Are you passionate about Black economic justice? Are you involved in a Black-led collective, cooperative, or land trust? Apply to the North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship! Together, we will learn and reclaim the history of Black cooperative economics over seven months through co-learning, storytelling, and skill-building. Cohort 8 applications are open through Sept. 8, 11:59
Join us on July 6 from 12 PM to 2 PM at Minnehaha Park for our Reimagine Rest pop-up event, featuring paletas from La Michoacana. 🌿✨ This is your open invitation from ROOT to hang out, practice, and discuss rest with other community members. Our pop-ups are designed as spaces where you can “pop-in” without
The Open Road Fund 2024 opens this Juneteenth (6/19)! Join us at an upcoming information sessions to learn more and get ready to apply! Click here to Register Wednesday, June 26th, 12pm-1:30pm During these sessions we will: Introduce the Open Road Fund and the Open Road team. Show participants how to apply, including a live
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After a successful start of the Open Road Fund in 2023, the fund will re-open for applications Juneteenth 2024 (June 19th). We learned a lot in our first year. After engaging with applicants, awardees, our community, and our community advisory committee, we have made the following changes to our application process. ID Requirement This
On Thursday April 4, 2024, the Nexus Twin Cities Boards & Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI) held its annual graduation ceremony. This year, the BCLI graduated 12 fellows in its 11thcohort. These graduates join the Twin Cities BCLI alumni network, now 157 strong. Congratulations to BCLI cohort 11! The evening began with networking and a Soul
In early March, Nexus made the difficult decision to sunset the Community Engagement Institute (NCEI). Although NCEI as a program and a platform will no longer exist, community engagement will always be woven throughout all our work. We will continue to evolve this work as we move into the future. Authorship is a central strategy
Nexus Community Partners recently awarded $50,000 to 99 Black individuals through the Open Road Fund. Nexus is partnering with Research in Action to evaluate and report on the outcomes of our collective efforts to work alongside the community in developing a model for redistributing unrestricted funds directly to Black people. In our first report, you
“Always the expectation that we need to struggle collectively and intentionally to change the state of affairs. And I know that being in this community for several decades now that has been the charge. One foot in the academy but never totally there but always with the expectation that political, economic, social change can happen
Nexus Community Partners’ Shared Ownership Center will administer $2.5 million in funding to grow cooperative ownership in Saint Paul FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 15, 2024 SAINT PAUL, MN—Today, Mayor Melvin Carter announced that the Shared Ownership Center at Nexus Community Partners will administer the LOCAL Fund, in partnership with the City of Saint Paul
Learn about the Open Road Fund Application & Process at our upcoming Information Session. The Open Road Fund application opens on June 19, 2023 and closes on July 28, 2023.