GROWING
2007
Annual
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GROWING EQUALITY FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
“The single most important thing we can do is unleash the full power of half the
people on the planet – women. We know that women need the tools of development,
but development also needs women. All the disadvantages, from poverty to violence,
from ill health to illiteracy, that women experience around the world also limit the
advance of families, communities, entire nations.”
–JUDITH RODIN, PH.D., PRESIDENT, ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
FRONT COVER PHOTO: YouthCare (grantee, pg. 16)
Dear Friends,
Novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) wrote:
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the
mirror that reflects it.”
The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota and statewide donors,
grantees, and volunteers are much like the candle and the
mirror. By catalyzing the power of social change – “spreading
the light” – together, we lead and reflect each other’s work to
grow equality for women and girls across the state. Truly, it is
a powerful, effective partnership.
In 2007, we continued to champion economic, political and
social equality for women and girls in Minnesota by awarding
$910,383 in grants to 115 nonprofit organizations through
our two primary funds, the Social Change Fund and
girlsBEST (girls Building Economic Success Together)
Fund, and discretionary grants and Donor Advised Funds.
From Social Change Fund grantee Pangea World Theater’s use
of the stage to redefine and reframe the issue of domestic
violence in immigrant communities (see pg. 6) to girlsBEST
grantee The Science Center at Maltby Nature Preserve's program to
engage and immerse girls of color in science (see pg. 16), our
grantees break down the barriers to equality by addressing
discrimination in all of its forms, head-on.
Last year we logged hundreds of miles, convening forums in
10 Minnesota communities to hear firsthand about regional
issues affecting women and girls, and offer our resources.
To build women’s philanthropy, we brought in author and
philanthropist, Tracy Gary, who taught us how to link our
passion to our philanthropy and move social change forward.
Evaluation of the first five years of girlsBEST demonstrated that
participation in the program raised girls’ grades, self-esteem,
leadership ability, and expectations for the future.
(l-r) Lee Roper-Batker and Terry Williams.
In May, we lost a good friend, Janet Watson. Janet was not only
a light in our community, but “lit fires” underneath many of
us, pushing us to give and do more to advance social change.
Janet opened the Foundation's first Donor Advised Fund, and
her planned gift will continue her legacy of equality and justice
through the Janet B. Watson Donor Advised Fund.
We’ve raised $13 million toward our $15 million dollar
Fund>>Forward campaign goal. Launched in April 2005, the
campaign is designed to double our endowment and future
grantmaking, create a permanent endowment for girls, and
accelerate our investments in social change.
Next year promises to be even bigger: we’ll celebrate the
Foundation’s 25th anniversary; release our next research
report, Status of Girls in Minnesota, and head out on a statewide,
18-community “Road to Equality” tour.
Thank you so much for making the Women’s Foundation your
philanthropic home and partner. Together, we are growing
equality for all women and girls in Minnesota.
Onward,
LEE ROPER-BATKER
PRESIDENT & CEO
TERRY WILLIAMS
CHAIR, BOARD OF TRUSTEES
2007 AT A GLANCE
Fiscal Year 2007 (April 1, 2006 – March 31, 2007)
SOCIAL CHANGE GRANTMAKING The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota distributed $910,383 in grants
to 115 nonprofit organizations through its two primary funds, Social Change Fund (SCF) and girlsBEST (girls Building
Economic Success Together) Fund, combined with discretionary grants, and Donor Advised Fund grants.
SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
Awards grants and provides technical assistance
to nonprofits across the state working to achieve
equality for women in five Cornerstone areas:
1. Creating Economic Justice for Women
2. Advancing Women’s Safety and Security
3. Guaranteeing Women’s Health and
Reproductive Rights
4. Promoting Women’s Human Rights
5. Expanding Women’s Political Representation
Highlights
• Distributed $320,000 in SCF grants to
23 nonprofits, $104,337 in discretionary
grants to 23 nonprofits, and $288,666
to 40 nonprofits through Donor Advised
Fund grants.
• Convened statewide grantees for
annual capacity-building conference,
“Advancing Women’s Equality: What is
Social Change?”
• Conducted four grants information
sessions in greater Minnesota (Duluth,
International Falls, Marshall, Willmar)
and several in the Twin Cities about the
Social Change Fund and to encourage
groups to apply for funding.
• Published evaluation report of progress
made by fiscal year 2006 Social Change
Fund grantees. Results showed the greatest
impact in the Health and Reproductive
Rights cornerstone due to greater collaboration among grantees, an effective mix
of small and large organizations, and a
greater infusion of resources.
YouthCare (grantee, pg. 16) trains young women from
low-income communities to be mentors and leaders.
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Awards grants and provides technical assistance to
nonprofits across the state working to boost girls'
future economic success in three program areas:
Academics: Programs that help girls stay
in school and pursue college and future
career goals, and build girls’ future
financial and economic capacity.
Entrepreneurship: Programs that teach
and support girls in business planning
and development.
Public Education and Advocacy:
Projects in which girls organize around
specific issues that impact girls’ future
economic well-being, such as sexual
violence and body image.
Highlights
• Distributed $194,380 in grants to 28
statewide nonprofits: $92,380 in
matching grants to 10 outgoing girlsBEST
groups; $47,000 in planning grants to 16
new girlsBEST groups; and $55,000 for
the latest research report, “Status of Girls
in Minnesota” (Spring 2008).
• First generation of the five-year
girlsBEST Initiative closed in December
2006. Second generation of girlsBEST
launched with planning grants awarded to
16 nonprofits: nine groups in greater
Minnesota and seven in the Twin Cities.
• Published final evaluation report of fiveyear girlsBEST Initiative, which showed
that girls developed high educational and
career aspirations; more girls finished high
school and entered college; girls are
activists in their communities working for
equality for women and girls; and building
supportive, mentoring environments for
underserved girls is the key to girls’ success.
COLLABORATIVE FUNDING
Establishes partnerships within Minnesota’s
foundation community dedicated to social change
grantmaking.
Highlights
• Distributed $146,000 in grants to 15
nonprofits statewide through the
Democracy! Fund. Founded in 2004,
the fund is run collaboratively by the
Women’s Foundation, Headwaters
Foundation for Justice, The
Minneapolis Foundation, and Otto
Bremer Foundation to support and
advance the legal, non-partisan,
political activity and effectiveness of
nonprofit organizations (see pg. 13).
• Continued partnership in the
Minnesota Dream Fund, a collaborative
initiative to support efforts to ensure
the equal educational achievement of
women, people of color, and tribal
communities.
RESEARCH, EDUCATION
AND ADVOCACY
Moves Minnesota forward by educating
and influencing leaders, institutions and
communities to invest in economic, political
and social equality for women and girls.
Highlights
• Published Equality Report newsletters
on girlsBEST (Spring ’06) and the
annual legislative report (Summer
’06), plus eight-page feature about
the Women’s Foundation in Minnesota
Monthly magazine (March ’07).
KFAI, Fresh Air, Inc. (grantee, pg. 16) is creating the next generation of diverse female leadership in public
broadcasting through its project, "Youth News Initiative: Girls of Color Voicing Their Choice."
• Convened four UPStart lectures:
Amalia Anderson, Main Street Project,
"Increasing the Political Representation
of Women;" Ann DeGroot, OutFront
Minnesota, "Exploring the Relationship
Between Sexism, Homophobia and the
LGBT Community;” Janis Lane-Ewart,
KFAI Radio, "Increasing the Number
of Women of Color in Public
Broadcasting;” and Karen Diver,
Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior
Chippewa, "Women's Leadership and
Political Representation in Native
American Communities."
BUILDING WOMEN’S
PHILANTHROPY
• Published editorials in Star Tribune
newspaper about women’s political
representation and the wage gap.
• The Women of African Descent
Giving Circle, working to advance
equality for black women through
education, raised $10,000 in funding
in its first year.
• Partnered with The White House
Project’s Vote, Run, Lead initiative to
encourage Social Change Fund grantees
to participate in Go Run training.
Involving and empowering diverse, new
generations of Minnesota donors to practice
social change philanthropy for women and girls.
Highlights
• Welcomed 14 new members to the
Leadership Circle and three new
members to the Legacy Circle plannedgiving program.
• Established two new Donor Advised
Funds (see pg. 17).
• Engaged two Development Fellows,
one Philanthropy Fellow and two Diversity
Interns in Foundation work to create a
pipeline of leadership opportunities for
women of color in the philanthropic
and nonprofit sectors.
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SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
CORNERSTONE:
ECONOMIC
JUSTICE
OUR VISION: We imagine a Minnesota where women realize their full economic potential. Whole communities
will thrive as a result of women’s empowerment through education, employment opportunities, and economic
development. Only then can we make poverty history for all people.
In partnership with the Women’s
Foundation of Minnesota, women
innovators are leading social change in
communities across Minnesota.
To create economic justice for women
in 2007, the Women’s Foundation
distributed $65,500 in grants to nonprofit organizations working to level
the economic playing field for women
in Minnesota.
An additional $194,380 in grants was
awarded through the girlsBEST Fund
(see pg. 14) and $35,909 through Donor
Advised Funds (see pg. 17), for a grand
total of $295,789 in grants distributed
out of the Economic Justice cornerstone
in FY07.
