By MCF
The podcast currently has 74 episodes available.
Anil Hurkadli and Trina Olson return to Fast Forward to discuss the current relationship between Minnesota's philanthropic community and Minnesota's LGBTQIA+ communities. They talk about their ongoing work on the Better OUTcomes Initiative.
Trina Olson is Co-Founder and Principal at Team Dyamics
Anil Hurkadli is Learning and Strategy Officer at Thrivent Foundation
The Better OUTcomes Initiative is a multi-year philanthropic movement to increase funding to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, Two-Spirit and allied people and groups as well as strengthen better philanthropic practices for grantmakers based in Minnesota.
http://boi.pfundfoundation.org/
This is a live recording of the 2018 Annual Conference opening plenary session on the State of Philanthropy.
This panel features:
Me'Lea Connelly, Director of the Association for Black Economic Power, and Patrick Troska, Executive Director of the Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of MN, discuss their partnership on the Village Trust Financial Cooperative.
http://bit.ly/villagetrustfinancialcoop
The Association for Black Economic Power (ABEP) is working to establish Village Trust Financial Cooperative, Minnesota’s only Black-led financial institution. This concept was born 18 months ago in response to the killing of Philando Castile, as a way to use our economic power as a form of resistance to build the financial resilience of our communities, and insulate against extraction and divestment. This is not a new concept, but a strategy with a legacy woven throughout Black history. Financial liberation through institutional power has long been successfully used in lifting communities from economic pain into promise.
With the support of The Jay & Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota, we have spent the last 12 months doing the leg-work, creating the structure and building public commitment necessary to open Village Trust in North Minneapolis in 2019. We are now looking to build a body of supporters and investors who believe in igniting an economic renaissance by, for and with the Black community. We seek to build a network of supporters who see this project as an opportunity to unify a community torn apart by inequitable systems that persist in our state. Village Trust has the potential to be a powerful tool in reversing our equity chasm. However, it will truly take a village to make this happen.
CEO of Social Impact Strategies Group, Y. Elaine Rasmussen has over 20 years experience in building transformational relationships and cultural competency in corporations, philanthropy, government, and nonprofits.
On this episode, Elaine talks about the work of connecting entrepreneurs with investors and about the ConnectUp! conference happening in connection with MCF's annual conference in March!
On March 14-15, 2018 in conjunction with Minnesota Council on Foundation’s Conference, ConnectUP! MN will bring together socially responsible entrepreneurs, investors and key players in the entrepreneur ecosystem in a supportive, inclusive community. Through interactive sessions attendees can connect, learn, share, partner and catalyze investments to actively create a more inclusive Minnesota economy.When it comes to voting, Minnesota makes it easy. That was the headline in a November 2016 New York Times article about Minnesota's tradition of high voter participation. Some of the reasons cited in the story for high turnout were rooted in Minnesota values for effective government, community education and civic engagement. Also noted is "Minnesota’s voting laws have long focused on removing barriers. In 1974 it became just the second state to embrace same-day registration, which remains essential: In 2012, close to one in five voters registered on the day they cast their ballots."
Joan Growe, Minnesota's former Secretary of State (1975 to 1999) as a state legislator supported the Minnesota same-day voter registration law (the first in the country) and later, as Secretary of State, worked to implement it. At her side expanding voter participation in Minnesota was Joe Mansky, now Ramsey County Elections Manager.
In this conversation with Joan Growe and Joe Mansky we learn from the people who were there and made it happen about how Minnesota came to have such an envious system for engaging voters. It says something about "Minnesota values." It also says something about a moment in time in Minnesota politics. Some suggest Minnesota is lagging behind in modern election reform (e.g. automatic voter registration) while also being vulnerable to changes, such as voter ID, that have been shown to suppress voter participation.
MCF expects voting rights and suppression to be a high profile issue in both the 2018 legislative session and the 2018 elections. MCF public policy advocacy supports the goal of creating prosperity through inclusion and equity. To advance that goal, we support policies that strengthen democractic institutions and civic engagement, including advocating for policies that promote voting rights.
This Minnesota Votes: Minnesota Values and Opening Access to the Ballot program is the first in a two part series. The second is a panel presentation on February 16, Minnesota Votes: Protecting the Ballot for All. MCF will also feature Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America as a keynote speaker at its March 2018 conference.
Anil Hurkadli and Trina Olson talk about ideas surrounding identity and fundraising strategies in philanthropic work. They talk about ideas specific to LGBTQ+ communities as well as broader issues in the sector.
Trina Olson is executive director of PFund Foundation.
Anil Hurkadli is program officer at Thrivent Financial Foundation.
This is part three of a three part series of podcast recordings with Trina and Anil on working with and for LGBTQ+ communities.
Part 1: http://mncouncil.libsyn.com/lgbtq-myths-misconceptions-fast-forward
Part 2: http://mncouncil.libsyn.com/lgbtq-part-2-with-anil-trina-fast-forward
Anil Hurkadli and Trina Olson talk about ideas surrounding identity and fundraising strategies in philanthropic work. They talk about ideas specific to LGBTQ+ communities as well as broader issues in the sector.
Trina Olson is executive director of PFund Foundation.
Anil Hurkadli is program officer at Thrivent Financial Foundation.
Part 1 of this 3 part series can be found here: http://mncouncil.libsyn.com/lgbtq-myths-misconceptions-fast-forward
GHR Foundation and OpenIDEO choose 5 Social Innovators as winning cohort in inaugural million dollar BridgeBuilder Challenge!
Mark Guy, senior program officer at GHR Foundation, talks about how the BridgeBuilder Challenge was devised and created, what's happening with the inaugural cohort and shares some plans for future versions of the challenge.
Mark Guy is a senior program officer for GHR Foundation's global development program where he focuses on leveraging child protection interventions that strengthen families, respond to children outside of family care and drive further evidence of innovative, pro-family approaches. He also supports global and domestic early childhood development programs for Better Way Foundation.
Mike Ricci shares the very compelling story that made him transition from working at a wealth management firm to becoming director of professional outreach and investments at the Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota.
Mike has a dual role at CCF. As Investment Officer, Mike provides consistent stewardship of your CCF investments. He also collaborates with the Foundation’s Investment Committee to execute and maintain the long-term investment strategy needed to manage assets in perpetuity.
As Director of Professional Outreach, he spends time cultivating awareness of CCF and its work with wealth managers, accountants, bankers, and attorneys. In this capacity, he aims to broaden CCF’s reach to potential donors who wish to align their philanthropy and Catholic faith to meet the needs of the community.
The podcast currently has 74 episodes available.