The Minnesota Solution to close the $287 billion racial economic gap One of our partners in the Minnesota Equity Blueprint work, Dr. Bruce Corrie, co-founder of OneMN.org, testified recently at the Minnesota House Select Committee on Racial Justice, presenting The Minnesota Solution, a set of policy recommendations to address the racial economic gaps of the ALANA (African Latino Asian and Native American) comm... Read More
Thank you for attending the Recipes for Success series! For the last 3 months, Growth & Justice has hosted Minnesota Equity Blueprint Breakfasts - Recipes for Success every other Wednesday, and through them we have had the privilege to hear from policy & community experts and have discussions with you, our community. Though we miss seeing and speaking with you face-to-face, we feel grateful to have convened virtually to ... Read More
Take the Minnesota Broadband Speed Test Initiative! The Minnesota Rural Broadband Coalition recently launched a speed test initiative to collect data on broadband speed and access in order to create maps that could improve your community’s broadband access and help plan for Minnesota’s broadband expansion. The more participants in the test, the more effective and successful it can be! You can take the test here and a state map of th... Read More
Next Blueprint Breakfast is August 19th Growth & Justice’s next virtual Minnesota Equity Blueprint Breakfast in the Recipes for Success series will be next Wednesday, August 19! From 8 to 8:30 a.m., we will hear from Dr. Bruce Corrie and Brett Buckner of OneMN.org on racial justice and strategies for equitable and inclusive economic growth, and have a Q&A session with our two guests (OneMN.org is Growth & Justice’s partn... Read More
Minority Owned Rural Firms & the Pandemic The Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group, the Housing Assistance Council, the Rural Community Assistance Partnership and Rural LISC have come together to create virtual Rural Opportunity and Development Sessions, or ROAD Sessions. The first session, "Open for Business: Working with Minority-Owned Rural Firms through the Pandemic" this week featured entrepreneurs from Native, Latinx and Black r... Read More