In 2007, we saw promising signs of
progress from the Minnesota Legislature:
more low-income adults secured access to
health insurance; a percentage of previous
cuts to Minnesota’s welfare program were
restored; and more resources were
dedicated to affordable housing.
Yet, economic disparities continue to hold
women back. In 43 Minnesota counties
today, full-time female workers still earn
60 to 70 percent of what full-time male
Passion, commitment and a willingness to learn – coupled with
a solid business plan – is what’s behind the success of Three
Prairie Scrappers (Montevideo). Sound business advice from the
Entrepreneur’s Assistance Network (grantee, pg. 5) was key.
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Creating Economic Justice for Women
workers earn. The lowest wages of all
Minnesota women are among Hispanic
women, who are also the least likely to be
educated. And Asian American women
in Minnesota are almost 10 percentage
points less likely to have a two- or fouryear degree than they are nationally.
Minnesota women cannot afford these
gaps in income and opportunities.
Social change Indicators of Success
helps us measure the effectiveness of
grantee programs. We’re seeing shifts
in individual and community behavior,
for example, through the work of
Women’s Foundation grantee,
Entrepreneur’s Assistance Network.
The group helps revive communities in
southwestern Minnesota by supporting
local entrepreneurs with information,
referrals, and one-on-one guidance.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Indicators of Success enable us to evaluate
Social Change Fund grants. Examples of social
change that grantees measured include:
• Development of models to achieve the
collective economic power of immigrant
and refugee women through enhanced
business knowledge and entrepreneurial
skills.
• Increases in the number of immigrant
women in the Twin Cities who are
foreign-trained healthcare professionals
able to advocate for systems change in
credentialing, certification and training
of healthcare workers.
• Decreases in the number of women living
in poverty in northeastern Minnesota.
Grantee Partners
Aishah Center for Women | $14,000
(Minneapolis)
To empower immigrant and refugee
women by developing models to
achieve collective economic power
through the integration of Western
business practices
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis |
$500 (Minneapolis)
For documentary, “Been Rich All My
Life,” about African American “cotton
club” dancers efforts to form a union.
Women’s Initiative for SelfEmpowerment | $15,000 (St. Paul)
To create economic justice for immigrant
women in the Twin Cities that are
foreign-trained healthcare professionals.
American Association of University
Women | $500 (Duluth)
For “Gaining a Foothold: Transforming
Your Future Through Education”
conference.
Entrepreneur’s Assistance Network |
$15,000 (Montevideo)
To support local business enterprise
success among women through
grassroots-level delivery of guidance,
information, referral and support
services.
KOOTASCA Community Action |
$20,000 (Grand Rapids,
International Falls)
To address the root causes of poverty
among low- and moderate-income
women in Itasca and Koochiching
counties through community
engagement.
Pine Technical College | $500
(Pine City)
For annual conference for sixth-grade
girls about careers in science and
technology.
Wild Wind Soap Company (Hanley Falls) is
another business that got its start with help from the
Entrepreneur’s Assistance Network (grantee).
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SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
CORNERSTONE:
SAFETY &
SECURITY
Advancing Women’s Safety & Security
OUR VISION: We aspire to a day when our media, policy makers, families, and popular culture reject
violence against women and the pervasive images of women that reinforce it. Public policies will respect and
protect victims of violence, including victims of prostitution and human trafficking.
In the United States, a woman is assaulted
every 15 seconds. One woman in four has
been abused during pregnancy. Here in
Minnesota, 13,000 orders of protection
are issued annually. An estimated 18,000
people are trafficked into the United
States each year, about 80 percent of
whom are female.
Freedom from physical harm is not a
luxury. It’s a human right.
But last year, Minnesota became a safer
place for women. According to recent
research, domestic crime has hit a new
low; criminal violence against intimate
partners has dropped by nearly two-thirds;
and the state Legislature increased funding
in 2007 for crime victims’ services.
Strengthening this positive sea change, the
Women’s Foundation advanced women’s
safety and security in Minnesota by
awarding $64,500 in grants to nonprofits working to end violence against
women.
Social change takes many forms. Pangea
World Theater’s “Journey to Safety”
project, a Women’s Foundation grantee,
uses the stage to redefine and reframe the
issue of domestic violence. Through this
dynamic, 25-minute theatrical production,
audiences all over the state are introduced
to the real-life obstacles immigrant women
and women of color face when seeking
help from their communities and
government agencies.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Indicators of Success enable us to
evaluate Social Change Fund grants. Examples
of social change that grantees measured include:
• Degree to which local criminal justice
and judicial systems are better prepared
to assist women of color and immigrant
women in domestic abuse situations
through cultural and language
interpretation services.
• Mobilization of the Latino community
to end domestic violence, led by Latinas.
• The effects that gender-specific
programming has on girls’ ability to
transform their troubled present lives
into positive, healthy futures.
• Increases in the number of immigrant
women and women of color reporting
domestic violence to better educated,
culturally sensitive government agencies.
Pangea World Theater’s perfomance of “Journey to Safety” at the Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights'
International Women's Day event.
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Grantee Partners
Breaking Free, Inc. | $15,000 (St. Paul)
To help bring African American
women and girls out of prostitution
and to reframe the issue of prostitution
as an act of violence against women.
Casa de Esperanza | $15,000 (St. Paul)
To engage and educate Latinas and
Latinos to end domestic violence in
their communities.
MN Dept. of Corrections’ Advisory
Taskforce on Female Offenders | $500
(Minnetonka)
For third annual conference on
women offenders.
Pangea World Theater | $14,000
(Minneapolis)
For “Journey to Safety,” an artistic
portrayal of the challenges facing
battered immigrant and refugee
women negotiating the legal, medical
and government systems.
WATCH | $10,000 (Minneapolis)
To provide leadership in monitoring
the criminal justice system’s response
to violence against women and
children, including an expanded
role in promoting court monitoring,
nationwide.
Woodland Hills | $10,000 (Duluth)
To develop a national model for a
gender-based treatment program
for girls who struggle with chemical
dependency, grief counseling, mental
health, and eating disorders.
WATCH (grantee) works to improve the way the courts in Hennepin County handle cases of violence
against women and children.
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SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
CORNERSTONE:
Guaranteeing Health & Reproductive Rights
HEALTH &
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
OUR VISION: We envision a day when women in Minnesota will have local, legal, affordable, dignified, safe,
and comprehensive health services and reproductive freedom.
According to the United Nations’
Population Fund, governments that deny
women their rights to reproductive and
sexual health cause millions of deaths
each year. Here in Minnesota, racism
and sexism, coupled with legislatively
mandated restrictions, remain barriers
that prevent women from receiving the
comprehensive health and reproductive
care they need to thrive.
For example, Minnesota has a 24-hour
waiting period for abortions, a physicianonly restriction, and a clause that allows
health care professionals to refuse to
provide reproductive health care services,
if they so choose. There is a law requiring
parental notification for minors seeking
services, and the Minnesota schools they
attend are not required to teach comprehensive sexuality education. Plus, the
failure to pass domestic partner benefits
at the state Legislature continues to deny
LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender) individuals and families
access to health care.
Elections matter.
New leadership in the House and Senate
restored the full 60 percent of recent cuts
to the state family planning program and
added increases for the next biennium.
Kwanzaa Community Church (grantee, pg. 9) advocates
for women’s health and wellness in north Minneapolis’
African American community.
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It also increased medical assistance reimbursements to clinics, which will leverage
millions from the federal government.
Together with grantees, the Women’s
Foundation seeks to make comprehensive
health and reproductive care available
to all women. In fiscal year 2007, we
awarded $65,000 to nonprofit organizations working to guarantee women’s
health and reproductive rights.
Women in rural areas are at particular
risk when legislators restrict abortion. So
the Women’s Health Center of Duluth, a
Women’s Foundation grantee, redoubled
its lobbying and grassroots organizing
efforts over the past year in order to
influence legislation and public policy,
with a special focus on rural communities
in northern Minnesota.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Indicators of Success enable us to evaluate
Social Change Fund grants. Examples of social
change that grantees measured include:
• Decreases in the amount of legislation
forwarded annually to restrict safe, legal
abortion.
• Increases in the number of previously
disenfranchised African American women
who now advocate for women’s health, in
turn mobilizing other women and the
larger community to action.
• Increased number of abortion providers,
statewide, resulting from increased
educational and training opportunities
for medical student and residents.
• Increases in the level of grassroots
support and public mobilization for
women’s reproductive health and rights.
• Decreases in the number of teen
pregnancies and sexually transmitted
diseases in the Latino community.
Grantee Partners
Kwanzaa Community Church |
$10,000 (North Minneapolis)
For wellness support group for women
and girls, focusing on self-esteem
building and leadership development
to prevent diseases and conditions
that disproportionately affect African
American women, including
HIV/AIDS, teen and repeated pregnancy, heart disease, and diabetes.
Southside Community Health Services |
$1,000 (Minneapolis)
To support visit by filmmaker of
“A Girl Like Me,” Kiri Davis.
Women’s Health Center of Duluth |
$15,000 (Duluth)
To influence legislation and public
policy pertaining to reproductive
rights, with special focus on rural
communities in northern Minnesota.
Midwest Health Center for Women |
$15,000 (Minneapolis)
For public policy advocacy to drive
legislative initiatives to protect and
promote women’s health and reproductive freedoms at all levels of state
government.
