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	Cottonwood Foundation awarded $9,000 in grants in 2025 Chicken Run Rescue (Minnesota): $500 - to help create secure outdoor areas for the chickens in their newly relocated sanctuary - http://www.chickenrunrescue.org/ Compassionate Action for Animals (Minnesota): $500 - for sponsorship support of the 2025 Twin Cities Veg Fest, with these funds to help pay early deposit costs for this annual event which engages the public in taking action for animals and the well being of the Twin Cities community - https://www.exploreveg.org/ The Elephant Sanctuary (Tennessee): $500 - to help purchase hay for the sanctuary's elephant residents to support their nourishment and well-being - https://www.elephants.com/ Friends of Animals (Connecticut): $500 - for legal fees and casework expenses to advance two critical cases regarding protecting wild horses and the environment - http://www.friendsofanimals.org/ Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness (Minnesota): $500 - to help educate the public about the threat of copper-sulfide mining at the edge of the Boundary Waters - https://www.friends-bwca.org Indian Land Tenure Foundation (Minnesota): $1,000 - to be placed in the Beyond Land Acknowledgment Fund to assist in the purchase and recovery of Indian Land - https://www.iltf.org/ The Kerulos Center for Nonviolence (Oregon): $500 - to help re-seal and fortify and interior and exterior of an indoor shelter at the animal sanctuary to prevent entry by rattlesnakes - https://kerulos.org/ Land Loss Prevention Project (North Carolina): $500 - to help update, print, and distribute the written handbook Ten Ways to Save Your Land as part of in-person community education activities geared to limited income North Carolinians - https://www.landloss.org Monarch Butterfly Fund (Wisconsin): $500 - to purchase 5,000 seedlings from local community and school nurseries in Mexico, including pines and oyamels, to help reforest the buffer zones around the monarch butterfly reserve in Mexico in collaboration with local community members - http://www.monarchbutterflyfund.org/ Rainbow World Fund (California): $500 - to help provide for the humanitarian needs (food, clothing, shelter, medical care) of transgender women who live in shelter in Assam, India, where they are learning new skills and finding a supportive community - https://www.rainbowfund.org/ Red Lake Rosie's Rescue (Minnesota): $500 - to purchase life-saving feline and canine vaccine for rabies, feline distemper, or canine distemper for community clinics for companion animals on the Red Lake or other Minnesota Indian reservations - http://www.redlakerosie.org/ Save the Chimps (Florida): $500 - to help provide the chimpanzees under their care with nesting materials to support the chimpanzees' natural nesting behaviors - http://www.savethechimps.org/ Southern Plains Land Trust (Colorado): $1,000 - toward acquiring the Cat Creek property which is close to SPLT's existing Heartland Ranch Nature Preserve in Colorado which will provide supportive habitat for native wildlife - http://www.southernplains.org/ The Wild Animal Sanctuary (Colorado): $1,000 - to purchase land for The Wild Horse Refuge in Colorado which will be a dedicated sanctuary for Colorado-born wild horses - http://www.wildanimalsanctuary.org/ The Wildcat Sanctuary (Minnesota): $500 - to purchase food or medical care for their rescued wild cat residents - https://www.wildcatsanctuary.org/ Cottonwood Foundation is now a private foundation As of January 1, 2013, Cottonwood Foundation has become a private foundation. This transition was made to decrease the time and energy required for fundraising and extensive communication activities. Cottonwood Foundation's current focus giving areas include community development, environmental protection, empowering indigenous people, and respect and care for animals. We are currently only awarding grants to United States-based organizations. To research other potential funders, please visit http://cottonwoodfdn.org/howapply.html From 1992 through 2012, Cottonwood Foundation was a public grantmaking charity. See the final annual report at http://cottonwoodfdn.org/annualrpt.html for an archive of the foundation's activities during those years.
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