We are ecstatic to welcome Keliyah Perkins to our Nexus team! Keliyah joins us as the North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship Summer Intern, where she’ll be supporting the cohort development and engagement, communications and research and technical support for the North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship. Keliyah is a rising senior this fall at Gustavus Adolphus
In June 2018, Nonprofit Quarterly featured Nexus Community Partners’ Community Wealth Building (CWB) work – the framework, the programs and collaborations: In adopting a community wealth-building frame, Nexus borrowed heavily on the work of others… But Nexus has also sought to make the ‘community wealth-building’ approach its own. This includes redefining community wealth-building by developing its own
Hennepin County Boards Volunteer opportunity for Hennepin County residents: Application process to participate in Hennepin County advisory boards is open. Appointed members advise county commissioners on issues and programs, help set policy, and deal with a variety of topics of concern to the county. The Race Equity Advisory Council has 13 vacancies. https://lnkd.in/g4-hiBMw Met Council
We are so excited to welcome Omar Leal to our Nexus team! Omar joins us as a Leadership Intern, where he’ll be working with the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute for the summer of 2018. Omar graduated in 2015 with his Bachelor’s in Anthropology and International Studies from Macalester College, and has since collaborated with
Nexus Community Partners seeks a full time Director of Strategic Development (40 hours a week, Monday-Friday), to join a dynamic staff of thoughtful, equity-driven individuals who are deeply committed to the organization’s values. Nexus Community Partners is a community-building intermediary whose mission is to “build more engaged and powerful communities of color by supporting community-building
2/8/2021 All Square -Fellowship Co-Director Senior Manager – Transit Equity (Metro Transit) Finance Director – Change Inc. Director of Housing Operations – Beacon Interfaith Grant Writer – Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness Co-Director for Racial Justice – MN Council of Churches MCF Jobs Board Second Harvest Heartland Jobs STATE OF MINNESOTA BOARDS AND
Nexus’ Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) is Now Taking Applications for the 2018-2019 Cohort! Nominations Packets due Friday, June 15th, 2018 Nexus Community Partners is proud to announce that we are now seeking nominations for our sixth cohort for the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute. The BCLI is a 7-month cohort leadership program that supports, trains
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,
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