Network Partner Notes 2013: Young Education Professionals - Twin Cities

The Minnesota Rising 2013 Un/Conference: Cultivating Capacity for Collective Leadership will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2013 from 10:00AM – 4:30PM at DLR Group offices in Minneapolis, MN. Hosted by and for emerging leaders, the Un/Conference will engage emerging leaders across Minnesota in an energizing day of innovative learning and dialogue, skill-building, and network-building with their peers!

Minnesota Rising is pleased to collaborate with Network Partners, emerging leader group organizations, to help cross-promote our parallel efforts to provide leadership development and community-building. In our Network Partner Notes, we highlight our 2013 Un/Conference Network Partners and their events in their own words! 

Young Education Professionals-Twin Cities

by Amanda Varley on behalf of YEP-TC Leadership Team

Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes as well as 10,000 ideas on how to improve the education system.

Like Minnesota’s lakes, Minnesotans have a passion for education. Citizens of Minnesota know that education impacts everyone across sectors and industries. In fact, the state is home to the greatest number of Fortune 500 companies per capita with education as a primary method for recruitment. Minnesota also owns some of the greatest educational disparities by race and ethnicity.

Nationally, Young Education Professionals believes that education in the United States will be improved if education professionals connect with each other in a range of environments. In Minnesota, Young Education Professionals-Twin Cities (YEP-TC) is working to connect passionate young professionals throughout 10,000 education ideas.

YEP-TC is the Twin Cities chapter of Young Education Professionals, a non partisan, non-ideological organization founded in Washington, D.C. (YEP-DC). YEP-TC is a volunteer-run organization created by and for young professionals, that connects tomorrow’s education leaders through relationship-building, knowledge development, career and professional development and community engagement.

Founded in 2012, YEP-TC has had an excellent inaugural year of programming. The organization has hosted many happy hours including community engagement opportunities and with Minneapolis and Saint Paul School Board members. YEP-TC co-hosted a training on Adverse Childhood Experiences, toured Hiawatha Academies and hosted a book club with the author of the first ever chartered schools law. Just recently YEP-TC launched a blog, Extra Credit.

YEP-TC has also been a part of a fantastic series called EDTalks along with AchieveMpls, tpt and the Citizens League. The series highlights what’s working in education by featuring diverse experts with a 20 minute talk similar to a TEDTalk. In October the organization co-hosted a special edition EDTalks on Creativity, Innovation and Education, which sold out in three days and was taped for broadcast. "The Learning Course" will premiere on tpt's MN channel on Sunday, November 10th at 7:00pm. EDTalks will continue with quarterly events in 2014.

Young Education Professionals-Twin Cities is always looking for new ideas, great speakers, and more members. Whether you're an edupreneur, researcher, teacher, or an aspiring education professional - YEP-TC welcomes anyone interested in education! Through intentional programming and dialogue YEP-TC hopes to create rivers and streams between Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes. Follow YEP-TC on our listserv, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. 

Laying the foundation

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"I've come to believe that all my past failures and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."

-Anthony Robbins

Network Partner Notes 2013: Minnesota Young Professionals Environmental Group (MYPEG)

The Minnesota Rising 2013 Un/Conference: Cultivating Capacity for Collective Leadership will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2013 from 10:00AM – 4:30PM at DLR Group offices in Minneapolis, MN. Hosted by and for emerging leaders, the Un/Conference will engage emerging leaders across Minnesota in an energizing day of innovative learning and dialogue, skill-building, and network-building with their peers!

Minnesota Rising is pleased to collaborate with Network Partners, emerging leader group organizations, to help cross-promote our parallel efforts to provide leadership development and community-building. In our Network Partner Notes, we highlight our 2013 Un/Conference Network Partners and their events in their own words! 

