Other Ways to Support

  • Annual program funding for program expenses and staff salaries

 

  • Expanded sources of autistic mentors
    • If you work with or employ autistic adults who may be a good fit for AMP, direct them to our Mentor Application Form page for mentoring opportunities.

 

  • Potential partnerships
    • We work with established organizations and businesses interested in adding autistic-led mentorship to their services or learning about how they can better serve the autistic community.
    • We are open to partnering with larger mentoring organizations to provide autistic-led mentorship to their clients in order to extend our reach.
    • If you are interested in partnering with AMP, please contact us.
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Partners

A groundbreaking collaborative initiative, AMP united the following key partners to design the program:

  • Autistic individuals
  • Parents and caretakers of autistic youth
  • Autism Society of Minnesota (AuSM) staff
  • Minnesota Independence College and Community (MICC) staff
  • Bloomington Public Schools’ special education staff
  • MENTOR Minnesota advisor
  • University of Minnesota academic partners
    • Dr. Lindsey Weiler from the Department of Family Social Science
    • Dr. Rebekah Hudock from the Division of Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience

Sponsors

We are incredibly grateful to have a community full of people that believe in this program as much as we do. AMP has received financial or in-kind support from:

  • Pillsbury United Communities
  • Carlson Family Foundation
  • The Beim Foundation
  • NEXT for AUTISM’s Color the Spectrum grant
  • Three Bush Community Innovation grants from the Headwaters Foundation for Justice
  • Hennepin South Services Collaborative (HSSC) Seed Money for New Start-up Programs grant
  • Private family foundation grant
  • Hatch Project, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
  • Faculty Interactive Research Grant from the University of Minnesota Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
  • Catalyst Grant from the University of Minnesota Department of Pediatrics (Minnesota Masonic Charities) and the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
  • Seed grant from the University of Minnesota Institute for Translational Research in Children’s Mental Health (ITR)
  • Office of Research and Policy, College of Education and Human Development (CEHD)
  • Jump Start grant from the University of Minnesota
  • Engagement to Advance Research and Community Health (CEARCH), Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)
  • Community Health Collaborative pilot grant from the University of Minnesota Office of Community
  • GoFundMe individual donations
  • Individuals who have volunteered their time or donated materials to AMP

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