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Minnesota Emergency & Community Health Outreach

"As a leader in multi-language health, safety, civic engagement and emergency readiness communication, ECHO bridges the gap for immigrants and refugees in Minnesota.

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Bridge to Benefits Minnesota

"Bridge to Benefits is a multi-state project by Children’s Defense Fund Minnesota to improve the well-being of families and individuals by linking them to public work support programs and tax credits."

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LawHelp Minnesota

Helping low-income Minnesotans solve civil legal problems.

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Legal Services of Northwest Minnesota

"LSNM is a private non-profit corporation which receives federal, state, and private funding to serve the legal needs of low income or elderly residents of 22 counties. It is not a government agency, nor is it a politically based program.

LSNM uses a combination of staff attorneys and private attorneys to deliver legal services.

Legal assistance to LSNM's clients may be provided by a staff attorney or paralegal, or by contract private attorneys. Staff cases generally involve more unique or specialized "poverty law" issues, such as public benefits appeals and subsidized housing problems. Certain family law matters are also handled by staff."

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Centro Guadalupano

The systemic change in the economy has impacted every community in Minnesota, but the Phillips community has been especially impacted by the lag in hiring. Many residents were in construction, landscaping and the service industries. These sectors have been slow to add jobs and when doing so are hiring only on a temporary or part time basis. It prevents a household from having a stable source of income.

Statistics show that residents were struggling with daily needs before the recession. According to the Minneapolis Department of Health and Family Support, Hennepin County Department of Health and local schools: i) 66% of residents are living at or below 200% of the federal poverty level; ii) 98% of the 1,157 k-8 students attending the local public elementary school are eligible for the free or reduced price lunch program; iii) Almost 35% of all residents in the Phillips community are uninsured - 90% higher than for the City of Minneapolis; iv) The Phillips community has the third highest infant mortality rate and the lowest rate of first trimester prenatal care of any community in Minneapolis.

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Caroline Langfeldt
2011-07-12 11:46
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Twin Cities Cultural Wellness Center

"The Cultural Wellness Center is a non-profit community-based organization dedicated to developing cultural approaches for positively impacting health and health care, economic development, and community building.

We do this through organizing: Workshops, Seminars, Classes, Trainings, Elders Coachings, One-on-one Map to Wellness sessions, Healing Circles, and Community events.

Our scope is local, national, as well as international.

The Cultural Wellness Center engages people in using culture as a resource for taking responsibility for their own health and well-being. To achieve our mission of unleashing the power of citizens to heal themselves, we work with individuals, communities, families, professionals and we partner with academic institutions, government agencies, philanthropists, and other non-profits.

The successful models we have developed have proven to be replicable, sustainable, and cost effective."

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Minnesota's Small-Town Gay Pride (Pine City)

For the seventh-straight year, Pine City has been host to East Central Minnesota Pride, a LGBT pride event held the first weekend in June since 2005. The event gives LGBT people, those questioning, and their friends, family and allies an opportunity to meet and build community in an otherwise isolated part of the state.

Without the event, organizers believe there may not exist an "LGBT community" in this part of the State. Bigger cities across the globe, from London to Minneapolis, have had prides for decades. The gay pride in Pine City began in 2005 when it was just one of two rural prides in the nation to be held. The need has been evident in the events growth, from record attendance numbers to a record number of vendors, sponsors and supporters.

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Nathan Johnson
2011-07-06 16:28
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Engaged for Success: Service Learning as a Tool for High School Dropout Prevention

"Civic Enterprises’ report, sponsored in part by the Case Foundation, finds that service-learning can address most of the educational factors that lead students to drop out of high school, and keep them engaged while helping them become model citizens."

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Who is Homeless?

"This fact sheet reviews definitions of homelessness and describes the demographic characteristics of
persons who experience homelessness. A list of resources for further study is also provided."

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E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century

"Ethnic diversity is increasing in most advanced countries, driven mostly by sharp increases in
immigration. In the long run immigration and diversity are likely to have important cultural,
economic, fiscal, and developmental benefits. In the short run, however, immigration and ethnic
diversity tend to reduce social solidarity and social capital. New evidence from the US suggests
that in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods residents of all races tend to ‘hunker down’. Trust
(even of one’s own race) is lower, altruism and community cooperation rarer, friends fewer. In
the long run, however, successful immigrant societies have overcome such fragmentation by
creating new, cross-cutting forms of social solidarity and more encompassing identities. Illustra-
tions of becoming comfortable with diversity are drawn from the US military, religious institu-
tions, and earlier waves of American immigration."

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