Join us for our monthly happy hour where awesome people gather around great food and drinks to discuss interesting environmental issues and opportunities. This month we are going to be at Common Roots Cafe, talking politics. This month's happy hour will include a discussion on the upcoming Minneapolis City Election. Of course you know that we're getting a new mayor, new city council members, and new park board commissioners - but have you thought about the candidates' environmental backgrounds and how these positions will affect our city's environmental policies and initiatives? Have insight to share? Want to be more informed? Great! We'd love to see you there, and hope to hear a variety of opinions. There will be drink specials, delicious food, and great conversation with fellow environmentally minded people - what more could you ask for? Come on down to meet your peers and network with other environmentally-minded young professionals! October 24th, 5:00-6:30pm RSVP Today! What: MYPEG October Happy Hour When: October 24th, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Where: Common Roots Cafe              2558 Lyndale Ave S Mpls, MN                            Save your spot by signing up on our Facebook event! Get Involved! Want to get involved in helping put together events, speakers, or trainings with MYPEG? Drop us a line with how you'd like to get involved, and we'll plug you in! What is MYPEG? We're a group formed to provide opportunities for young, environmentally-minded professionals to get together, network, and have a good time. Join us at our monthly events where environmentally-conscious and passionate people gather to discuss various environmental subjects and hear from colleagues and friends about their work. Together we work to further the issues we care about. We also aim to have a good time while doing it. theMYPEG.org     October MYPEG Happy Hour

Minnesota Young Professionals Environmental Group · 2327 E Franklin Avenue · Minneapolis, MN 55406 · USA

You're Invited: MINN IDEA Summit 2013

Join the Minnesota International NGOs Network (MINN) for the MINN IDEA Summit, a day-long conference bringing together hundreds of local leaders from globally-focused organizations. Whether your international interests are personal or professional, the breakout sessions and keynote speakers will inform and inspire. See more details below and register today for this flagship event!

You are invited to the following event: MINN IDEA Summit Event to be held at the following time, date, and location: Friday, October 25, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CDT) University of St Thomas (Downtown Minneapolis Campus) 1000 Lasalle Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55403 View Map Attend Event We are thrilled to announce the MINN IDEA Summit, a full-day conference which will bring together more than 300 leaders from nonprofit organizations, foundations, donor groups, the private sector, and educational institutions - all with a passion for Doing Global Good, Better. This flagship event will include a keynote address by USAID Assistant Administrator, and former President of Mercy Corps, Nancy Lindborg, as well as a dozen breakout sessions on the latest trends, theories, and programming approaches for international practitioners. Individuals who purchase an annual MINN membership will have the opportunity to receive priority registration for the conference and breakout sessions. Early indicators point to a sold-out event, so register early to guarantee your spot! Becoming a card carrying member of the MINN community is the best way to stay connected, receive great deals on programming and support the organization's work.  By purchasing your MINN membership in conjunction with summit registration, you'll receive a year's membership for only $25 (normally valued at $50).  Open registration for the MINN IDEA Summit begins October 2, 2013 – at $75 per attendee Purchase of MINN annual membership after the IDEA Summit - $50 (benefits include 20% discount on all MINN activities for the year) Priority Summit registration available IMMEDIATELY in combination with discounted MINN membership - $85 total – a savings of $35!  MINN looks forward to your ideas for innovation at our first annual IDEA Summit!   Sincerely,  Minnesota International NGO Network   P.S. Scholarship, Exhibitor and Marketplace Vendor information is also now available.

Network Partner Notes 2013: YNPN-TC's Five Minutes in Hell

The Minnesota Rising 2013 Un/Conference: Cultivating Capacity for Collective Leadership will be held on Saturday, November 16, 2013 from 10:00AM – 4:30PM at DLR Group offices in Minneapolis, MN. Hosted by and for emerging leaders, the Un/Conference will engage emerging leaders across Minnesota in an energizing day of innovative learning and dialogue, skill-building, and network-building with their peers!

