Funders & Partners
As a non-profit organization, Search Institute has long relied on funders and partners to make our work possible. These organizations have recognized that changing the trajectory of the lives of youth takes a collective effort. For those who have walked along side us for the past 60 years, we are truly grateful.
In addition, we rely on philanthropic support to create a world where all kids thrive. For those who can partner with us in this way, we welcome your generosity.
Funders and Partners:
- Altria Group, to support ParentFurther, a Search Institute resource for families.
- F. R. Bigelow Foundation
- Blandin Foundation, to support Search Institute’s partnership with the Itasca Area Initiative for Student Success.
- Capital One, to support Bank It, an online resource that integrates youth development and financial literacy to help teenagers and families talk about and manage their money.
- Cargill Foundation, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
- Communities in Schools, Inc
- Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
- Einhorn Family Charitable Trust to support our research on developmental relationships, Relationships for Outcomes Initiative.
- Esther Ting Foundation to learn more about the role of positive peer relationships and document their impact.
- Ford Family Foundation
- John Templeton Foundation, to support the Roots of Engaged Citizenship project (in collaboration with Claremont Graduate University and West Virginia State University) and the 2012 Laws of Life Youth Summit.
- Jostens
- MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, Inc.
- Minneapolis Foundation, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
- National Science Foundation
- Otto Bremer Foundation, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
- RAND Corporation, to partner in the Getting to Outcomes with Developmental Assets in Maine, which was made possible with support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
- Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation
- Rural School and Community Trust, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
- Save the Children Canada, with support from the MasterCard Foundation, to partner in Youth in Action: Creating Pathways to Opportunity. This partnership uses the Developmental Assets Profile and other measures to examine how experiential and non-formal learning opportunities contribute to improving the socio-economic status of vulnerable, rural youth in five African countries: Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda.
- Shinnyo-en Foundation to conduct a study of youth experiences in Shinnyo-en temple and foundation activities. The study is designed to help strengthen leadership development opportunities for Shinnyo-en youth and junior youth.
- Spencer Foundation
- St. Paul Foundation
- Student Conservation Association, to build SCA’s system-wide capacity to intentionally and consistently produce and measure priority youth development outcomes.
- Target Corporation, to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
- University of Arizona
- University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, to co-convene a design lab with Twin Cities allies to explore community engagement in K-12 educational improvement and reform.
- U. S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation Fund (I3), to provide matching support to Search Institute’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks Innovation Project.
- U.S. Department of Education (Institute of Education Sciences) in partnership with Bloomington Minnesota Public Schools (BPS), Search Institute is engaging in research in a middle school and high school to explore teacher relational practices and their effect on student motivation and perseverance.
- World Vision International, to use Search Institute’s Developmental Assets Profile as a key measure of subjective child well-being around the world and to advance a positive approach the development with vulnerable children, youth, and families around the world.
- YMCA of Greater Twin Cities
- Youthprise