Neighborhood House | $9,000
(St. Paul)
To identify and implement locally
acceptable and effective strategies to
advocate for policies to reduce teen
pregnancy among Latinas and increase
reproductive health.
Pro-Choice Resources | $15,000
(Minneapolis)
To increase the pool of medical and
surgical abortion providers by
expanding educational and training
opportunities for medical students
and residents, and to provide support
to pro-choice activists, students,
residents, and physicians.
Women’s Health Center of Duluth (grantee) keeps
rural women’s health and reproductive rights in focus
at the state Legislature.
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SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
CORNERSTONE:
Promoting Women’s Human Rights
HUMAN
RIGHTS
OUR VISION: We look forward to a day when women’s human rights and dignity are unquestioned –
a day when women are free from discrimination and able to act upon their dreams.
“Isms” — sexism, racism, classism,
heterosexism, ableism and ageism —
continue to keep women at the bottom
of the economic, political and social
ladder. Discrimination and low expectations of women can result in low
educational attainment, drug use,
suicide, and teen pregnancy.
With its grantees, the Women’s
Foundation is working toward a day
when women not only set the agenda,
but set new, proactive policies around
human rights. We awarded $93,437
in grants to nonprofit organizations
promoting women’s human rights in
fiscal year 2007.
Barriers to women’s full equality in
Minnesota are still in evidence regarding
immigrant rights, LGBT (Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) rights, and
access to high-quality public education.
Progress on these issues during the 2007
legislative session was mixed. A proposed
amendment to the Minnesota
Constitution that would ban marriage
and civil unions between same-sex
couples failed for the fourth year. Our
public schools will still “keep the lights
on,” but lawmakers did not identify
any new sources of revenues. The good
news is that immigrant children have
better access to health care.
And it’s working. Shifts in individual
We are still playing policy defense on
basic human rights issues.
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and community behavior are already
happening in the Hmong community,
thanks to the Hmong Women’s Action
Team, a Women’s Foundation grantee.
The group is providing culturally
appropriate leadership development
training, curriculum and forums to
help Hmong women build sustainable,
systemic changes within the Hmong
community to prevent violence by
ending sexism.
In addition, the Women’s Foundation
maximized the impact of each grant
dollar by convening our grantees for
training, technical assistance, and
sharing best practices throughout
the year.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Indicators of Success enable us to
evaluate Social Change Fund grants. Examples
of social change that grantees measured include:
• Increases in the number of women
of color on nonprofit boards.
• Shifts in institutions, systems and
policies that decrease violence against
young transgendered women of color.
• Increased degree of cross-cultural
cooperation between the Latino
community and the Moorhead school
district to address the barriers Latinas
face in school, creating a pathway to
graduation and college.
Grantee Partners
Asian American/Pacific Islanders in
Philanthropy | $6,937 (San Francisco)
Transfer of Hmong Women’s Giving
Circle funds.
District 202 | $15,000 (Minneapolis)
To build a formal collaboration of
organizations and individuals able to
provide training, education, advocacy
and services in support of transgendered youth, particularly young
transgendered women of color.
Hmong Women’s Action Team |
$15,000 (St. Paul)
To prevent violence against Hmong
women and girls by decreasing sexism
in the Hmong community.
Independent Sector | $2,500
(Washington, D.C.)
To support annual conference, “Many
Voices, Shared Purpose.”
Minnesota Advocates for Human
Rights | $1,000 (Minneapolis)
To support annual International
Women’s Day celebration.
TVbyGIRLS | $500 (Minneapolis)
To support attendance and
participation at The White House
Project’s annual Epic Awards.
Minnesota African Women’s
Association | $1,000 (Minneapolis)
To support annual “African Women
in the Diaspora: Empowering African
Women, Ensuring Africa’s Future”
conference.
Walker Art Center | $2,500
(Minneapolis)
To support annual “Women With
Vision” film festival.
Mujeres Unidas of the Red River
Valley | $12,000 (Moorhead)
To end race, class and gender bias
against Latina women and girls
through the Circles programs.
YWCA of Minneapolis | $12,000
(Minneapolis)
For the Leadership Registry Project,
providing women and people of color
with opportunities to join nonprofit
boards within their communities.
OutFront Minnesota | $2,000
(Minneapolis)
To support efforts to increase voter
turnout among lesbian, bisexual and
transgender women.
Hmong Women’s Action Team (grantee).
Intermedia Arts | $500 (St. Paul)
To support annual “B-Girl B:
Celebration of Women in Hip Hop”
production.
Leadership Empowerment and
Development Organization | $10,000
(Minneapolis)
To build women’s leadership and the
capacity of African women to head
nonprofit organizations in the African
community.
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SOCIAL CHANGE FUND
CORNERSTONE:
POLITICAL
REPRESENTATION
OUR VISION: Women will someday enjoy equal representation at all levels of government, bringing new
perspectives and expertise that advance equality and justice. Policy discussions will revolve around investments
in education, preventative health, and building a family-friendly economy and culture.
Seventy women now serve in the 2007
Minnesota Legislature — a gain of seven
seats from the 2006 session — for an
historic high of 34.8 percent. And in
another first, Minnesota elected Amy
Klobuchar as its first woman U.S.
Senator in November 2006.
At the same time, our state has never
elected a woman governor, and no
woman of color has ever served in
Minnesota’s congressional delegation
or in a statewide elected office.
When women make up 40 percent of a
legislative body, they achieve the critical
mass necessary to change the agenda.
In fiscal year 2007, the Women’s
Foundation and grantee partners worked
to achieve this percentage and bring
women’s leadership to the political table.
We awarded $124,000 in funding to
Vote, Run, Lead - The White House Project (grantee).
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Expanding Women’s Political Representation
nonprofit organizations working to
expand women’s political representation
across the state.
Somali Action Alliance, a Women’s
Foundation grantee, is affecting social
change by engaging Somali women in
the public policy process through leadership development and as spokespeople
on behalf of Somali children in the
public schools system.
Our partnership with The White House
Project’s Vote, Run, Lead (VRL) program
continues to thrive. A multi-year national
initiative, VRL recruits a diverse, critical
mass of progressive women to participate
in the political process as voters, activists
and candidates.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
Indicators of Success enable us to evaluate
Social Change Fund grants. Examples of social
change that grantees measured include:
• Increases in the numbers of Somali
women civically engaged to organize and
shape educational policies and programs
that affect their children and families.
• Increases in the number of lowincome women and women of color
who run for elected office.
• Increased representation of Native
American and Alaskan Native women
leaders in government to address
domestic violence and human trafficking
of Native women and girls.
• Degree to which women experiencing
violence, homelessness and chronic
poverty in southern St. Louis County
become advocates in their own lives and
leaders within the community for positive
social change.
Participants in Tri-College NEW Leadership Development
Institute’s (grantee) workshops leave with community
organizing skills and other tools to be effective public policy
advocates.
Grantee Partners
Headwaters Foundation for Justice |
$20,000 (Minneapolis)
For the Democracy! Fund, to award
grants to support the legal, nonpartisan
activities of state nonprofits working to
engage immigrants, low-income people
and youth in voting and political activism.
Somali Action Alliance | $20,000
(St. Paul)
To build and broaden the organization’s
capacity to engage women through
leadership development and action about
public education for Somali children.
The White House Project | $40,000
(Washington, D.C.)
To continue partnership efforts to
increase the political representation
of women and women of color in
Minnesota through Vote, Run, Lead.
Tri-College NEW Leadership
Development Institute | $7,000
(Moorhead)
To engage women of all ages in developing
leadership skills in community organizing
and running for office.
Wellstone Action Fund – Sheila Wellstone
Institute | $17,000 (St. Paul)
To strengthen the skills of American
Indian and Alaskan Native women in
Minnesota to increase their influence in
policy creation, electoral campaigns, and
social change.
Women’s Community Development
Organization | $20,000 (Duluth)
To engage homeless women living in
the organization’s transitional housing
program in social change activities related
to building women’s political representation
and the capacity to advocate on the subject
of affordable housing.
Democracy! Fund
In 2007, this collaborative fund of the Women’s Foundation, Headwaters Fund for Justice, The
Minneapolis Foundation, and Otto Bremer Foundation awarded $146,000 in grants to 15 non-profits
to support and advance the legal, nonpartisan political activity and effectiveness of nonprofits.
Centro Legal, Inc.
Joint Religious Legislative Coalition
Lao Assistance Center of MN
Main Street Project
MN Association of Deaf Citizens
MN Citizens Federation - Northeast
MN Coalition for the Homeless
MN Religious Coalition for
Reproductive Choice
$10,000
$10,000
$10,000
$10,000
$10,000
$10,000
$10,000
$10,000
MN Spoken Word Association
Native Vote Alliance of MN
People Escaping Poverty Project
Somali Action Alliance
St. Cloud Area Somali Salvation Organization
TakeAction MN
Twin Cities Community Voice Mail
$9,000
$10,000
$10,000
$10,000
$10,000
$10,000
$7,000
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girls Building Economic Success Together FUND
“I feel like I can do anything I want. As long as I work hard, I know that I can achieve
my dreams. Every goal I make, I achieve it, and being in [girlsBEST] makes me even
more confident, because now, I have the power.” - girlsBEST Fund program participant
It’s not easy being a girl in Minnesota.
