By Nonkululeko Shongwe I’ve been serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA at Nexus Community Partners for about 2 months now. Serving at my site has been an incredible experience; already, I’ve…
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By Max Geitz One of the biggest perks C3 Twin Cities offers to its cohort members is a minimum $400 professional development fund. Each site grants its VISTA this fund…
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In 2016, The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota launched a new AmeriCorps VISTA program: C3 Twin Cities. During its first year, our C3 members had tremendous impact:…
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by Dane Smith, President of Growth & Justice As we sift through all the assessments of the 2017 Legislature from the many groups in Minnesota working with disadvantaged and vulnerable…
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We may not get paid a lot, but we know how to have fun. For this month’s blog, C3 VISTAs shared some of their favorite pastimes – lakeside movies, football-stadium…
By Me’Lea Connelly, Director of the Association of Black Economic Power and Patrick Troska, Executive Director of the Foundation How many of you can relate to this experience? It was…
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Our host sites generously provide each of us a $400 professional development fund. VISTAs are free to use it for a wide variety of professional development opportunities such as trainings,…
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In January, our Foundation lead a workshop at the Minnesota Council of Foundation’s annual conference. The session was entitled “From Empathy to Strategy: Co-Designing Grantmaking with Community.” It was our…
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C3 Twin Cities is a very unique VISTA cohort sponsored by the Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota. They truly value our time and effort, and show their…
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By Amanda Janssen, Executive Director Rêve Academy What happens when students are trusted to navigate their own learning? That's the question we asked Phillips Family Foundation when we proposed the testing…
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