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Introduction......................................................................................................................................3

From the Executive Director …………………………………………………………………………………….......4

Green Jobs for Brown People..…………………………………………………………………………………........5

Mino-Waasamowin-Renewable Energy..……………………………………………………………………6-7

Pine Point Farm to School Program……………………………………………………………………………..8

Buy Fresh, Buy Local Food Economy...................................................……………………………….. 9

Indigenous Farming Conference......………………………………………………………………………10-11

Indigenous Corn Restoration Project..…………………………………………………………………….10-11

Native Harvest....……………………………………………………………………………………………….......12

Environmental Justice Work..………………………………………………………………………………12-14

Great Anishinaabeg Canoe Race..................................................................................................14

Donors.............................................................................................................................................16

Foundations, Institutional & Individual Support.............................……………………………17 -18

Income & Expenses........................................................................................................................19



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It is around thirty years after the Zay Zah case, in which George Aubid resisted the theft of his land on the White Earth

reservation. That case, in which Clearwater County sought to “quit claim” an 80 acre parcel of land which had belonged to hisgrandfather ZayZah, set in motion a land title, claim and restoration process, which we proudly continue today. George Aubid

Sr., sole heir to Zay Zah, was awarded land ownership following the legal case of “State of Minnesota v. Zay Zah” in 1974.

This report is dedicated to those who fought and those who fight.



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Jon Martin

Wabigonigiizis 2010

As I write this report, it‟s a bit later than usual, but it is on time for us. It is on time, because as I write, our Ojibwe people are exercising our treaty rights and fishing in the lakes of our ancestors, under rightsreserved under the treaty of l855. This past week‟s fishing demonstration on Leech Lake, netted a couple of citations, but based on the fact that our treaty of l855, did not relinquish any rights to our traditional

way of life, we will see if the state of Minnesota wishes to oppose our people.

As I write, our wind turbine is going up. This is to say, that a long, andchallenging process during which we‟ve traveled to wind farms, researched

wind turbines, hired and fired consultants, and finally, done most of it all ourselves, now iscoming to bear fruit- our 75 kilowatt Lolland Wind Turbine is going up in the former ball fieldin Callaway. This turbine, a result of much hard work, prayers, tears and really a labor of commitment to our future generations, will power our building, our food production facility,offices, day care center, and soon our radio station. This turbine is a symbol of power of the

people... at its most basic form.

As I write, a new crop of heritage corn is going into the ground, beginning to deliberate on its emergence on the surface of our Mother Earth, peeking through her skin. This year, we will be proudly growing four varieties on our lands, the beautiful SenecaPink Lady; the Manitoba White Flint; the Bear Island prized flint; and a Mandan Red corn. We have planted, and started muchof our gardens already, and are hoping for a good year. We are also hoping for a good year for our goats. That is right; you readit here first- our goats. This year, we begin our first inter-cultural goat project, working to both, care for our land, provide localnutrition and create a local market for Halal goats for our new Muslim neighbors.

As I write, I have a home. Many of you know that this past year was extremely trying for our organization and our people. Itwas, indeed a perfect storm. This is to say that my family‟s home burned to the ground, several of my senior staff had to leave for medical reasons, and the demise of world financial markets almost cost our organization, our financial well being. As I write to you now, I can say that we have survived. We have changed, we are stronger, more lean, and soon we hope to be morevirtual and versatile, as this woman and an organization which is founded in the last millennium begins to move squarely into this millennium, and the age of Facebook, Twitter, and the Internet. We hope you will join us.

Miigwech,



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Wassamoan Kapashesit

& Zapatista Dolls

Staff members assisting the building of

the LaDuke new home.

This is our strategy. Our organization suffered greatly from the financial challenges of most of our major donors- our budget was cut by two thirds. We found that we wereunable to continue most of our staff support and program work, but we are a rather

determined and resilient group of individuals. Much of the staff did face layoffs. We hadsome opportunities, however, which we took. Namely, the rebuilding of the LaDuke familyhome- a green, local and, a bit eccentric home. Four of the primary staff of SustainableCommunities were able to work a good portion of the year, and learn some pretty amazingskills along the way, as carpenters.

