Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN) was founded in 1987 to meet the increasing information needs of nonprofits and to convene nonprofits to address issues facing the sector. It is the largest state association of nonprofits in the United States. Through MCN, nonprofits join together across interest areas to work on issues of common concern to all. The story of how the largest and strongest state association of nonprofits in the U.S. came to be goes back to 1983. In that year, a coalition of 130 nonprofit organizations joined to reform corporate and foundation grantmaking. They called it the Philanthropy Project. During those early years, those involved in the project and its work saw the vast benefits of the sector joining together for mutual benefit. In 1987, many of those figures came together and designed a new organization that would create a more powerful voice for nonprofits and give nonprofits the capacity to do together what they could not do apart. The new organization would be called the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.