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More than Half a Million Dollars Awarded to Local Nonprofits by FM Area Foundation

The FM Area Foundation has awarded its 2021 community grants in the areas of Arts, Culture & Creativity; Basic Human Needs; Community Building; Education; and Women & Children. Also, this year, in partnership with the City of Fargo, $100,000 was designated for grants to New American organizations or to organizations primarily serving Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.

A focus for this year’s grant round was to provide nonprofits with general operating funds–allowing organizations to direct the funding toward their greatest needs. The focus on general operating grants continues from 2020, when flexible funding was crucial for many nonprofits.

“As the community foundation serving Cass and Clay counties, our goal is to respond to local nonprofit needs to create a vibrant community full of opportunities for everyone. One way we do this is by providing grants for general operations, a form of funding that can be difficult for nonprofits to secure, yet imperative for the success of an organization,” said Lexi Oestreich, Program Director.

The Foundation’s community grants are funded by unrestricted and field of interest gifts that have been given to the community foundation throughout its 61-year history. Nonprofits apply to one of the focus areas through a competitive grant process. Grant applications are evaluated by a volunteer grants committee and Foundation staff members and approved by the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

This year, $502,400 was awarded to 79 local organizations.

Congratulations to the 2021 Community Grant Round Recipients!

  • 4 Luv of Dog Rescue $2,000

A

  • Act Up Theatre $3,000
  • African Immigrant and Minority Services $8,500
  • Afro American Development Association $25,000

B

  • BIO Girls $10,000
  • Boys and Girls Club of the Red River Valley $5,000

C

  • CAPLP-Lakes & Prairies Community Action Partnership $9,000
  • Cass County Historical Society $2,500
  • CCRI – Creative Care for Reaching Independence $9,000
  • Chira Global Development Organization $6,000
  • Churches United for the Homeless $13,500
  • Community of Care $3,000
  • Cultural Diversity Resources $4,000

D

  • Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch – Fargo $3,500
  • Dakota Medical Foundation $2,500
  • Dear NICU Mama $3,000
  • Down Home $10,000

F

  • Faith4Hope Scholarship Fund $12,500
  • Family HealthCare $4,500
  • Fargo Air Museum $5,000
  • Fargo Moorhead Area Youth Symphonies $3,000
  • Fargo Moorhead Choral Artists $2,500
  • Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre $6,000
  • Fargo Moorhead Youth Choir $2,500
  • Fargo Theatre Management Corp. $7,500
  • Fargo-Moorhead Opera $4,000
  • Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra $3,000
  • FM Coalition to End Homelessness $7,500
  • Fraser, Ltd. $9,000
  • Friends of the Children-FM $9,000
  • Furniture Mission of the Red River Valley $2,000

G

  • GiGi’s Playhouse Fargo $7,500
  • Girl Scouts-Dakota Horizons $2,500

H

  • Haley’s Hope $5,000
  • Handi-Wheels Transportation $4,500
  • Harvest Hope Farm $5,000
  • Hawley Emergency Response $7,000
  • Heart-N-Soul Community Cafe Inc. $5,000
  • HeartSprings $4,000
  • HERO $4,500
  • Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County $2,500
  • Hope Blooms $5,000
  • Hopeful Heart Project $8,000

I

  • Immigrant Development Center $20,000
  • Impact Foundation $5,000
  • Inspire Innovation Lab $7,500

J

  • Jail Chaplains $5,000
  • Jasmin Childcare and Preschool $10,000
  • Jeremiah Program $8,000

L

  • Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity $3,000
  • Learning Bank $5,000
  • Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota $4,500

M

  • Moorhead Fargo Islamic Center $2,500
  • Moorhead Police Athletics and Activities League $10,000
  • MSUM College for Kids $5,000

N

  • ND Scottish Rite Language Center $5,000
  • NDSCS Foundation $10,000
  • New Life Center $9,000
  • North Dakota Autism Center Inc $10,000
  • North Dakota Human Rights Coalition $5,000

P

  • Plains Art Museum $3,000
  • P’s & Q’s Etiquette, LLC $10,000

R

  • Red River AMBUCS $3,000
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Red River Valley $4,500
  • Rourke Art Gallery Museum $5,000
  • Rural Kids Development Alliance $6,000

S

  • ShareHouse of Fargo, Inc. $4,500
  • South Sudanese Foundation $25,000

T

  • The Arts Partnership $3,000
  • The Young Shepherds $10,000
  • Theatre B $2,500
  • Toothbrush Ministries $1,300
  • Trollwood Performing Arts School $3,000
  • Tudeako Group $4,000

U

  • UC Hope $7,000
  • United Liberian Association of ND $7,100

W

  • WIN-Liberia $8,000

Y

  • Youthworks $5,000
  • YWCA Cass Clay $8,000