Wednesday, Sep 09, 2009

TTT SEPT 9: CHANCE-CedarRiverside

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SEPT 9: WEST BANK C.H.A.N.C.E.: Helping Cedar-Riverside Thrive

Since 2006, and without much fanfare, and using many of the skills and scholarship acquired there, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs (HHH) graduate students have been working in concert with activists in the nearby Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Central Minneapolis to improve the community development prospects. It's a sort of town and gown enterprise - with Cedar-Riverside the next-door neighbor to two college campuses (UofM's West Bank and Augsburg College) now known as West Bank CHANCE (Cedar-Humphrey Action for Neighborhood Collaborative Engagement).html and working through the Center for Integrative Leadership.

From the CHANCE website: Through collaboration among the UMN West Bank schools, institutions, residents and business owners in the neighborhood WB CHANCE seeks to expand the idea of community and sustainable, just partnerships. On the University side, partners include the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota Law School, University Libraries, Office of Public Engagement, and Office of University Relations. On the community side, CHANCE has on-going and developing relationships with the many community non-profits and associations, Augsburg College and Fairview.

TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN explore the projects and accomplishments of this small band of volunteers, their cohorts residing in Cedar-Riverside and their faculty advisors

GUESTS:

• MERRIE BENASUTTI - Center for Integrative Leadership (in partnership with Carlson School of Management) and CHANCE Faculty Advisor

• ABDIRIZAK MABOUB -Director, Cedar Riverside Neighborhood Revitalization Program

• BENJAMIN MARCY - President, West Bank Community Coalition, CHANCE member

• MORGAN ZEHNER, MBA - Carlson School Business Fellows Program

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