Our Work:Convening
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Many challenges are common to all neighborhoods. Examples include the desire to preserve housing stock and the need to increase affordable housing opportunities; the need to promote and sustain local economic development, the desire to improve community policing efforts, and the desire to provide support to elderly residents and young people. The Center is committed to giving voice to common issues and to providing opportunities for people to tell their stories, to learn from one another and to identify methods for action and advocacy. |
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| The Center’s Neighborhood Futures Project is an educational and organizing campaign designed to assess the challenges faced by neighborhood organizations (including staffing, funding, and inclusive participation) and to define a common set of principles to guide future neighborhood work. | |
| The Center’s annual State of the Neighborhoods Address highlights the work of Twin Cities neighborhoods and identifies common trends, challenges and opportunities. Over 1,000 people have attended this event since its inauguration in 1994. | |
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The Neighborhood Leadership Breakfast Series, a collaboration of the Center and the League of Women Voters of Minneapolis, provides a unique public forum for community leaders to address the impact that their work has on neighborhoods. Past speakers have included Dr. Carol Johnson, Matthew Ramadan, Kathy Halbreich and Ted Mondale. |
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| Through 2004, the Center will host New Ways of Thinking, a roundtable series designed to take an innovative look at some of the biggest challenges facing our neighborhoods. | |