Working with our community partners, we've set a goal of having 80 percent of Minnesota's children fully ready for kindergarten by 2012—one of 10 goals in our Agenda for Lasting Change. The following donors have joined with us to accomplish this goal.

Corporate and Individual Donors

In 2007, the following generous gifts were made to support the Early Childhood Education Initiative collaboration between United Way and Minnesota Early Learning Foundation (MELF):

$1,000,000 Plus

3M Foundation • Cargill Foundation • General Mills Foundation • The McKnight Foundation • Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation • UnitedHealth Group

$500,000 Plus

Medtronic Foundation • U.S. Bank

$250,000 Plus

Best Buy Company • BlueCross BlueShield of Minnesota Foundation • Robins, Kaplan, Miller, Ciresi, L.L.P. Public Foundation • SUPERVALU Foundation

$100,000 Plus

Opus Foundation • Warren Staley

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