ARROWHEAD REGION GIVE TO THE MAX DAY Arts supporter LIST
Arrowhead Region Give to the Max Day
It's giving season, and we're happy to share a list of local arts supporting organizations from the Arrowhead Region that you will consider supporting in their fundraising efforts! Not all of the organizations listed below are running Give to the Max Day campaigns this year, but we still wanted to share their donation pages in the spirit of the giving season!
We did our best to include as many organizations as possible, but we may have missed a few. Please email media@aracouncil.org if your organization is missing from our list, and we'll include it next year!
Trans Northland
Providing support, resources & connection to the transgender community.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Trans-Northland?utm_source=BenchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=Short_Nov&utm_medium=email
Northern Lakes Arts Association
For forty years, Northern Lakes Arts Association has kept the light alive in Ely.Neighbors have built sets in garages, sewn costumes at kitchen tables, and believed—deeply—that art belongs here. Because of that belief, we’ve grown from a handful of volunteers into a regional arts ecosystem reaching more than 21,000 people each year. Now it’s time to write the next act.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Northern-Lakes-Arts-Association
Spirit of the Lakes Community Arts
From personal rentals for bulk meal prep, canning, and party planning — to supporting beloved local events like May Faire Festival and Apple Cider Festival — our kitchen is at the heart of community connection. It also empowers small businesses by providing affordable, local access to a commercial kitchen space.
With your support, we can create a space that:
Hosts hands-on cooking and nutrition classes for individuals, families, and youth
Provides meal prep and food distribution for neighbors in need
Offers rental opportunities for events, catering, and pop-up food ventures, helping SOLCA remain financially sustainable
Northern Lights Music Festival
Help Keep Music Resonating Throughout Northeastern Minnesota
For more than 20 years, the Northern Lights Music Festival has brought world-class musicians, young aspiring artists, professional chamber music, orchestral concerts, and opera to the heart of Minnesota’s Iron Range.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Northern-Lights-Music-Festival
Tofte Lake Center
Make Residency & Retreat Possible for Artists!
At TLC we envision a world where all artists are recognized as the meaning-bearers of our culture and are equitably supported and sustained in their artistic voice and vision. Each year we move closer to the day when all individual residencies at TLC are fully funded. We know we can achieve this with your help!
Our Give to the Max goal of $6,600 supports one week-long residency at TLC for one cohort of artists. We have secured a generous matching gift for every dollar that you give up to $2,500 -- doubling your impact.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Tofte-Lake-Center
YWCA Duluth
In these days and times, we need your help like never before to continue the movement towards community, equity, and peace. Support us so we can continue to:
Partner with local organizations to sustain vital community resources
Listen to women and gender nonconforming voices speak about their barriers so we can make change
Educate nonprofit & community leaders on essential liberation tools that enhance their work
Convene powerful city-wide collaboratives to advocate for families' needs
Organize to protect our civil liberties
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Ywcaduluth
Ely Folk School
The Ely Folk School is a Place of Connection.
Join us in creating spaces where tradition meets innovation, and creativity thrives.
The Ely Folk School builds community by providing learning experiences that celebrate the wilderness, heritage, art, history, culture, and craft of the people of northern Minnesota. At our classes, events, and gatherings, people come together to share their stories and skills in a non-competitive, intergenerational environment. For ten years, the Ely Folk School has cultivated belonging in Ely amidst residents, seasonal residents, and tourists alike by creating intentional events where every person's experience has value and every person has an innate capacity for learning and growth.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Elyfolkschool
Mesabi Symphony Orchestra
Friends and supporters - For over 45 years, the Mesabi Symphony Orchestra has been bringing the brilliance of orchestral music to the Iron Range and beyond. It is an impressive feat - one only made possible by the generosity of music lovers like you! The MSO is unique in many ways, but what makes it special is the impact we have in such a big geographic area. MSO musicians come from Virginia, Eveleth, Ely, Hibbing, Grand Rapids, Duluth, and elsewhere. Our musicians are your neighbors, business owners, teachers, professionals, and students. What also differentiates the MSO from other orchestras is that we travel to you!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Mesabi-Community-Orchestra
Duluth Folk School
Crafting Community
Duluth Folk School’s mission is to build community through the joyful experiences of handcrafting, art, and gathering. We make space in Lincoln Park for Duluthians to craft lasting and meaningful relationships with one another and the world around them, whether that’s by forging new friendships or learning new skills. But like anything built to last, sustaining the network of connections that thrive under the Folk School’s roof requires proper care, planning, and upkeep!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Duluth-Folk-School
Lake Vermilion Cultural Center
PROVIDING A SPACE FOR ALL TO SHARE, LEARN, GATHER, AND ENGAGE.
