Guiding Statement

The McNeely Foundation makes grants in the areas of education, human services, the environment, the arts and community betterment, and has a special interest in funding projects that benefit the Saint Paul community, especially East Side neighborhoods.

In doing its work, the McNeely Foundation prefers to act as a catalyst for creative approaches to individual and community issues, to leverage other resources through partnerships and the sharing of resources, and to evaluate the results of its grantmaking.

2009 Proposal Deadlines (Postmark)

 

• March 2 for the 2nd Quarter Board Meeting of 2009

Program Area Focus

 Environmental education, conservation, preservation

 

Goal Statement

To increase public access to parks and open space on the

greater East Side of St. Paul

 

Objectives

Provide stronger connections between East Side neighborhoods

and existing parks and open spaces, and

Provide programming to increase park access, usage a

and stewardship on the East Side.

 

• June 1 for the 3rd Quarter Board Meeting of 2009
 
Program Area Focus
 Neighborhood Development
 
• September 1 for the 4th Quarter Board Meeting of 2009
 
Program Area Focuses
Arts education and outreach
Individual and family support and sustainability programs
 
• December 1 for the 1st Quarter Board Meeting of 2010
 
Program Area Focus 
Education programs for middle-school students
in East Side Saint Paul schools: after-school, youth enrichment
and summer programs
 
Goal Statement
 To increase the academic achievement of the middle-grade students
identified as middle performers as they move through the pipeline grades 5-9 with priority to the East Side of St. Paul.

 Objectives

Increase academic support in the classroom with

embedded programming

Expand middle school-age access to community-based programming

outside the regular school hours