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Blandin Foundation is all about Minnesotans imagining, leading, and growing healthy, inclusive – vibrant – communities.
Living Vibrant
Where do you image 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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Commentary: The Need for Courageous Action Today
August 29, 2017
"Every day, every person has opportunities to take fearless action. To lead, to take a stand, to listen. To seek relationships that open up possibilities, not those that feed prejudice." -- Kathy Annette, Blandin Foundation CEO in her statement on the importance of inclusion in building healthy community. Read her full statement. Read More
Current and Upcoming Leadership Training
LEDC - Long Prairie
LEDC September 26 - November 14 Thunder Lodge
Lake City Area
BCLP October 9 - 13
LPEP - Luverne
LPEP October 26 - May 10 Grand Prairie Events
BRCLP - Mille Lacs, Lower Sioux, Upper Sioux, Prairie Island, Shakopee
BRCLP October 30 - November 3
Benson KMS Area
BCLP January 29 - February 2
East Range Area
BCLP February 12 - 16
Chisago Lakes Area
BCLP February 26 - March 2
Winona Area
BCLP March 12 - 16
Learn About LeadershipUpcoming Grant Deadlines
$10,001 - $50,000
January 1 - December 31
$1,001 - $10,000
January 1 - December 31
Blandin Leadership Program Grants
January 1 - December 31
Itasca Area Donations ($100 - $1,000)
January 1 - December 31
Learn About Grants