The Northwest Minnesota Foundation continues to have funding available through its Vaccine Incentive Program.
NMF launched the program last month to fund and support the delivery of COVID-19 vaccinations to historically disadvantaged communities.
Indigenous communities in Northwest Minnesota are disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In Minnesota, Native Americans have the highest COVID-19 case fatality rate: 1.7% of positive COVID-19 cases result in death for Native American and Alaskan Natives, compared to 1.2% of case fatalities for the total population.
The Vaccine Incentive Program offers the potential of covering the cost of vaccination incentives, event space costs, event amenities, food, and a nominal administration fee (up to 6% of the total grant amount awarded). NMF’s goal is to provide funding for a minimum of five community events, 10 on-site agency events, and funding incentives to encourage 300 people to get vaccinated. Total funding available is $48,000, and grant amounts are anticipated to be between $5,000 and $10,000.
To read the entire program description, click HERE.
To complete the simple pre-application form, visit THIS LINK.
Data:
The COVID vaccination rates for our 12-county region of Northwest Minnesota are as follows:
- Beltrami – 45.7%
- Clearwater – 35.7%
- Hubbard – 49.7%
- Kittson – 50.2%
- Lake of the Woods – 50.3%
- Mahnomen – 46.7%
- Marshall – 45.0 %
- Norman – 52.7%
- Pennington – 50.2%
- Polk – 44.8%
- Red Lake – 49.2%
- Roseau – 45.8%
The number of active COVID cases in the last 60 days per county (as of October 5, 2021) was as follows:
- Beltrami – 5,798
- Clearwater – 1,241
- Hubbard – 2,585
- Kittson – 584
- Lake of the Woods – 429
- Mahnomen – 788
- Marshall – 1,150
- Norman – 720
- Pennington – 2,050
- Polk – 4,706
- Red Lake – 513
- Roseau – 2,465
These percentages are for the percentage of the total population receiving at least one dose, according to the MN COVID-19 response page: https://mn.gov/covid19/vaccine/data/index.jsp
