You're Invited | "Paying for College: How Minnesota Families Make It Happen"

A former Director's Scholar of the Minnesota Private College Fund and a recent judge for the Phillips Scholar Program, I'm pleased to share yet another way that MPCF is supporting college students in Minnesota. The upcoming "Paying for College: How Minnesota Families Make It Happen," is part of a set of new resources aiming to help families understand how they can finance a four-year college education. Consider attending the upcoming pre-screening and launch event for a chance to preview the program, see video highlights, and take part in a conversation with education and community leaders about putting these tools to work help Minnesota families!

You're invited to the prescreening of "Paying for College: How Minnesota Families Make It Happen," on Thursday,  November 8th from 4-6pm at Travelers Foundation, Jackson Room, 383 Washington Street, Saint Paul, MN 55102. 

"Paying for College: How Minnesota Families Make It Happen," will premiere Sunday, Nov. 11 at 8 p.m. on tpt MN and is part of a set of new resources aimed at helping families understand how they can finance a four-year college education. The launch event at Travelers will be an opportunity to preview the core program and see highlights of the videos, with plenty of time left for conversation among education and community leaders about just how we can put these tools to work to help Minnesota families.

Please register if you would like to attend and consider passing this on to friends and colleagues who may be interested:

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Schedule

4-4:30 p.m. — Reception begins (beverages and appetizers served)

4:30-5:30 p.m. — Opening comments and preview screenings

5:30-6 p.m. — Group discussion

6 p.m. — Conclusion

You're Invited | When the Polls Close: What Happened and What it Means for 2013

As y'all know, Minnesota was ranked the most civically engaged state in 2009 due to our high rates of voting and volunteerism. Let's keep the tradition alive! Remember to cast your ballot and make your voice heard today. Given how tight a lot of races and amendments appear, you can be sure that your vote will count! For details on your polling place, visit the Secretary of State's Pollfinder. #GOTV

What Happened and What it Means for 2013 Due to a large number of retirements and redistricting, we know the 2013 Minnesota legislature will look very different. Join your colleagues to get a first look at the political makeup of the new Legislature the day after Election Day at Polls Are Closed: What Happened and What it Means for 2013 on November 7 from 9 - 10:30 a.m. at Wilder Center in St. Paul. Veteran lobbyists Tom Hanson from Winthrop & Weinstine and Kristin Beckmann from Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity will analyze the outcome of the election and predict implications for the 2013 session. The conversation will be moderated by MCN's public policy director Susie Brown. We invite your attendance and active participation in a lively discussion just hours after the closing of the polls! Polls Are Closed: What Happened and What it Means for 2013 Wednesday, November 7 9 - 10:30 a.m. Wilder Center, St. Paul RSVP now! Copyright © 2012 Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, All rights reserved.

Saved by hope

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"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; therefore, we are saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness."

-Reinhold Niebuhr

2012 Un/Conference Breakouts | Sarah Morris: "So, You Want that Promotion? How to Use Management Theory for Success"

The Minnesota Rising 2012 Un/Conference: Leveraging Expansive Leadership for Our Minnesota was held on Saturday, September 22, 2012 from 10:00AM – 4:30PM at DLR Group offices in Minneapolis, MN. Hosted by and for emerging leaders, the Un/Conference engaged emerging leaders across Minnesota in an energizing day of innovative learning and dialogue, skill-building, and network-building with their peers!

Minnesota Rising was pleased to feature some stellar breakout session presenters, including Sarah Morris. See below for the presentation from her session entitled, "So, You Want that Promotion? How to Use Management Theory for Success!"

[Minnesota Rising Dispatch] October 2012

[#mnrising Dispatch] October 2012 With Hurricane Sandy wreaking havoc on our nation's east coast and the election cycle at the pinnacle of its frenzy, the world seems to be in a state of near panic. Yet in the midst of weather and political systems that appear much bigger than we are, even in aggregate, it is clear that what we do have is our individual power and choice. We can choose to reach out to our loved ones on the Atlantic seaboard and we can choose to donate to recovery efforts. We can choose which candidates or referenda we support and we can choose to help get out the vote and make sure every voice is heard. In 2009, Minnesota was named the most civically engaged state in the nation, due to our storied tradition of voting and volunteering at record rates. We'll make history next Tuesday, not only for ourselves and our current political context, but for the generations of Minnesotans yet to come whose lives will be impacted by how we mark our ballots and subsequently, support our communities and state. Be sure to cast your vote for our shared future, and in so doing, demonstrate that together, we can weather whatever storms come our way.  Seeking GAPSA lunch table conversationalists! Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA), Minnesota Rising Network Partner Minnesota Rising has received an invitation from the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA) at the University of Minnesota to lunch with their current members and connect them to the community. We're looking for 10-15 people in the Minnesota Rising network to participate by speaking with students over the lunch hour and sharing a bit about their background and current community engagement efforts! Friday, November 9, 2012 12:00pm - 1:30pm The Great Hall, Coffman Memorial Union Please RSVP to minnesotarising[at]gmail.com by 5pm on Monday, November 5 with your name, email, and short bio (for use in matching relevant students to your table). GAPSA is hosting the first day in a series of Advocacy Workshop Seminars for graduate, professional, and undergraduate students. These workshops aim to arm students with basic tools to advocate for social issues that concern them, either for personal reasons, or on behalf of their research or the university. Un/Conference 2012 Content Curation   While the Un/Conference lasts only one day, the learning and relationships carry forward into our ongoing work and ever-growing networks. In continued curation and sharing of the content from that day, we're making available the presentations and other content from speakers and sessions at the Minnesota Rising 2012 Un/Conference: Leveraging Expansive Leadership for Our Minnesota! Feel free to peruse and pass along the insights and wisdom to your networks. Also, if you haven't yet had a chance to check out images from the daylong event (tag yourself and "like" Minnesota Rising, while you're at it), you can see photos galore on our Facebook page! Thanks, once again, to our highly talented 2012 Un/Conference planning team, industrious Network Partners, and generous sponsors, as well as to our numerous presenters, including the inspiring Solome Tibebu. To honor their contributions to creating space for connection and collaboration, we invite you, today and every day, to take part in the Minnesota Rising Cascading Conversations Tour to help in discovering our generation's shared visions and values and to simultaneously to build relationships, trust, and a shared vision for our state! Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend News from the Network Updates and events with our esteemed network partners and collaborators! MINN Global Potluck Minnesota NGOs Network Sunday, November 4, 2012 5:00pm - 7:00pm The Woodlake Nature Center Conference Room 6710 Lakeshore Drive, Richfield, MN Polls Are Closed: What Happened and What It Means for 2013 Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Wednesday, November 7, 2012 9:00am - 10:30am Wilder Center 451 Lexinton Parkway North, St. Paul Free and open to the public Torch Event: To the Beat of Your Own Decision Pulse  Torch Community Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Mix & Mingle 5:30pm, Program 6:15pm, Networking 8:00pm The Minneapolis Club 729 2nd Avenue South, Minneapolis 55402   Making Our #MNRising Mark! Don't forget to tag your upcoming emerging leader events, thoughts, musings, and more,#mnrising, on Twitter and Facebook. Let's aggregate and organize ourselves for increased interaction and potential for collaboration!  Copyright © 2012 Minnesota Rising, All rights reserved.