For 125 years, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church has lent its charm and splendid stained glass windows to Tower, Minnesota. It was primarily a summer church but too lovely to let go to disrepair and a group of local citizens formed a non-profit organization called the Lake Vermilion Cultural Center to save the building and give the Lake Vermilion area a much needed center where many activities can take place. Gifted to the LVCC by the Episcopal Church in Minnesota, we finally moved this venerable building, now known as St. Mary’s Hall, to its new home near the historic center of Tower near the harbor. Now we must complete the building project with several additions. Please help make this dream come true.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Lake-Vermilion-Cultural-Center
Duluth Chamber Music Festival
The Duluth Chamber Music Festival connects a small ensemble of outstanding classical musicians with communities in Duluth, Minnesota, during a week of programming each summer. We offer Duluthians meaningful classical music experiences, with an emphasis on nontraditional settings, in an effort to remove barriers. We champion living composers, including regional and diverse artists.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Duluth-Chamber-Music-Festival
Lake Superior Youth Chorus
Lake Superior Youth Chorus cultivates an active and inclusive community of young choral artists, centered on a holistic music education
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Lsyouthchorus
Armory Arts and Music Center
The Armory Arts and Music Center became a 501 (c) 3 in 2002 with the mission to "Preserve the Duluth Armory and its historic value to American culture and the arts, while encouraging its reuse, placing an emphasis on arts and education”.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Armory-Arts-And-Music-Center
Ely Winter Festival
The Ely Winter Festival celebrates winter for 10 days in February. Activities include amazing snow sculpting in the park, an art walk through town, and playing outdoors in the pristine, uncrowded beauty that awaits you in Ely. Wander Whiteside Park as teams of professional sculptors turn 8-ft and 12-ft blocks of snow into works of art! Observe, ask questions, and peek at their sketches and models. Keep warm by the fire. Every night, the light of dozens of ice candles renders Whiteside Park magical right in the heart of Ely.
Your donation will help feed hungry snow sculptors and pay their mileage to Ely. You will also help with the cost of producing our beautiful brochure which is a guide for visitors, and so much more. Please consider supporting Ely Winter Festival.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Ely-Winter-Festival
The Jaques Art Center
The mission of the Jaques Art Center is to present exhibits, workshops, and programming in the arts for people of all ages.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/The-Jaques-Art-Center
Borealis Chamber Artists
This year has been remarkable for Borealis Chamber Artists—because of you.
This season, we opened with Of Courts and Cathedrals and recently performed The Little Match Girl Passion, this time at the ACDA-MN State Conference! And there is so much more ahead. We continue with a collaborative Handel’s Messiah with the Twin Ports Choral Project, an intimate chamber concert featuring Schubert’s Trout Quintet and Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in A Major, and a major interdisciplinary event in May: Mass for the Endangered, uniting music, art, and education to inspire environmental awareness.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Borealis-Chamber-Artists
Nordic Center
The Nordic Center is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization launched in 2011 and conveniently located in the greater downtown area. Our Mission is to share Nordic culture with the greater community through social, educational, and arts programs. Our Vision is to be a warm and inclusive place for community engagement in traditional, contemporary and emerging Nordic culture and knowledge.
