posted on: Tuesday, October 27, 2009

by Yna C. Moore

With the help and support of the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock, Headwaters Foundation for Justice and Main Street Project, 10 of the 15 organizations in Minnesota featured in our latest Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities report put together their own multimedia presentations that highlight their advocacy, organizing and civic engagement efforts.

These organizations include:

• Advocating Change Together (ACT)
• Alliance for Metropolitan Stability
• Centro Campesino
• Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILCM)
• Indigenous Peoples Task Force (IPTF)
• ISAIAH
• Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP)
• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Minnesota
• Range Women's Advocates
• Somali Action Alliance

These organizations work on various critical issues faced by Minnesotans, such as transportation equity, civil rights and health care.

We invite you to view their stories, meet those on the frontlines of making positive change happen in our communities and be inspired!

Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities: Impacts of Advocacy, Organizing and Civic Engagement in Minnesota by Gita Gulati-Partee and Lisa Ranghelli documents how 15 local organizations and their allies leveraged foundation support to bring in $138 dollars in equivalent benefits for every dollar invested in policy engagement efforts.

Yna C. Moore is communications director at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP.)