Websites + Social Media

Academy for Community Engagement (ACE)

AAC is designed to provide additional tools that come from reflecting on your experiences and assumptions as a community leader, learning from the experience of other participants, and applying the learning directly to a real life situation you are currently facing.

Blandin Community Leadership Program (BCLP)

BCLP is designed to develop and sustain healthy community by building on community strengths. Healthy community is a place to live where all people can meet their economic, social, physical, cultural and spiritual needs, work together for the common good, and participate in creating their future.

Blandin Reservation Community Leadership Program (BRCLP)

BRCLP is a culturally specific program designed to create healthy community by building on community assets. Healthy community is a place to live where all people can meet their economic, social, physical, cultural and spiritual needs, work together for the common good, and participate in creating their future.

Grants

Grantmaking is a key Blandin Foundation activity, both in its home community of the Itasca County area, and throughout rural Minnesota. Eligibility and application information for new grantees is posted here, as are monitoring reports for current grantees.

Itasca

Blandin Foundation has a special relationship with the communities of the Itasca County area. This region is home to the Foundation, and is at the heart of its mission – to strengthen rural Minnesota communities, especially the Grand Rapids (Itasca County) area. Grant, scholarship and information on other opportunities to partner with Blandin Foundation available here.

Leaders Partnering to End Poverty (LPEP)

LPEP is designed to build leadership capacity in the community to increase opportunities to move people out of poverty.

Leadership in Ethnically Diverse Communities (LEDC)

LEDC is designed to develop the leadership capacity in ethnically diverse communities for the purpose of building intentional inclusiveness.

Outposts – The Blandin Foundation Blog

Our Outposts blog covers the experiences, issues and perspectives of community leaders as they bolster economies, foster leadership and strengthen the areas they call home.

Rural Pulse

Minnesota communities are not unlike the ecosystem of the state itself - a network of mutual  interdependence in which even the smallest towns play their own vital role. In Rural Pulse 2010, a statewide survey conducted periodically by Blandin Foundation, the voices of rural Minnesota offer a glimpse of its future. View in-depth analysis of survey results and share your perspectives on priority topics on the Rural Pulse blog.