Nonprofit Directory

A masjid (central mosque) and activity center. Various prayer times and activities.

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.

Holistic development of mind, body, spirit to promote a compassionate, healthy and safe world. At Manitou Center, the focus of embodied movement arts is cultivated through traditional health and wellness practices. We see these practices as vehicles by which to better understand our human potential in a variety of ways, including health, wellness, awareness, concentration, and self-confidence. Development and growth is guided by what each person brings to their own practice. Through understanding and experiencing our mind-body awareness, we access a gateway through which to develop a deepened understanding of our lives and our realities.

Mid West Music Fest promotes music and art in the region, creating opportunities for artists, stimulating downtown economic development, and providing diverse educational resources for artists, community members, and children.

The Miller Mentoring program serves students in grades 5-12 at Winona Area Public Schools. The program is all about student success, which is more than academics. It’s also about social-emotional wellness and building trusted relationships in an encouraging atmosphere. Miller Mentoring promotes and nurtures the relationship between mentor and student. When a positive relationship is created, we begin to see our students gain appropriate social interactions, emotional maturity, improved self-confidence and academic success.

The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts exists to provide quality arts education and performance by nurturing and encouraging artistic expression in children and adults. Their service to the community ranges from recreational to pre-professional performing and visual arts curriculum and programming designed to provide physical and aesthetic benefits, heightened self-respect, discipline, and confidence.

The Minnesota Marine Art Museum engages visitors in meaningful visual art experiences through education and exhibitions that explore the ongoing and historic human relationship with water.

The Minnesota State College Southeast Foundation assists the college in the fulfillment of its mission and vision— preparing students for a lifetime of learning by providing education for employment, skill enhancement, retraining, and transfer. The Foundation develops financial and community resources for students, faculty, staff, employers, and the communities within our service area. The Foundation is a 501 c(3) organization governed by an all-volunteer board of directors.

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.

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.

The Polish Cultural Institute of Winona educates visitors from across the country about the 150-year history of Polish immigrants. These immigrants came from the northern region of Poland known as Kashubia.

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.

Project Get Outdoors works with community action groups across the state to implement accessible programs and activities for children to experience nature and outdoor exploration. Since 2005, Project GO has served more than 50,000 children in 50+ locations across Minnesota.

Ready Set School needs your help. Winona County families are facing unprecedented financial and emotional losses, and our local nonprofit is seeing the impact of this burden firsthand. Ready Set School works to ensure all eligible K-12 students in Winona County have the basic and necessary supplies and clothing for school.

Rethos is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization working nationwide for the use of old buildings and sites.

River Arts Alliance supports and celebrates regional arts and culture by organizing educational programs, community events, and public art projects while promoting opportunities for artists and facilitating collaborations between organizations in the Winona region.

Riverway Learning Community is a tuition-free, Minnesota public charter school authorized by Osprey Wilds, an environmental learning center in Sandstone, Minnesota. Riverway serves students in pre-primary through twelfth grade in a Montessori and PBL philosophy with an emphasis on individualized learning, environmental education. The “River-way” of learning offers educational opportunities that provide a supportive learning environment that enhances self-worth, creativity, and responsibility. RLC students develop new skills and a sense of empowerment as they take ownership of their education.

Enriched by the Lasallian Catholic heritage, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

This two-day storytelling festival provides performances which celebrate and preserve the power and pleasure of our varied cultural traditions and human experiences and promotes the art of storytelling for all ages. We value excellence, inclusivity, equity, diversity, integrity, fun, community, and the power of storytelling. We will encourage excellence in the art of storytelling for all, and bring people together to share our common humanity, in an inclusive and welcoming environment.

Semcac Clinic provides sexual and reproductive health care and information for everyone. Semcac provides education for area schools, community groups and organizations upon request.

Serving southeastern Minnesota since 1981, SEMCIL provides services, supports, information, and referrals to people with disabilities by people with disabilities as rooted in the Independent Living philosophy and movement. Our mission is to elevate the voices and champion the aspirations of people with disabilities by partnering with individuals to meet their goals, educate our communities, and influence impactful change. We are here to answer questions and solve problems, working with individuals towards a world that respects disability as part of the human experience where dignity is the foundation of all systems.

Southeastern Minnesota Multi-Housing and Development Authority (SEMMCHRA) enhances and strengthens communities through advocacy, collaboration and promotion of self-reliance, housing, and community development.

The missions of Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services is to provide a full range of high quality legal services to low-income persons and eligible client groups in civil matters, in a respectful manner which enables clients to: enforce their legal rights; obtain effective access to the courts, administrative agencies and forums which constitute our system of justice; maintain freedom from hunger, homelessness, sickness and abuse; empower persons and assure equal opportunity, thus, helping people to help themselves and become economically self-reliant, to the extent their individual abilities and circumstances permit.

St. Martin’s is a congregation of the Lutheran Church Missouri-Synod (LCMS) since 1856. We are blessed by God to serve the people of Winona, MN and the surrounding communities.

Our non-profit organization aims to promote health and wellness while raising awareness for youth mental health through inclusive events for all ages. Our goal is to raise funds for programs and scholarships dedicated to providing essential services in youth mental healthcare. We strive to create a welcoming and positive community with a focus on mental health, physical activity, and giving back to others.

Team Vogel vs. Cancer is a group of volunteer people connected in a fight against cancer. Since 2010 we have been supporting families in the Winona area who are fighting cancer, local cancer research, and area hospital cancer patient support programs.

Our mission is to support, educate, empower, and guide people in recovery and the community through developing personal connections, hosting recovery support meetings, providing a safe, sober environment for all, encouraging one another and sharing our lived experience. We empower our foxhole friends by providing volunteer opportunities through committees and facilitation of our space and offering accountability, growth and self-discovery opportunities through our programming.

Founded in 1997 and incorporated in 1998, Theatre du Mississippi is committed to the development and production of high-quality programs in the performing arts, particularly shows that address simultaneously entertain and enlighten our audiences. It is our aim to integrate artistic excellence and originality with a sense of community in the Winona area and beyond.