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CornerHouse: hearing the voices of children
May 28, 2015
PATRICIA HARMON, MSW - Executive DirectorPatricia joined CornerHouse in January 2010 as the Executive Director. In her role, Patricia is responsible for the overall management of the organization, including financial management, fund development, and continued development of programming to meet CornerHouse’s mission. Patricia has over 25 years of experience working in not-for-profit leadership, the majority of which has been in the field of child welfare. She holds a master’s degree in social work, and received the Buckman Fellowship in Philanthropy from the University of Minnesota. Patricia currently serves on the board of the Minnesota Children’s Alliance and serves on the Administrative Council of the Minnesota Social Services Association. She wanted to work at CornerHouse because of the expertise and passion for children her colleagues show each day. She has not been disappointed! http://www.cornerhousemn.org/index.html
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Value Investing
Jun. 04, 2015
David R. “Chip” Kent IV, PhD, is the Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager. Before founding Cecropia Capital, Chip served as a senior quantitative analyst and portfolio manager at Walleye Trading, a hedge fund that focused on options-market making. He was a founding employee who helped Walleye grow from a start-up to a fully mature and profitable hedge fund. At Walleye, Chip helped co-author the options market-making systems for U.S. equity options, Korean index options, and Japanese index options. Additionally, Chip served as the head of algorithmic volatility trading. In this capacity, he developed the risk-management models as well as the trading models which determined when to buy or to sell an option. These automated systems traded well over 100,000 option contracts daily with minimal human input. Before joining Walleye, Chip worked as a research scientist in the high-performance computing environments group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He developed tools to improve the software quality of America’s nuclear-weapons simulations, and he researched the viability of running weapons simulations on novel new computer hardware. While at Los Alamos, Chip held a top-secret clearance (DOE Q). Chip earned his doctorate in computational chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and his bachelor’s summa cum laude in chemistry and physics with a minor in mathematics from Texas A&M University. While at Caltech, Chip was a Hertz Foundation fellow. His doctoral research on quantum Monte Carlo algorithms won the Hertz Foundation’s national thesis prize for the highest-impact work in the physical, biological, and engineering sciences. Chip has numerous publications in chemistry, physics, computer science, and astronomy. In his free time, Chip enjoys hiking, fishing, canoeing, gardening, automotive restoration, and electronics. |
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Advanced Directives: if you don't have one, the state of MN does
Jun. 11, 2015
Mark is the Program Director at the Koinonia Retreat Center in South Haven, MN. The Retreat Center is owned by Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church. http://www.koinoniaretreatcenter.com He is also a National Instructor of Group, Individual, and Pastoral Crisis Management for the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. Mark earned a Master of Divinity from Luther College in 1976, and a B.A. from Concordia College in 1971.
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Don't just sit there! How to get your audience to engage.
Jun. 18, 2015
Wendy Jacobson is the Publisher of Minneapolis Happening. Minneapolis Happening, a division of Happenings Media, is a hyper-local, digital lifestyle magazine that features all that is happening in Minneapolis. We strive to connect you with - and bring you the latest information on - people, places, events, and businesses in Minneapolis. Our mission is to connect local businesses with the local community, and we do that by providing fresh, relevant content every day. http://minneapolis.happeningmag.com/minneapolis-happenning-team/
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Magers & Quinn Booksellers
Jul. 09, 2015
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Southwest Minneapolis Housing: Trends and the Buy/Sell Process
Jul. 16, 2015
Paul Harstad is a realtor with Re/Max Results. He has 28 years of real estate experience, and a family background in development and home construction since the 1950s. Paul is a lifelong resident of the Twin Cities. He earned an undergraduate degree from Colorado College and an MBA from the University of Washington. http://paulharstad.results.net/page/1359704/Home/index.php
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A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation
Jul. 23, 2015
A Breath of Hope Lung Foundation's mission is to be a leading contributor to the cure of lung cancer by focusing on disease awareness, early detection and lung cancer treatments. The Foundation fights lung cancer by funding innovative research and raising awareness through education and patient support. http://abreathofhope.org
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Saving Tape Media Conversion
Jul. 30, 2015
http://www.savingtape.com We have extensive technological know-how to restore and digitize your old slides, audio tapes, reel-to-reels, and home movies. These fragile, deteriorating storehouses of family history can now be rescued from the attic and shared with a whole new generation of family members. New technology called "frame-by-frame" scanning allows us to convert your films to high quality digital movies. These movies can be shared as DVDs, edited on your computer or even shared on the internet. |
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The Midtown Greenway: a catalyst to urban transformation
Aug. 06, 2015
The Midtown Greenway Coalition is coalition of neighborhoods, organizations, and individuals who love the Midtown Greenway and want to protect and enhance it. Our mission is to empower communities to develop, improve, protect, and enjoy the Midtown Greenway as a green urban corridor to improve people's lives. We’re the grassroots nonprofit organization that advocated for the Midtown Greenway trails to be put in by public agencies. The Midtown Greenway wouldn’t be here without the work of our early volunteers, who had the original vision for the Greenway and worked for years to get it built. http://midtowngreenway.org
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Crescent Cove: Helping kids and young adults with a shortened life expectancy
Aug. 20, 2015