Non-profit organizations across the state are looking for your support. The Nordic Center continues to host and plan exceptional programming because of the generous donations from people like you!
As part of this year's Give to the Max Day, the Board of Directors is excited to announce a matching fund of $500, which means your gift will have double the impact in supporting our programming this year.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Nordiccenterduluth
Twin Ports Wind Orchestra
The Twin Ports Wind Orchestra (TPWO), an outreach program of UMD, Music Dept., was founded in the spring of 1990 by Dr. Timothy Mahr, former Director of Bands at UMD. TPWO is a non-profit music organization comprised of the finest wind & percussion players in the Twin Ports. Most of the musicians have played their instruments for decades, and many make a living through performance or as music educators. The members have sought out an opportunity to actively participate in a musical group to maintain and challenge their skills and to give them an outlet for their love of artistic expression through music. The ensemble provides its members with the opportunity to grow in their abilities through the quality, intensity and difficulty of the musical repertoire.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Tpwo
Aitkin County Friends of the Arts
Aitkin County Friends of the Arts is a 44-year-old non-profit organization that supports and encourages performing arts in all venues throughout Aitkin County, MN.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Aitkin-County-Friends-Of-The-Arts
Oldenburg Arts and Cultural Community
Join OACC in nurturing 'locally inspired, arts-activated' community development.
Your gift will support our region’s CREATIVES--the food producers, cooks, gardeners, and beekeepers, as well as artists, writers, musicians and dancers, historians, and organizers who believe in OACC’s mission: "When creatives thrive, communities prosper." You may have engaged with us through various programs such as the Honey Bee Music Festival, Cookin’ at the O jazz events, Bee Friendly Arts Camp, West End Flourish, Document Spring, or the Bringing Joy cultural literary event. We invite both your gift AND creative vision!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Oldenburg-Arts-And-Cultural-Community
Prøve Collective
Dedicated to art as a conduit of powerful ideas and diverse viewpoints!
Prøve Gallery is a contemporary and experimental art gallery in downtown Duluth. We are a cultural organization dedicated to the role of art exhibition as a conduit of powerful ideas and diverse viewpoints.
Our mission is to foster a greater appreciation of the contemporary arts, to bridge cultures, create and expand community, and provide cultural exchange, networking opportunities and educational outreach through regular interaction with contemporary arts. It is the goal of Prøve to present monthly gallery shows, collaborate with like-minded artists and arts organizations, and provide an art retail environment.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Prove-Collective
Noatun Community Wooden Boat Works
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Noatun-Community-Wooden-Boat-Works
Lake Superior Writers
It takes a special person to love a place like the North Shore of Lake Superior! The scenery is awesome and the climate challenging, and we all revel in both the beauty and the extremes. Our geography inspires and sustains our imaginations. Words and writing link us together to each other and this place. Lake Superior Writers has been nurturing the writers by the lake for more than 20 years. We are memoirists, novelists, poets, and even a few science fiction enthusiasts. We sponsor workshops, readings and gatherings to celebrate our successes and inspire each other and to encourage anyone's personal writing practice. We match aspiring writers with experienced writers in a mentorship program. And, we create events to link the greater community to our writers. Members receive our monthly e-newsletter, NorthWords, detailing events, contests, and accomplishments of our members.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Lake-Superior-Writers
Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra
The LSCO's mission is to perform diverse music for chamber orchestra, in a summer concert series featuring both masterworks and new compositions. We are committed to collaborating with local performers, composers, and artists from other disciplines. The LSCO also nurtures young musicians through the Quartet Project, an intensive workshop for string students.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Lake-Superior-Chamber-Orchestra
County Seat Theater Company
The Encore Performing Arts Center and Gallery has been the home of the County Seat Theater Company since 2008. Seating 135 patrons on raised seating, there is not a bad seat in the house. Enjoy local art in the gallery and a glass of wine before the show. This is Community Theater at its BEST!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/County-Seat-Theater-Of-Carlton
Take it With You