The house burned in November of 2008, leaving a family of nine homeless, and putting a great deal of strain on our organization. As the LaDuke family moved from rental home to rental home, a plan emerged to build a green home. This was

actualized through a set of opportunities, challenges and small miracles. An insurance settlement provided some resources, andmany people donated to the family – clothing, beadwork, food, prayers and money. With this, our Executive Director, began to find Craig‟s list. This means, that the first part of the house – someninety two logs which had been sustainably harvested three hours away, and were two years cured,were available. This began the quest for green.

Despite the lack of Leeds Certification ( Leeds seems to apply mostly to buying new, as opposed tosalvage) , we contend this is a pretty green house. That is to say, that most of the windows, doors, floors, appliances, plumbing and fixtures are all used, or salvaged. The house is designed to use woodas a primary heat source, has back up heating systems, a good deal of light, and room for manychildren, grandchildren and visitors, who still come to stay. Tony Tibbetts, a Lakota/Ojibwe manwas able to engineer the house and train most of our staff on the skills of log building and greenbuilding. Ron, Pat and Eric Chilton, were joined by Brian Wichern, Jon Stevens, Doug Fineday and

Will Hanks to make a pretty nice house for the family. We are very thankful for everyone‟s supportand the fact that our Executive Director, once again has a desk.



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Solar panel installation in progress

Our goal with your support has been to create a strong more efficient Indigenous energy model for this millennium-addressing cultural values, environmental realities, and the realities of climate change and peak petroleum. In the course of this work we have learned a great deal. As you know, we completed the White Earth Anishinaabe Energy Plan in 2006,mapping out the issues of efficiency, use and potential resources for a new energy plan. Our interest is in relocalizing anenergy economy and making that an efficient economy. In this vein we began with heating.

Recognizing that there are some 700 families on the White Earth reservation who qualify for fuel assistance, and that manyof these families suffer from dire fuel poverty, we have worked to create a system to install solar heating panels on their houses. New state money is available for this effort; however, we remain challenged by some very bureaucratic issues inaccessing that money on this reservation, which is unfortunate. We were able to install only two solar heating panels withstate money on this reservation, while we have installed at least six on White Earth and Red Lake in the interim with private funding.

We were able to send two of our staff to be successfully trained as Energy Auditors at the Dunwoody Certification program in the fall of last year, this enables our staff to work on energy audits and prepare houses for the solar installations, in a more timely manner.

Over the past year, we‟ve sent two young Native women affiliated with this office

to trainings in solar photovoltaic certification. In 2008, we sent Aurora Conley(Bad River Ojibwe) to a solar certification, and in 2009, we sent a tribal member from the Standing Rock Sioux Nation, Kate Fast Horse to training andcertification with Solar Energy International in solar photovoltaic installation.We anticipate a small solar install in the fall of this year on the green LaDukehome (a new home has been built as the last one was lost in a fire). This is a

community training program as well. The solar heating panels were donated bySEI, and have arrived at White Earth. This is a grid tied, with a battery backup

solar install. In the fall of 2009, we had to request a variance from the Becker County Planning commission for aninstallation near the lake, as it was the sunniest spot in the yard. This was denied, but a permit was issued by the tribal land



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office, which did have jurisdiction. We hope to create a model project which will show both Native and non-Native communitymembers the excellent opportunities of solar electric.

We did a lot of work on wind energy and learned a great deal in the process. We found a twin Lolland turbine. Due to changes in turbine availability, andchanges in the management of our partners, we were unable to begin work on the turbine

foundation until November of 2008. We completed the turbine foundation, with our ownstaff, volunteers and a local set of resources in early January- despite cold conditions. Inearly June the tower came to our reservation, and we erected the tower with tribal labor, and the leadership of Tony Tibbetts in the spring of 2009. The Lolland nacelle (head of the turbine) was sent to Serve Tech in Colorado to undertake some extensive upgrading andrefurbishing. Additionally a new control panel was created, which is customized for this turbine. All of this required a good deal of intellectual capital, and we were able, with TonyTibbett‟s help to leverage a good deal of support for this wind project. We are very thankful to all, and hope to have a good model for a community scale native owned wind project by

the fall of 20l0. We hope to develop this model for our community and to share with other Native communities regionally and nationally, as we are sure that the size of this turbineand the technology is appropriate for our people and community.

Photo on left: Preparing turbine blades formounting.

