Academy for Advancing Community (AAC)
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.
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.
Blandin Foundation scholarships programs further the education and work skills of local residents that demonstrate financial need.
The Itasca County area is home to Blandin Foundation, and is at the heart of its mission. A new website has information just for grantees and others in our local communities.