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Support during a challenging year
2020 presented urgent community needs due to COVID-19, social injustice and natural disasters, and we responded with rapid donations and other support for relief.
COVID-19 response
$3.65 million
• Financial relief for food, emergency and arts organizations • Rent abatement for our building tenants
• Free meals and parking for onsite essential employees
• Facilities health and safety improvements
• Donation of 30,000 masks to health care organizations
Social justice funding
$821,000
• Financial relief for small businesses owned by Black, Indigenous and people of color that were damaged during civil unrest after George Floyd’s death
• Built on existing investments that provide computers and internet access to students most in need
• Major financial contribution to fund learning pods in underrepresented Twin Cities neighborhoods
• Signed on to the Minnesota Business Coalition for Racial Equity to address systemic racism collaboratively through policy transformation, philanthropic shifts and corporate diversity, equity and inclusion efforts
Community partnerships
are critical to our success. Working with organizations like Securian Financial and their employees helps us deliver better outcomes for our Ujamaa men and their families. Together,
we’re stronger.”
Otis Zanders,
President and CEO, Ujamaa Place
Looking ahead
We’ll focus on new grant-making parameters in 2021 to ensure our community organizations share our commitments to equity, inclusion and social justice.
The testimonial provided by Otis Zanders was given freely.
Donation of 30,000 masks to health care organizations
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