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CET Outreach and Engagement Grants

As members of the Community Engagement Team of the Corridor of Opportunities Initiative, we are please to announce that the outreach and engagement grants recommendations made by the Grants Review Committee were approved by the Policy Board on 10/26/2011.

The Grants Review Committee recommended $356,786 in grant funds to 9 community organizations working along 3 transit corridors. The Policy Board also asked the committee to identify a community group work­ing along the Gateway Corridor to receive an additional grant of up to $40,000. See below for a list of funded projects.

The Community Engagement Team solicited applications through community informational meetings, direct contact with organizations and through this web site. The CET appointed a 14-member review committee to assist with the application review process.

Make sure you visit www.engagetc.org for up to date info about our work on the Community Engagement Team.

Committee members with organizational and transitway affiliations:

• Russ Adams, Alliance for Metropolitan Stability, CET member (multiple corridors)
• Isabel Broyld, U 7 project manager, Neighborhood Development Center (Central Corridor LRT)
• Monica Bryand, Headwaters Foundation for Justice (multiple corridors)
• Saeed Fahia, Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota (Central Corridor LRT and Southwest LRT)
• Ariah Fine, Northside Residents Redevelopment Council (Bottineau LRT)
• Dawn Goldschmitz, East Side Neighborhood Development Company (Gateway Corridor)
• Pakou Hang, independent consultant, Headwaters Foundation Social Change committee member, Wellstone Action trainer (multiple corridors)
• Katie Hatt, former aide to Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin (Hiawatha LRT)
• Malik Holt-Shabazz, Harrison Neighborhood Association, Headwaters Foundation Social Change committee member (Southwest LRT and Bottineau LRT)
• Linda Hymes, Minnesota Tenants Alliance (Southwest LRT)
• David Kang, Asian Media Access (multiple corridors)
• Margaret Kaplan, Minnesota Center for Neighborhood Organizing, CET member (multiple corridors)
• Irna Landrum, Summit-University Planning Council (Central Corridor LRT)
• Mona Langston, Housing Preservation Project (multiple corridors)
• Neeraj Mehta, Nexus Community Partners, CET member (multiple corridors)
• Repa Mekha, Nexus Community Partners, CET member (multiple corridors)
• Va-Megn Thoj, Asian Economic Development Association (multiple corridors)
• Ali Warsame, West Bank Community Coalition (Central Corridor LRT and Hiawatha LRT)

 

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