Photo on right: Turbine blades being placed

onto tower.

Giiwedin Martin checking out the

turbine tower going up.



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Students preparing to plant at the Pine Point School by

hoeing ground for Farm to School program.

Nell with food processor at the Pine

Point cafeteria kitchen.

About this past year:

At the end of August, 2007 the Farm to School Program wasintroduced at the Pine Point Elementary School Open House. A preliminary survey and participation forms were distributed to parentsbecause we needed to create the community buy-in for the program. We

served sloppy joe sandwiches; sweet corn and fresh watermelon at theopen house to illustrate those fresh, local, organic foods were validsubstitutes for institutional foods. It went well.The Pine Point Farm to School Program began by transforming thebreakfast and lunch menus served to approximately 100 students and the school staff.

The reintroduction of Anishinaabeg foods began, and included buffalo (mashkode‟bizhiki),hominy (mandaamin), turkey (mizise), deer meat (waawaashkeshiwi-wiiyaas), berries(wi-niisimin), sweet corn (wishkobimin), squash (okanakosimaan), beans(mashkodesimin) maple syrup (ziinzibaakwaad), and our wild rice (manoomin). Witheach traditional food the students learned about processing, storage, preparation techniquesand most importantly, the holistic values of the Anishinaabeg towards food in their classroom activities and shared their learning through art projects and writing exercisessuch as essay and poems. This past year, we lost our Kyra Busch, the great coordinator of this program to Graduate school at Yale University, she is sorely missed. We have worked to

continue the program, and are continuing to support local food production and processing.With the help of the Johnson Ohana Foundation we were able to provide a Hobart Food processer to the school, which allows us to cut vegetables a lot more quickly.In the upcoming year, we hope to strengthen the program, and to add some new characters-namely some goats to the mix. This is to say, that we are working on a new goat project with the USDA, and hope to use some of the scraps from the Pine Point farm to school programand our other food production facilities for the goats,. In turn, we may get some milk, makesome cheese, and make more friends in the neighboring Muslim communities, for those whoare interested in Halal meat.



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The feasts attracted around 200 people including parents, members of the local community council, school board, tribal councilmembers, and local farmers. Parents learned about preparing Anishinaabeg foods with community cooking lessons in thewinter.

Forty people learned how to cook fry bread made from wild rice flour, homemade honey butter, buffalo enchiladas and hominy.Parent involvement grew throughout the year and many requested a continuation of classes and offered to help cook feasts in the

upcoming school year.

Through the Pine Point Farm to School Program, we identified and worked with over twodozen different farmers from the White Earth region. Produce was purchased as available from local farmers. In order to keep food dollars on the reservation, local purchasing preference was given to native families, families living within the borders of the reservation,or families producing within 36 miles of the Pine Point School. 66% of those people we

worked with met those qualifications.

The remaining third includes three organic food cooperatives and a food bank that donated food for school usage. For goods that we could not obtain on or near our community, such as natural, hormone-free milk or organic, stone-milledgrains, we purchased directly from small-scale farming operations with none located further than 130 miles away from the school and 80 miles away from the reservation border. The total impact of these purchases resulted in more than $15,000 introduced into the burgeoning local food economy. Program dollars also helped in reducing the school food debtby $17,000 in one year.

We worked with meat producers buying whole buffalo, highlander beef cows, heritage turkeys, free-range chickens andorganic hams and sausage. Each animal was inspected at the meat processing facility. Fresh deer meat and fish providedby the White Earth Department of Natural Resources.



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Jonesy Miller

Ivan Curry holding a Lakota squash

In the spring of 2009, we worked with a researcher from the national farm to school program to create a preliminary report on the national efforts to revitalize tribal food systems. This report shows the significanceof these efforts nationally and interest in our communities in restoring healthy foods for our children andcommunities. See: http://www.farmtoschool.org/publications.php?id=1083)

The White Earth Land Recovery Project has sponsored the Great Lakes IndigenousFarming Conference for the past five years. The conference was attended by some 80representatives of tribes from the region, including Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, RedLake, Leech Lake, Mille Lacs Ojibwe , Menominee Nation, Oneida Nation, Bay MillsOjibwe, Keewanaw Bay Ojibwe community, Saginaw Chippewa Ojibwe, and anumber of urban Native farming and gardening projects including Dream of WildHealth. The conference also hosted some 30 students from the Pine Point Elementary

School and their principal who presented to the group and fielded questions on the farm to school program. The conference had a range of workshops and presentations, including food sovereignty and food security , corn and culture, building tribal food programs, and a number of technical workshops on seed saving , gardening,grow boxes, corn cultivation and other projects. The conference continues to be awellspring to support the restoration of food systems and agriculture in our region.

