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Developing Leaders in Place

Posted on October 27, 2010 | No Comments
This 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...
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Are You a Puzzle Master?

Posted on November 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
I 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...
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- Lakers, North Stars and…Vikings? Oh my!
  08 February 2012 7:43 AM | 3 Comments
  The chatter is getting noisier. They are going to raise our taxes! That RICH guy is going to get richer! Our public schools don’t get any money – but that dumb team does! I don’t care – let the team leave! However, Minnesota history indicates...
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- Your help is needed to close one hole in Minnesota safety net
  06 February 2012 3:11 PM | No Comments
  You 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 Comments
  Political 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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