Take It With You is an hour-long, originally scripted, live radio theatre podcast complete with versatile voice actors and old-school foley sound effects (think Monty Python coconut horses) performed in front of a studio audience in Duluth, Minnesota. It’s the Golden Age of Radio but without the “age.” It’s just gold. Each of our shows is 100% original and truly a labor of love. And it's because of our amazing live audiences that we're able to pay our cast and crew, purchase props and equipment, and fix things that need fixing, which allows us to keep making you laugh year after year! But after the show is done we're hard at work getting out the podcasts which is very time consuming and requires its own set of expenses. So please consider giving back for as little as $5 so we can continue to create quality original work and make it available wherever you go! This can be a one time donation or quarterly/monthly ongoing membership pledge. It's easy to make your tax-deductible donation right now.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Take-It-With-You
Itasca Orchestra and Strings
The mission of the Itasca Orchestra & Strings Program (IOSP) is to provide opportunities to hear, learn and perform orchestral works for the youth and adults of Itasca County. We are grateful for the support of our donors who allow us to bring music to our community. We believe music has a more profound impact on human beings than does any other form of art. The fact that music can express the invisible, the ineffable, makes it particularly rich for creativity. This mystery and unique capacity to express what other art forms cannot, gives it both endless potential and intense sensitivity.
http://givemn.org/organization/Itasca-Orchestra-And-Strings-Program
Third Coast Chamber Collective
Third Coast Chamber Collective (TCCC) is a group of musicians from diverse backgrounds focused on building connection by improving access to arts and arts education.
TCCC's mission is to spark creative expression and empower diverse communities around the world through chamber music performances and educational and collaborative outreach projects. We envision a world in which all communities attain equal opportunities and access to world-class musical arts and benefit from exposure to the classical music canon, as well as the intercultural aesthetics of new music.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Third-Coast-Chamber-Collective
Matinee Musicale
Since 1900, Matinee Musicale has provided musical programs of world class chamber music, as well as cultural, educational, and charitable activities in the Duluth region. Matinee Musicale (MM) works to engage the whole community of Duluth - adults, seniors, students and children in the enjoyment of chamber music. To encourage newer, younger patrons MM maintains a low barrier to participation by offering free student tickets, and presents artists in free, open to the public, educational and outreach events. Matinee Musicale presents a yearly College Awards Concert featuring student musicians from each of the three local four-year colleges. The students are selected by their respective music departments and receive a scholarship award from MM. The organization also supports the youth-oriented Quartet Project of the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, and the Duluth Superior Symphony Youth Orchestras.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Matinee-Musicale-Incorporated
Grand Rapids Players
Grand Rapids Players is a volunteer organization that strengthens our community through performing arts. Community theater is more than just putting on a play. Through our productions, diverse demographics come together and develop life skills of teamwork, commitment, goal-setting, confidence, leadership, memorization, and more. Did you know that one of our musical productions costs $30,000-$50,000 to produce? Ticket sales help to cover much of those costs, but we also rely on sponsors and charitable giving. Contributions go to help with production costs and all the other expenses that go to keeping the arts alive at the community level. Thanks for checking us out!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Grand-Rapids-Players
Good Harbor Hill Players
Good Harbor Hill Players is a community-based, nonprofit puppet theatre company in Grand Marais, Minnesota. We have been performing and celebrating with the Grand Marais community since 1999.
Your donations go toward paying our puppeteers extraordinaires Jim Ouray and Duane Tougas, insurance to cover our workshops and performances, and things like thrift-shop clothes for costumes and fabric and staples and saw blades and paint. Nobody gets a bang for their buck like a puppet theater that runs on recycled cardboard and paper mache!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Good-Harbor-Hill-Players
Agate Encores Concert Series
We are a Non-Profit community concert organization. Our mission is to bring professional entertainment
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Agate-Encores-Concert-Series
23rd Veteran
23rd Veteran is a groundbreaking transition program for veterans leaving the military and those who were never properly transitioned. Depression is common among our returning veterans with over 130,000 veteran suicides since 9/11. In 2012 it was estimated that 22 veterans a day are committing suicide. 23rd Veteran was created with that shocking statistic in mind.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/23rd-Veteran
Rocky Wall Entertainment
We are pleased to introduce Rocky Wall Entertainment, a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity established to continue and build upon the successes of Rocky Wall Productions. Since our start in 2021, we have produced 29 live concerts and have attracted 12,800 attendees to those events.
