Client News

Media Institute Gets New Home at Search Institute

The National Institute on Media and the Family, which closed in December, will live on at the Search Institute, which is best known for its “developmental assets” for successfully raising children. Read more

AFSCME Gears Up for Legislative Session

AFSCME’s Eliot Seide had a compelling op-ed in the Star Tribune, coinciding with their annual Day on the Hill. Read more

Tragedy in Our Neighborhood

Patricia Cumbie, editor of Mix, the Twin Cities Natural Food Co-ops’ bimonthly publication, had a moving op-ed essay in the Star Tribune about the recent triple homicide in the Seward neighborhood. Read more

Helping the Homeless as Need Keeps Growing

Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners’ annual Sleep Out campaign is underway. The fundraiser features individuals and company groups who solicit pledges and then sleep outside at least one night during November and December. Read more

Safety Net Program to Be Eliminated

St. Stephen’s Human Services and other agencies that work to get homeless people into permanent homes will lose an important tool when the state’s Emergency Minnesota Supplemental Aid and Emergency General Assistance programs end because of budget unallotments. Read more

Minnesota Child Poverty Up, CDF-Minnesota Reports

Children’s Defense Fund-Minnesota has been drawing a lot of attention for its 2009 Kids Count report. While the report finds Minnesota’s kids are second best off in the nation, major indicators of hardship, such as child poverty, are up sharply. Read more

Talking Science on MPR

Ken Waters, director of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, was a guest on MPR’s Midmorning on September 30, helping to answer the question, What does it take to make great leaps in science? Read more

1000 Friends of Minnesota Work Highlighted

Community Growth Options, a program of 1000 Friends of Minnesota, was the focus of a Star Tribune article about being ready for smart growth when the recession eases. Read more

VocalEssence Midwest Premiere of Argento Work

Sept. 25, the VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers will present a new work by composer Dominic Argento. Written as a memorial to his late wife, the soprano Carolyn Bailey, the work is titled Evensong: Of Love and Angels. Read more

ArtsLab Touted in Bedlam Story

Star Tribune theater critic Graydon Royce called attention to the work of ArtsLab in a recent story on the West Bank’s Bedlam Theatre. Read more