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August 3 - Common Bond - Deb Lande
CommonBond Communities is the largest nonprofit developer, manager and service provider of affordable homes with services in the Upper Midwest. They preserve, build, and manage apartments and town homes while providing on-site resident services.
CommonBond has earned a national reputation for excellence for leveraging resources and providing housing that is viewed as a community asset. The additional support services also promote economic independence for adults, academic achievement for youth, as well as bolstering independent living and lifelong learning for seniors and people with special needs.
CommonBond's mission is to build community by creating affordable housing as a stepping-stone to success. This week we'll be joined by Deb Lande, Director of Community Relations for CommonBond.
CommonBond
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July 27 - Affordable Housing - Alan Arthur
As conversation builds around the issue of affordable housing, we thought we should hear from one of our local heroes. Alan Arthur is a pioneer in the field of affordable housing - and his work has earned him a number of awards including "Innovator of the Year" during his 20-year tenure as the leading Central Community Housing Trust. CCHT recently changed its name to Aeon.
As the president and chief executive officer of Aeon, Alan Arthur has led the development of 1,500 units of affordable housing in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. He brings 38 years of experience in housing and real estate development, including construction, project development, lending, code enforcement and city planning. We'll talk with Alan Arthur about ways that people of faith can help create and sustain affordable housing for the common good.
Aeon
July 20 - Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery - Mary Pat Lee
Here's another bad new/good news story... First the bad news: nearly 8,000 children were reported abused or neglected in Minnesota last year. Thirty-four sustained life-threatening injuries and 14 died.
Here's the good news: abuse and neglect are 100% preventable. No child ever needs to suffer. No parent plans to abuse or neglect their children. In fact, all parents want their children to thrive. So what goes wrong? Sometimes, when a parent experiences extreme stress - the stress of poverty, of hunger, of an inability to provide their family with life's most basic necessities - often just one more crisis can bring that parent to a critical boiling point. And too often, children bear the brunt of the stress.
The Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery is a warm, loving, safe place where kids get to be kids - while their parents take care of a family emergency. The Nursery gives parents a supportive, safe, and non-shaming environment in which to ask for help. This week we'll be joined by Mary Pat Lee, Director of the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery.
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery
image courtesy of The Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery
July 13 - Heading Home Hennepin - Cathy ten Broeke
"Heading Home Hennepin" is a 10-year plan designed to end homelessness in Minneapolis and Hennepin County by the year 2016. It was developed by nearly 70 business, civic and faith leaders from the community, with significant input from homeless and formerly homeless individuals. Providing new housing opportunities, support services and around-the-clock outreach to people sleeping on the streets are the "Heading Home Hennepin" components that will empower people of all ages to close the door on homelessness.
Cathy ten Broeke directs the planning and implementation of "Heading Home Hennepin" as the Coordinator to End Homelessness for Minneapolis and Hennepin County. Before being appointed to this position, Cathy worked as an advocate and director of St. Stephen’s Shelter in Minneapolis for eight years, and as Policy Aide to Hennepin County Commissioner Gail Dorfman for four years. In 2004, Cathy was awarded an Archibald Bush Leadership Fellowship, earning her master’s degree in public affairs from the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. She visited cities across the country studying evidence-based best practices - and examined how communities were implementing efforts to prevent and end homelessness.
Heading Home Hennepin
image courtesy of Scott Gawne
July 6 - Faithful America- Dan Nejfelt
Faithful America is an online community of tens of thousands of citizens motivated by faith to take action on the pressing moral issues of our time. Members come from diverse faith traditions but share a unifying commitment: to restore community and uphold the common good in America and across the globe. By speaking out, mobilizing and taking action in the public square, Faithful America is building a powerful grassroots movement to put justice and the common good back at the center of the American values debate.
Faithful America was founded on June 15, 2004, when Americans of faith raised $100,000 to place an advertisement on Arabic-language satellite television expressing regret to Muslims for the abuse committed by Americans at Abu Ghraib prison.
The advertisement said:
"A Salaam A'alaykum ["Peace be with you" in Arabic]. As Americans of faith, we express our deep sorrow at abuses committed in Iraqi prisons. We stand in solidarity with all those in Iraq and everywhere who demand justice and human dignity. We condemn the sinful and systemic abuses committed in our name, and pledge to work to right these wrongs."
Faithful America
Faith in Public Life
Pew Study on Religious America
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