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Veterans Book Project
May 11, 2022 12:00 p.m.
Monica Moses Haller, Assistant Professor, Photography & Moving Images, University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities Monica Haller (born Minneapolis, MN) works across a variety of mediums, including photography, video, writing, installation and design. she highlights complex, at times volatile activities within environmental and human systems, often through long-term collaborations with individuals or small groups of people. She has a B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies and a M.F.A. in Visual Studies. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and support from the National Endowments for the Arts. She has given talks at venues ranging from Centre Pompidou to the Hennepin County Juvenile Justice Center. The Veterans Books Project is a library of books authored collaboratively by artist Monica Haller and dozens of people who have been affected by, and have archives of, the current American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In their printed format, the books provide a place or "container" that slows down and materializes the great quantity of ephemeral image files that live on veterans' hard drives and in their heads. Each book re-deploys volatile images with the aim of rearticulating and refashioning memories. |
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May 20, 2022 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Bringing the World to Minnesota
May 25, 2022 12:00 p.m.
Mark Ritchie was Minnesota's Secretary of State from 2007 - 2015. In 2019 he became the Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the US Army where he currently serves. In 2018 he co-founded and serves as a Board of Director Member for the Minnesota USA Expo, and is a Board Chair for the World's Fair Bid Committee Educational Fund. Minnesota's Territorial Legislature appropriated $3000 for our State's exhibit at the World's Fair held in New York City in 1953 - the second International Exposition organized on the planet. William G. Le Duc brought a full-grown buffalo, a birchbark canoe, wild rice, and other agriculture products to the heart of Manhattan to rave reviews by even the most skepticl of journalists, including Horace Mann. Fast forward to 2022 and Minneosta is in the final stages of our second bid to host a World's Fair here in the summer of 2027 - with "Healthy People, Healthy Planet" as the theme. Mark Ritchie will cover a bit of history and explain how Rotary's deep roots in global health make it a serious partner for this effort. |
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Jun. 01, 2022
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We Make Minnesota Welcoming: Refugee Resettlement at the International Institute of Minnesota
Jun. 15, 2022 12:00 p.m.
Cori Ertz, Director of Development, International Institute of Minnesota Cori Ertz has worked as the Director of Development for The International Institute of Minnesota since 2017. In this role, Cori leads the Institute's fundraising, community outreach, communications and volunteer programs that reach 3,000 New Americans in Minnesota each year. Her prior experiences include fundraising, communications and public policy roles contributing to charitable missions in nine countries including the United States. Everyone deserves to live where they feel safe, welcome and hopeful. We can all play a role in making Minnesota welcoming to immigrants and refugees. To learn more, visit www.iimn.org. Attendees will learn about the International Institute of Minnesota's role as a refugee resettlement agency that has welcomed more than 25,000 refugees to Minnesota since 1974. Why do refugees come to Minnesota and what happens when they arrive? How is the Institute helping recent refugees from Afghanistan and other countries? When will Minnesota start to resettle refugees from Ukraine? How can community members support this mission? Cori will be joined by Institute volunteer and Community Partnerships Manager, Hayat Mohamed, to discuss how Rotary chapters across the Twin Cities are sharing their support. |
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Jun. 22, 2022
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Northside Achievement Zone
Jun. 29, 2022 12:00 p.m.
Sondra Samuels, President & CEO - Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) Sondra Sameuls is the President & CEO of the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ), a collaborative of over 30 partner nonprofits and schools. Ms. Samuels has been a resident of North Minneapolis for over two decades and is a national leader committed to results-based leadership and accountability. She, her staff, and their partners work tirelessly to ensure the integration of effective cradle-to-career solutions across the NAZ collaborative - to scale and sustain results across the community and to achieve the systems and policy changes needed for low-income families and children of color to truly share in the prosperity of the Twin Cities Region. Under her leadership, NAZ was named a federal Promise Neighborhood Program, and has become a nationally recognized model for place-based community and systems change. Sondra serves on the boards of HealthPartners, Great MN Schools, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Advisory Board, and is a member of the leadership team at Generation Next. She received her Bachelor's degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD, and an MBA from Clark-Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA. Along with parents, students, partners, and staff, Sondra is leading a revolutionary culture shift in North Minneapolis focused on ending multigenerational poverty through education and family stability. The NAZ Collaborative is working toward a single goal; to prepare low-income North Minneapolis children to graduate from high school, and college, ready for a career. NAZ has scaled up in support of over 1,000 parents and 2,300 students as they turn the social service model on its head and lead the creation of a college-bound culture throughout the community. |
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FinLit: KARA's Financial Literacy Program for At-Risk and Underserved Youth Populations
Jul. 13, 2022 12:00 p.m.
