Minnesota Comeback – a movement of schools, education organizations, and funders – is developing a plan for strategically funding initiatives that improve K-12 education. Initially focused on Minneapolis, the organization works to turn 30,000 underperforming seats into rigorous, relevant ones by 2025.
Minnesota Comeback has two vehicles for resourcing systems-change work:
- The Great MN Schools fund is accelerating the creation of 30,000 new rigorous and relevant seats – particularly for students of color and low-income students. The fund provides financial investments and technical assistance to support schools across all sectors and across the growth stages of a school: new, building capacity, and proven success. This unique model for growing high-performing seats can drive systemic change by proactively coordinating resources in an aligned effort against a citywide plan.
- The Strategic Fund is designed to ensure that the local philanthropic community is poised to respond strategically and with agility to ecosystem needs. As a pooled funding structure, it allows funders to resource time-sensitive opportunities. Further, it addresses the need for coordinated efforts to drive outcomes: greater investment effectiveness, leverage of additional local and national resources, and frequent assessment and recalibration of our work.
SUPPORTED ORGANIZATIONS
funding partners
- Albright Family Foundation
- Bush Foundation
- Cargill Foundation
- Carlson Family Foundation
- The Carolyn Foundation
- David Winton Bell Foundation
- The Frey Foundation of Minnesota
- GHR Foundation
- General Mills Foundation
- I. A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation
- The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota
- John & Denise Graves Foundation
- The Joyce Foundation
- Longview Foundation
- The McKnight Foundation
- The Minneapolis Foundation
- Persephone Foundation
- Piper Family Fund
- RKMC Foundation for Children
- Robbie Soskin
- Sauer Children’s Renew Foundation
- Smikis Foundation
- Soran Family Foundation
- Social Venture Partners
- WEM Foundation
- The Walton Family Foundation