The North Dakota Community Foundation has announced grants to 20 organizations from its Otto Bremer Trust (OBT) Community Responsive Fund. OBT’s six areas of focus in 2025 were mental health, capital projects for hospitals or clinics, children’s health, children’s disability services, literacy, and adoption and foster care services.

“We are beyond excited to be a recipient of the OBT Community Responsive Grant!’ said Megan Indvik, chief advancement officer for the F5 Project, in a news release. “This money will help us grow our Peer Support and Care Coordination program across the state.” The F5 Project, Fargo, received $43,000.

Minot organizations receiving grants were:

– Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch, $74,000 toward a new psychiatric residential facility for 16 high-needs children with trauma histories.

– Prairie Grit Adaptive Sports, $30,000 for architectural services to expand the Minot Family YMCA for therapy services, including the addition of mental health therapy.

– Trinity Health Foundation, $63,000 for new intensive care unit beds.

Area organizations receiving grants were:

– Good Samaritan Health Services Foundation, Rugby, $75,000 to purchase two new LIFEPAK cardiac monitors/defibrillators to replace aging units used by EMS personnel.

– Mountrail County Health Foundation, $64,000 to help purchase a new Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine.

– Benefit Fund of McKenzie County Healthcare Systems, Watford City, $74,500 to complete a $487,000 two-bed intensive care unit project.

– St. Aloisius Medical Center, Harvey, $28,500 for an endoscopy reprocessing system and new defibrillator for the operating room.

– Cankdeska Cikana Community College, Fort Totten, $25,000 for the college’s Adult Learning Center.

– Carrington Health Center, Carrington, $36,000 to replace an outdated and unreliable autoclave (instrument sterilizer).

– Coal Country Community Health Center, Beulah, $20,000 to purchase a new scissor lift for maintenance on high ceilings in the Hazen building.

Grants to statewide programs included $75,000 to Anne Carlsen Center, Jamestown, for general operating support to provide ongoing services, specifically children’s disability services, children’s health and mental health services.