Mike Tikkanen, Executive Director, KARA - Kids At Risk Action and Emily Saed, KARA Senior Programing Consultant Mike Tikkanen served as a Guardian ad Litem for over 20 years before founding KARA. Mike is a current Board Member of CASA MN; the author of the highly rated book "Invisible Children;" and is a national speaker. He is a founding board member of KARA, Kids at Risk Action, a nonprofit supporting the people, policies, and programs that improve the lives of at-risk children. Emily Saed has more than 20 years of leadership in the education and non-profit community. Emily is a certified poverty awareness coach, helping educators and administrators identify and overcome the barriers of poverty in the classroom. FinLit is a financial literacy program developed and offered by KARA. FinLit brings at-risk yout ages 17 to 24 together for one year to learn fundamental financial skills. KARA provides grants for participants to save and invest while they learn. KARAs program is unique; it is designed for an audience impacted by agents of despair: childhood trauma, poverty, systemic neglect and abuse.
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A Forever Family for Every Child
Jul. 27, 2022 12:00 p.m.
With a love for kids and stories, Kaycee and her husband Pete had always planned to adopt. In 2016, while Kaycee was working as a youth pastor, they began dreaming about how to change the narrative around foster care adoption, especially within faith communities. Five months later, The Real Hope Project was born, and they began telling the stories of Minnesota's waiting kids. In 2019, they adopted their son, whom Kaycee met through a Reel Hope video shoot. As Executive Director and Founder, Kaycee leads the organization and her team in the pursuit of The Real Hope Project's mission: A forever family for every child. The Reel Hope Project's mission is to find a forever family for every child. We do this by making videos of kids in Minnesota who are waiting to be adopted, bringing those videos to different communities, and highlighting these vulnerable kids until every child has a home and a family to call their own. |
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Helping Kids Dream
Aug. 10, 2022 12:00 p.m.
Meg Hobday is a former lawyer and educator who started working in fundraising and relationship development for My Very Own Bed about five years ago. Meg will remind folks about the work and mission of My Very Own Bed. Club members may remember that the Executive Director of My Very Own Bed presented to our club in 2019. She will share ways that our club can engage with My Very Own Bed to provide new beds and Dream Kits (bedding, books, and stuffed animals) to children of families who are trasitioning from homelessness to more stable housing. |
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Ask Why
Aug. 24, 2022 12:00 p.m.
Markus Flynn is the Executive Director of Black Men Teach. In this role, he advocates for accessible and affordable pathways for Black men to become elementary school educators. As a leader in the Twin Cities community, he works with partner schools, teacher training programs and community-based organizations to recruit, prepare, place and retain Black male teachers. Markus has been named the recipient of multiple awards, most recently General Mills' MLK Community Impact and Leadership Award. Flynn earned both his Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science degrees from Iowa State University. Achievement deficits are a common motif within the conversation on education in Minnesota. Flynn believes that these conversations are often acontextual and lack the most important question you can ever ask, which is why. In this conversation, Flynn will explore some of the historical and contemporary explanations for why achievement deficits exist. |
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Sep. 14, 2022 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Minneapolis University Rotary Board Meetings will be the second or the third Wednesday of the month typically beginning at 11 pm on zoom. The zoom connection is
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Sep. 14, 2022 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
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Our mighty but imperiled Mississippi River and how we can save it
Sep. 28, 2022 12:00 p.m.