Minnesota Rising is pleased to collaborate with Network Partners, emerging leader group organizations, to help cross-promote our parallel efforts to provide leadership development and community-building. In our Network Partner Notes, we prompt and highlight our 2013 Un/Conference Network Partners in their own words! Below we highlight an exciting upcoming event of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network - Twin Cities!

Enjoy an evening in hell with your fellow YNPNers! YNPN Twin Cities invites you to attend: Five Minutes in Hell Wednesday, October 23, 2013 from 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Honey, 205 E Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN Register now We're offering the stage to our members, so they can show us their stuff for Five Minutes in Hell! On October 23, you'll want to descend deep underground (otherwise known as Honey in Minneapolis). But don't worry, you won't be alone. You and your fellow attendees will bear witness to the brave souls who will each take the stage for a five-minute presentation on a topic that relates to the successes and failures that we all experience. This high-energy, fast-paced event is the perfect bite-sized opportunity to gain knowledge, meet some devilish young nonprofit professionals, and get a taste of what it's like to be on the hotseat. And we fully expect this to be a fun night out for people of all ages and professions, so bring your co-workers, your friends, your long-lost third cousins twice removed. Will our presenters stay in hell or make the journey to YNPN heaven? You'll be the judge! REGISTER NOW Your master of ceremonies Jeff Achen Digital Strategist, GiveMN Jeff promises to keep the evening fast-paced and fun! Plus, he'll bring along some GiveMN goodies to give away in anticipation of the quickly approaching Give to the Max Day 2013. Who's on the hot seat? Brandon Boat Playing god with beer Homebrewing beer affords you the opportunity to create beers using unique ingredients that have never touched anyone's lips. This leads to a wide variety of delicious successes or undrinkable failures. Cymone Fuller From rejected to accepted As a person who would be considered successful, by many standards, in my undergraduate career, rejection from what was thought to be a "sure thing" graduate program was earth shattering. But, with a strong affirmation of self, passion, drive, and ability, I challenged rejection and made an institution reconsider its standards. Drew Gneiser Bullet points are killing small children Storytelling vs fact-telling. Weave in a classic story from history/literature, and then connect to nonprofit's marketing work today. Success of using storytelling and how it can ignite giving, action, and world change. Yes, all in 5 minutes. Emily Shaftel Bouncing back from failure and finding a new direction - when you're far from home I'll tell the story of how my professional aspirations crashed around me while I was living in Mexico - and how it became an opportunity to connect with ambition, passion, and direction in my life. Jake Levy-Pollans Everything I know about social media, I learned on the playground With the same rules you learned on the playground in elementary school, anyone can be a world-class social media ninja, boosting your networking, professional, and personal life. Lindsay Bacher A Wisconsin Packer fan in Christian Ponder's court Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don't. A few tips on managing success when everyone around you is failing and has never won a Super Bowl. Katie Hill The more real grown-up field trip: A journey from failure to success... on a school bus This is a story of an audience engagement project I organized at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts last spring involving a school bus, boxed lunches, grown-ups, and valuable lessons learned about the iterative process of innovation. Renae Youngs What does program "success" *really* mean? - Cultural sector edition In the nonprofit world we're used to identifying and working toward clear outcomes in our work - but some teams aren't quite there yet. A museum person will debunk some examples where an organization's initial goals fell short (or came out of left field) in order to help us zero in on what it really means to plan mission-fulfilling work. Sandy'Ci Moua This Hoyt House aka What NOT to do with a Vacant-2 home Two people decide to buy their first home only it's a Vacant-2  four-unit apt. building and they are an unmarried couple. See their hilarious (at the time it wasn't) journey of epic failures and successes involving homelessness situations, Menard's, crying and staple guns. Sarah Townsend Morris Taking a people-centered approach to changemaking To make sustainable change, we must win people's hearts and minds AND reach compromises that both sides can stomach. My experience tells me that to reach that point we must not only focus on using the best process, but first we must focus on building relationships and connections between all sides. With relationships in place, compromise becomes more important and palatable, thus opening the door for new solutions to seemingly intractable problems.

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