Past Grant Recipients
WINGS has granted $1,645,087 through 2025 to Northfield-area nonprofits to support projects and programs that benefit local women and youth.
2024 Grant Recipients ($100,500 given)
- Dakota Prairie Basic Ed. – Adult Basic Ed. – Classroom Cupboard
- Three Rivers Community Action –Family Childcare Model
- Ruth’s House – Dedicated Case Manager
- Northfield Public Schools Area Learning Center –Backpack Food Program
- Healthy Community Initiative – TORCH College Visits
- Sharing Our Roots – Food Security & Economic Stability
- Northfield Union of Youth – Mental Health Outreach
- Healthy Community Initiative – YouthBank
- Northfield Public Schools – Community Schools Fellow
- NCCC/HCI – Higher Education in Recovery
- Community Action Center – Housing Stability
- Community Action Center – Diaper and Hygiene Bank
- HOPE Center – Kitchen Essentials
- HealthFinders – Healthy Minds Collective
- Healthy Community Initiative – Navigating Early Childhood
- Community Action Center – Youth Sports Scholarships
2022 Grant Recipients ( $100,000 given)
- Northfield Union of Youth: Connected Community
- Healthy Community Initiative: Reading Corps Internal Coach for Pre-K
- Ruth’s House of Hope: Emergency and Transitional Shelter Program
- Growing up Healthy/HCI: Mobile Home Rehabilitation Initiative
- Healthy Community Initiative: Northfield YouthBank
- HCI: Northfield Community College Collaborative Childcare Program
- Northfield Public Schools: Youth-Designed TORCH Space
- Community Action Center: Diaper and Hygiene Bank
- Community Action Center: Farm to Food Shelf
- Community Action Center: Housing Stability
- Community Action Center: Operation Joy
- Northfield Youth Sports Collaborative: Emerging from the Storm
- SE MN Private Industry Council: Northfield Youthbuild
- Northfield Public Schools: Minnesota Children’s Museum 2022
- HealthFinders Collaborative: Healthy Minds Collective – HFC Youth and Family Mental Health and Substance Use Programs
- Sharing Our Roots: Building an Efficient Irrigation System in the Greenvale Community Garden
2023 Grant Recipients ($100,000 given)
- Youthbuild
- Project Friendship
- Promise Fellows for Student Support (TORCH)
- Summer Adventures (TORCH)
- Give a Book, Ensure a Future
- Summer Strings: Cannon Valley Youth Orchestra
- Youthbank — HCI
- Northfield Youth Choir Concert Chicago Tour
- Reading Corps Internal Coach for PreK — HCI
- LETRS Training for K to 3 Teachers — HCI
- Housing Stability — CAC
- Diaper and Hygiene Bank — CAC
- Back on Your Feet Fund — CAC
- NCCC Increased Student Support — HCI
- Positive Behavioral Interventions & Support —Northfield
- Public Schools
- Youth & Family Mental Health & Substance
- Use —Health Finders
- Northfield Arts Guild Youth Council —
- Northfield Arts Guild
- Youth Sports Scholarships — CAC
- Navigating Early Childhood — HCI
2021 Grant Recipients ($90,000 given)
- Healthy Community Initiative: Northfield YouthBank
- Northfield Middle School TORCH: Out-of-School-Time Connections
- Ruth’s House of Hope: Emergency and Transitional Shelter Program
- TORCH: Somali Student Support
- Greenvale Park Community School: Middle School Initiative
- Sharing Our Roots: Mobile Coop Project
- Community Action Center: Housing Stability
- Health Finders Collaborative: School-Based Mental Health
- Infants Remembered in Silence: IRIS Bereavement Support Packets
- Northfield Union of Youth:
- The Wallflower Project, a host home program
- Northfield Community College Collaborative:
- Law Enforcement Pathway
- Project Friendship: Something to Celebrate
- Community Action Center: Operation Joy for Teens
- HOPE Center: Zoom Into the Future
- Community Action Center: Diaper Bank
- Community Action Center: Farm to Family Market
- Healthy Community Initiative: Reading Corps Pre-K Internal Coach
- Northfield Arts Guild: Bilingual Art Packs
2020 Grant Recipients ($82,925 given)
WINGS 20th Anniversary Dare to Dream Grant
Northfield Healthy Community Initiative: Northfield Community College Collaborative Expansion- A Place Where Dreams gain WINGS
Annual Grants
- Hope Center: Riding with HOPE
- Infants Remembered in Silence: IRIS Bereavement Support Packets
- Northfield Union of Youth: Motivated Leadership
- Project Friendship: Every Kid Deserves a Mentor
- Three Rivers Community Action: Northfield Infant and Toddler Child Care Center
- Rice County Habitat for Humanity: Aging in Place
- Northfield Healthy Community Initiative: Northfield YouthBank
- Northfield Healthy Community Initiative: Northfield Youth Sports Collaborative- Launching from Sports to Beyond
- Greenvale Park Community School: Greenvale Park Community School Promise Fellow
- Tackling Obstacles, Raising College Hopes: TORCH Summer Enrichment Opportunities
- Northfield Public Schools: The Power of Play
- Northfield Community Action Center: Housing Stability
- Northfield Community Action Center: Empowering Families through Diaper Support
- Tackling Obstacles, Raising College Hopes: NMS TORCH Attendance Interventions
- Ruth’s House: Emergency and Transitional Shelter Program
- Health Finders: School Based Mental Health Services
- Northfield Community Action Center: Supporting Women Through Education and Job Training