The Sauer Family Foundation provides grants to support work in systems and agencies that keep children in safe, supported families, decrease toxic stress and move them to resiliency.
Donor Name: Sauer Family Foundation
State: Minnesota
County: Anoka County (MN), Carver County (MN), Dakota County (MN), Hennepin County (MN), Ramsey County (MN), Scott County (MN), Washington County (MN)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: (mm/dd/yyyy) 09/27/2024
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Sauer Family Foundation works in settings that serve children who are at-risk or experiencing abuse or neglect, exposed to toxic stress/trauma, or have challenges developing reading, writing and math skills. This includes schools and early childhood settings, non-profit and research organizations, government agencies, collaboratives, and networks.
Funding Priorities
They fund direct service, research, field building, and systems change efforts in the following areas:

Building Strong Family Relationships: Prevention and Intervention in Child Welfare

Supporting children and families with a whole family approach network of community-based initiatives towards preventing child abuse and neglect.
Keeping children safe at home through parent support and family treatment services. When this is not possible, building connections through family-finding and natural support towards achieving relational permanence.
Meeting the social emotional needs of foster children & youth and decreasing time to permanency, interrupting the exit to homeless youth services.
Increasing public awareness of the foster care experience through the elevation of experienced and informed foster youth voice.

Building Supportive Environments that Promote Emotional Safety for Children & Youth

Programs for preK-12 schools that promote the emotional safety of children and youth.
School-based small group interventions for children facing shared adverse experiences, e.g.; grief, separation from caregiver.
Programs that offer children and families tools to talk about emotional and mental health.
Professional development in trauma-responsive practices for professionals working with children; including resiliency to secondary trauma.

Building Educational Success for Children: Literacy Skills and Learning Disabilities in Reading, Writing and Math PreK – 8th Grade

Expansion of structured literacy and interventions based on the Science of Reading.
Adoption of assessments that are indicated for learning disability screening and identification.
Expansion of the accessibility and affordability of learning disability assessments and interventions.

Building a Workforce that Reflects the Diversity of Minnesota’s Children: Racially Equitable Career Pathways in the Funding Areas

Programs that remove barriers to licensure for Black, Indigenous and People of Color to enter careers in child welfare, children’s mental health or education.
Nontraditional pathways that lead to licensure and can move candidates from paraprofessional to professional positions in child welfare, children’s mental health, or education.
Programs that increase support and mentoring for professionals of color in child welfare, children’s mental health or education allowing them to thrive.

Geographic Areas
They fund in the state of Minnesota with priority given to the seven-county metro area.
For more information, visit Sauer Family Foundation.