Twin Cities United Way Awards Final Round of Covid-19 Relief Funds
March 10, 2021
The Greater Twin Cities United Way on Tuesday announced that it has awarded its final round of Covid-19 relief grants, which were fueled by an influx of corporate donations and individual gifts.
The organization distributed $682,000 in grants to 51 small nonprofits in the Twin Cities metro. All the nonprofits in this wave of funding already receive regular annual funding from United Way, said John Wilgers, president and CEO of the group’s Twin Cities chapter. In the final round of funding, the organization targeted small nonprofits that had the “greatest capacity-building needs,” Wilgers said.
Some of the beneficiaries in the final round of funding include the St. Paul-based Center for Economic Inclusion, North Minneapolis development group Appetite for Change, and the Children’s Defense Fund Minnesota, among dozens of other small nonprofits.