Here and nationally, teen pregnancy is a
leading factor in determining life-long
poverty. A majority of teenage American
girls state that physical and verbal abuse is
a serious issue for them. And since two
of three minimum wage earners today
are women, the need is greater than ever
to eliminate the barriers that prevent
girls’ future economic well being.
Economic success for young women should
be the rule, not the exception.
At the Women’s Foundation, girlsBEST
— girls Building Economic Success Together — is
our antidote to what girls are up against.
Launched in 2001, girlsBEST awards
grants to programs that prepare girls for
future economic success, with critical
outreach to underserved, underrepresented girls. It is the first fund of its
kind in Minnesota, and last year, the
Foundation’s board voted to make it a
permanent one.
In fiscal year 2007, we launched the
second generation of girlsBEST by
awarding $47,000 in planning grants to
16 nonprofits to develop new programs
and innovative approaches to building
girls’ future economic success. Twothirds of the programs are in greater
Minnesota, 63 percent of participants
are girls of color, and 80 percent come
from low-income families.
Through the power of dance, Latina teen participants
flourish at Centro, Inc. (grantee).
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An independent evaluation of the first
five years of the initiative confirms that
participation in girlsBEST has raised
girls’ grades, self-esteem, leadership
ability, and expectations for the future.
The Foundation also awarded challenge
grants totaling $92,380 to 10 firstgeneration girlsBEST groups to encourage
organizational self-sufficiency and
continue the work they are doing for
girls in their communities.
To elevate public awareness of the
realities Minnesota girls face, an additional $55,000 in grants was awarded
for a new research report, “Status of
Girls in Minnesota,” to be released in
spring 2008.
GROWING
SOCIAL CHANGE
During each year of the five-year initiative, the
Women’s Foundation measured the progress and
effectiveness of girlsBEST Fund programming
against the following Indicators of Success:
• Increase the readiness for individual
girls to achieve economic well-being.
• Create supportive environments that
will lead to increased readiness of girls
to achieve economic well-being.
• Elevate public recognition of the value
of women and girls to society, and
decrease sexist attitudes.
• Build activism throughout Minnesota
on behalf of girls’ economic well-being.
• Invest girlsBEST grant dollars in
underserved and underrepresented
communities throughout Minnesota.
CHALLENGE GRANTS | $98,780
Awarded to outgoing girlsBEST groups to ensure
sustainability of the programs and support efforts
to raise additional funding.
American Indian Family Center
(St. Paul) | $10,000
Asian Media Access, “What About Us?”
(Minneapolis) | $10,000
Family Pathways, “Dream Girls” (Wyoming) |
$10,000
Higher Self, “I Am,” “Go Girls!”
(Red Wing) | $10,000
In Progress, “Ogichidaakweg: Sisters in
Leadership” (St. Paul) | $3,600
Mujeres Unidas, “Quinceañera,” “Mas Que
Suenos” (Moorhead) | $8,780
St. Cloud State University “Sisters in Action”
(St. Cloud) | $10,000
The Science Center at Maltby Nature Preserve (grantee, pg. 16).
Stomping Grounds (Staples) | $10,000
reservations to participate in awareness and leadership training through the "Live It" Teen Pregnancy
Prevention program.
Warren Alvarado Oslo High School,
“GIRLS” (Warren) | $10,000
Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment,
“Girls Getting Ahead Leadership”
(Twin Cities) | $10,000
Grantee Partners |
Planning Grants to Develop New
girlsBEST Fund Programs
Centro, Inc. (Minneapolis) | $2,500
Program Track: Entrepreneurial
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support the Nican Tlaca Dance Academy,
apprenticing Latina teens as dance instructors,
developing their skills to claim and establish their
own economic power.
Division of Indian Work (Statewide) |
$3,000
Program Track: Public Education
and Advocacy
Outcome: Increased public education,
activism and advocacy.
To support "Live It" Youth Advisory Council,
convening American Indian teen girls from statewide
Girl Scout Council of Greater
Minneapolis (Minneapolis) | $1,500
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to achieve
economic success.
To work with African American girls on financial
literacy, leadership skills, post-secondary educational
options, and to build girls’ knowledge of their
cultural heritage.
Girl Scouts – Land of Lakes Council
(Waite Park, Red Lake) | $2,500
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support partnership with the Red Lake
Reservation to develop action plan for girls’ program
to address barriers to economic success as adults.
power, leadership, service-learning, and
career coaching.
Girls International Forum
(St. Paul) | $2,500
Program Track: Public Education
and Advocacy
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support outreach to girls in northeastern
Minnesota to participate in semi-annual
Girls International Forum with girls from
the Twin Cities and around the world.
Independent Lifestyles, Inc.
(St. Cloud) | $3,500
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support GIRLS program, providing skills
training, self-advocacy and mentoring for teen
girls with disabilities. In partnership with
St. Cloud public schools.
Girls in Action (Robbinsdale) | $1,500
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased public education,
activism and advocacy.
To work with teen girls to decrease violence and
increase academic engagement, focusing on personal
...girlsBEST cont., next page.
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girlsBEST Grantee
Partners | cont.
KFAI, Fresh Air, Inc.
(Minneapolis) | $2,500
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support Youth News Initiative: Girls of Color
Voicing Their Choice, creating the next generation
of diverse female leadership in public broadcasting
through training and mentoring.
Liberian Women’s Initiatives of Minnesota
(Brooklyn Park) | $4,000
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support College Bound, pairing teen Liberian girls
with professional Liberian women to mentor and
encourage college enrollment, while maintaining
cultural values.
Pearl Crisis Center (Milaca) | $4,000
Program Track: Public Education
and Advocacy
Outcome: Increased public education,
activism and advocacy.
To support Teens Against Dating Abuse, a girl-led
program to educate teen girls in the Milaca area
about teen dating violence and impacts on future
economic stability.
The Science Center at Maltby Nature
Preserve (Randolph) | $3,000
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To create program engaging girls (ages 10-18) in
authentic science. Professional female scientists serve
as mentors as girls develop social, leadership and
teamwork skills. In partnership with Girl Scout
Council of Cannon Valley.
Western Community Action
(Marshall) | $3,000
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support Girls Take the Lead (Marshall) and
G-Girls (Windom) to develop girls’ financial
empowerment, leadership and self-esteem.
White Earth Reservation Tribal Council
(White Earth) | $5,000
Program Track: Public Education
and Advocacy
Outcome: Increased public education,
activism and advocacy.
To support advocacy project for girls (age 10-18)
from seven White Earth Reservation communities to
identify traditional Ojibwa cultural practices that
honor and respect women in order to counteract
effects of generational poverty, domestic violence,
and sexual assault.
WINDOW (Hinckley) | $3,000
Program Track: Public Education
and Advocacy
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support Open Window, providing a safe environment for girls (ages 10-18) to address domestic
violence and its effects on individual economic
well-being.
YouthCARE (Minneapolis) | $3,000
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support Young Women’s Mentoring Program,
training young women from low-income communities
to be mentors and activity leaders for programming
for young girls.
YWCA Duluth (Duluth) | $2,500
Program Track: Academic
Outcome: Increased readiness to
achieve economic success.
To support Girl Power!, providing experiential
economic empowerment programming for underserved
girls in Duluth (ages 9-15).
The YWCA Duluth's Girl Power! program
(grantee) connects girl participants to activities
and experiences intended to inspire learning
and nurture curiosity as a means to future
economic success.
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DONOR ADVISED FUNDS
In fiscal year 2007, charitable gifts from Donor Advised Funds held at the Women’s Foundation helped move economic,
social and political equality forward for women and girls in Minnesota and across the nation. Through these funds, donor
advisors manage their charitable giving, build charitable assets, and establish a legacy of giving for the next generation.