As well, we developed the initial foundation of a tribal food code for our communities, and further began work on networking on tribal food sovereignty assessment.

We received funding from the USDA for an Indigenous Corn Restoration Project this past year.The project entails work to document the history of our ancient corn varieties- culturally and their significance in our communities. The project is a three year program also created to restore theviability of some of the most ancient corn varieties in our region as a foundation for foodsecurity in a time of climate change and peak oil. Most of these varieties are dormant, or held byseed banks and we would like to bring them home, and with them the cultural knowledge of corn.We are very pleased that this year, we have been able to launch this project in collaboration with at

least eight Indigenous communities in our region and a host of farmers and organic gardeners

Seneca Pink Lady Corn

http://www.farmtoschool.org/publications.php?id=1083





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who are interested in these corn We have also begun work on other varieties of food, including squash . Pictured here is IvanCurry with a Lakota squash grown by his father Martin Curry and himself, in an affiliated project in Little Traverse Territoryin Michigan. We are very proud of our allies in this project.

We hosted a session at the Great Lakes Indigenous Farming Conference on the mandate for developing a tribal food code for our community and other communities. The basis of our analysis is that food is a basic human right, and we have lost control over our food from control over seeds to production, distribution, and what we eat. The consequences are illustrated in our diabetesepidemic, and the loss of income to our community through a leakage in our local food economy. The WELRP completed a foodeconomy study in 2008, which is relevant to the food policy questions. We have a draft of a food code, which over the upcoming

year, we anticipate working on to create a viable template for tribal communities. The food code will necessarily involve thecultural significance of food as a foundation, tribal health and sanitation requirements, production support and access and preservation of seeds and land, as well as procurement and tribal food purchasing.

We have a long track record on this reservation and nationally. This is both good and challenging. Tribal governments change,dynamics change, and in oppressed communities, often lateral oppression impacts the ability to do coherent work. We willcontinue to try and work with tribal government here on White Earth to move forward a coherent and strong agenda to protect our food security and our future.



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Ottertail Power Shareholder’s Meeting

Participants: Cewsia Kearns, Peggy-Sisseton

Representative, Gwe Gasco, Winona LaDuke and

Patrick the Giant Otter.

We had little to no money to purchase wild rice this past year, that is green rice atLake side. We did, however work with the White Earth Tribal Biology Department to process a good deal of wild rice for our people, and were able, over the course of the

fall to sell more wild rice, and then, in turn, purchase more finished wild rice. Aswell, since we had only a small crew working for our organization, we focusedsome of our food work on the farm to school program.

We were able to continue sales at Native Harvest, although, with a reduction inmarketing money (promotional money) and a decline and malaise in the overalleconomy, we did see a significant 25% drop in sales. We hope to restore our healthin marketing with some new promotional abilities in 20l0.

This past year, we worked hard on two regional environmental justice projects- the final opposition and defeat of Big Stone II, a coal fired power plant slated for justover the border of South Dakota on the Sisseton reservation. And, we worked toeducate our region about the Tar Sands project from Canada and its impact on our people. Big Stone II is a project which was proposed for twelve years by OttertailPower Company, our energy provider at the White Earth Land Recovery ProjectCallaway office. The project has been opposed by a wide variety of environmentalorganizations in the region, and became a focus of the WELRP as a sort of uniqueniche. We wrote a number of editorials for local papers, which were read by OttertailPower customers (and responded to diligently by Ottertail officials), we organized two forums with Fergus Falls Community College students, and went to the

stockholders meeting. Working in coalition with many other groups, we were able to defeat this plant, and really offered a unique addition to the debate – a localenvironmental justice focus. We are really proud of our involvement. Wechallenged Ottertail Power company to buy more wind power, and are now working

to sell them wind power from our facility in Callaway. New regulations put in place by Ottertail , and a bit of resistance, we perceive to buying wind are our new challenges. We hope to begin work on a regional transition strategy away from coal, and

Barb Warren demonstrating equipment used for

making Native Harvest maple candy.



