Opus Foundation® Awards Nearly $900k in Grants

Committed to building community for a better tomorrow, in December 2021 the Opus Foundation awarded nearly $900,000 to 17 impactful nonprofit organizations, supporting community revitalization, early childhood education, youth development and workforce development.

Over the coming weeks, we'll profile two of the impactful organizations who received grants in this round, including:

• Hope Ministries
• Mile High Youth Corps

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

• Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City
• Building Futures (Saint Louis)
• Christopher House (Chicago)
• Dress for Success Twin Cities
• Great River Greening (Minneapolis)
• Hope Ministries (Des Moines)
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation (St. Louis)
• Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis
• MicroGrants (Minneapolis)
• Mile High Youth Corps (Denver)
• New Pathways for Youth, Inc. (Phoenix)
• Operation Breakthrough (Kansas City)
• Project for Pride in Living, Inc. (Minneapolis)
• Society of St. Vincent de Paul (Phoenix)
• St. Mary's Early Childhood Center (Indianapolis)
• Urban Boatbuilders (Minneapolis)
• YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago

From July to December, the Foundation awarded $192,500 with 42 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.