Nexus Community Partners: Addressing economic Opportunity on Saint Paul’s East Side
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Author: Angie Brown
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Community Engagement and Equity: Ana Clymer of UWECI Shares Learning
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,
Sign up today for the Hmong American Farmers Association CSA!
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
Engaging Community Impacting Policy: Better Bus Stops
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
Nexus and partner Project Equity get shout out in Nonprofit Quarterly about worker conversions
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
Jan 2017 & 2019: Housing Justice
Thank you for attending the most recent Issue Series on housing justice on January 11. Audio recording will be forthcoming, but in the meantime, you may find the presenters’ presentations below. Richfield Housing Stats Tim Thompson Powerpoint Maria Regan Gonzalez PPT Housing Cooperatives Intro – BCLI, a PPT in PDF form, from January 2019
Cities Building Community Wealth: Executive Summary
From Democracy Collaborative
KFAI Radio: Truth to Tell
How Nexus Community Partners Uses Cooperative Models to Tackle the Racial Wealth Gap
From Shareable
New Report: Opportunities for Impact Investing in Ownership
Review from Fifty by Fifty (published on Medium)
Schafer: Employee ownership could be answer to exit of baby boomer owners
None of the business brokers and bankers appear to have yet pointed out what the nonprofit group Nexus Community Partners has been saying, that this big generational shift in business ownership could provide an opportunity for even low-wage workers to get ahead.
Cities Building Community Wealth: A Gather at the CUNY School of Law
From Democracy Collaborative