Welcome!
— Celebrating 2025 —
A Year of Investment in Small Communities
Focus on Local
Build Resilience
Spark Placemaking
Focus on Local Grantmaking
The Foundation awarded grants to over 40 Itasca-area organizations, Native communities and townships seeking to build pride in community, strengthen social connections, and help keep financial and other resources close to home.
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Celebrating Kandace
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Small Communities Build Resilience
Reaching small, often overlooked places, and providing funding for the resources and skills they need to solve community issues.
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Small Communities Ignite Placemaking
A comprehensive approach to community development where residents are encouraged to connect and contribute toward a shared vision for their community, and work toward achieving that vision.
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Our National Voice is Growing
The Daily Yonder talks about the charms of living in rural Minnesota, some of the unique challenges and opportunities of small-town philanthropy, and a big picture view on how we might reach a more prosperous future for rural people and places.
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Strengthening the Foundation’s Core
Blandin Foundation is a steward of the proceeds from the C.K. Blandin Residuary Trust and distributes those proceeds across rural Minnesota.
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Deeper Connections with Our Building & Grounds
Discovering the ways our building intentionally honors the people and places we serve.
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Deeper Connections to Our History
Understanding and collecting the story of our founder Mr. Charles K. Blandin.
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Scholarships
Blandin Foundation scholarships support Itasca area students in their plans for school after high school.
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