Our Year-End Update sees us “United For Hope.”
Our Spring Newsletter brings you stories of growth, creating safety, and new beginnings. Please enjoy!
Since mid-March, Hope’s staff has been working from home. We are adjusting our work and overcoming the challenges presented, and though our work today looks much different than it has during our previous 42 years, we are still fulfilling our mission each day. We are highlighting our staff members so you can hear from us how we fulfill our mission in today’s world! You’ll hear what our work looks like, what challenges we’re overcoming, what updates we have, and our plans moving forward. Thank you for joining us!
Spotlight #6: Youth & Family Engagement
This week, we’re putting a spotlight on our Youth and Family Engagement team, with DHop, the Director of Youth and Family Engagement, and J.T., our Best Buy Teen Technology Center Coordinator. DHop and J.T. give updates on what all of the youth programs have looked like this year so far. They explain pivots made in working with youth through virtual programs, vitrual engagement with the summer internships, connecting with youth through the uprising including the youth-let sit-in, and many more details about their work.
Since mid-March, Hope’s staff has been working from home. We are adjusting our work and overcoming the challenges presented, and though our work today looks much different than it has during our previous 42 years, we are still fulfilling our mission each day. We are highlighting our staff members so you can hear from us how we fulfill our mission in today’s world! You’ll hear what our work looks like, what challenges we’re overcoming, what updates we have, and our plans moving forward. Thank you for joining us!
Spotlight #5: ARC Team
Watch this week’s staff spotlight video to hear from our Art of Radical Collaboration (ARC) team, partner from Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the incredible work they’ve been doing! Olivia Levins Holden, ARC Lead Organizer, Samie Johnson, Creative Programs Assistant, and Hope’s partner Crystal Price with Mia, provide program and partnership history, updates about Art of Radical Collaboration’s programming, TRCSTR description updates, and what their work looks like this year.
Since mid-March, Hope’s staff has been working from home. We are adjusting our work and overcoming the challenges presented, and though our work today looks much different than it has during our previous 42 years, we are still fulfilling our mission each day. We are highlighting our staff members so you can hear from us how we fulfill our mission in today’s world! You’ll hear what our work looks like, what challenges we’re overcoming, what updates we have, and our plans moving forward. Thank you for joining us!
Spotlight #4: Parks & Power Team
This week, we are featuring our Parks & Power team, Jake Virden and Shruthi Kamisetty! First you’ll hear from Jake, Parks & Power Lead Organizer. He describes their work in parks during the pandemic, working with the Parks Board, supporting the Minneapolis Sanctuary Movement and encampments with the parks, and navigating the challenges. Then you’ll hear from Shruthi, Parks & Power Organizer. She explains the Parks & Power values and purpose, the disproportionate impacts COVID-19 is having on the BIPOC community, the curcial need for parks, and a COVID-19 testing site at Phelps Park.
Since mid-March, Hope’s staff has been working from home. We are adjusting our work and overcoming the challenges presented, and though our work today looks much different than it has during our previous 42 years, we are still fulfilling our mission each day. We are highlighting our staff members so you can hear from us how we fulfill our mission in today’s world! You’ll hear what our work looks like, what challenges we’re overcoming, what updates we have, and our plans moving forward. Thank you for joining us!
Spotlight #1: Maggy Otte
Our first staff spotlight is Maggy Otte, our Community Development Associate. Maggy gives an update on what housing looks like today for Hope and our property management partners!
Spotlight #2: Malyun Yahye
Our second Staff Spotlight is Malyun Yahye, our Community Ownership Project Coordinator. Malyun introduces our new Community Ownership Project launching this month! If you are intersted in learning more about this program, take our quick survey.
Spotlight #3: Maryan Abdinur
Maryan Abdinur is our Food, Land & Community Program Lead. In this Spotlight, Maryan describres her program, engagement, and policy work during a time of distancing, talks about her response to food access shortages through the supply drop, and provides updates on harvesting in the Gardens this year!
Our 2019 Annual Report reflects on what can happen when dreams meet reality – when dreamers and doers align. Making dreams come to fruition requires concrete plans, follow through, patience, grit, and dedication. Hope Community has been comprised of leaders, staff, volunteers, and supporters who share those qualities; for decades, we’ve been working with community members and partners to make dreams become reality.
Together, we will keep dreaming and doing for the years to come.
We will keep fighting for justice and liberation, solidifying foundations for lasting placekeeping, establishing safe and healthy environments in our neighborhoods, and we will never stop listening to the voices of our community.
In gratitude,
Shannon Smith Jones,
Executive Director
Read the 2019 Annual Report [PDF]
Our 2018 Annual Report celebrates the stories we know, collect, and have yet to discover. It celebrates over a decade of buildingpower, investing in leaders, placekeeping & making.
Thank you to our community of supporters. Together, we continue to building a stronger community, city & future. Know that you are a part of this story too-the time, energy, and dollars you have invested here are a part of what makes this place and our work thrive. You have a role in this story.
Eager to share Hope with your friends and family? Watch our video and share it with those you care about. Donate or become a monthly Sustainer today!
Collective visions of place keeping and leadership building.
Stay in the know on our upcoming mural – the process, artists & organizations involved.
Power of Vision Mural Project (POV) began in 2004 as part of Hope Community’s community building and place keeping initiatives. Since then, we have painted over 25 collaborative Murals in South Minneapolis, all centered on leadership development, skill-creation, and amplifying the stories and voices of participant artists by reflecting them in our physical environment. In 2014, POV expanded our scope and possibilities by becoming a partnership project with Minneapolis Institute of Art.
The Project:
Power of Vision is partnering with Project for Pride in Living (PPL) in the spring and summer of 2019 to create a large mural on Franklin Ave. We are working with a cohort of artist-organizers to conduct community engagement and listening, collectively design a mural that reflects this engagement, and paint a 3,600 square foot mural at Franklin Ave and 11th Ave. in Phillips, Minneapolis.
Why:
This project is an opportunity to utilize our platform as artists and organizers to highlight the history, voices, and priorities of Phillips communities on a large scale. We hope to deepen relationships, illuminate stories, and invite engagement and collective ownership.
Click here to follow our Power of Vision Blog!
Our 2018 Fall Newsletter is here!
Celebrating 15 years of the Power of Vision mural project
For more than a decade, art has been an important community building tool
in Hope’s place keeping and leadership development work. Within our Art,
Policy, and Power program, the Power of Vision (POV) mural project (est.
2004) has been a space for youth and adults to create murals that reflect
community, convey understanding and embody hope. The POV project
allows local emerging artists in our community to learn from mentors and
create public art reflective of their own vision of their community, while
building art skills, leadership, and relationships.
As Hope’s mission expands and our next chapter unfolds, the history of creating
Power Spaces remains a part of our core. POV exemplifies this by creating a
space for youth to explore arts in a new way—knowing they are at the center
and that their voices will be driving the narrative of the final mural—visible in
their own city. The POV project, like all our work, is part of our overall
strategy of Place Keeping—a development and engagement approach that
recognizes, amplifies, and leverages the stories, practices, and collective
assets already found within the neighborhood and the community.
Your investment in Hope is an investment in the power of community. Hope’s approach is to build on the existing power of community and to focus our work on what we hear from community. It is intentional, complex, and strategic and creates space where people can be part of a community where they can connect with others, learn together, and build the future they want to see.
We are grateful for your belief in, and generous support of our work.