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have talked with a number of tribal communities in the region who are very apt and able to produce wind power- most of themneed access to power lines, just and fair power purchase agreements, and some technical support. We are hoping to be more of aresource to tribal communities in our region on these issues.

Say it was a moment in history, and you could do something to stop the ecologically most destructive project on the face of the earth. Would you raise your voice, or just wave it on?

An area the size of Lake Superior is slated for strip mining for tar sands. At present, the Province of Alberta and Canada(considered to be a “Climate Criminal” of this project) has leased over 65,000 square kilometers of land for tar sands development. Environmental regulations in Alberta are very lax, to say the least. Tar sands production is licensed to use more water than Alberta's two major cities -- Calgary and Edmonton -- combined. That water is turned into poison, laced with chemical sludge.Daily, tar sands producers burn 600 million cubic feet of natural gas to produce tar sands oil, enough natural gas to heat threemillion homes. The carbon emissions for the project surpass those of 97 nations in the world combined... from Winona LaDukeand Nellis Kennedy-Howard‟s op ed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Our second challenge is with the Tar Sands Project, impacting Dene and Cree people in northern Alberta. We worked extensively this past year to educate the Minnesota, and tribal community on this project, and were involved with supporting outreach atLeech Lake reservation. Despite our attempts to oppose the project‟s pipeline through our territory, two tribal governments agreed torights of way- Leech Lake and Fond du Lac. However, the Enbridge pipeline corporation had to pay $27 million to traverse triballand, which was expensive for the corporation. Subsequent pipeline proposals from the Tar Sands have carefully avoided triballands in Michigan, South Dakota and Nebraska, where we continue to do outreach on this devastating project.

In the fall of 2009, WELRP joined with Honor the EarthStaff in presenting at the Tribal homelands and ClimateChange conference held at Shakopee Mdewakantonreservation. This conference was co-sponsored by Honor the Earth and NASA, and included tribal participation from over l00 communities.

We undertook trainings and outreach the green economywith a number of reservations across the country. Thisincluded presentations at national tribal conferences(Great Plains Tribal Chairman‟s Association, WEWIN-National Tribal Women‟s Leadership Conference, and

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe) on renewable energy,



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economics and the environment. We were able to do work with the Little Traverse Band of Odawa, Saginaw Chippewa of Michigan.

We were able to be part of launching a statewide Indigenous People‟s Green Jobs Task Force in coordination with tribalgovernments, urban Native organizations and labor force training programs such as the American Indian OpportunityIndustrial Council.

At the convening of the Minnesota legislature, presenting on the issues of tribal communities, and our experience in strategies tocreate a resilient green economy for our community, we also provided consultations to the Red Lake band of Ojibwe and MilleLacs on small scale wind installations.

Preliminary analysis began of a small scale wind component manufacturing facility for our reservation using, we hope, funding from veterans organizations and allocations. We collaborated with Honor the Earth in creating a Green Jobs for BrownPeople booklet, profiling much of our work as an outreach tool for tribal communities in the state.

Our Executive Director presented on the model we are developing here on the White Earth reservation at tribal communities,regional, and state governments, national gatherings and colleges throughout the year, including the Green for All Summit,Dream Reborn, and over fifty colleges, community groups, high schools in tribal and non tribal communities. International presentations and work included presenting on food sovereignty and energy security issues at two presentations in Canada to tribal and rural governments.

In 2009, we co-hosted the Great Anishinaabeg Canoe Race(8 th Yamamoto Cup) with Dennis Banks, Japanese Businessman Masau Yamamoto and the Nowa CumigInstitute. We are proud of our history of racing, revitalizedhere on the reservation, and we are proud of our sponsorship.The artwork of the flyer was done by Steve Blake(photo onright), an amazingly gifted artist from the Red Lakereservation, and indeed a great human. He passed away in2008, after many battles with his health. His art, his humor and his legacy is remembered.



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In the beginning of the new millennium ….. it„s a time of the people of the Seventh Fire. The people, who would go back, find things that were missing, recover songs, drums and ensure a way of life. We are those people. We are the people who are recovering

our drums, restoring our ancient corn varieties, protecting our wild rice, incurring that we control our energy economy and fighting for the fish that our ancestors died for.

