Boys/Girls Club (now My Place), $345,750   Mankato Area Foundation receives accreditation with the nation’s highest standard for philanthropic excellence. National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations® establish legal, ethical, effective practices for community foundations everywhere.   Navigating Philanthropy Pilot Program

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Boys/Girls Club (now My Place), $128,250   Celebrate Me Camp, $59,125   Mankato Area Foundation helps conduct the Greater Mankato Inclusivity Study.   In 2022, Hockey Day Minnesota (HDM) happens for the first time in Southern Minnesota at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The Grow the Game Fund is established through

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Boys/Girls Club (now My Place), $107,647   Celebrate Me Camp, $37,800   Marian Anderson Sculpture, $27,000

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Boys/Girls Club (now My Place), $72,750   Celebrate Me Camp, $103,750   COVID-19 Community Response Fund Established   Consultant in Residency Program for Nonprofits Begins

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Celebrate Me Camp, $2,000   Mankato Area Foundation launches the Women’s Giving Circle. As a fund of the Mankato Area Foundation, the Women’s Giving Circle amplifies the power of collective giving by bringing together women through a local network in a purposeful way because when women and children thrive, our

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Boys/Girls Club (now My Place), $65,000   Celebrate Me Camp, $10,000   Fallenstein Playground, $66,000   Shared Spaces, $300,000   Mankato Area Foundation partners with Olseth Family Foundation and Minnesota State University, Mankato to start Recharge Mankato. Recharge works to establish Greater Mankato as a leader in efforts aimed at

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Boys/Girls Club (now My Place), $65,000*   Sibley Park Giving Barn, $42,261   The Jonathan Zierdt Cancer Fund, a designed fund of the Mankato Area Foundation, was established by Jonathan and Ginger Zierdt and a guiding coalition of engaged community leaders to build community cancer awareness and support.The JZ Fund helps cancer

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Sibley Park Giving Barn, $42,261   The Mni Mural (floodwall mural), $6,000

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Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota (Dotson Family Fund), $500,000   BackPack Food Program, $5,000

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Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans (Cheryl and Yanni Lee Fund), $2,000

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