In 2025, we enter our fifth summer season of eight free Friday night live "Silver Bay Music in the Park" concerts along with several benefit house concerts as well as a few fall-winter Réunion Hall events. Additionally, we plan to continue working with our community to realize the vision of a City Center Park and Amphitheater.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Rocky-Wall-Entertainment
DanceTV
Dance TV produces live theatrical productions that take you behind the scenes of a fictional hit television show, Dance TV. The audience serves as the live studio audience and is immersed in both the on-camera action & off-camera chaos.
https://www.tfaforms.com/4873936?ProductionID=7013m000001RKoTAAW
Oshki Ogimaag Charter School
Community School is to to create a learning environment of excellence based upon traditional teachings. Rooted in Anishinaabe language and culture we will:
Prepare students through hands- on, community-based projects to be lifelong learners that reach their personal and academic potential.
Preserve the Anishinaabe language and culture.
Contribute to the wellness of future generations.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Oshki-Ogimaag-Charter-School-1
Mesabi Musical Theatre
Mesabi Musical Theatre (MMT) is a community-driven organization dedicated to bringing the best of Broadway to Minnesota’s Iron Range. MMT has a long history in the region. Its first production, Guys and Dolls, was performed at Eveleth-Gilbert High School in 2002. The original mission of MMT was to provide opportunities for Range-wide high school students to participate in musical theater. Since then, MMT has produced 13 more musicals and three musical revues and has expanded to include cast and crew members of all ages from across the Iron Range.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Mesabi-Musical-Theatre
On the Record
On The Record is your go-to resolute listing of music, theatre, art, and indie film events in Duluth-Superior, and resource for local arts news, music releases, artist interviews, arts history and research, comic commentary, and more! Published and distributed in print and online every other week.
https://www.givemn.org/story/Ontherecord
Community Action Duluth
Community Action Duluth's mission is to empower and engage our community to eliminate poverty. This Give to the Max Day you can help us with this work by making a donation.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Communityactionduluth
PAVSA (Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault)
PAVSA is dedicated to the elimination of sexual violence in southern Saint Louis County. Our core values include confidentiality, resiliency, inclusivity and community-mindedness. We are dedicated to providing services essential to assisting survivors of sexual violence throughout their healing process at no cost.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Pavsaduluth
Carlton County Historical Society
History connects us. CCHS collects and shares the histories of Carlton County, finding multiple voices and paths that connect our past, present, and future.
We not only collect artifacts and remember important events, but we also gather the countless individual stories left behind by our ancestors and neighbors.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Carlton-Cty-Historical-Society
Fire in the Village
Fire in the Village is a collective of artists and cultural organizers. We build & sustain spiritual fires of connection where we live – in Anishinaabe territory, or rural northern Minnesota – and in arts and music communities across the region. The oxygen for these fires is poetry, music, printmaking, mural arts, storytelling, dancing & nourishment, all woven together by coherent thought for our children and earth. The renewable fuel is the heartfire within each of us.
