Opus Foundation® Awards $1.2 Million in Grants

Committed to building community for a better tomorrow, in December the Opus Foundation awarded nearly $1.2 million to 15 impactful nonprofit organizations, supporting community revitalization, early childhood education, Future Builders, pressing/emerging needs, workforce development and youth development.

We'll profile three of the impactful organizations who received grants in this round, including:

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities
• Society of St. Vincent de Paul (Phoenix)
• YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago

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

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities
• Building Futures (St. Louis)
• Christopher House (Chicago)
• Construction Careers Foundation (Minneapolis)
• Environmental Learning for Kids (Denver)
• Great River Greening (Minneapolis)
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation (St. Louis)
• Junior Achievement of Greater St. Louis
• Project for Pride in Living, Inc. (Minneapolis)
• Society of St. Vincent de Paul (Phoenix)
• St. Mary's Child Center (Indianapolis)
• Upper Room (Kansas City)
• Urban Boatbuilders, Inc. (Minneapolis)
• YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
• YouthLink (Minneapolis)

From July to December, the Foundation awarded $151,000 with 28 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^®^ is the corporate foundation for Opus, and is building community for a better tomorrow by supporting projects and programs that make our communities better places to live, work and raise families through grants to nonprofit organizations in the areas of early childhood education, youth development, workforce development, community revitalization and pressing/emerging needs. Read more about theFoundation's work. The Opus Foundation is a separate entity from The Opus Group and is led by its own Board of Directors.