Giving

Grants at St. Catherine

We can help identify potential funders, gain the appropriate internal approvals, develop a proposal narrative, and submit grants on your behalf. If your grant is awarded, we will partner with you through the entire process, right up until the final report. We work collaboratively with many departments on campus, including the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. Click here to learn more about grant seeking at St. Kate’s.

Examples of recent grants include:

Graduate STEM Certificate
Funded by The Medtronic Foundation
This three-year grant supports the development and implementation of the Graduate STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) Certificate program. Using a summer institute model, the program provides in-service K-8 Montessori teachers with one week of hands-on teacher training followed by an academic year of mentoring and support. Teachers receive content knowledge instruction coupled with curricular design and modeling in areas including earth science, chemistry, life science and engineering. This program is both timely and necessary, as standardized testing in science has recently begun in Minnesota. Faculty involved with this project include Michael Dorer, Associate Professor of Montessori; Katie Ibes, Assistant Professor of Montessori; and Tony Murphy, Associate Dean of Education.

Somali Mental Health Project
Funded by the Medica Foundation
This project, led by Assistant Professor of Nursing Joan Brandt, seeks to fill a gap for the Somali immigrant community between the need for and accessibility to mental health services. Using a community-based participatory research model, the project’s goals include identifying and developing a shared language of mental health issues for the Somali community and healthcare providers, and providing a cultural context of the Somali experience of mental health. Partners include the Women of Africa Resource and Development Association, Wellness Connection of Minnesota, The Somali Health Project and Midwest Home Healthcare, Inc. “The Somali Mental Health Project clearly demonstrated a need and approach for identifying ways to overcome the cultural and linguistic challenges the Somali population faces when seeking care for mental health issues,” says Rob Longendyke, Medica Foundation executive director.

Augsburg Advantage at St. Kate's
Funded by the Hardenbergh Foundation
This grant provides need-based scholarships to students enrolled in the Augsburg Advantage at St. Kate's program, in addition to supporting development of a peer mentoring program for these students. Now in its third year, the Augsburg Advantage at St. Kate’s (AASK) program was developed as a unique partnership between the College of St. Catherine and Augsburg College to ready academically underprepared Augsburg applicants for that college’s four-year degree program. This program is designed to provide a viable alternative for academically underprepared students. Staff and faculty from St. Kate's Minneapolis campus provide an intensive college-level educational program focused on “critical competencies” — reading, writing, comprehension, critical thinking skills, etc. Most AASK students are academically eligible to transfer after one year of AASK, though some remain with the program for two years, earning their associate degree before continuing on in a four-year program elsewhere. Deb Churchill, Associate of Arts Program Director at St. Kate's, coordinates the work of this grant.

Click here to see examples of other externally funded projects at St. Kate’s.

Please don’t hesitate to contact our team with any questions, or just to let us know what you are up to!