Lloyd K. Johnson Foundation
2010 Annual Report

Grants Awarded 2010

COOK COUNTY

Arts & Culture

North House Folk School
"Capacity Building" $25,000

North Shore Music Association
"General Operating Support" $3,500

WTIP North Shore Community Radio
"Capacity Building" $25,000

Social Welfare

North Shore Visitation Center
"General Operating Support" $10,000

LAKE COUNTY

Education

Lake Superior School District #381
"Fabulous Fridays (K-12)" $10,000

Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center
"Environmental Science Immersion Program" $20,000

Social Welfare

Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency, Inc.
"Lake County Community Connect Event" $1,000

NORTH SHORE

Community/Economic Development

Northeast Entrepreneur Fund, Inc.
"Entrepreneurial Coaching in Cook & Lake Counties" $15,000

Education

North Shore Collaborative
"LOTS Literacy Project" $13,000

Environment

Conservation Corps Minnesota
"Summer Youth Program" $10,000

Minnesota Land Trust
"North Shore Protection Initiative" $15,000

The Nature Conservancy
"Forest Restoration Project" $12,500

ST. LOUIS COUNTY

Arts & Culture

Arrowhead Chorale
"20th Anniversary Program" $1,000

Arrowhead Chorale
"Marketing Support" $3,500

CHOICE, unlimited
"Performance of James and the Giant Peach” $1,999

Duluth Children's Museum
"Museum on the Move-Early Explorations" $20,000

Duluth Festival Opera
"Performance of Acis and Galatea" $6,000

The Duluth Playhouse
"Outreach Initiative" $8,000

Community/Economic Development

Community Action Duluth
“Circles of Support Program" $15,000

Local Initiatives Support Corporation-Duluth (LISC)
"AmeriCorps Program" $15,000

SOAR Career Solutions
"Job Skills Training" $20,000

Education

Duluth Aviation Institute
"Path to Aviation Gilruth Continuum" $10,000

East Hillside Patch
"Capacity Building-Youth Program Expansion" $15,000

Girl Scouts of MN and WI Lakes and Pines
"General Operating Support" $20,000

Grant Community School Collaborative
"PACE-Programs for Academic and Cultural Enrichment" $20,000

Hartley Nature Center
"Environmental Education Program" $11,100

Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory
"Discovering Birds Program" $10,000

Junior Achievement of the Upper Midwest
"Educational Curriculum Support" $10,000

Lakewood School Foundation
"New Preschool Support" $10,000

Program of Promise
"Advertisement Campaign" $1,890

Renegade Theatre Company
"Shakespeare in the Schools-The Taming of the Shrew" $1,900

Scottish Rite Foundation of Duluth
"Autism Outreach Program" $26,500

United Way of Greater Duluth
"Early Childhood Initiative" $20,000

Voyageurs Area Council, Boy Scouts of America
"At-Risk Youth Program Support" $8,000

Environment

St. Louis River Citizens Action Committee
“Special Project-Newsletter” $1,950

Sustainable Agriculture Project (SAP)
"Social Enterprise Garden" $10,000

Social Welfare

Animal Allies Humane Society
"Project Support" $10,000

The Boy's & Girl's Club of the Northland
"General Operating Support" $20,000

Damiano Center
"Capital Project" $30,000

Domestic Abuse Intervention Programs
"Curriculum for Men Who Batter" $25,000

Ecumen (dba Lakeshore)
"Little Treasures Capital Project" $30,000

First Witness Child Abuse Resource Center
"General Operating Support" $10,000

Kids Closet of Duluth
"Program Support" $1,950

Life House, Inc.
"Capacity Building for Drop In Center" $20,000

Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota
"Street Outreach Program" $15,000

Minnesota AIDS Project
"Advertisement Campaign" $3,000

Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans (MACV)
"Duluth Veterans' Place Support" $10,000

MN Teen Challenge, Northland Campus
"Aftercare Jobs Project" $5,000

Northland American Red Cross
"Disaster Relief Emergency Services Support" $5,000

Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault (PAVSA)
"Capacity Building" $22,000

Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women
"Pathways Program" $10,000

The Salvation Army
"Emergency Food Program" $15,000

Union Gospel Mission
"Purchase Food 2010 Project" $5,000

YWCA of Duluth
"Emergency Repair" $1,500

YWCA of Duluth
"Program Expansion" $15,000


2010 Annual Report
The mission of the Lloyd K. Johnson Foundation is to enhance educational opportunities in Cook County and to significantly improve the quality of life in the North Shore communities of Cook, Lake and southern St. Louis County through competitive grant making in the areas of Arts and Culture, Community and Economic Development, Education, Environment, and Social Welfare programs to qualified nonprofit organizations.