Build Wealth MN’s primary mission is to “Strengthen Underserved Communities by Empowering Families to Build Sustainable Social and Economic Wealth.

In partnership with governments, foundations, and other social service providers, Build Wealth MN focuses on helping change the mindset of communities facing challenges caused by current economic conditions and other factors that fuel poverty in our neighborhoods.

CLCLT is the result of a collective, committed effort by Minneapolis residents and neighborhood associations to preserve affordable homeownership in their communities.

In late 2001, a collaboration of PRG, Inc., Seward Redesign, Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association, and the LNDC began educating themselves on best practices relating to creating and stabilizing affordability in their neighborhoods. Now, CLCLT is an independent 501(c)(3) focused on creating community ownership that preserves affordability and inclusivity.

CoNorth is a cooperative development nonprofit.

We specialize in the support of all housing cooperatives. Our current programs are focused on manufactured home communities. Our work creates and revitalizes neighborhoods, provides direct support to residents with low-incomes to take control of their futures, and promotes affordable, self-governing communities that last for generations.

DBNHS was established in 1980 as a partnership between residents, government, and financial institutions to improve the housing and quality of life for residents in our community. We are a nonprofit organization located on the East Side of Saint Paul, Minnesota, servicing the North East neighborhood and the communities of Dayton’s Bluff, and Payne/Phalen. Since its inception, DBNHS has been directly responsible for the rehabilitation, new construction and assisted purchase of 2,471 affordable housing units (ownership and rental), for a total cost of over $159,485,350.

Habitat MN is a statewide support organization for Minnesota affiliates of Habitat for Humanity International. We provide resources to the 25 Minnesota affiliates to advance their work to create and preserve affordable homeownership in partnership with working families.

Habitat Minnesota was created in 1997 initially as a financial intermediary, providing centralized distribution of capital to affiliates. Today, Habitat Minnesota offers a range of programs, including resource development, advocacy, training, and networking.

Housing in Action is committed to building a future where safe, stable, and dignified housing is a reality for everyone. By building affordable homeownership opportunities, providing dignified rentals as a foundation for growth, creating accessible pathways to homeownership, and connecting communities to their elected officials, HIA not only seeks to offer relief to neighbors within the current unjust housing system, but create change so our work is no longer needed.

The mission of Housing In Action is to lead the fight for housing justice so that all people have a safe, stable, and dignified place to live. 

Land Bank Twin Cities, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that operates as long-term civic infrastructure in the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan region. We work at the intersection of land, capital, and community to support equitable real estate and housing outcomes.

The mission of the Land Bank is to capture strategic real estate opportunities to benefit people with low to moderate incomes, prioritizing BIPOC+ and populations facing barriers. We partner with developers, local governments, community organizations, and capital providers to remove structural barriers that prevent projects from moving forward. Our role is not to replace existing systems, but to strengthen them where timing, risk, or rigidity create gaps that limit their ability to proceed.

At the core of our work is a simple approach: We Buy Time, We Land Bank, and We Build Solutions that allow communities and projects to succeed over the long term.

Model Cities’ roots date back to the 1960s era of community empowerment. It was created in 1967 to remedy health access issues among low income residents of St. Paul’s Summit-University community. In 1998, Model Cities established its community development corporation for the purpose of fully integrating human services with economic development.

Model Cities mission is to provide social and economic prosperity by providing access to opportunities that stabilize and develop families and communities.

In Minnesota, 24 Community Action Agencies and 11 Tribal Nations serve all 87 counties across the state, providing poverty solutions through various programs and services including: homeless prevention and housing assistance, utility bill assistance, healthcare enrollment, food and nutrition services, Head Start early childhood programming, financial asset building, regional transit, and more.

Community Action changes people's lives, embodies the spirit of hope, improves communities, and makes America a better place to live. We care about the entire community, and we are dedicated to helping people help themselves and each other.

Minnesota Community Land Trusts have a history of leveraging State investments with other private and public funding to create over 1,250 permanently affordable homes for working families. The following MN Housing Finance Agency funds have been invested in Community Land Trusts: Challenge Funds, Housing Infrastructure Bonds, MHFA Mortgages, and Capacity Funds.

Members of the Coalition continue to work with state and local government units as well as other lenders such as HOME, Community Development Block Grants, Hennepin County, Met Council, Greater Minnesota, local communities, and private funders.

The Minnesota Homeownership Center promotes and advances successful homeownership in Minnesota with an emphasis on serving those facing the greatest barriers to homeownership: lower income households and communities of color.

We link individuals, homeownership advisors and industry stakeholders. We support community-based organizations with the structure and funding to develop and deliver culturally-responsive homeownership education and advising. And we collaborate and lead the development of innovative homeownership programming. We believe equitable access to homeownership is essential to strong communities and creates opportunities for generations to come.

Neighborhood Development Alliance (NeDA) is a non-profit organization providing 1:1 counseling and workshops to help people make a financial plan to buy their first home. NeDA builds affordable housing and empowers communities to create sustainability through financial education and guidance. Our HUD-approved coaches walk alongside families to offer guidance to make their financial goals a reality.

The programs have helped thousands of people buy their first home, pay off debt and save for their futures.

Neighborhood Works is focused on empowering individuals and communities by helping people buy, fix and keep their homes.

Their services are dedicated to:

1) Eliminating the racial disparity in homeownership rates 2) Empowering customers with knowledge to buy, fix, and keep their homes. 3) Developing homes to enhance neighborhoods and better the lives of our homebuyers. 4) Improving homes with affordable lending products. 5) Creating access to homeownership with down payment assistance.

One Roof Community Housing is committed to providing housing services and building and sustaining affordable homes and healthy neighborhoods.

Their mission and programs serve to make home a better place. That’s why they make it as easy as possible for people in Duluth and the surrounding communities to purchase, renovate, maintain, and keep a home as long as they like.

They offer a range of services including affordable homeownership opportunities, homeownership counseling, home and rental rehab lending & down payment assistance, resources and support for positive tenant landlord relations, and a Tool Lending Library.

Project for Pride in Living builds bright futures through housing stability and career readiness.

PPL builds & manages safe, quality, affordable housing across the Twin Cities, with support services to create stability and pride. And their readiness programs provide participants with the skills necessary to get and keep a job with proven income growth and job placements.

PPL builds the hope, assets, and self-reliance of individuals and families who have lower incomes by providing transformative affordable housing and career readiness services.

PRG transforms homes, neighborhoods and lives. PRG works at the invitation of neighborhoods and cultural groups turning vacant homes and land into beautiful, affordable places to live.

Their experienced counselors sit down—for free—with people worried about making their mortgage payments to help avoid foreclosure. They teach prospective homebuyers (often the very first in their families to own homes) to make great decisions about whether, when, and how to buy a house. They’ve been a trusted nonprofit organization in Minneapolis since 1976. We serve the seven-county Twin Cities metro area.

Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity is committed to building the quality of life, health, and economic prosperity of the seven-county metro region by producing, preserving, and advocating for affordable homeownership – because homes and families are the foundation of successful communities.

They work to bring affordable housing to the Twin Cities area communities and the families that live in them. They build, repair, and sell homes to families with an affordable mortgage while connecting them to the community through our neighborhood revitalization projects.