• The Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota research project has been successfully launched in partnership with the University of Minnesota’s Hubert Humphrey Institute. Research in report form and in a regularly updated web-based tool will be used by academicians, policy makers, non-profit leaders, and philanthropists to influence policies related to gender equity. • Grantmaking was strengthened and increased in the girlsBEST Fund. Last year we provided planning grants, one-year implementation grants and challenge grants. Total girls served last year was 2000. 100% high school graduation, 97% post-secondary enrollment, 3 per 1000 pregnancy rate. • Grantmaking in the Social Change Fund was significantly focused on our Economic Justice focus area. Our goal over the next few years is to measure deeper and broader impact in the area of builsind women’s economic security. Total women served last year was almost 13,000. • Grantmaking for MN Girls Are Not For Sale supported organizations to end the sex trafficking of girls in Minnesota. Total women impacted was almost 12,000.

The Foundation has four strategic goals for our current fiscal year. These goals and select strategies are listed below: GOAL ONE: Galvanize resources to end the prostitution of girls in Minnesota. • Convene broad stakeholder groups to sustain a shared plan and vision to end the prostitution of MN girls. • Conduct a public education campaign to educate and mobilize support. • Leverage our position as a philanthropy to advocate for policies and laws. • Conduct research to determine scope of trafficking of girls in MN. GOAL TWO: Leverage the Foundation's expertise and assets to broaden support for women and girls equality. • Participate in local/state/national/international strategic partnerships to increase support on issues impacting women and girls. • Use research and evaluation results with key funders to promote investments in women and girls. GOAL THREE: Ensure Foundation's sustainability to advance its mission. • Successfully meet or exceed annual development goals by increasing and diversifying revenue stream and donors. • Increase funds and visibility in the corporate sector. • Enlarge and increase DAF grantmaking to WFM grantees. GOAL FOUR: Strengthen and link grantmaking, research and programs to shift communities, institutions, and policies. • Continue partnership with the U of MN's Center on Women & Public Policy to disseminate research. • Build girlsBEST IV grantee leadership and organizational capacity. • Measure impact of grantmaking.

Women and girls

Minnesota (statewide)