SOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION - SMIF

Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation (SMIF) is a non-profit organization that works to leverage assets, foster collaboration, increase funding, and enhance knowledge. It promotes regional economic opportunities and collaborations with a focus on entrepreneurs and early childhood development. The organization serves 20 counties in southern Minnesota. It provides loans to businesses that create and support jobs; awards early childhood and community grants to schools, governments, and non-profit organizations; builds partnerships that lead to collaboration; supports and manages local community foundations; and helps others give back to their communities. Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation was founded in 1986 and is based in Owatonna, Minnesota.