Healthy Community Initiative

PRIMEtime Partners 

Partners and Stakeholders to the PRIMEtime network make it their mission to support youth and families.  The following organizations support the work of the PRIMEtime network through their engagement with youth, their ability to provide youth workers or volunteers or through education and advocacy.

• Realizing Individual Student Excellence (RISE) – a student-centered program that strives to eliminate barriers and foster healthy learning of Faribaults low-income, and ESL students, as well as young people who would be first-generation college attendees.  This program provides support during the school day and summer.
• Tackling Obstacles and Raising College Hopes (TORCH) – a collaborative and highly successful effort to increase the graduation and post-secondary attendance rates of Northfield’s Latino, low-income, and ESL students, as well as young people who would be first-generation college attendees.  This program provides support during the school day and summer.
• Connected Kids Mentoring Program – Connected Kids strengthens the engagement of Northfield youth in school and in the community through one-on-one mentoring relationships with positive caring adults.
• Project Friendship – Pairs children in grades 2 – 7 with a student mentor from Carleton College or St. Olaf College for a 2-4 year mentoring relationship. 
• Minnesota Alliance With Youth’s Promise Fellow Program – Employs Promise Fellows and Summer Youth Fellows that engage youth through the support of a caring adult.  
• Healthy Community Initiative – A dedicated partner that builds, encourages and collaborates on programs that support youth and families in Rice County.
• Carleton CCCE – Carleton’s hub for place-based, experiential learning beyond campus; reciprocal community-campus collaborations; and publicly-engaged scholarship, leadership, and action.
• St. Olaf Academic Civic Engagement Center – St. Olaf College program that supports “service-related activities such as tutoring, volunteering, and providing enrichment experiences” with community partners.

PRIMEtime Funders

PRIMEtime is grateful for these partners help fund the after schooltime programming.

• Minnesota Department of Education*
  • Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant
  • Minnesota Youth Water Safety Grant
  • After School Community Learning Grant
• Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
• Minnesota Humanities Center – Cultural Heritage Grant^ 
• Rice County United Way
• Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC)**
• Women In Northfield Giving Support (WINGS)

*PRIMEtime Out of School Time programming is partially funded with a grant from the Minnesota Department of Education using state funding, After-School Community Learning Programs. The contents of this program do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education or the Minnesota Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the federal or state government.

**PRIMEtime Out of School Time programming, including arts enrichment support, is funded in part by the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council (SEMAC). 

SEMAC activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board (MSAB) thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.

^Arts programming is additionally supported by the Minnesota Humanities Center with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.