Institutional Donors
The following institutional donors provide general operating support, project grants, and in-kind support for NCC programs:
| Anonymous Elmer L. and Eleanor J. Andersen Foundation BNSF Foundation Boss Foundation Harlan Boss Foundation for the Arts The Bush Foundation Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation Margaret A. Cargill Foundation Continental Clay Company Create Catering and Consulting General Mills Foundation Walter McCarthy and Clara Ueland through the Greystone Foundation Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc. IBM International Foundation Jerome Foundation |
R.C. Lilly Foundation The McKnight Foundation Peregrine Capital Management Piper Jaffray Printing Enterprises, Inc. RBC Foundation USA Red Wing Collectors Society Foundation River Road Foundation Soup-It-Up for Kids, Inc. Target Foundation Travelers Arts & Diversity Employee Committee The United Arts Fund, a program of COMPAS US Bank Foundation The Wallace Foundation Windgate Charitable Foundation |
Northern Clay Center is a recipient of a Google Grant award.
The Google Grants program supports organizations sharing Google's philosophy of community service to help the world in areas such as science and technology, education, global public health, the environment, youth advocacy, and the arts.
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Northern Clay Center is a fiscal year 2011 recipient of an operating support grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is funded, in part, by the arts and cultural heritage fund as appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the Legacy Amendment vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.