https://www.fireinthevillage.org/contribute
MacRostie Art Center
MacRostie Art Center is a hub for the creative community in the Grand Rapids area. We've been presenting exhibits, teaching classes, and selling local art in our downtown location for over 25 years. Each year we work with over 150 artists through our solo and group exhibitions, welcome over 500 arts learners of all ages to our studios, and support over 100 local and regional artists in our Art Shop. For Give to the Max Day in 2025 we are kicking off our 60th Anniversary celebration year with an Endowment Builder campaign. Join us in ensuring the MAC remains a vibrant part of our community for the next 60 years and beyond!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Macrostie-Art-Center
The Reif Center
The Reif Center’s mission is “Stimulating Arts in Northern Minnesota.” The underlying principle guiding our mission is to offer a diverse mix of performing and visual arts--to be experienced, exhibited and taught--and this is fleshed out in six values statements:
We will pursue artistic excellence
Quality arts experiences should be accessible to all
The arts are integral to quality education
We will maintain a well-managed arts organization and facility
We gain strength through collaboration and partnerships
The arts enrich our lives and are catalysts for a healthy community
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Reif-Center
Duluth Art Institute
It is the mission of the Duluth Art Institute to enrich daily life with dynamic, innovative visual arts programming that upholds excellence and promotes inclusive community participation. We aim to bring art to, and inspire art in, everyone.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Duluth-Art-Institute
Duluth Playhouse
In honor of our 110th anniversary, we’re asking friends of the Playhouse to consider making a meaningful GIVE TO THE MAX gift to directly support the artists, students, and audiences that Call the Playhouse home. Gifts can be as simple as $10 or special gifts of $110 in recognition of this momentous milestone. This year, as theatres across the country face unprecedented challenges, we are reminded how vital your support is to our survival and success. Your generosity will allow us to not only keep the lights on but to shine brighter than ever. This isn’t just about sustaining a theatre–it’s about sustaining a community, a legacy, and a shared vision for the future of the arts in our region.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Duluthplayhouse
DSSO
Revenue from ticket sales covers approximately 1/3 of the total costs to run the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra. While this is typical in the orchestra field, it does present us with the need to ask our community members to support the orchestra and music they love. Please join our musicians, board, and staff, by giving any amount to help sustain symphonic music in the Twin Ports!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Duluth-Superior-Symphony-Orchestra
Grand Marais Art Colony
From May to September we offer classes in ceramics, drawing, literary arts, mixed-media, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. From October to April, we offer opportunities for artists of every caliber to use our studios for residencies and exhibitions and public engagement opportunities. Our two signature events are the Grand Marais Arts Festival, held every July, and the North Shore Readers and Writers Festival, held every other year.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Grand-Marais-Art-Colony
Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community
Zeitgeist is proud to be Duluth's local hub for food, film, art, and community. As a nonprofit arts and community development organization, we are committed to growing and sustaining a community that is inclusive, diverse, and equitable; artistic and vibrant; environmentally conscious; and a place where every individual can thrive. Working in partnership across our region, Zeitgeist connects like-minded organizations and people to collaboratively create programs that make lasting change.
We need your help us ensure that Zeitgeist can continue to fund ALL of these unique and important programs. Together we can continue to create a connected, creative, thriving community in Duluth.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Zeitgeistduluth
North House Folk School
North House believes that craft education should be accessible to anyone with an interest in learning, and that the mission of our school is made richer by welcoming a diverse range of students to our campus.
This year North House is using Give to the Max day to MAXIMIZE your gift and grow accessibility initiatives on campus! Every gift made today will go towards increasing the number of scholarships available at North House, and to grow the work study program.
The goal for Give to the Max Day is to raise $7,500 from individuals AND matched by the Manitou Fund for a total of $15,000, which will fund the next 30+ scholarships! You can see above that we are making significant progress. By making a gift at any level, you'll be helping us reach that important goal!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Northhouse
Ely ArtWalk
The Ely ArtWalk is thrilled to be back for another year of celebrating the arts in Ely, Minnesota!
The Ely ArtWalk is an annual art exhibition that transforms Ely’s downtown business district into an outdoor art gallery for an entire month! Each year, we showcase the works of over 60 Ely-area artists in over 40 shop windows.
