March 17, 2020 Re: Change of Office Status to Remote Working due to the COVID-19 Outbreak At The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota, we understand the severity…
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It’s hard to weave your way through Northside neighborhoods and fail to notice how things are simultaneously changing and staying the same. New buildings are cropping up here and there...
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As a parent, and the product of a pretty traditional education experience, I tend to think of schools as something I support, that I give to. Whether as a volunteer,…
When I think of social change work, the kind that addresses the root causes of injustice, I think about systems. If you are steeped in this work, this is not…
Do you have Frank Sinatra’s (or perhaps Liza Minelli’s) voice running through your brain? For me, it’s Ol’ Blue Eye’s iconic rendition of “Theme from New York, New York” that…
Imagine leaving your home and walking down the street to the local barber shop, the one your father used to visit. As you make the ten-minute trek, you notice the…
In addition to being a small business and education reporter, I’m an educator. I teach five online graduate school classes for Prescott College in Arizona in their Social Justice and…
I don’t know about you, but once the long, sunny days of summer slip away and are replaced by the dark, gloomy chill of fall, I can easily slide into…
Reporting in North Minneapolis never looks the same, day-to-day. A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend an event at New Rules, the Phillips Foundation had hosted an…
