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Blandin Foundation is all about Minnesotans imagining, leading, and growing healthy, inclusive – vibrant – communities.
Living Vibrant
Where do you imagine your community tomorrow? At Blandin Foundation, we see a world of possibilities within your answers. Discover how vibrant rural Minnesota is.
Itasca Area
Your partner in building healthy rural communities in the place we call home. Meeting spaces, grants, and more.
Opportunities
We meet communities where they’re at with: Leadership training, Broadband information and support Grants.
What are the possibilities?
You have resources. We have resources. Put them together, and you have a powerful approach your community can use to design and claim its future.
We Have Resources
Our programs train community leaders, support communities as they include and create opportunities for all people, and support work at home in the Itasca Area.
Learn MoreYou Have Resources
Information to support you in building your community. Whether you need research to prove a need, information on evaluation, or want to learn more about topics rural Minnesota cares about – you’ll find it here.
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Spot Us
Blandin Foundation stands with communities as they design and claim their futures. That’s thousands of partnerships in hundreds of communities over more than 75 years.
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Tune in: rural vibrancy on MPR today
June 18, 2018
MPR's Ground Level series is about listening throughout the state to build bridges across differences. Last week they hosted a conversation here in Grand Rapids. You can find the recording here. Among the topics: local insights on the Ground Level Survey of Minnesotans, and rural brain gain, a trend tracked by University of Minnesota Extension researcher Ben Winchester. Read More
Current and Upcoming Leadership Training
LEDC - Moorhead
LEDC July 11 - September 12
Thief River Falls Area
BCLP September 24 - 28
Albert Lea Area
BCLP October 8 - 12
Learn About LeadershipUpcoming Grant Deadlines
$10,001 - $50,000
January 1 - December 31
$1,001 - $10,000
January 1 - December 31
Itasca Area Donations ($100 - $1,000)
January 1 - December 31
Learn About Grants