You can help us

NorthWay Community Trust wants to learn what people know about our work. We'll be sending a short survey to a sample of people in early March. If you receive a survey, please help us out by completing and returning it promptly. Your responses will help NorthWay improve our community work. For more information, contact Allan Malkis, Research & Evaluation Program Manager.

Partnership investment proposals due May 5

One of NorthWay's tools for community building is investing in partnerships with community organizations. These are not loans or grants but a coordinated contribution of resources, skills and efforts. To be considered for a partnership investment, proposals must address at least one of NorthWay's five long-term strategies:

Building connections and capacity
Develop new interpersonal connections among residents with a focus on dismantling racism and creating a community voice and sense of power.

Creating community wealth
Forge new economic relationships that foster local wealth creation by increasing the flow of money between residents and establishing new connections to the regional and global economies.

Expanding affordable housing
Encourage the development of homes affordable to people who earn below 50 percent of the City's median income, and support innovative programs for home maintenance.

Addressing health disparities
Engage residents in the process of building greater health by providing new affordable health care options, encouraging culturally appropriate care models and addressing community risk factors.

Broadening knowledge
Bring together systematic, sustainable best practices to provide basic education to youth and enable adults to prosper in a knowledge-based economy.

Sustaining NorthWay

NorthWay gratefully acknowledges a gift from the Wells Fargo Community Support Campaign. This contribution is a result of NorthWay board member C. John Helgeland's pledge during Wells Fargo Annual Giving Campaign.

Northside neighborhoods work together

The Northside Neighborhood Alliance (formerly the Regional Strategy Group) charged with creating a plan to give North Minneapolis residents a greater say in the area's development is making progress. At the February meeting, members selected Michael Berne of MJB Consulting to complete a market scan.

Berne's scan will include analyzing various retail areas and their inter-relationships, and identifying the niches being served by those areas. He will work with a partner who will look at non-retail possibilities.

During that meeting, members also talked about a core values statement being developed to help guide the alliance's work. Various neighborhood associations continue to review and approve those core values. Contact Louis Porter II, Outreach Program Manager, for more information.