ACORN FUND | N. Jeanne Burns
KIM LUND FUND | Kim Lund
MEREDITH FUND | Kris Maritz
James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Council (Berkeley,
CA), $250
Camp Unistar (Cass Lake), $1,000
YMCA Camp Widjiwagan (Ely), $2,500
Mixed Blood Theater (Minneapolis), $2,000
Twin Cities Public Television (St. Paul), $1,000
ARTEMIS FUND | Blanche and Thane Hawkins,
Lisa Hawklove
The White House Project (Washington, D.C.),
$7,000
aMAZE (Minneapolis), $25,000
Wellstone Action! (St. Paul), $1,000
Casa de Esperanza (St. Paul), $1,000
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota-South
Dakota (St. Paul), $1,000
Changemakers (San Francisco), $25,000
The Loft Literary Center (Minneapolis), $3,000
Haymarket People’s Fund (Boston), $10,000
Dads and Daughters (Duluth), $500
Mano a Mano Medical Resources
(Mendota Heights), $1,000
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
(Minneapolis), $500
Dads and Daughters (Duluth), $50,000
Women’s Health Center of Duluth (Duluth),
$2,500
ROBERT FINNEY TECHNOLOGY FUND |
Karen Finney
SALLY JOHNSON AND KAY KRAMER FUND |
Sally Johnson and Kay Kramer
Midtown Public Market (Minneapolis), $1,000
Mind on the Media (Northfield), $25,000
ASTIA FUND | Lee and John Roper-Batker
Minnesota Public Radio (St. Paul), $1,000
CONCOLE FUND | Barbara Smith Reis
Minnesota Women’s Consortium (St. Paul),
$3,000
Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment
(St. Paul), $5,000
Mombo Moms (Minneapolis), $1,000
DIANA AND ROBERT CARTER FAMILY FUND |
Diana and Robert Carter
RENOTA FUND | Anonymous
Women’s Initiative for Self-Empowerment
(St. Paul), $5,000
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota-South
Dakota (St. Paul), $1,000
Susan G. Komen Breast Center Foundation
(Dallas), $1,000
SCHARLEMANN/BAKER FAMILY FUND |
Romaine Scharlemann and Richard Baker
THEA MILLER WECK/WILLA SANBORN WECK
FAMILY FUND | Lauren Weck
WOMEN’S REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH FUND |
Kathryn Glessing
Pro-Choice Resources (Minneapolis), $15,000
Rainbow Families (Minneapolis), $25,000
EMPOWERING PROGRESS FUND |
Anonymous
Resource Center of the Americas
(Minneapolis), $10,000
Family Pathways Youth Services (St. Paul),
$2,870
Women’s Educational Media (San Francisco),
$5,000
HARRIS FAMILY FUND |
Kay and Marty Harris
Beth el Synagogue (Minneapolis), $500
Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery,
Ala.), $1,000
United for a Fair Economy (Boston), $10,000
Zing! Foundation (Arlington, Va.), $25,000
JANET B. WATSON FUND | Janet B. Watson
Aid to Southeast Asia, Inc. (Minneapolis),
$10,000
Warren Alvarado Oslo High School (Warren),
$3,039
“It’s deeply satisfying to be a part of our
collective contributions fueling social justice
and equality in Minnesota. Having a Donor
Advised Fund allows me to focus my passion
on the organizations and issues I care most
about, while the Foundation handles the
administrative and technical assistance side.”
Kim Lund, donor advisor - Kim Lund Fund
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DONOR PARTNERS
April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007
We thank the following donors for their partnership in our work.
$1,000,000 +
Mary Lee Dayton
Barbara Forster and Larry
Hendrickson
Alida R. Messinger
$500,000-$999,999
Beverly N. Grossman
Kim Lund
Janet B. Watson
$250,000-$499,999
Otto Bremer Foundation
Blanche and Thane Hawkins
Hayden Family Fund of The
Minneapolis Foundation
$50,000-$249,999
Anonymous
Hugh J. Andersen Foundation
Patrick and Aimee Butler Family
Foundation
Charlson Foundation
Sherry Ann and Edward Dayton
Polly Brown Grose Fund of The
Minneapolis Foundation
Joan Higinbotham
Jay and Rose Phillips Family
Foundation
Harriet and Edson Spencer
Valerie and Ed Spencer
Susan and William Sands
Mary Vaughan
$10,000-$49,999
Ameriprise Financial
Philanthropic Program
Sally Anson
Grayce Belvedere Young and
Daniel Young
Marney B. Brooks
N. Jeanne Burns and
Elizabeth A. Oppenheimer
Patrice D. Cooper Foundation
Marion Etzwiler
Karen Finney
General Mills, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. James Gesell
The Harris Family Fund
Sharon D. James
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Kay Kramer and Sally Johnson
Janet Leslie
Dusty and George Mairs
Mardag Foundation
Oak Grove Foundation
William D. Radichel Foundation
Jane Ransom
Reis Family Gift Fund of the
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Lee and John Roper-Batker
Patricia Samuel
Romaine Scharlemann and
Richard Baker
Nancy Slaughter
Travelers Foundation
Frederick O. Watson Foundation
Lauren Weck
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Terry Williams and
Susan Cogger
Penny and Mike Winton
Women's Funding Network
$1,000-$9,999
Anonymous
Anonymous Fund of The
Minneapolis Foundation
ADC Foundation
Sally Anaya-Boyer
Ameriprise Financial Employee
Gift Matching Program
Sarah Andersen and
Christopher Hayner
Marion H. Andrus Endowment
Fund - MWF of The
Minneapolis Foundation
Katherine Austin Mahle
Connie Barry
Shayna Berkowitz and
Phyllis Wiener
Jane Blanch
Blandin Foundation
Brown Family Foundation
The Business Journal
Caliber Foundation
Centerpoint Institute Inc.
Erin Ceynar and Kevin Dalager
Wendy and Doug Dayton
Ceridian Corporation
Gloria Contreras Edin
Julianne Corty and
Richard Erickson
Judy Dayton
Delta Dental
Karen Diver and Arnold Selnes
Excel Bank
Connie Foote
Leslie Frécon
GMAC ResCap
Sheila and Tim Gothmann
Elizabeth Grant
Joanne Green
Lynne Hardey
Duchess Harris
Susan Haugerud
HealthPartners Inc.
Mary Ellen Hennen
Kao Ly Ilean Her
Carol McGee Johnson
Kay Kramer and Sally Johnson
Little & Company
Prisca and George Lupambo
Leland T. Lynch and Terry
Saario Fund of
The Minneapolis Foundation
Kris Maritz
Siri and Bob Marshall
Dick and Joyce H. McFarland
Family Fund of the
Minneapolis Foundation
Katherine and
Timothy McGinley
Sandra Morris
Frances Naftalin
Robin Nelson
Joyce S. Prudden and Michael
D. Shoop Family Fund of
The Minneapolis Foundation
RBC Dain Rauscher
RBC Dain Rauscher Foundation
Teresa and Paul Richardson
Patricia Saunders
Anna Schaefer
Jean Schlemmer
Sexton Printing Inc.
Dorothy Skobba
Star Tribune Foundation
Mrs. Irene Steiner
TCF Foundation
Thomson West
Emily Anne Staples Tuttle Fund
of the Minnesota
Community Foundation
U.S. Trust Company
Maxine Wallin
Pamela Weisdorf
Wells Fargo Insurance Services
Mary Wong
$500-$999
Anonymous
3M for Womens Advisory
Committee
Kristi Andersen
Mary Merrill Anderson
Wendy and Pete Benson
Susan Boren
Brenda and Jim Coulter
Sarah Farley and Betty Tisel
Charlotte Flowers
Heidi Gesell and
John Edgerton III
Pamela Green
Nancy Gruver and Joe Kelly
HLB Tautges Redpath, Ltd.
Martha and Art Kaemmer
The Linde-Ruhr Family Fund of
The Saint Paul Foundation
Lindquist & Vennum
Littler Mendelson
Foundation Inc.
Ann Lonstein
Harriet T. Ludwick
Pamela Moore
Martha and Jonathan Morgan
Oppenheimer,
Wolff & Donnelly LLP
Molly O'Shaughnessy
Carolyn Papke
Ellen Phelps
Polish Your Star LLC
Terese Pritschet
Edna Sanders
Susan Sanger
Rhonda Simpson Brown
Jeffrey and Helene Slocum
Evelyn Swenson
Carol and Lynn Truesdell
UBS Financial Services Inc.
Sharon Van De North
The Whitney Foundation
Women's Health
Leadership Trust
Martha Zemur
$100 -$499
Anonymous (2)
Lucile Adams Brink
AJW Financial Inc.
Alexander Design Group Inc.
Alphagraphics
Kari Anderson
Marilynne Anderson
Susan Anderson
Connie Ardin
Elizabeth Arendt
Beverly Balos and
Mary Louise Fellows
Dorothy Barnes-Griswold
Katherine Barton
Gertrude Barwick
Nancy Bateman
Carol and Thomas Beech
Cora Biernat
Jonathan and Lois Bishop
(Lois)
Suzanne Born
Priscilla Braun
Joanna Brofman
Elizabeth C. Bryan
Gayle Burdick
Jo Ann Buysse
Alan Carlson
Catherine Carlson
Karen Chandler
Cincinnatus Inc.
Jean Clarke
Jeff Coate and Sylvie Martinez
Rusty Cohen
Yvonne Condell
Janet Conn
Nancy Cosgriff
Susan Crawford
Cresa Partners
Lesley Crosby
Saundra Crump
Toni D'Eramo
Cynthia Daube
Davidson Law Office
Karla Davis
Stacey DeKalb
Eugenia Dixon
Mary-Carolyn Dorfman
Mary Loomis Dorn
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Paul and Jodelle Dougherty
Duke Financial Group Inc.