The mission of Crescent Cove, formerly Children’s Lighthouse of Minnesota, is to offer care and support to children and young adults with a shortened life-expectancy, and their families. We intend to fulfill this dream by creating one of only a handful of children’s residential hospice and respite care homes in the United States. www.crescentcove.org
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Be The Match: marrow registry and transplantation
Aug. 27, 2015
For the thousands of people diagnosed every year with life-threatening blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, a cure exists. Over the past 25 years Be The Match®, operated by the National Marrow Donor Program® (NMDP), has managed the largest and most diverse marrow registry in the world. We work every day to save lives through transplant. www.bethematch.org
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Today's Scouting
Sep. 24, 2015
Northern Star Council, (number 250) headquartered in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, serves more than 40,465 young people in 21 counties across central Minnesota and four counties in western Wisconsin. The council is among the five largest in the United States and is led by over 15,000 volunteers. More than 1,100 community organizations, representing educational, religious, non-profit, civic, and business organizations join in partnership with Northern Star Council by chartering 1,100 Scouting units (packs, troops, teams, crews, posts and groups). The Northern Star Council was created through the merger of the former Viking (Minneapolis) and Indianhead (St. Paul) Councils on July 1, 2005, and is a charitable organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. |
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Refugee Services, MN Council of Churches
Oct. 01, 2015
Refugee Services became a program of the Minnesota Council of Churches (MCC) in 1985. Since that time, MCC Refugee Services has welcomed more than 6,000 refugees from around the world to lives of freedom, hope and opportunity in Minnesota. We offer abundant support to new comers through four lines of service: Case management, Immigration, Employment and Education. The Minnesota Council of Churches was founded in 1948 as the statewide ecumenical agency representing mainline-Protestant denominations in Minnesota. Today, MCC’s membership of faith groups reflects the diversity of Christianity in the United States including 24 Protestant, Orthodox, and Historic Black Church denominations, representing 37% of the practicing population in the state, or 1 million Minnesotans. |
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The Bridge for Youth
Oct. 08, 2015
The Bridge for Youth was founded in 1970 when Sister Rita Steinhagen saw a problem, cared, and responded. She noticed a growing number of unaccompanied youth on the streets of Minneapolis who were increasingly vulnerable to exploitation, prostitution, violence, and illness. Responding to the need, Sister Rita opened The Bridge in the West Bank neighborhood, one of the nation’s first refuges for runaway and homeless youth. The Bridge relocated to the East Isles neighborhood in 1975. In the decades that followed, tens of thousands of youth and their families have benefited from the innovative and comprehensive services of The Bridge. |
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Small Sums
Oct. 15, 2015
Small Sums’ sole purpose is to help homeless individuals, who have found jobs, with the specific things that they need to start back to work. With practical and timely assistance, that few other agencies provide, we remove obstacles that prevent homeless workers from being able to take a job. We often provide our clients assistance with things like required work clothes and shoes, trade tools, professional licenses or union dues, and bus passes so they have a reliable way to get to work everyday until they receive a paycheck. |
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Jefferson Community School
Oct. 22, 2015
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Community Safety Message
Oct. 29, 2015
Richard W. Stanek is the 27th Sheriff of Hennepin County. He was first sworn in on January 1, 2007, was re-elected in 2010 and 2014, and is currently serving his third term. |
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Uptown Association
Nov. 05, 2015
The Uptown Association is a nonprofit organization that promotes Uptown as a safe, prosperous, accessible, well-maintained and environmentally responsible commercial and residential area. It also exists to improve the economic stability and vitality of Uptown and to celebrate its unique spirit and sense of community. The Uptown Association was formed in 1975 as the Hennepin Lake Improvement Association by approximately ten Uptown business and property owners. Since then, it has grown to over 100 members. The Association welcomes diversity of all kinds and advocates the greater benefit of the entire Uptown community, including members and non-members alike. Any commercial interest within the geographic boundaries can become a member of the Uptown Association. The organization is member based with a volunteer Board of Directors of 15. The Association serves in a variety of capacities to over 500 businesses and 4 neighborhood associations in the footprint of Uptown’s geographical boundaries. The Association has five working and active committees that include its Board of Directors, members, non-members and resident representation. The Association is also the producer of the Uptown Art Fair, which just celebrated its 51st year. www.uptownassociation.com
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Confluence - Landscape Architecture
Nov. 19, 2015
http://www.thinkconfluence.com/ Terry has been practicing landscape architecture in the United States and Canada for over twenty years. He has an extensive background in urban planning, programming and public space design. Terry collaborates with his clients to develop innovative and contextually sensitive design solutions. As Principal, he is responsible for design and operations for the Confluence Minneapolis office. Terry has dedicated his career to creating meaningful spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries of landscape architecture. Terry takes a multi-disciplinary approach to design, often working closely with design teams of architects, planners, artists, and other professionals, including a diverse range of clients. Terry’s award winning body of work includes major civic plazas, urban parks, hospitality, medical and corporate campuses and master planning. Terry brings his uncompromising passion for design excellence, knowledge of construction, and positive attitude to the design team. Terry holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Manitoba and is an active member of the Minnesota chapter of ASLA.
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