Friends of HCL is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and enhancing our libraries’ rich diversity of resources and programming for generations to come. Your support makes a difference for everyone who uses the Hennepin County Library’s extraordinary services and resources. The numbers are staggering — last year, 5.8 million people walked through the Library’s doors, checked out more than 17.5 million items and attended approximately 10,000 free programs. This wouldn’t be possible without an active community of dedicated supporters, like you. Join our circle of friends today and help us change lives throughout our community.
We are here to make a difference. Every morning, thousands of Minnesotans with disabilities, low-income residents, seniors and children wake up without basic legal protections, security or access to opportunity. Our unique professionals come from a wide variety of backgrounds. All are committed to the idea that protecting the basic rights of the vulnerable and disadvantaged helps families and individuals achieve self-sufficiency and contribute toward a better community. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity and equal protection under the law, and we work with policymakers to promote those ideals. www.mylegalaid.org
This community-based, volunteer-run organization usually puts on one major production in the early spring with a full orchestra and chorus. In addition, its singers perform with the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra each summer in a shortened, concert version of one of the operettas. The company also serves as a resource on G&S for the community, occasionally lending orchestral parts and dispensing advice.
Our goal for this year is to build 2 New Classrooms and construction coordination costs, 50 Desks, 2 teachers desks, 600 female sanitary towels, & sports equiptment, 3 water tanks with water guttering system around classrooms, Teacher training workshops, management committee, performance management & training in child protection, Health & well being: HIV & AIDS related education and programs as well as Build Africa’s Project management, evaluation and supportive costs.
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It is estimated that more than 15 million children don’t have the resources they need to succeed in school and that teachers spend more than $1.6 billion a year stocking their own classrooms due to a lack of funding in schools. Supporting K-12th grade students, including public, private, and charter school classrooms, AdoptAClassroom.org makes it easy for donors to provide funding and support to classrooms throughout America. Teachers register their classrooms and needs online; donors discover classrooms through simple search tools, and make targeted contributions. As an award-winning 501(c)(3) non-profit, we are able to connect donors with every classroom in the country. Since we were founded in 1998, AdoptAClassroom.org has connected thousands of donors with over 148,000 classrooms. We have raised over $28 million and estimate that we have improved the learning environment for over 2 million children. Many people ask, how we support our operations. AdoptAClassroom.org is a national nonprofit that receives operational support from corporate sponsors, individuals who generously donate to our Annual Fund, and contributions from vendors on our site.
Meda provides one-on-one business consulting, access to capital, and market opportunities. Since its beginning in 1971, Meda has helped over 20,000 minority entrepreneurs and assisted in the startup of more than 500 businesses. In addition, Meda hosts the Minnesota Procurement Technical Assistance Center (Meda PTAC) that helps all Minnesota businesses pursue government procurement opportunities. Meda PTAC offers specialized support for Women, Veteran, and HUB Zone businesses. Meda also operates a business development center under cooperative agreement with the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Minneapolis MBDA Business Center connects Minnesota Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) with business opportunities. Meda is also a U.S. Department of the Treasury certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI).
Our dance medicine specialists include: - Brad Moser, MD - Suzanne Hecht, MD - Meredith Butulis, DPT, MSPT - Rhondi Miller, PT, MS, SCS, ATC - Maryann Johnson, PT - Jennifer Martin, PT, OCS, FAAOMPT - Sarah Petrich, DPT - Jonathan Reynolds, PhD, PT - Megin Sabo, DPT - Kayla Ashton, MS, ATC - Betsy Hines, DPT - Cari Riis Stemmler, BB Faculty, PMA® CPT, CPT
Global Citizens Network (GCN) provides international and domestic short-term travel with a purpose. Experience cross-cultural immersion as an individual, family, student group, or other type of group. Contribute to small scale community development projects with our primarily indigenous host partners in Africa, Asia, South America, & North America. GCN projects are locally conceived and globally achieved.
