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Tag: Safety and Security

Closing the crack through collaboration: Support Within Reach partners to strengthen approach to sexual violence support

By Blandin Foundation

During the next two minutes, one more person in the U.S. will have been sexually assaulted.  In northern Minnesota, sexual violence is as pervasive as it is nationwide. In Itasca County alone, Support Within Reach (SWR) – an organization that serves those impacted by sexual violence in Aitkin, Itasca and, most recently, Beltrami, Cass, Hubbard …

Grantee Spotlight: Indian Land Tenure Foundation

By Blandin Foundation

For more than a century, ownership of American Indian land in the United States has been sliced and slivered. The Dawes Act of 1887 divided Indian land among tribal members. Today, when a tribal land owner dies, the title is divided up amongst heirs, but the land itself is not physically divided. This practice has …