Opus Foundation Approves Nearly $2.7 Million in Grants

Committed to building community for a better tomorrow, in December 2023 the Opus Foundation approved nearly $2.7 million in single and multi-year grants to 16 impactful nonprofit organizations, supporting community revitalization, early childhood education, youth development and workforce development.

The Foundation is proud to support the following organizations that received Impact Fund and multi-year grants in December:

• Aeon (Minneapolis) for a community revitalization project
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities (Minneapolis) to improve and redesign its participant's experience
• Black Men Teach (Minneapolis) for an internship program to accelerate the pipeline for Black male educators
• Christopher House (Chicago) for their effort to recruit and retain early childhood education teachers
• Construction Education Foundation (Denver) to expand the Careers in Construction pre-apprenticeship program to four new high schools
• Dougherty Family College (Minneapolis) for their Professional Career Pathway program
• Freedom for Youth Ministries (Des Moines) to support young adults in its pre-apprenticeship program at Freedom Construction Services
• Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys (Minneapolis) for leadership experience expansion and access
• Heart Ministry Center (Omaha) to pilot a digital literacy certificate program in its Fresh Start job training and placement program
• MIGIZI (Minneapolis) for their Indigenous Pathways career training program in two fields: green tech and media
• Mile High Youth Corps (Denver) for their YouthBuild Program
• Operation Breakthrough (Kansas City) to expand entrepreneurship opportunities offered in the Ignition Lab
• Project for Pride in Living, Inc. (Minneapolis) to advance racial equity in all areas of programming and services
• Summit Academy OIC (Minneapolis) to expand the talent pipeline in the electrician and carpentry programs
• Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity (Minneapolis) to advance their racial equity efforts to close the racial homeownership gap, build a constellation of equity partners and operationalize a values-based equity framework
• YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago for their Mental Health Support for Early Education & Care program

Over the coming weeks, we'll profile the following impactful investment and grant recipients:

• AltCap (Kansas City)
• Christopher House (Chicago)
• Construction Education Foundation (Denver)

Additionally, from July to December, the Foundation awarded $263,000 with 46 opportunity fund grants. Opportunity fund grants are awarded monthly and are designed to provide a quick response to needs and opportunities in our communities.

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The Opus Foundation, the corporate foundation for Opus, is building community for a better tomorrow by supporting projects and programs that make our communities better places to live, work and raise families. The Foundation is committed to improving conditions that disproportionately affect historically underinvested individuals and communities by focusing on early childhood education, youth development, workforce development and community revitalization. Read more about the Foundation's work. The Opus Foundation is a separate entity from The Opus Group and is led by its own Board of Directors.