Marilynn Dunbar
William R. Egan
Maryann and Robert Eliason
Linda Engberg
Wendy Evans
Gloria Faivre
Ann Fankhanel
Kathleen Farley
Fast Print
Marie Fierck Przynski
Niki Flavin
Judy and Paul Florell
Tammie Follett
Polly Franchot
Bobbie Fredsall
Fredrikson & Byron PA
Carol Freeman
Patricia Gaarder
Judy Gaviser
Rachel Gilchrist
Francie Glickman
D. Carol Grim
Katherine Hadley and
Cynthia Fay
Patti Hague
Janice Hammond
Teresa Hanratty and
Luz Maria Davis
Sunny Sundal Hansen
Mary Beth Hanson
Miriam Hanson
Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison
Marge Helmer
Laura and Mark Helmueller
Sally Herfurth
Diane and John Herman
Sharon Heywood
Mary Kay Hicks
Nell Hillsley
Cecily Hines
Jeanne Hodge
Roseanne Hope
Diana Horrigan
Ruth Howe
Teresa Hudoba
Dee Dee Hull
Patricia Hummel and
Richard Mammem
Qamar Ibrahim
Nina Ingalls
Julie Ingleman
Suzanne James
Susan Jaqua
Linda Jirovec
Holly Johnson
Phyllis and Donald Kahn
Laurie Kienke
Susan Kinder
Wendy Klager
Kathryn Kopp-Adam and
Mark Adam
Linda Krach
Carolyn and Larry Kuechle
Jean Kummerow
Marleen Kurschner
Eleanor Layton
Susan Lindgren
Alice Lloyd and Jeff Crawford
Carol Ann Lowinske
Ellen Goldberg Luger
Carrie MacNabb and
Scott Moriarity
Marilyn Maloney
Phyllis Maritz
Catherine McBride
Rose McGee
Judith McKloskey
Deborah McKnight
Jeri Meola
Jill Meyer and Louise Hotka
Elaine Voboril
Laura Miles
Anne-Marie Mischel
Mary Moen
Judith and Michael Mollerus
LaVonne Moore
Laura Miles
Anne-Marie Mischel
Mary Moen
Judith and Michael Mollerus
LaVonne Moore
Patricia Moore
Diane Morehouse
Louise Morgan
Joan Moser
Mrs. Earl Mosiman
Audrey Nelson
Kimberly Nelson
Lynn Ingrid Nelson
Katherine Nevins
Northeast Bank
April Oertwig
Linda Ojala
Cheryl Paullin
Katie Pierson
Sally Pillsbury
Lee Pitman
Christina Porter
PressCheck Printing & Graphics
Catherine Przybylski
Kathryn Purcell
Susan and Gary Rappaport
Hilary Reeves
Susan Richey
Megan Roach
Emma Robbins
Connissa Robison
Deborah Roesler and
John Kephart
Barbara A. Rose and
Charles O. Lentz
Andrea and James Rubenstein
Nancy and Mark Rustad
Barbara W. and Roy H. Saigo
Annette Salazar
Patricia Schaffer and
David Weissbrodt
Miriam Schulz
LouAnne Sexton
Erika Shatz and
Roxanne Ornelas
Kathryn Shaw
Linda Shaw
Carolyn Shrewsbury
Sarah Shriver
Liliana Silvestry
Anne Simonson
Caroline Smith
Sovran, Inc.
Sara Spiess
The Spiller L'Chaim Fund
Spoken Impact
Susan Stacey
Sarah Strickland
Judith Strong
Amy Sundem
Mary Tambornino
Patricia Tanji
Linda Thielbar
Irma Thies
Jean Thomson
Mary Ida Thomson
Frances Tobian
Charlaine Tolkien and
Karen Hawley
Jane Treston
Mary Udseth
Mary Van Evera
Marcia Vang
Mary Vasaly
Patricia Wagner
Heidi Walsh
Victoria Wang
Ruth and David Waterbury
Wendy Wehr
Mary and Jerome Weigenant
Susan Weinberg
Allison Welch
Deborah Wexler
Andrew Wilson
Sally Worku
Elizabeth Wray
YMCA of Greater St. Paul
$1-$99
Anonymous (3)
Gail and Michael Adams
Cynthia Adelson
Gail Ahern
Veronica Ahern
Kami Aho
Nancy Alexander
Carol Allin
Susan Alpert
Nancy Alsop
Wendy Amundson
Donna Anderson
Gary Anderson
Jodi Anderson
Joyce Anderson
Anne and Michael Andreasen
Annette Andrews
Julie Andrus
Emil Angelica
Sandra Antonelli
John and Rebecca Arenivar
Deb Bahr-Helgen and
Lee Helgen
Sandra Barnes
Barbara Bassett
Tina Bastle
Walter and Louise Bauer
Julian Bernick
Anne Bertram
Laina Beurala
Donna Blacker
Karen Blanchard
Lisa Borelli
Amy Boris
Margaret Bosshardt
Susan Boutwell
LaDonna Boyd
Lisa Boynton
Georgia Brier
Linda Brooks Panone
Connie Brueske
Katherine Burns
Lisa Burton
Cynthia Cairney
Dawn Cameron
Joan Carland Johnson
Lois Carlson
Linda Carr
Ann Carrott and James Odden
Diana and Robert Carter
Sondra Carter
Alexina Chai
Marilou Cheple
Rachel and Donald Christensen
Marlys Chutich
Susan Cipolle
Lillian Clark
Catherine Clark-Kennedy
Chernah Coblentz
Beverly Conerton
Joanne Cramer
Daniel Croonquist
Marilyn Cuneo
Christine Custer
Dakota Electric Association
Piyali Nath Dalal
Terrell Daniels
Jean Davis
Michele Dettloff
Maria Dillon
Arla Dockter
George Doerr
Dorsey & Whitney Foundation
Carol Drinkard
William Drury
Janet Dubinsky
Sandra Duel
Mary Duroche
Jean McDonald Eastman
Barbara Ego
Karen Ekberg
Kathi Ellis
Ellis Properties LLP
Emerald Quality Services
Sarah Emery
Linda Engebretson
Judith Engel
Jean Enloe
Sara Evans
Linda Ewing
Extended Office Inc.
Faegre & Benson
Faegre & Benson Foundation
Beverly Ferguson
Eleanor and William Ferril
Finance and Commerce
Diane Fischer
Shaun Fitzpatrick
Carroll Flaten
Delores Flynn
Sharon Fortunak
Scherrie Ann Foster
Sharon Freier
Barbara Friedman and
Lon Rosenfield
Wayne and Sherri Fuller
Nancy and Debby Fulton
Jane Galbraith
Karen Gano
Linda Gawthrop
Patricia Gehring
Kathleen Gill
Susan Gillespie
Karen and Howard Gochberg
Sherry Goetze
Jacqueline Gohdes
Deborah Goodwin
Colleen Graf
Jeanne Graham
Coralee Grebe
Emily Green
Mary Griep
Mary Griesedieck
Gail Gruis
Sylvia Gunderson
Julie Guth
Adrienne Gutierrez
Jan Hacker
Anne Haddad
Lynn Haldy
Mary Lois Hall and
Anja Curiskis
Kathryn Hanna
Mildred Hanson
Suzanne Hargis
Judith Harper
Susan Clark Harris
Joanne Hart
Ellen Hatfield
Evelyn Hatfield
Alice Hawks
Florence Hedeen
Dorothea Helmen
Kirsti Hendricksen
Linda Hennum
Paula Hicks
Arlene Hiles
Connie Hill
Marilyn Hill
Randy Hines-Mohn
Aline Hinkle
Lisa Hinz
Jan Hively
Lisa Hlavacek
Mollie Hoben
Lisa Hoch
Marni Hockenberg
Suzanne Hodder
Anne Hodgson
Patricia Hoehn
Irene Hogan
Barbara Hoganson
Margaret Holahan
Katy Holden
The House Dressing
Company Inc.
Kathryn Houston
Mary Howard
Sarah Howard
Carolyn Howland
Human Capital Advantage Inc.
Heidi Humphrey
Kimberly Hunter
Mildred Huttenmaier
Sally Hwang
Lillian Indeck
InterBank
Jo Irons
Julia Jaakola
Jacqueline Jacob
Jardini, Logan & O'Brien
Herdis Jensen
Wendy Jerome
Alice Johnson
Anne Johnson
Charlotte Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson
Frances Johnson
June Johnson
Lonaile Johnson
Marion Johnson and
Julie Dereschuk
Melissa Johnston
Jan Jones
Lena Jones
Kathe Jorgenson
Suzanne Joyce
Julie Anson Schaefer
Consulting Inc.
Linda Kaner
Sandra Karnowski
Michael Kazemek
Jalil Keval
Judith Kim and Gary Larson
Michele Marcelle Kimber
Vicki Lynn Klasell
Frances Kolb
Mary Koppel
Lynda Koren
Luanne Koskinen
Jacalyn Krammer
Janet Kruse Kretman
Charlotte Kunkel
Mary Pat Kwaterski and
Eric Moore
Sue Kyllonen
Anna Mae Lambert
Blythe Larson
Marjorie Larson
Larson-King LLP
Elizabeth Laughlin
June Lavalleur
Sarah Lebedoff
Don and Marlyce Lee
Kathryn and Theodore Lee
Joyce Lester
Anne Lewis
Betty Lillehei
Anne List
Audrey Logsdon
Kathryn Lohr
Kristen Lund
Maribeth Lundeen
Pam Lundell
Raymond Lundquist
Kate Lynch
John and Barbara Lynskey
Magic Wendy
Rita Majerle
Olive Maki
Marie Maland
Julie Mall
Susan Malmquist
Joanne Manthe
Sarah Marquardt
Elizabeth Martin
Caroline Mason
Lisa Mattson
Helen McClelland
Wendy McCormick
Heather McElroy
Barbara McGinnis
Heather McKay
Virginia McNear
Helen McNulty
Megan McRae-Hastings
Mary Meador
Katherine Meerse and
David Woodard
Roberta and Robert Megard
Elaine Melby-Moen
Elizabeth Merz
Sara Johnson Messelt
Margaret Meyer
Sharon Meyer
Shana Meyers
Kim Midthun
Anne Miller
Anna Min
Tracey Mittlestadt
Jean Moede
Phyllis Moen
Lynn Moline
Ann M. Moll
Forrest G. Moore
Carol Mordorski
Holly Morey
Jane Mosher
Dorothy Muffett
Carol Mulligan
Conrad Nelson
Kristen Nelson
Mary Nelson
Muriel and Norwood Nelson
Mary Newell
Ardis Nohner-Black
Ralph Nordstrom
Ferne Noreen
Nancy Grace Norman
Grace Norris
Edna Novek
Carol Nutt
Cathleen O'Rourke
Julie Ollila
Cathryn Olson
Claire Olson
Deceased
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Cathryn Olson
Claire Olson
Debra Olson
Gail Olson
Gladys Olson
Viann Olson
Charles and Margaret Opp
Elizabeth Ozmon
Angie Pagel Endo and
Scott Endo
Mary Pagnucco
Debra Palmquist
Janet Parta
Patricia Paul
Diana and Michael Pauling
Anne Pavlik
Shirley Pearl
Patricia Pedersen
Polly Penney
Peoples Inc.
