Community Improvement

Project FINE is an organization that helps newcomers integrate into the community. They provide foreign language interpreters and translators as well as opportunities for education, information, referral, and empowerment for immigrants and refugees.

Planned Humanity is aimed at providing a holistic approach to solving some of our society’s biggest challenges. Planned Humanity seeks to ensure partners are empowered by creating opportunities for individuals and communities.

Pickwick Fire and Rescue is a non-profit volunteer Fire Department that provides fire and emergency medical services for towns of Richmond and Homer townships in rural Winona County, as well as U.S. Hwy 61 along the Mississippi River.

Let’s Erase The Stigma is committed to navigating individuals through the shame attached to a stigma such as criminal history, chemical dependency, bad credit, and/or a negative medical diagnosis. This organization provides services tailored to provide resources to educate, empower and encourage personal growth.

The International Owl Center is the only all-owl education center in the United States. They are raising funds to build a new facility to meet the needs of our visitors, owls and staff. It will be located on 4.5 acres on the north side of Houston, MN and will include first-of-their-kind-in-the-USA walk-through owl aviaries.

Front Porch Unity is a organization that provides a mentoring program to children and young adults ages 12-24 that are considered at-risk or transitioning into adulthood with opportunities for sport and professional development.

The Friends of Winona Parks is a community organization to keep some ash trees alive and reforest the parks of Winona with a devise tree population. Donations are ran through Winona Community Foundation and are tax deductible.

Engage Winona drives equitable civic action and social change by working to ensure everyone has access, voice and power in community planning, decision-making and change-making.

BBBS7 plays a vital role in building healthy communities through youth development. Continuing the personal connection between our Bigs and Littles is more important than ever to ensure every child’s potential is ignited.

Bringing Winonans together to build homes, communities, and hope for over 25 years. Through home construction, repairs, updates for aging adults, and accessibility modifications, we’re building a world where everyone has a decent place to live. HFH is a global, nonprofit housing organization operated on Christian principles that helps homeowners achieve strength, stability, and independence. Every purchase from the Habitat ReStore supports our mission locally. We are working to build home #53 in Winona in 2022.