Foundations Pool Funds to Promote an Equitable Recovery

Minnesota foundations are committed to the equitable and broad distribution of public funds to typically under-resourced communities. The Supporting Equitable Recovery via Intermediary Capacity Enhancements (SERVICE) Fund was created by MCF and its members to help provide flexible funding to support intermediaries that are re-granting federal, state, and/or county funds for COVID relief and recovery efforts in Minnesota.

Goals of the SERVICE Fund

• Help set up nonprofit intermediaries to be successful in re-granting unprecedented volumes of public funds to support COVID-19 relief and recovery
• Support equitable distribution of public funds to promote an equitable recovery
• Support distribution of public funds to nonprofits, particularly smaller, under-resourced nonprofits and nonprofits that serve BIPOC communities

Grant Recipients of the SERVICE Fund

MCF is pleased to announce that the SERVICE Fund has provided more than $1.5 million in grants to 16 grant recipients working as intermediaries for public relief and recovery efforts.

• African Economic Development Solutions
• First Children's Finance
• Ignite Afterschool
• Initiative Foundation
• Lake Street Council
• Latino Economic Development Center
• Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers
• Minnesota Homeowners Center
• Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging, Inc.
• Nexus Community Partners
• Northland Foundation
• Propel Nonprofits
• Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation
• Southwest Initiative Foundation
• West Central Initiative
• Youthprise

SERVICE Fund Contributors

Thank you to the MCF members who contributed resources to bring this fund to life!

• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation
• Bush Foundation
• Margaret A. Cargill Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation
• Morgan Family Foundation
• Target Foundation
• The Cargill Foundation
• The McKnight Foundation
• The Saint Paul and Minnesota Foundation
• Thrivent