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MCF’s 2024 Advocacy Agenda
With the Minnesota 2024 legislative session beginning February 12, MCF has finalized our 2024 advocacy agenda for the year.
Policy Influence: What Foundations are Doing and Why
For all the conversation and critique about foundations’ engagement in public policy, relatively little data about their efforts in the public policy realm are available, including how many foundations engage in efforts to influence public policy, as well as why and how.
Learnings from the Minnesota Disaster Recovery Fund
MCF has released a report that offers insights and key takeaways about the pooled fund created in response to COVID-19.
MCF Releases 2023 Giving in Minnesota Report
MCF's comprehensive report of Minnesota grantmaking.
$2.5 Million So All of Minnesota Counts
A bill to be introduced in the Minnesota House this week will appropriate $2.5 million for state census initiatives.
Minnesotans Support Public-Private Partnership for Afghan Resettlement
Over $1.4 million has been raised to pay for hotel costs and immigration legal services of new Afghan arrivals.
Calling for a $200M Nonprofit Relief Fund
Nonprofit advocates propose a relief fund to help nonprofits support our communities' needs during COVID‐19 and to accelerate a more equitable recovery.
Gun Violence Prevention Resources
In September 2022, MCF hosted a conversation about philanthropy's role in reducing gun violence. Presenters explored various strategies including research, education, and policy solutions that seek to reduce gun violence through an evidence informed, public health approach, and make communities safer. Gun violence prevention, working in tandem with justice system reform and violence intervention can be powerful forces toward creating safe and just communities.