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KOOTASCA Community Action
Founded by local citizens in 1965, KOOTASCA Community Action helps individuals, families, and communities fight the multiple causes and challenges of poverty.
- Through comprehensive crisis support, anti-poverty services, and partner referral, we help people to help themselves make meaningful change in their lives and journey out of poverty.
- Our mission, “Building Community to End Poverty,” is a collaborative effort with our community to change attitudes and mindsets about poverty, to change the systems that affect people in poverty, and to engage all community members in creating a community that provides opportunities for everyone.
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🏆 Good luck to Alexander Baker Apartments at tonight's Minnesota Real Estate Journal Awards ceremony! We are so proud of the hard work and partnerships that went into creating such a necessary (and beautiful) affordable housing project in Int'l Falls.
Here are the THREE award categories for which AB was nominated:
✨ Affordable Housing - Greater MN
👷♀️ Redevelopment - Greater MN
🏘 Greater Minnesota - Multifamily
In 2017, KOOTASCA and Citizens for Backus/AB launched efforts to adaptively reuse the Alexander Baker (AB) school in Int'l Falls for affordable housing. These efforts are now a cornerstone of KOOTASCA’s long-standing work to fill the gap in development capacity for Minnesota’s Northland that has left so many communities in dire need of housing of all kinds. In September 2024, Alexander Baker Apartments opened and now 27 households call this building "home". For more information about this transformation, please see pages 6-9 in our 2023 Annual Report. www.kootasca.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/kootasca-annual-report-2023-digital.pdf