Laura Peters and Leah Hebert
Merrell Peters
Jean Petersen
Sheila and John Peterson
Verona Peterson
Grace Petri
Kathy Porteous
Beverly Propes
Roberta Radford
Marilyn Raplinger
Barbara Raye
Linda Rebane
David and Laura Redish
Susan and Charles Reinhart
Lily-Crow Rivertree
Annemarie Robertson
Sandra Robin
Arlene Roehl
Connie Roehrich
Jane Rollins
Lois Ross
Marilyn Rossman
Rae Funk Rowe
Sharon Rozzi
Anne C. Russell
Piyumika Samaratunga
Sandra Sandell and
Clayton Giese
Jodi Sandfort
I. Margaret and Joni Scheftel
Lynn Schmidtke
L. A. Schmitt
Patricia Schoenfeld
School Sisters of Notre Dame
Judith Burns Schuster
Kirsten Schwichtenberg
Diana Lynn Scott and
Thomas Scott
Lee Ann Seaman
Faith Sell
Betty Selnes
Joe Selvaggio
Mary Sharp
Wendy Sharpe
Theresa Shepherd
Karen Shickell
Shunu Shrestha
Siegel, Brill, Greupner,
Duffy & Foster PA
Ginger Sisco
Bernice Sisson
Theodore Sitz
Daryl Skobba
Marilyn Small
Joan Smith
Susannah Smith and
Matt Sobek
Kristina Sommer
Jane Southwood
Brittany Stephens
Jane Sternberg
Melissa Stone
Strategic Financial Inc.
Susan Strauss
Dorothy Sunne
Sandra Swami
Dorothy Swanson
Patricia Sween
Natalie Thayer
Cheryl Thomas
Erin Thompson
Jackie Thompson
Deborah Thorp
Rosemary Thorsen
Peter Tiffin
Terri Tilotta
Mary Toberman
Tradition Capital Bank
Cynthia Tregilgas
Michael Trepkowski
Jessica Trites Rolle
Maureen Tubbs
Karen Tuil
Mildred Turner
Janis Tweedy
Joan Uselmann
Jean Velleu
Judith Vermeland-Wendt
Joyce Vincent
Betsy Vinz
Herb Vogel
The Wachovia Foundation
Phyllis Wagner
Deborah Wall
Patricia Watkins
Richard Weatherman
Carol Weber
Bonnie Wedel
Sarah West
Darrell and Judith Westby
Ardis Wexler
Darlene White
Pandora White
Sherry and James White
Shirley Whiting
Cathy Whitman-Spear
Linda Willette
Louverne Williams
Marguerite Wilson
Winnidell Wilson
Gail and Peter Wollan
Elaine Wolter
Kristine Wyant
Joan Yue
Ann Ziebarth
Community Solutions Fund
Melissa Conway
Jean Erdall
Amy Ford Andersen
D. Forsberg
Cathy and Rick Giertsen
Susan and Bert Gross
Carol and Bud Hayden
Kristin and Thomas Holtz
Coral Houle
Sandra and Bruce Johnson
Ann and Jonathon Kemske
Bonne and John Kluge
Thomas and Lona Kluge
Ruth Ann Larson
Linda and Robert Lawrence
Anthony Lund
Constance Mahler
Glenn and Mary Ann Mahler
Helen McNulty
Minikahda Club
Lee and John Roper-Batker
Nancy Slaughter
Susan and John Stedman
Maxine Wallin
Joan Warner
Kathleen and Robert Wedl
Karin and David Wendt
Sara and Robert Wolf
Barbara Woodhead
GIFTS IN HONOR
Jenny Abrahamson
Linda Jirovec
Kim Lund
Sarah Farley and Betty Tisel
Soledad Arenivar
John David Arenivar
Carrie MacNabb and
Scott Moriarity
Julian Bernick
Georgia Brier
Dawn Cameron
Janet Dubinsky
Sarah Emery
Jeanne Graham
Kirsti Hendrickson
Heather McElroy
Natalie Thayer
Dorothea Auten
Mollie Hoben
Mara McGinnis
Barbara McGinnis
Teresa Baker
Romaine Scharlemann
Michele McRae
Megan McRae-Hastings
Barbara Bertram
Anne Bertram
Eileen Miller
Pat Schoenfeld
John Bratnober
Jo Ann Buysse
Shannon Monahan
Linda Jirovec
Alison Christensen
Wendy Evans
Lilene Moore
LaVonne Moore
Vera Colage
Valerie Spencer
Jeanne Morgan
Linda Rebane
Mildred Davis
Maria Dillon
Esther W. Olson
Gail Olson
Jo Dougherty
Lynn Moline
Elizabeth W. Peters
Merrell M. Peters
Rosemary Dunbar
Barbara Friedman
Erica Quist
Linda Jirovec
Paula Endo
Scott and Angie Pagel Endo
Anne Ravenstone
Leah Hebert and Laura Peters
Margaret Foster
Scherrie Ann Foster
Laura Roehl
Linda Jirovec
Coranel Frieden
Forrest G. Moore
Dorothy I. Russell
Anne C. Russell
Ada Elizabeth Gray
Adrienne Guttierrez
Barbara Friedman and
Lon Rosenfield
Rosemary and Barry Dunbar
Marlys Ryti
Wendy Sharpe
Gertrude Guse
Julie Ollila
Sara A. Fulton
Nancy and Debby Fulton
Meredith Horne
Phyllis Maritz
Joyce Hawkes
Susan Lindgren
Betty Jamieson
Bonnie Wedel
Josie Heegaard
Cheryl Thomas
Kari Ann Koskinen
Luanne Koskinen
Rose Heinzman
Ann M. Moll
Margaret List
Anne List
Don Herzog
Roseanne Hope
Laurence Nelson
Lynn Ingrid Nelson
Katy Holden
Dorothy Skobba
Pauline Sarbaum
Roberta Radford
Betty Johnson
Anne Johnson
GIFTS IN MEMORY
OF JANET WATSON
Lorraine B. Seaman
Lee Ann Seaman
Sue Jubert
Linda Jirovec
Lori and Gerald Allen
Jean Backlund
Kathleen Baczko
Deborah Bancroft
Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
Dan Bergeron
Michael and Sally Bosanko
Briggs and Morgan
Debra and James Campbell
Mary and Charles Carlsen
Evelyn Skobba
Daryl Skobba
Judy
Lillian Clark
Mary Zalk
Marni Hockenberg
Viola Kjeer
Michele Dettloff
GIFTS IN MEMORY
Rachel Bissell
Carol Truesdell
Janet Burns
Judith Burns Schuster
Susan Engebretson
Linda Engebretson
Jennie Follett
Tammie Follett
Harriet Adelson
Cynthia Adelson
Lucinda Alleven
Melissa Johnston
Marion Angelica
Emil Angelica
Pearl Krause
Kristina Sommer
Celine Kunkel
Charlotte Kunkel
Helen Scharlemann
Romaine Scharlemann
Janet Schultheis
Karen Shickell
Jeanne Shepard
Charlotte Johnson
Harriet Spencer
Valerie Spencer
Johanna Thell
Margaret Meyer
Marjorie Thomas
Cheryl Thomas
Roberta Joan Treston
Jane Treston
Anastasia Wallek
Vicki Lynn Klasell
Char Weinand
Linda Jirovec
Judie Westby
Darrell Westby
Diana Worzala
Faith Sell
Betty Ziebarth
Ann Ziebarth
The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota is dedicated to ensuring the accuracy of our donor information.
To update or correct donor information, please contact Amy at 612-236 -1806 or [email protected].
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THE WOMEN’S FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA
BOARD AND STAFF
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Terry Williams | Chair
CEO, Forward Motion Travel
Grayce Belvedere Young | Vice Chair
President, Organizational
Performance, The Prouty Project
Mary Wong | Treasurer
Vice President, Fixed Income
Banking, RBC Capital Markets
Kao Ly Ilean Her | Secretary
Executive Director, Council on
Asian-Pacific Minnesotans
Kim Borton,
Programs Manager, Humphrey
Institute of Public Affairs, Public
and Nonprofit Leadership Center
Sheba Coffey,
Sales Director
Gloria Contreras Edin,
Executive Director, Centro Legal, Inc.
