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Neighborhood Outreach
Broad updated pages and social media sites
Minneapolis Star Tribune has a website that is regularly updated with giving and direct engagement opportunities: Site is here.
MPR has an on-going list of immediate Twin City needs and ways to help.
Map of food and other donation sites. Click on specific sites on the map for detailed information.
Financial Donations toward Rebuilding Businesses and Communities
Lake Street Council A nonprofit raising funds to help rebuild Lake Street businesses, many of which are family-owned and owned by immigrants and people of color. Donations are accepted here.
The Open Door Learning Center , 2700 E. Lake Street, Mpls works with immigrants and refugees providing free classes in ESL and work preparation.
West Broadway Business and Area Coalition is helping to coordinate a fund to assist and restore North Minneapolis businesses and community organizations. You can donate through the Northside Funders Group here.
The WFPC Mutual Aid Project is designed to share a collection of mutual aid funds and community resources, as well as provide local mutual aid networks with tools to employ political education and activism.
Partner Organizations Organizing Around Racial Justice
COPAL MN (Communities Organizing Latinx Power and Action): Its Facebook and Twitter accounts link people to information, events, and actions3702 E. Lake St., Mpls. 55406 612-767-3675
CTUL (Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha): Long-term Mac partner org focused on workers’ rights, based in South Minneapolis; Facebook and Twitter accounts link people to information, events, and actions.
CUAPB (Communities United Against Police Brutality): involved in many public events and work on issues.
ISAIAH: A multifaith community organizing group Isaiah’s Facebook and Twitter pages link people to information, events, and actions.
BLVC: Black Visions Collective is developing Minnesota’s emerging Black leadership and building movements from the ground up. Site is accepting donations.
Voices for Racial Justice: Building power and strategies for racial justice using organizing, leadership training, community policy and research.
Showing up for Racial Justice: A network of groups working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice.
Food donations and Food Sorting
Bethlehem Lutheran, a center of food distribution in the Midway neighborhood of St. Paul. 436 Roy St., St. Paul. Accepting food and financial donations and volunteer help. Facebook page is updated with needs.
On-going, food drops offs on Lake Street at the Midtown Global Market (South Minneapolis) and on West Broadway Avenue and Emerson (North Minneapolis), 11 am – 4 p.m. daily. This is considered a pop-up food pantry for people in need who have lost access to neighborhood grocery stores on Lake Street or in North Minneapolis. https://twitter.com/daniellemkali/status/1266798456997318657/photo/1
Division of Indian Work 1001 E. Lake St., Mpls 55407, 612-722-8722, supports and strengthens urban American Indian communities. Cash donations preferred for the food shelf. If you want to drop off food or hygiene items, please call ahead of time, so they can manage.
LIttle Earth Residents Association is seeking food shelf donations. The Little Earth Residents Association has been seeking food pantry donations. You can make donations here Call ahead to confirm if you would like to drop off items.
Second Harvest Heartland Food Bank listing of food shelves and emergency food needs throughout the Twin Cities.
Resources on Anti-racism
Moving from Cultural Competence to Antiracism
How Monique Melton Is Helping You Be An Anti-Racist
Trevor Noah on death of George Floyd and logic of looting
Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race | World news | The Guardian
From The Pause, On Being with Krista Tippett, Recommended listening and reading:
Read | “White Debt” by Eula Biss
Discussed in this week’s conversation, Eula Biss’s 2015 essay on racial privilege asks: “What is the condition of white life?”Read | “‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’” by Claudia Rankine
In the weeks since George Floyd’s murder, many have turned back to this 2015 essay, which asks what might come from the whole country moving closer to the grief that so many Black Americans carry every day.Read & Listen | “Ode to My Whiteness” by Sharon Olds
The poet reads her poem on reckoning with her racial identity.
From the National Docent Symposium Council:
We believe that museums are uniquely in a position, even in these extraordinary times, to be trusted resources to turn to for information and exchange of ideas, and that includes all of us as docents and guides. One of the most comprehensive collections of relevant resources we’ve seen is by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. We encourage you to explore their “Talking About Race” portal, https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race