On Thursday, April 5, 2018, the Nexus Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) graduated 14 fellows from its fifth cohort to a room filled with over 75 friends, family members, nominators, alumni and supporters. Graduation was hosted in the Paulson Hall at The Swedish American Institute in Minneapolis. Nexus President/CEO Repa Mekha welcomed the group
In a recent Next City article titled “City Halls Now Hiring for Community Wealth Building,” Reggie Gordon lifted up community wealth building as a strategy that cities across the country are beginning to invest in. Reggie Gordon is the director of Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building, the first of its kind in the nation.
Join us to celebrate the North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship 2017-18 Graduating Cohort! Come help us honor this year’s graduating North Star fellows: Amoke Kubat, Carl Crawford, Harrison Bullard, Lashunda Roberts, Lavasha Smith, Nicque Mabrey, Selah Michele and Sheronda Orridge and their efforts in establishing Black led Cooperative initiatives. Fellows’ initiatives vary from housing, worker owned,
Are you interested in building leadership capacity for people of color in the Twin Cities? Come join our team as a part-time, paid intern for the Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute this summer! Apply here!
Are you interested in building power in Black communities through cooperative economics? Love research? Come join our team as a part-time, paid intern for the North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship this summer! Apply here!
Nexus would like to send a shout out and very warm welcome to our newest team member, Elly Fireside-Ostergaard! Elly joined Nexus this month as an administrative specialist, and brings with her a wealth of experience in nonprofits and racial and economic equity. We’re so excited to have Elly here at Nexus! Please help us
Nexus Community Engagement Institute invites you to: Tapping the Potential of Community Engagement: A 4-part Introduction to the Field of Community Engagement REGISTER HERE Dates: June 1, June 8, June 22, June 29 Time: 9:00 am – 12 Noon Where: UROC Room 105, 2001 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis, MN 55411 Description: This workshop series is designed
From the Mardag Foundation
Ana Clymer of United Way of East Central Iowa (UWECI) was one of the participants in Nexus Community Engagement Institute’s (NCEI) Tapping the Potential of Community Engagement series in the fall of 2017 – a four-part introduction to the field of community engagement. Ana and her colleague, Laura Columbus, drove four hours for each session,
The Hmong American Farmers Association (HAFA) CSA shares are back at Nexus again this year! Sign up today for your spring and summer shares to pick up Thursdays between 12-4:30pm at Nexus Community Partners. Welcome to the 2018 HAFA CSA! We offer fresh produce and flower shares throughout the growing season. The HAFA CSA features produce
In the summer of 2016, Nexus along with other Community Engagement Team members (CURA and the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability) supported 11 community-based organizations in engaging their communities to find out what bus stop improvements are important to them. The Better Bus Stops engagement process concluded in the spring of last year. Recently, Metro Transit
For Nexus Community Partners, business conversions to worker ownership is part of its community wealth building initiative that seeks to promote local and broad-based ownership and encourage economic practices rooted in cultural communities. This work received a shout out in the Nonprofit Quarterly’s “Nonprofits Shift Baby Boomer Businesses to Worker Ownership in Bid for Community