We hope you'll join us in our excitement for our upcoming 2026 show and support us in our goal of reaching $500 to help cover costs to keep the show going and growing!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Ely-Artwalk
Ely Arts and Heritage Center
Ely Arts and Heritage Center, formerly known as Ely Greenstone Public Art, is a nonprofit arts and heritage organization in the Ely, Minnesota, area, whose goal is the enhancement of life through art and to recognize the rich heritage of the area. Ely Arts and Heritage Center manages the historic Pioneer mine buildings for the city of Ely.
https://elyartsandheritage.org/support/
North Shore Music Association
The North Shore Music Association’s mission is to inspire lives and create community by offering exceptional live performance and artistic diversity, engaging all ages with opportunities to experience, learn, and participate… for the love of music.
https://northshoremusicassociation.com/membership-and-sponsors/
Two Harbors Community Radio - KTWH
When you invest in the operation of our hands-on, citizen powered radio station, you are showing support for an exchange of information and ideas that matter. KTWH believes in telling local stories, and in so doing, we provide listeners access to perspectives that need to be heard. Local interviews, local musicians and artists, and a world of ideas worth our attention--all are part of the mix we stir up at KTWH . Help us truly hear local voices, and if you can, get involved yourself with KTWH. They say Community Radio is 10 % radio and 90% community. You can make a difference for yourself and all the folks who tune in at 99.5 FM locally or stream us worldwide at ktwh.org
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Two-Harbors-Community-Radio
WTIP North Shore Community Radio
WTIP is a non-profit community radio station committed to serving Minnesota's North Shore and beyond. WTIP is entering a pivotal time—one that brings both serious funding challenges and the opportunity to grow stronger in service to our community.
Federal funding has been eliminated. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting previously provided 25% of our annual budget. WTIP will lose $170,000 in 2025 and $238,000 annually starting in 2026.
State Setback: We’ve been notified of a $30,000 funding cut in FY26 from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
At the same time, listeners and neighbors are asking for more from this vital community resource: expanded youth programs, deeper local news coverage, and continued unique, locally-rooted content that celebrates and connects our community.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Wtip-North-Shore-Community-Radio
AICHO
AICHO grew out of a collective vision of Native American women in the Duluth community in 1993 that saw a need for having a culturally specific organization to respond to social issues impacting American Indians, such as violence against women, poverty, and homelessness. Today, AICHO provides culturally specific housing and services in Northeast Minnesota.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Aicho
Duluth MakerSpace
Duluth MakerSpace is a collaborative community work space, created to bring people together who share the urge to design, create, and modify. People with diverse interests can create projects they might not have had the tools or expertise to do in the past. DMS allows individuals the opportunity to build on their dreams and make them a reality. Members are all about making, learning, exploring, and sharing.
The Duluth MakerSpace is one of many maker movements around the world; however, it's the only one in our community of the Twin Ports in Northern Minnesota.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Duluth-Makerspace
Duluth Superior Pride
The mission of this organization is to serve the people of the Duluth-Superior area community’s diverse sexual and gender identities by organizing safe and inclusive events that celebrate equality and self-expression.
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Duluth-Superior-Glbtaqi-Pride
Duluth Children’s Museum
This Give to the Max Day, your gift drives the Mobile Museum Van to life!
Your support allows the Duluth Children’s Museum to deliver hands-on exhibits, creative workshops, and play-based learning opportunities directly to children and families across our region — including those who face barriers to visiting the museum in person.
Your contribution fuels our Discovery for All access programs, outreach partnerships, and mobile experiences that make learning through play possible for everyone.
We can’t do it without you!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Playduluth
Two Harbors Pride
Two Harbors Pride is dedicated to creating a welcoming environment for the LGBTQIA+ community. We aim to host social events that promote safety, inclusivity, and fun in Two Harbors, Minnesota.
https://twoharborspride.org/donate
Grand Marais Playhouse
Since 1971 the Grand Marais Playhouse has been bringing the community together through theater! Friendships have been formed that cross all social barriers, families have found projects to share, and audiences have been inspired and entertained for 48 seasons!
https://www.givemn.org/organization/Grand-Marais-Playhouse
