What does this mean?
As a government organization, we share a common commitment to improve the lives of the people we serve. As a Minnesota-based organization, we want to help all our communities grow and thrive. By offering a dynamic hub of solutions, we help public agencies operate more efficiently and effectively, enabling them to better serve their communities.
How does it work?
Today, we partner with education, government, and nonprofit agencies to boost student and community success — as well as help other public agencies do more with less.
- Locally, we provide training and contracted services such as family child care and adult foster care licensing for local government, nonprofits, and schools.
- Statewide, we manage the Better Health Collective, a self-funded group health insurance option for public agencies to offer their employees.
- Nationwide, we offer a cooperative purchasing program for public entities and technology solutions that support schools. We also provide procurement support upon request to authorized military installations across the U.S.
What’s in it for your community?
- We provide professional development, contracted services, funding, internship reimbursement, facility construction, and other needs identified in collaboration.
- We invested more than $18.5 million into local communities and school districts in 2023-2024, with $29.8 million budgeted for 2024-2025. These funds support goals and needs identified by the public leaders within our five-county region.
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Common questions
Yes. Sourcewell is a service cooperative created by the Minnesota legislature as a local unit of government (Minn. Const. art. XII, sec. 3). Sourcewell is governed by local elected municipal officials and school board members. Minn. Stat. § 123A.21 Subd. 4 (2017). As a public agency, all Sourcewell employees are government employees.
All education and government entities, as well as nonpublic schools and nonprofit organizations, can register with Sourcewell as a participating agency by completing a simple online registration form.
A Board of Directors governs Sourcewell, and is elected by full-voting members from a pool of county commissioners, city council members, mayors, or school board members from our five-county service area.
The nine service cooperatives are geographically distributed across the state and serve members in their respective areas. Each service
cooperative has a unique understanding of the strengths and needs of their members and use these insights to
positively impact and improve outcomes.
Leadership & governance
We're dedicated to service
Every offering is guided by:
Vision
We provide leading solutions that empower community success.
Mission
We are a force multiplier.
Values
- Seek. We embrace curiosity by listening to the needs of others, professionally challenging ideas, looking for effective solutions, and promoting innovation and individual growth.
- Empower. We are accountable and liberate others by maximizing individual strengths, encouraging transparency, removing barriers, promoting self-awareness, and expecting high standards of conduct.
- Impact. We make a difference by providing exceptional service, transforming potential into action, fostering a positive culture, and acting with integrity.