

Light Speed Grant Program
Program provides matching funds to support project implementation of new broadband applications from institutions (schools, health care facilities, etc.) to the home or between institutions with a priority on applications that reach home users.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: Blandin Foundation

Midwest Assistance Program Loan Fund
Provides low-cost, short and intermediate term loans for community water and wastewater projects through its Community Revolving Loan Fund.
    Geographic Coverage: Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: Midwest Assistance Program

Minnesota Community Clinic Grant Program
Grants to support the capacity of eligible organizations to plan, establish or operate clinical services for populations with low incomes.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Jan 8, 2010
    Sponsor: Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care

Minnesota Electronic Health Record Loan Program
To assist in financing the installation or support of interoperable health record systems.
    Geographic Coverage: MN
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care

Minnesota Health Careers Promotion Grant
Provides grants to qualifying consortia to assist them in developing intergenerational programs
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota Loan Forgiveness Program - Allied Heath Care Tech Faculty
This program is offered to faculty currently teaching in a postsecondary allied health care program or individuals studying to become allied health care instructors.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota Loan Forgiveness Program - Dental
This program is offered to individuals attending a program of study designed to prepare them to become a licensed dentist.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota Loan Forgiveness Program - Nurse
A loan forgiveness program offered to licensed practical or registered nurse students in Minnesota.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota Loan Forgiveness Program - Nurse Faculty
This program is offered to faculty currently teaching in a postsecondary nursing program or individuals studying to become nursing instructors teaching in a postsecondary nursing program in Minnesota.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota Loan Forgiveness Program - Rural Midlevel Practitioner
This program is offered to individuals currently attending a program of study designed to prepare the individual for service as a midlevel practitioner.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota Loan Forgiveness Program - Rural Pharmacist
This program is offered to pharmacy students and residents or licensed pharmacists who plan to practice full-time in a designated rural area in Minnesota.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota Loan Forgiveness Program - Rural Physician
This program is offered to first, second, or third year primary care medical residents who plan to practice full-time in a designated rural area in Minnesota.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Minnesota Primary Care Loan Fund
Loans and financial management assistance to stabilize and strengthen nonprofits in the health care field.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Rural Hospital Capital Improvement Grant Program
Assists small (50 or fewer beds) rural hospitals undertake needed modernization projects to update, remodel or replace aging hospital facilities and equipment necessary to maintain the operations of the hospital.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Mar 5, 2010
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Summer Health Care Intern Program
The purpose of the program is to expose interested secondary and postsecondary pupils to various careers within the health care profession.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Dec 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Inactive Funding in Minnesota

The programs listed below have been funded in the past, but are not currently accepting applications. Information about these inactive funding programs is provided only for your convenience and does not indicate that the programs will be available in the future. To inquire about future availability of a particular program, please contact the funding agency or organization.

2009 Virginia McKnight Binger Awards in Human Service
Awards to Minnesotans who have demonstrated an exceptional personal commitment to helping others in their communities.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Apr 6, 2009
    Sponsor: McKnight Foundation

Bush Medical Fellows Program
Fellowships to physicians to receive training in special areas and to develop opportunities for personal and professional growth.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and northwestern Wisconsin
    Application Deadline: Mar 1, 2009
    Sponsor: Bush Foundation

Communities of Color
Provides financial support to nonprofit organizations that create sustainable community improvement in the areas of social services, education, arts and culture, and youth nutrition and fitness.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Jul 15, 2009
    Sponsor: General Mills Foundation

Community HIV Health Education and Risk Reduction Projects for Persons Who Inject Drugs
Grant agreements with community-based organizations and other health education entities to implement targeted HIV Health Education and Risk Reduction (HERR) Projects.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Letter of Intent (Required): Nov 16, 2009
    Application Deadline: Dec 21, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Dakota Medical Foundation
The majority of the Foundation's resources are in health areas, with a special emphasis on children.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota and North Dakota
    Letter of Intent (Required): Apr 10, 2009
    Application Deadline: Jun 26, 2009

Family Violence Prevention Grants
Grants currently focus on the arts, family violence prevention and for support groups and abuse shelters.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: May 31, 2009
    Sponsor: Target Foundation

Gannett Foundation Community Action Grants
Provides grants in communities where the Gannett Company has a presence.
    Geographic Coverage: Limited to certain areas of 35 states and U.S. territories, see sponsor's website for more details.
    Application Deadline: Aug 17, 2009

General Mills Tribal College Scholarship Program
Need-based scholarships of $2,000 to outstanding American Indian students currently enrolled at a tribal college or university in the states of Minnesota and New Mexico.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota and New Mexico.
    Application Deadline: May 31, 2009
    Sponsor: American Indian College Fund

Growing Up Healthy: Kids and Communities
A statewide grantmaking initiative to improve the health of Minnesota's children through a focus on social and environmental determinants of health.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Letter of Intent (Required): Apr 13, 2007
    Application Deadline: Apr 13, 2007
    Sponsor: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation

Healthy Eating Minnesota
Funding to create broad and sustainable improvements in a wide variety of food environments throughout the state of Minnesota primarily by influencing organizational and public policies.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Letter of Intent (Required): Jul 3, 2008
    Application Deadline: Sep 4, 2008
    Sponsor: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation

Healthy Together: Creating Community with New Americans
Grants to organizations that address the mental health and social adjustment of new Americans
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Letter of Intent (Required): Jan 9, 2009
    Application Deadline: Jan 19, 2009
    Sponsor: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation

Indian Health Grant Program
Grant program that helps eligible applicants establish, operate or subsidize clinic facilities and services to offer health services to American Indians who live off reservations.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Aug 14, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care

Innovations Grant
Innovations Grants focus on strategies with a broad impact and make a measurable difference in the health and healthcare of Minnesota's low income people, communities of color and medically underserved.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Jul 29, 2008
    Sponsor: Healthier Minnesota Community Clinic Fund

Jay and Rose Phillips Award
Awards to people with disabilities to prepare for and find employment in their chosen field.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota South Dakota
    Application Deadline: Jun 12, 2009
    Sponsor: Courage Center

Laura Jane Musser Fund: Rural Initiative Program
Fund hopes to fund projects where citizens work together towards improving their rural communities.
    Geographic Coverage: Ohio, Colorado, Hawaii, Minnesota, New York, Wyoming
    Application Deadline: Nov 5, 2008

Medica Foundation Cycle 1 Funding Priorities
Grants designed to develop capabilities or change processes related to behavioral health care and empowerment and self management of chronic disease.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
    Application Deadline: Mar 27, 2009
    Sponsor: Medica

Medica Foundation Cycle 2 Funding Priorities
Grants designed to improve health care disparities in the areas of prevention and health care literacy.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota
    Application Deadline: May 22, 2009
    Sponsor: Medica

MHA Annual Health Care Awards
These awards recognize an institution's excellence in patient safety, community health, workforce, patient care and health career promotion.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Mar 18, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Hospital Association

Migrant Health Grants
Funding for establishing, operating or subsidizing clinic facilities and services, including mobile clinics, to supply migrant agricultural workers and their families with health services in areas of the state with significant numbers of migrant workers.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Aug 14, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care

Minnesota State Loan Repayment Program
Loan Repayment program for primary care providers practicing in rural and urban health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) in Minnesota.
    Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
    Application Deadline: Aug 3, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care

Minnesota's Future Doctors Grant Program
Minnesota's Future Doctors seeks college students who have successfully completed their first year at a college or university and are interested in becoming a doctor, to serve Minnesota's diverse urban and rural communities.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Feb 1, 2009
    Sponsor: University of Minnesota

Phillips Caregiver Award
The Phillips Caregiver Award acknowledges and honors a caregiver’s contribution that is vital to the independence and quality of life of a person with a disability.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and North and South Dakota.
    Application Deadline: Jun 12, 2009
    Sponsor: Courage Center

Prevention Minnesota: Active Living Minnesota
Funding to lead interdisciplinary partnerships to encourage active living in their communities.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Letter of Intent (Required): Feb 14, 2008
    Application Deadline: Mar 14, 2008
    Sponsor: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation

Priority Population Intervention: African Immigrant and African American Communities
Funding for statewide tobacco prevention efforts for African Immigrant and African American Communities.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Letter of Intent (Required): Jul 24, 2008
    Application Deadline: Aug 21, 2008
    Sponsor: Prevention Minnesota

Rural Hospital Planning and Transition Grant
Grants to help small rural hospitals preserve access or respond to changing conditions.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Sep 14, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Office of Rural Health and Primary Care

Rural Pharmacy Planning and Transition Grant Program
This program is intended to preserve access to prescription medication and the skills of a pharmacist in rural areas.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Nov 13, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Scholarships for Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike 2008 Conference
Scholarships for Minnesota-based professionals or citizen volunteers/advocates to support attendance at Pro-Walk/Pro-Bike 2008 in Seattle, Wash., on September 2-4, 2008.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Jul 9, 2008
    Sponsor: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation

Senior Medicare Patrol Projects
Grants for model projects that demonstrate effective ways of utilizing retired persons as volunteer expert resources and educators in community efforts to combat health care error, fraud and abuse in the Medicare/Medicaid programs.
    Geographic Coverage: Refer to Eligibility for the 26 participating states and 1 territory.
    Letter of Intent (Optional): Mar 2, 2009
    Application Deadline: Mar 13, 2009
    Sponsor: Administration on Aging

Supporting Implementation and Training Costs for Nurse-Family Partnership
Funding to Minnesota’s community health boards and tribal governments interested in implementing or expanding a Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) site.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Letter of Intent (Required): Aug 14, 2009
    Application Deadline: Aug 14, 2009
    Sponsor: Minnesota Department of Health

Traditional Community Clinic Fund Grant
Grants to community clinics to improve, expand, or develop new essential services.
    Geographic Coverage: Minnesota
    Application Deadline: Sep 12, 2008
    Sponsor: Healthier Minnesota Community Clinic Fund

UnitedHealth HEROES Service Learning Grants
Funding to support youth-led projects that address childhood obesity.
    Geographic Coverage: 34 states and the District of Columbia
    Application Deadline: Oct 22, 2009
    Sponsor: Youth Service America