Community-Building

The Community Resilience Program helps local communities, small businesses, and nonprofits prepare for and recover from extreme weather events. By combining community planning, business support, and local energy solutions, we’re building stronger, more resilient places to live and work.

Access to quality, affordable childcare is one of the top economic development issues in our region today. Our program supports community planning, public policy advocacy, project investments and technical assistance for providers.

Through grants, programming and public policy advocacy, the Initiative Foundation is investing in your commmunity to support job-creating initiatives that enrich our hometowns.

When natural or man-made disasters occur, the Initiative Foundation’s disaster response team will mobilize to build a local coalition, attract outside resources, and to quickly spin up a tax-deductible and local giving option to aid in the recovery.

Love your community and want to help it thrive? The Initiative Foundation’s Thriving Communities Initiative helps smaller Central Minnesota communities (population of less than 5,000) build leadership, strengthen connections and turn ideas into action.