Barbara Forster,
Community Volunteer
Joanne Green,
Manager, Expense Accounting,
Securian Financial Group
Nancy Gruver,
Founder & CEO, New Moon
Saanii Hernandez-Mohr,
Midwest Regional Program
Manager, Hispanics in Philanthropy
Joan Higinbotham,
Community Volunteer
Qamar Ibrahim,
Bush Fellow
Sharon D. James,
Assistant Professor, Management
& Human Resources,
Ohio State University
Jan Malcolm,
CEO, Courage Center
Tara Mason,
Director, White Earth Human
Services
Catherine McBride,
Chief Development Officer,
The Science Center at Maltby
Nature Preserve
Teresa Richardson,
Director, Cash & Pension
Investments, Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Sida Ly-Xiong,
Associate Director of
Evaluation & Research
STAFF
Erin Ceynar,
Assistant Director of
Development
April Oertwig,
Executive Assistant
Amy Cram Helwich,
Development Director
Lee Roper-Batker,
President & CEO
Charlotte Flowers,
Program Officer
Romaine Scharlemann,
Senior Gift Planner
Sheila Gothmann,
Finance and Operations
Director
Dorothy Skobba,
Development Manager
Mary Beth Hanson,
Communications Director
Heidi Walsh,
Receptionist/Bookkeeper
FELLOWS
Development
Ahlam Hassan
Shunu Shrestha
Reatha Clark King
Fellow/Associate Director
of Evaluation & Research
Sida Ly-Xiong
Diversity Interns
Robina Rai
Shunu Shrestha
Kristina Thao
Carol McGee Johnson,
Vice President of
Community Philanthropy
& Programs
(l-r, front) Mary Beth Hanson,
Carol McGee Johnson, Lee Roper-Batker,
Dorothy Skobba. (l-r, back) Romaine
Scharlemann, Sida Ly-Xiong, Amy Cram
Helwich, Charlotte Flowers, Heidi Walsh,
Erin Ceynar, April Oertwig.
(Not pictured: Sheila Gothmann.)
Nancy Slaughter,
Community Volunteer
Valerie Spencer,
Community Volunteer
PRESIDENT’S ADVISORS
Mary Lee Dayton
Karen Diver
Blanche Hawkins
Carol Hayden
Kris Maritz
Wenda Weekes Moore
Senator Mee Moua
(l-r, front) Grayce Belvedere Young, Sharon D. James, Teresa Richardson, Valerie
Spencer, Kim Borton, Sheba Coffey, Jan Malcolm, Nancy Slaughter. (l-r, back)
Joan Higinbotham, Nancy Gruver, Tara Mason, Saanii Hernandez-Mohr, Catherine
McBride, Lee Roper-Batker. (Not pictured: Gloria Contreras Edin, Barbara Forster,
Joanne Green, Kao Ly Ilean Her, Qamar Ibrahim, Terry Williams, Mary Wong.)
COMMITTEES
FINANCE
Mary Wong | Chair
Joanne Green |
Vice Chair
Diana Carter
Brenda Coulter
Sheila Gothmann
Mary Ellen Hennen
Katy Kopp-Adam
April Oertwig
Lee Roper-Batker
Anna Schaefer
Jane Treston
Maureen Wilson
Fund>>Forward
COMPREHENSIVE
CAMPAIGN
Valerie Spencer |
Chair
Mary Lee Dayton |
Honorary Co-Chair
Wenda Weekes Moore|
Honorary Co-Chair
Amy Cram Helwich
Barbara Forster
Carol Hayden,
Major Gifts Co-Chair
Mary Beth Hanson
Joan Higinbotham
Carol McGee
Johnson
Kris Maritz,
Major Gifts Co-Chair
Lee Roper-Batker
Susan Sands
Romaine Scharlemann
Nancy Slaughter
girlsBEST
ADVISORY
Terry Williams |
Chair
Grayce Belvedere
Young | Vice Chair
Amy Cram Helwich
Charlotte Flowers
Afton Delgado*
Ashlen Delgado*
Ange Hwang
Qamar Ibrahim
Lorrie Janatopolous
Carol McGee
Johnson
Adrienne Keen
Andrea Larson
Kerrison
Sida Ly-Xiong
Kris Maritz
Karen McElrath
Katie McElrath*
Jamie McLaughlin*
Martha McLaughlin
Eliza Messinger*
Tracey O'Neill
Ruzicka
Lee Roper-Batker
Beth Rutledge
Liliana Silvestry
Alisha Smith
Sarah Stinson
GOVERNANCE
Grayce Belvedere
Young | Chair
Julia Classen |
Vice Chair
Kim Borton
Alexina Chai
Sheila Gothmann
Blanche Hawkins
Mary Ellen Hennen
Carol McGee
Johnson
Mary Kloehn
Tara Mason
Teresa Obrero
April Oertwig
Lee Roper-Batker
SOCIAL CHANGE
FUND
Gloria Contreras
Edin | Chair
Sheba Coffey |
Vice Chair
Sarah Bellamy
Kim Borton
Charlotte Flowers
Anne Haddad
Saanii HernandezMohr
Sonia Hohnadel
Carol McGee
Johnson
Kirsten Lindquist
Dawn Peterson
Lee Roper-Batker
Pat Samuel
Lupe Serrano
Nancy Slaughter
Sara Spiess
Jo-Anne Stately
Lonna Stevens
April Sutor
Pamela Weisdorf
Kayva Yang
RESEARCH,
EDUCATION &
ADVOCACY
Joan Higinbotham |
Chair
Kim Borton |
Vice Chair
Sally Anaya-Boyer
Margaret Boyer
Mary Beth Hanson
Kao Ly Ilean Her
Qamar Ibrahim
Carol McGee
Johnson
Liz Johnson
Sida Ly-Xiong
Jan Malcolm
Kathleen Murphy
April Oertwig
Lee Roper-Batker
April Shaw
PROFESSIONAL
ADVISORS
Lynne Hardey |
Chair
Mary Adamski
Nancy Buttweiler
Eileen Day
Carol McGee
Johnson
Sharon Krumme
Ellyn Marell
Rachel McDonough
Lee Roper-Batker
Romaine Scharlemann
Lynn Schmidtke
* Girl Member
Board Member in brown
Staff Member italicized
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FINANCIALS
Summarized Financial Information
Statements of Financial Position
Assets
Cash
Prepaid Expenses
Contributions Receivable
Property & Equipment, Net
Long-Term Investments
Employee Receivables
Contributions and Pledges Receivable - Long-Term, Net
Total Assets
Liabilities and Net Assets
Accounts Payable
Accrued Expenses
Grants Payable
Capital Lease Payable
Total Liabilities
Unrestricted, Including
Board Designated
Temporarily Restricted
Permanently Restricted
Total Net Assets
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
3/31/07
3/31/06
243,381
42,180
1,548,088
81,728
11,846,169
6,302
2,015,407
15,783,255
212,200
30,811
1,290,974
52,093
10,641,668
6,302
2,301,701
14,535,749
39,481
46,400
45,500
14,214
145,595
33,039
31,687
4,260
0
68,986
3,293,964
1,710,812
10,632,884
15,637,660
15,783,255
3,124,440
1,641,483
9,700,840
14,466,763
14,535,749
3/31/2007
Total
2,393,673
56,455
1,003,355
0
3,453,483
3/31/2006
Total
6,054,456
46,208
1,132,633
0
7,233,297
1,795,105
150,588
336,893
2,282,586
1,929,949
193,668
262,777
2,386,394
Statements of Activities
Support and Revenue
Grants and Contributions
Other Income
Investment Income, Net
Net Assets Released from Restrictions
Total Support and Revenue
Unrestricted
549,286
56,455
1,003,355
843,014
2,452,110
Expenses
Grants, Research, Public Education & Convening
Administration
Fundraising Expenses
Total Expenses
Temporarily
Restricted
912,343
Permanently
Restricted
932,044
-843,014
69,329
932,044
1,795,105
150,588
336,893
2,282,586
Change in Net Assets
Net Assets, Beginning of Year
Net Assets, End of Year
169,524
69,329
932,044
1,170,897
4,846,903
3,124,440
3,293,964
1,641,483
1,710,812
9,700,840
10,632,884
14,466,763
15,637,660
9,619,860
14,466,763
The above financial information is summarized from our records. To receive a copy of our audited financial statement, contact us at 612- 337- 5010.
FUNDING USE
FUNDING AREA
Statewide
Southwest
Southeast
Other
Northwest
Northeast
Metro Area
East Central
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14%
2%
3%
9%
7%
8%
51%
6%
FUNDING BY CORNERSTONE
Advancing Women’s
Safety and Security 6%
Start-up 1%
Expanding Women’s
Political Representation 7%
General
Operating
40 %
Program
54%
Promoting Human Rights
for Women 20%
Guaranteeing Women’s Health
and Reproductive Rights 12%
Creating Economic Justice
for Women 38%
"We – all of us, whether from the donor community, the nonprofit community, or
for-profit professions – are caring people and citizens first. We join together for our
communities, state and nation to engage in the joyful work of making a better world.
Together, we are able to make change happen, person by person."
–TRACY GARY, SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPIST, AUTHOR, AND CO-FOUNDER OF INSPIRED LEGACIES
MISSION
The Women’s Foundation of Minnesota
champions economic,
political and social equality for
women and girls through
fundraising, grantmaking, research
and public advocacy.
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