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ENEWS: Help Us Fight for Minnesota Equity & Against Pandemic’s Inequalities
Give At Home MN for Growth & Justice, Please! Special message from Growth & Justice President Jane Leonard: “We urgently need your financial support this week. As a part of the Covid-19 #GiveAtHomeMN fundraising campaign for non-profits and schools, we’ve created a special fundraiser page for Growth & Justice, at https://www.givemn.org/story/Equityblueprint and I’ve kicked off the ... Read More
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ENEWS: Tracking Pandemic Inequities, Aspen/Brookings Echoes Blueprint, #GiveAtHomeMN
Tracking Pandemic’s Inequitable Impact in Minnesota Minnesota Compass, a highly respected source that tracks socio-economic conditions in Minnesota, has created a special page on its website for data on pandemic impact. Compass’s data points reinforce mounting evidence of a strongly disparate impact on communities of color and low-income families, and the website makes a point that Growth & Justice h... Read More
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ENEWS: A Momentous Earth Day, Agribiz Needs Immigrants, GiveAtHomeMN
50th Earth Day and Minnesota’s 1970 Solidarity The 50th anniversary of Earth Day finds the globe in a heightened state of awareness about the interdependence of earthlings and our ecosystems, the fragility of human and planetary health, and the consequences of both environmental degradation and economic injustice. Minnesota’s place in this momentous anniversary was highlighted in a Star Tribune article&nbs... Read More
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ENEWS: Blueprint Praised in St. Cloud, Fed Survey, a Pandemic Equity Lens
St. Cloud Columnist Hails Equity Blueprint The Minnesota Equity Blueprint came in for high praise in the St. Cloud Times recently, in the form of commentary (”Blueprint Lays Out What We Need to Work Toward”) by Patrick Henry, retired executive director of the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research. Henry noted that although the Blueprint was published just before the COVID-19 pandemic began to d... Read More
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ENEWS: McKnight Features Blueprint, COVID-19 and Equity, Jane on FRB OIGI CAB, Blueprint Breaks!
McKnight Foundation News/Ideas Features MN Equity Blueprint Our Minnesota Equity Blueprint is now featured prominently on the McKnight Foundation’s website as a valuable resource for folks engaged in community building and non-profit work focused on racial and regional inequalities and climate change. The link to our Blueprint download is connected to McKnight’s programmatic commitment to ... Read More
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