Friends of HCL is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and enhancing our libraries’ rich diversity of resources and programming for generations to come. Your support makes a difference for everyone who uses the Hennepin County Library’s extraordinary services and resources. The numbers are staggering — last year, 5.8 million people walked through the Library’s doors, checked out more than 17.5 million items and attended approximately 10,000 free programs. This wouldn’t be possible without an active community of dedicated supporters, like you. Join our circle of friends today and help us change lives throughout our community.
Global Citizens Network (GCN) provides international and domestic short-term travel with a purpose. Experience cross-cultural immersion as an individual, family, student group, or other type of group. Contribute to small scale community development projects with our primarily indigenous host partners in Africa, Asia, South America, & North America. GCN projects are locally conceived and globally achieved.
Meda provides one-on-one business consulting, access to capital, and market opportunities. Since its beginning in 1971, Meda has helped over 20,000 minority entrepreneurs and assisted in the startup of more than 500 businesses. In addition, Meda hosts the Minnesota Procurement Technical Assistance Center (Meda PTAC) that helps all Minnesota businesses pursue government procurement opportunities. Meda PTAC offers specialized support for Women, Veteran, and HUB Zone businesses. Meda also operates a business development center under cooperative agreement with the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Minneapolis MBDA Business Center connects Minnesota Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) with business opportunities. Meda is also a U.S. Department of the Treasury certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI).
Pathways To Children was founded by Grace Strangis as a result of her many years of traveling the world with her Corporate Travel Agency. She grew up with limited opportunities in a small Minnesota farming community and had no concept of the broader world needs and that so much of the world was engulfed in poverty. After seeing the thousands of orphaned and abandoned children on the street with no school or medical care, she decided the best way she could help was to use her vast travel knowledge and travel coordination skills to bring volunteers to see, hear, touch and hold this vast segment of humanity. In making people aware of the extreme poverty of this world she felt they would want to help. She also recognized the opportunity to raise funds for the NGO’s (Non Government Agencies) that are working to provide for the needs of the needs of these children and their families. The result is that the volunteers who accompany Grace not only change the life of a child but their lives are also changed forever! Volunteers provide not only the “human touch” but also expertise in their field. They also are inspired and inspire others when they return to provide financial support which has enabled Pathways to Children to financially support it’s projects of schools, medical facilities and orphanages.
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Twenty six years ago, the Page Education Foundation (PEF) launched an inspiration: invite promising students of color to continue their education, and they will accept. Since its inception in 1988, PEF has parlayed this innovative idea into a catalyst for shaping the education and social responsibility of vibrant young people of color. We do this by enticing college-age youth to positively influence younger children of color. In exchange for their volunteer service to children, PEF offers Page Scholars professional mentoring and financial assistance for college. The program has grown from providing funding to ten students in 1988 to 525 students today, and over 5,500 in the past 26 years. These exceptional young people have given more than 350,000 service hours to younger children in an effort to positively influence their future education. Our vibrant community and dedication to service does not end once Page Scholars graduate. Our alumni stay connected to the Foundation by serving on our Advisory Board, providing professional development opportunities to current Page Scholars, making financial contributions, and volunteering at various PEF events throughout the year.
This community-based, volunteer-run organization usually puts on one major production in the early spring with a full orchestra and chorus. In addition, its singers perform with the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra each summer in a shortened, concert version of one of the operettas. The company also serves as a resource on G&S for the community, occasionally lending orchestral parts and dispensing advice.
Ethiopia Reads: Cultivating minds for a stronger tomorrow.
Minnesota Blues Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit all volunteer organization.
Our goal for this year is to build 2 New Classrooms and construction coordination costs, 50 Desks, 2 teachers desks, 600 female sanitary towels, & sports equiptment, 3 water tanks with water guttering system around classrooms, Teacher training workshops, management committee, performance management & training in child protection, Health & well being: HIV & AIDS related education and programs as well as Build Africa’s Project management, evaluation and supportive costs.