Publications & Media

Our 2020 Annual Report is a representation of a year that pulled this community together in unexpected ways. It is an honor share our stories of energy, spirit, recovery, and resilience, made possible by each and every one you. Your generosity, your advocacy, your trust, and your dedication to community is what keeps Hope strong.

Thank you for being a part of our Hope family, and for your hand in creating resiliency in community.

With profound gratitude,
Shannon Smith Jones

2021 Spring Newsletter

Staff Spotlights

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!

Youth & Family Engagement

Parks & Power Team

Malyun Yahye

ARC Team

Maryan Abdinur

Maggy Otte

2020 Year End Newsletter

Please enjoy our Year End Newsletter to read about our resilient dreams, responsive actions, and big impacts as doers in 2020. We’re so grateful to have been in community with you all this year, and appreciate you for keeping Hope strong!

2019 Annual Report

2018 Annual Report

Power of People and Place

End of One Way
January 1, 2004

Hope is one of three organizations featured in the book about doing traditional work in non-traditional ways. The project was supported by the McKnight Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Children’s Village Brochure

Hope Community, DJR Architecture and Grebner Associates
March 26, 1999

The Children’s Village vision was an “agitational vision” that was needed to jolt public officials and others with power and resources out of their negative assumptions about Hope’s neighborhood and its residents. The vision for more than 16 square blocks included six-foot-high drawings showing a revitalized neighborhood with infill housing. The vision succeeded in changing perceptions about this part of the Phillips neighborhood and lead to the multi-phased Franklin Portland Gateway development project.

Archives

Feed the Roots: A Hope Community Listening Project Report

December 1, 2015

Feed the Roots is a two-year Hope Community Listening Project that involved more than 400 Phillips Community residents in dialogues about food, land, health, culture, and justice. This project continued Hope’s tradition of community dialogues around powerful questions, lifting up community voices to guide Hope’s work with and for the community.

Hearing the Call – Community Listening at Hope Community

Kate Tilney
January 1, 2008

Hope has become known for our Community Listening which has involved over 1,500 people in community dialogues. Community Listening emphasizes the importance of relationships and partnerships and it allows us to translate voices into action and better harness the collective power of people for change.

Hope Community Youth Listening Project Report

Hope SPEAC youth leaders
January 1, 2008

Hope youth leaders ventured into the community surrounding Hope in search of organizations and institutions that played vital roles in young people’s daily lives. They went to churches, schools, parks, shelter, and libraries. They talked to program coordinators, teachers and students. Through their work and commitment, SPEAC leaders brought small groups of youth together to dialogue about their dreams, challenges and fears.

Listening to the Community: A Park Designed Through Dialogue

Mary Keefe, Hope Community
May 1, 2005

Community: Taking a Closer Look

Hope Community Listening Report
April 1, 2001

In about 30 dialogues, over 300 people – youth, adults, elders, people from diverse culture traditions – discussed the meanings, pride and struggles they experience in their communities and neighborhoods.

Hope Community honored as model for urban change: Hope Community wins Bush innovation award for work in Phillips neighborhood.

Jean Hopfensperger

Star Tribune
November 10, 2015

New Minneapolis apartments fuse energy efficiency with style, affordability

Jim Buchta

Star Tribune
July 20, 2015

Hope Community: McKnight Foundation Impact Story

McKnight Foundation
May 27, 2015

10 development projects that will transform Minneapolis-St. Paul in 2015

Phillip Koski

MinnPost
December 12, 2014

A Place People Call Their Own: Community Partnerships That Foster Community Health

Jay Walljasper

The Line
December 10, 2014

Power of Vision’s Mural Unveils Community Perspectives

Adjoa Akofio-Sowah

Neighborhood Development Center
August 21, 2013

Duets: Jordan and Aaron, reading with a special touch

Gail Rosenblum and Jim Gehrz

Star Tribune
March 18, 2013

Tutoring at Hope Community in Minneapolis

Ge Gao

Twin Cities Daily Planet

December 10, 2012

Hope Community in Minneapolis: Two tutors, two stories

Ge Gao

Twin Cities Daily Planet
December 10, 2012

From freeway to gateway: Hennepin County plan would reduce lanes on Park, Portland

Drew Kerr

Finance & Commerce
August 27, 2012

Not your typical gang of youth spray-painting inner-city Minneapolis walls …

Erin Collins

Twin Cities Daily Planet
August 9, 2012

MN Original: Chaka Mkali

TPT

June 13, 2012

Hope staff member Chaka Mkali and participants of the Power of Vision Mural Program were featured in TPT’s weekly arts series “MN Original”, celebrating Minnesota’s creative community.

Homes for All

Twin Cities Public Television
February 19, 2012

This is an excerpt from Homes for All, an in-depth look at current issues around affordable housing and the vast need for sustainable housing choices. Hope Community was one of three housing organizations profiled in this hour-long documentary. Co-produced with MN Housing Partnership.

Around the Nation

Saskia De Melker

PBS Around the Nation: Art Beat
December 15, 2011

Four arts and culture videos from public broadcasting partners were selected from around the nation and posted on the PBS art blog. Chaka M’kali of Hope Community was one of them. TPT’s Minnesota Original profiled M’kali’s murals, which he uses to tell stories that speak to the community, begin public discourse and inspire hope.