GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Blandin Foundation announced today that it has awarded four grants totaling $66,250 that assist rural Minnesota communities in advancing high-speed Internet access and use in their communities. The City of Watertown will benefit from a $10,000 matching grant to create a WiFi hotspot in their Central Business District. This project will …
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Blandin Foundation announced today that it has awarded four grants totaling $66,250 that assist rural Minnesota communities in advancing high-speed Internet access and use in their communities. The Austin Community Charitable Fund will benefit from a grant up to $25,000 to study the feasibility of creating a broadband network in Austin. …
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Blandin Foundation announced today that it has awarded four grants totaling $66,250 that assist rural Minnesota communities in advancing high-speed Internet access and use in their communities. The City of Annandale will benefit from a $21,250 grant to conduct a feasibility study that will inform the community’s City Council as they …
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. (October 30, 2013) – Thief River Falls, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Itasca County and many other rural Minnesota communities were featured Oct. 29 in testimony delivered by Blandin Foundation in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. Entitled “Broadband Adoption: …
Grand Rapids, Minn. — Five leaders in Minnesota’s technology sector have accepted invitations to the Blandin Foundation Broadband Initiative Strategy Board. An experienced technology leader, Carolyn Parnell has been appointed by Governor Dayton to serve as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Minnesota. Among her leadership roles as State CIO, she is the …
Grand Rapids, Minn. — Twenty-three residents of the Albert Lea area returned September 27 from a five-day leadership retreat, the first segment of an intense eight-day training provided by the Blandin Community Leadership Program (BCLP). The team also will participate in follow-up workshops in December and February 2014. A program of the Grand Rapids-based Blandin …
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. (August 8, 2013) – Post-secondary students from throughout the Itasca County area will go back to school this fall with support from Blandin Foundation. At their recent meeting, Blandin Foundation’s scholarship review committee (a panel of community members) recommended $953,700 in Education Awards to 334 local students for the 2013-14 school year. …
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Among the $4.2 million in grants awarded by Blandin Foundation in June, many are focused on strengthening our rural economy by building high-quality, living-wage jobs and developing skills of rural Minnesota’s workforce. At their quarterly meeting in Grand Rapids, Foundation trustees approved a total of 124 grants. The Grand Rapids Area …
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – At their June 13 meeting, Blandin Foundation trustees selected three distinguished Minnesota community leaders to join the Foundation’s board of trustees, effective January 2014. Dr. Mike Johnson, chairman of the Foundation’s board, announced that three Minnesotans emerged from a statewide search: Kandace Creel Falcón, Ph.D. (Moorhead), William D. Maki (Bemidji), and …
$6.6 million project shows resources, local focus boost local use GRAND RAPIDS, Minn. – Through the work of local leaders in dozens of rural Minnesota communities, more than 250,000 rural Minnesotans have been introduced to online resources to find jobs, continue their education and strengthen their businesses. Connecting rural Minnesotans with tools they can …