It is a good life the people were given here, and we are thankful to be those who can take these actions. We wish to extend our thanksgivings to all of you who helped us through this past very tough year, and ask you to continue to believe in us, andcontinue to invest in us.



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Ailene Glatter

Al Gedicks

Al & Joyce Stromberg

Alan Rausch

Alan & Claire Downes

Alison Antoun

Amanda Bloom

Ann Anderson

Ann Warner

Ann & Dale Warner

Antoinette Dombeck

Barbara Hunt

Barbara & Ted Fath/Suderhaus

Bettina Barrett

Betty Christensen

Betty LaDuke

Bonnie Carlee

Bonnie Raitt

Brooke Manley

Carl Kohls

Carol Robinson

Charles & Michele Keppen

Charlie & Mima Tipper Cheryl DavisCheryl Merritt

Christian Finch

Christine Sleeter

Community Shares of MN

Co-op America Foundation

Curtis Selph

David Bilides

David Halstead

David Mann

Deborah Koons-Garcia

Deirdre Hosen

Denise Buccola

Dobbie Roisen

Don & Helen Berheim

Donald IrishDonald & Mary Javurek

Dou las & Katherine Bade

Durl & Jan Kruse

Dwight & LaVonne Platt

Edward Munyak

Eileen Wampole

Elaine & Steven Beitelspacher

Eleanore Feldman

Elizabeth MacMillan

Elizabeth Cox & Gregory Steele

Eric Boucher

Ethan Zaghmut

Evan Fales

Evelyn Black

Fernando Cazares

Frances Gillette

Frances Taylor

Frank Lewin

Franklin & Jean Witte

Frederick & Catherine Plessner

Gail Irish

Gary & Meira Itzkowitz

Gary & Stephanie Johnson

Gary D West, MSW, PC

Geraldine Musil

Gwyneth Kirk

H. Paul Jerlstrom

H.E.C.U.A

Hallie Larsen

Jael Weisman

James Bonilla

James Schmitt

James Stevens

James Washburn

James Wellman

James & Ann Fingar James & Jacquelyn Waters-Henning

James & Michelle Snyder

James & Ruth Weaver

Jan Griesinger Jan KruseJajaime Kiland

Jan Saecker

Jane Muhawi

Janis Alcorn

Jean & Kenneth Wentworth

Jeanette Moses

Jeffrey Roy

Jennifer Riley

Jerome Gleich

Jessica Hann

Jim Carlstedt

Joan Bryan

JoAnn Thomas-Douglas Nopar

Joel Schwartz

John Pollack

John Poole

John Rodgers

John Taylor

John & Christina Radich

John & Christina Taylor

John & Jan Fredell

John & Kim Taylor

Joseph Quirk

Judith & Jay Demerath

Judy Gavin

Junius Powell, Jr.

