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Northside Funders Group: Centering Youth Voice
Watch this video to see how Northside Funders Group exists to align public and private investments to create solutions to advance opportunities in North Minneapolis through the Northside Youth Enrichment Fund.
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Millennials in particular are really about seeing an issue and getting involved and making an impact.- Sara Lueben
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Fourth Generation Invites New Members to Join 2024-2025 Grantmaking Cycle
Attend Sept. 18 Kickoff Event to Learn about This Giving Circle and Its Focus for the Year: Youth-Led Initiatives
Communities are stronger when everyone participates in public discussion and decision-making about issues that affect their lives and our society as a whole. Explore how we partner with others to foster civic engagement, discourse, and advocacy.
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Is downtown MPLS on the rebound?
Minneapolis Foundation President and CEO, R.T. Rybak, appeared on WCCO Radio to discuss why he's hopeful about the future of downtown.
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Big Ideas for Downtown
Best known for his celebrated tenure at the Star Tribune, retired restaurant critic Rick Nelson is also a longtime student of urban design and one of his home city's most vocal fans. Watch this video to hear some of his ideas on how we can bring energy and new ideas to downtown Minneapolis.
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Abundant Cities: Evolving Downtowns
Our first Abundant Cities event brought together local leaders with deep knowledge of our community’s history, diverse perspectives on the importance of art and economic equity as drivers of regional prosperity, and visionary ideas about what downtown could look like in the future.
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Five Cities with New Ideas
An author, professor, and director of the Minnesota Design Center, Thomas Fisher specializes in urban design, systems design, and ethics. In this video, Tom discusses how cities around the world are thinking creatively about how they use space.
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An evolving downtown
Abundant Cities was featured in MinnPost following the first of three talks put on by the Minneapolis Foundation and Walker Art Center.
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The Future of Downtown
Abundant Cities, a series of conversations cosponsored by the Minneapolis Foundation and Walker Art Center, was profiled in the Star Tribune.
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Here is MPLS nominations open
With nominations now open for those seeking to celebrate Minneapolis, the Here is MPLS story movement, powered by the Minneapolis Foundation and Pollen, was recently featured on Fox 9.
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Introducing Abundant Cities
Abundant Cities is a series of three talks that looks to generate meaningful discussions on how we can pour resources, energy, and community voices into our civic life.
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Here is MPLS
Here is MPLS celebrates the many dreamers, doers, and world builders who are addressing our community’s toughest challenges in a spirit of hope and healing. The Minneapolis Foundation is proud to uplift this storytelling movement.
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Abundant Cities brings together innovators working in Minneapolis and around the country to define new visions for urban areas. Join a cohort of changemakers who will help the best new ideas become reality here in Minneapolis.
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