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ENEWS: Get Ready to Exercise Your Civic Duty… Vote!
Lift Every Voice As the election season heats up, a new report on voting is out from the Brookings Institution and the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School.“Lift Every Voice: The Urgency of Universal Civic Duty Voting” reflects two years of research and community conversations, including participation by Jane Leonard, president of G & J. The report proposes that the United States should consider participation in electi... 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: 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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ENEWS: Federal Reserve Bank Seeks Equity, for All
Minneapolis Fed’s Inflection on Equity The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis is the latest influential institution in Minnesota to pivot toward equity in its mission statement and focus. An email announcing a “new mission and a new look’’ for 2020 was headlined “Pursuing an economy that works for all of us’’ and “How We’re Working for All’’ (bold italics ad... Read More
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