Kate Houston

Katherine Seeger

Kathleen Johnson

Kathryn Johnson

Kathy Nenadovich

Katy Johnson

Kay Mehl

Ken & Jeannie Green

Kenneth Heger

Larry Ginsberg

Laura Lyons

Laura Shaw- Murra

Laurie Katon

Leo Babeu

Karen Meier, USAF RetLeona & Charles Heitsch

Linda & David Woessner

Lisa & Karl Simer

Liza Berdnik

Liza Eng

Loren & Faith McCaghy

Louis Abel

Louise Gerdts

Luca Del Negro

Luverne Swanson

Lynne Harrington

Margaret Gair

Margaret Hinton

Margaret Weitzmann

Margie Hunter

Mark Giese

Martin Dietl

Mary Harrington

Mary Russell

Mary Kay Bunker

Mary Sue Gmeiner

Mary Sue Lobenstein & John Sellen

Maureen McCue

Max & Leola Potash

Michael Nimkoff

Michael & Barbara McMahan

Michelle & Rolf Mehlhorn

Mimi Carlson

Mortimer Cushman

Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Voelbel

Nancy Cayford

Nelson Jorgenson

Noel Schenker

Patricia O'Leary

Patrick O'Dougherty

Paul Kivel & Micki Luckey

Paul Kivel & Rocheleau

PB Cook

Persis Suddeth

Peter & Dawn MiltonNancy & Kenneth Goodhue-McWilliams

Phillip D Blake

Raymond & Kristin Majkrzak

Rebecca Kugel

Rev. Gary Anderson

Richard Paper

Richard Vanden Heuvel

Richard & Deborah Bancroft

RMF Foundation

Roald Cann

Robert Fall

Robert Huebsch

Roberta Gutherie

Robyn Stockton

Ronald & Judith Sundmark

Ronald & Judith Horsnell

Ruth Manley

Ruth Mayer

Sally Johnson & Kay Kramer

Sandra Beasley

Sandra & Douglas Olson-Loy

Scott & Janice Young

Sharon Kavanagh

Shary Zoff

Sheree & Ronald Nordin

Sherna Gluck

Sinsinawa Dominicans, Inc.

Sisters of St. Joseph of Corondelet

Stanley Ganer

Stephen Benton

Steve & Hallie Larsen

Susan GovernSusan Oppenheim & FriedaGardner

Sybil Careof

Sybil & Toyoko Carof/Kametani

Sylvia Lambert

Ted Haaland

Terry Pridgen

The Tipper FamilyTherese Ann BrennenSusan Futrell

Thomas Bedard

Tony & Carol Hauser

Tovah Bender

Trinetta & Daniel Doll

University of St. Thomas

Vera Kause

Vivian Barry

Wallace McCurdy, Jr.

William Calkins, M.D.

William Kilbourn, Jr.Winky Foundation-Gerrish Milliken



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Agricultural Mission

Alida Rockefeller Messinger Trust

All Tribes Foundation

AMB Foundation

Blandin Foundation

Blooming Prairie Foundation

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of MN Foundation

Bush Foundation

Carolyn Foundation

Catholic Campaign for Human Development

Chicago Community Foundation

Citgo Petroleum Corporation

Common Stream Foundation

Cooperative State Research, Education & Extension Service United StatesDepartment of Agriculture

Cottonwood Foundation

Evangelical Lutheran Church of America Foundation

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

First Nations Development Institute

First Universalist Foundation

Ford Foundation

Foundation for Sustainability and Innovation

Funding ExchangeGreat Lakes Aquatic Habitat Network & Fund

Harry Chapin Foundation

Headwaters Foundation

HECUA

Honor the Earth

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Lake Region Arts Council

Land O' Lakes Foundation

Land Trust Alliance

Lannan Foundation

Massage Therapy Foundation

MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger

McKnight Foundation

Minneapolis Foundation

Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Minnesota Environmental Partnership

Ms. Foundation for Women

National SARE Program

Northern Environmental Support TrustNorthwest Area Foundation

Northwest Minnesota Foundation

Otto Bremer Foundation

Panta Rhea Foundation

Patagonia Foundation

Peace Development Fund

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

Poverty, Justice and Peace Fund

Public Welfare Foundation

Qwest Foundation

Raitt Foundation

Region 2 Arts Council

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors



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Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company

SEVA Foundation

The Christensen Fund

The Foundation of the First Unitarian SocietyThe Laura Jane Musser Fund

The Minneapolis Foundation

The Sheltering Arms Foundation

The Sinsinawa Dominican Office of Peace and Justice

The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia

The Wedge Natural Foods Co-op

Tides Foundation

Tides Foundation-The Presidio

Toro Foundation

Trees, Water & People

Turner Foundation

Two Feathers Fund

Unitarian Universalist - VEATCH Program at Shelter Rock

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education & Extension Service

Virginia Wellington Cabot Foundation

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Wallace Genetic Foundation

Wallace Global Fund

West Central Initiative

WHY (World Hunger Year)



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Grant Income UR

65%

Contributions

4%

Other Income

2%

Cafe Sales

2%

Retail Sales

16%

Wholesale Sales

11%

2009

Grant Income Grant Income UR

Contributions

Other Income

Cafe Sales

Retail Sales

Wholesale Sales

Sus Comm

18%Food Prog

9%

Education

3%

Enviro

4%

Native Har

39%

Land

5%

Admin

15%

Fundr

7%

2009

ExpensesSus Comm

Food Prog

Education

Enviro

Native Har

Land

Admin

Fundr

welrp 2009 annual report

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