Whitney Clark, Executive Director - Friends of the Mississippi River For more than 35 years Whitney has worked to improve Minnesota's environment as a staff member for several environmental organizations. During his 25-year tenure as executive director, he has led FMR's growth from a start-up group with one full-time employee to one of Minnesota's largest and most effective conservation organizations with a staff of 22. Whitney ha s extensive experience in environmental policy, lobbying, advocacy and education campaigns and partnership building around environmental and social justice issues. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Multidisciplinary Studies from the University of Minnesota. In 2017 Whitney was honored to receive the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Transformational Leader Award which recognizes an experienced nonprofit leader who has demonstrated success working across boundaries to develop transformational solutions. The Mississippi River is one of the great rivers of the world and a complex ecosystem of global significance. It's also our hometown river and the heart of cultural landscape that has, for generations, held great meaning for residents of this place from many cultures. Thanks to dedicated advocates, in recent decades the river is healthier and better appreciated but numerous threats remain. Climate change, habitat loss, pollution from agricultural and urban sources and redevelopment that threatens the public values of the river are major challenges. Learn how Friends of the Mississippi River works with public and private partnerships and thousands of volunteers, members, and advocates (aka River Guardians) to meet these challenges head on.
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Oct. 12, 2022 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Social Time is 11:45. Meeting begins at 12 noon. Speaker is Tish Jones - TruArt Speaks
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An Introduction to the work of TruArtSpeaks
Oct. 12, 2022 12:00 p.m.
Tish Jones, Founder & Executive Director, TruArtSpeaks | Poet Founder & Executive Director of TruArtSpeaks, Tish Jones is a writer, educator, organizer and cultural producer from Saint Paul, MN, with a deep and resounding love for Black people, arts & culture, youth development, and civic engagement. As a performance artist her work has been shared in venues throughout the United States. Her writing can be found in We Are Meant to Rise (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), A Moment of Silence (Tru Ruts and The Playwrights Center, 2020), the Minnesota Humanities Center's anthology entitled, Blues vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2015) and more. Jones has been awarded fellowships from the Arts Matters Foundation, Springboard for the Arts, The Intercultural Leadership Institute, and more. She is grateful for the grants & awards that have allowed her the space to continue her creative and community practices, respectively. For more on her personal praxis, see Jones' TEDxMinneapolis Talk on Spoken Word as a Radical Practice of Freedom. TruArtSpeaks is an arts & culture organization based in Saint Paul, MN. The organization provides development opportunities for artists and arts leaders through direct mentorship, workshops, residencies, public events, conferences, statewide initiatives, and more. With an emphasis on serving youth and young adults. TruArtSpeaks believes that arts & culture - especially Hip Hop - inspire connection, growth, and social transformation. They are interested in expanding their network, stakeholders, community and reach. |
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Oct. 19, 2022 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
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Oct. 26, 2022 11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
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A Beacon of Hope in Haiti
Oct. 26, 2022 12:00 p.m.
Saintanne Tipton, Executive Director and CEO, The Lighthouse Before she was adopted and came to Minnesota, Saintanne Tipton was born and raised in a Haitian orphanage. Today she is President and CEO of The Lighthouse, a nonprofit charitable organization that works to provide resources to children in Haiti. Ms. Tipton also works as Assistant Director for Studio 4 Enterprises, a subsidiary management company for the High School for Recording Arts, and serves as Chairperson for Mission Outreach Ministry at Faith Tabernacle Gospel Fellowship International Church. Saintanne holds a degree in Elementary Education and an Associate Degree in Theology. She is a volunteer with Big Brothers and Big Sisters, and a former member of the Board of Directors of Communities Organizing for Haitian Engagement & Development, (COFHED). Haiti's economic and social development continues to be hindered by ongoing natural disasters including earthquakes and hurricanes, the impact of Covid-19, and political instability which have led to increasing violence and the assassination of Haiti's President, Jovenal Moïse. Communities all over Haiti continue to be impacted at crisis levels by poverty and lack of necessities. Infant and maternal mortality rates remain high and prevention measures are declining, especially for the poorest households. The Lighthouse's mission is to bring about positive change in the lives of at-risk children and families through support services that directly impact their spiritual, mental, and physical wellbeing. The Lighthouse has successfully accomplished a number of projects which have provided basic education, teacher funding, nutritious meals, and medical care to families in need. In her talk, Ms. Tipton will share The Lighthouse's many projects and her belief that while Haiti may be the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, hope abounds in this financially strapped, yet determined nation. |
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Nov. 09, 2022 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Develop Messaging for Minneapolis University Rotary Club with David Mann
Location to be determined
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