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Funding Partners

HECUA's funding partners believe that educating and acting for a more just and equitable world involves all of us. HECUA is grateful for their financial support.

Project grants from foundations and funding collaboratives make it possible for HECUA students to intern with community and nonprofit organizations and learn from individuals who are working for justice in their communities.
• The Otto Bremer Foundation funded the Partners Internship Program from 2000 to 2009; the Graduate Fellowship in Philanthropy and Human Rights from 2002 to 2008; and the planning of the Central Corridor Internship Program in 2009 and 2010.
The Saint Paul Foundation and F.R. Bigelow Foundation funded the Central Corridor Internship Program in 2010, 2011, and 2012.
Central Corridor Funders Collaborative/Catalyst Fund funded the Central Corridor Internship Program in 2011, 2012, and 2013.
• The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation funded the Central Corridor Internship Program in 2013.

Funding for professional development brings campus faculty and staff into local and global communities to better prepare students to understand and contribute to social justice and change. These institutions have contracted with HECUA to deliver professional development projects:
• University of St Thomas, 2007-2011, five faculty and staff development seminars
• Macalester College, 2005 and 2006, two Urban Faculty Seminars
• Viterbo University, 2008, a faculty development program in Ecuador
• Gustavus Adolphus College, 2002, a faculty seminar in Northern Ireland.
• McKnight Foundation, 2001-2002, faculty planning to develop an urban environmental program in the Twin Cities.

Individual donors support the HECUA scholarship fund, which is working to make social justice education within reach for all students with a passion for learning and action in the world.
Recent (2013 and 2014) donors to the scholarship fund include:

Claire Baglien

Eric Beaton

David Chioni Moore

Nadinne Cruz

Richard Deuser

Helene and Juan Figueroa

Sonya Guggemos

Lisa Heldke

Laurel Hirt

Patricia Hummel

Jenny and Dan Keyser

Tracy Lehnertz

Maggie Mountain

Amy Muse

Stacy Oftelie

Anthony Pfaff

Rebecca Rassier

Lyn Robertson

Eric Sannerud

Lindsay Schwab and Robert Zelada

Ilene Smit

Greg Stark

Mary Thorstad

Vicky VanderWoude

Erin Walsh

Erica Whisney

Ilana Zablow

MyLinda Barke

Colleen Bell

Jonna Cohen

Sue Cumbers

Elana Dix

Robert Gass

Lisa Harper Kennedy

Garry Hesser

David Hiebain

Don Irish

Maura Koehler-Hanlon

Nicole Lewis

Beth Moore

Julie Nelson

Carolyn O'Grady

Brenda Pommerenke

Kathi Rickert

David Rohde

Gerald Schlabach

Caitlin Schwartz

Steve Soderlind

Clay Steinman

Frances Torstenson

Cate Vermeland

Orval Westby

Liz Wilkinson

Inge Bash

Brook Blahnik

Rebecca Cramer

Stephanie DeFrance Schmidt

Michael Eaton

Christine Gordon

Tom Hayes

Jan Hill

Torild Homstad

Heather Kachel

Wilma Lanier

Ruth Mason

Pat Mulvihill

Reynold Nesiba

Paul Pribbenow

Sarah Pradt

Jane Rhodes

Phil Romine

David Schuettler

Judy Sharken Simon

Leah Spinosa de Vega

Amy Summer

Kirby Tyrrell

Mary Wagner and Bill Moore

Nicole Weisenburger

Leah Wing