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Your help is needed to close one hole in Minnesota safety net
06 February 2012 3:11 PM | No CommentsYou may have read about Charles Van Heuveln in Jon Tevlin’s Star Tribune column a few weeks ago. A good program that benefits people with disabilities — Medical Assistance for Employed People with Disabilities (MA-EPD) — has a loop hole in it. A hole that...
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Theater of Public Policy
02 February 2012 12:19 PM | No CommentsPolitical satire and improvisational theater have a long history in the Twin Cities thanks in part to Dudley Riggs. Huge Improv Theater on 30th and Lyndale in south Minneapolis is adding a new chapter to this legacy with the Theater of Public Policy. In partnership...
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Communities Built to Last
30 January 2012 8:11 AM | No CommentsLast week, President Obama gave his annual State of the Union address, in which he raised the call for creating an economy that is “built to last.” For anyone who is a fan of business guru Jim Collins, this is a familiar term and title...
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LISC Archive
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“Jobs Anywhere” Is Not Enough
Posted on October 5, 2011 | No CommentsThis was the mantra at yesterday’s “Urban 2.0” Inner City Economic Summit in Chicago. Convened by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), this day and half-long conference focused on the next generation of jobs and business needed to improve the vitality of inner... -
Fight, Fight, Fight
Posted on March 29, 2011 | No CommentsLast week, I was in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 30th anniversary for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a national community development intermediary and the organization for which I work. It was an exhilarating and sobering event at the same time. While we celebrated... -
Developing Leaders in Place
Posted on October 27, 2010 | No CommentsThis is a question we’re wrestling with at the nonprofit organization I currently direct. For over 12 years, we have run a successful program helping mid-career professionals of color enter into the local community development field, called the “Careership.” We began the program as a... -
Are You a Puzzle Master?
Posted on November 23, 2009 | 2 CommentsI recently attended a learning forum sponsored by the Surdna Foundation at which I heard the best metaphor for thinking about the practice of leadership. Manuel Pastor, a professor of Geography and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, described the difference...
