Nexus Worker Owner Initiative (WOI) partners with City of Minneapolis

This November, the Worker Owner Initiative, a part of Nexus Community Partners, officially became a technical assistance provider with the City of Minneapolis’ Cooperative Technical Assistance Program (C-TAP). In this role, we help business owners with succession planning, share information on forming a cooperative business or refining a cooperative business model, and more. The Nexus

North Star Black Cooperative 2021 Fellowship Extends Application Deadline and more…

The North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship (NSBCF) has extended it’s deadline for applications to Friday, November 27th. You can find the application to apply here. Also, the North Star Information Session zoom recording and the powerpoint presentation are both now available.NorthStar2021InfoSessionPPT  If you have questions regarding the North Star 2021 Fellowship please feel free to

Centering Our Values: The 2020 Election

In who we are and through what we do, Nexus Community Partners builds engaged and powerful communities so that each and every person can flourish in a joyful and abundant life. For this to be possible, we must usher out the rigged rules, attitudes, and practices that concentrate wealth and power in fewer and whiter

The 2021 North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship is now open!

Please check out the Housing and Land edition of the North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship. The North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship is a five-month fellowship focused on Black American Cooperative Economics. North Star is centered on the history of Black cooperative economic thought and practice. Our 2021 North Star Fellowship will focus on housing cooperatives

TBLMF: 10/16/2020 Individual Mutual Aid Update

To keep our community informed, here is another update on the Transformative Black Led Movement Fund Mutual Aid progress so far. These are the latest numbers, as of today. In the future, we’ll keep sharing this information, and hope to share more information around geography, demographics, and more. We know our community urgently needs this

Leadership Development that Creates Ecosystem Change: Nexus Community Partners Announces the 8th Cohort of their Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI)

They are advocates, facilitators, program officers, executive directors, and pastors. They come from nonprofits, work in government, and are graduate students. They are dynamic, innovative, and entrepreneurial. Above all, they want a seat at the table and like other years, they will push for racially equitable policies at local, regional, and state levels. From Woodbury

10/2 Update: Transformative Black-led Movement Fund on PAUSE

TRANSFORMATIVE BLACK LED-MOVEMENT FUND ANNOUNCEMENT We have had an incredible response to the Transformative Black Led Mutual Aid Fund (TBLMF). Since August 10th, requests for Mutual Aid alone have totaled over 1.5 million dollars from 700 applications (from both organizations and individuals). Because of this response we will be putting the mutual aid fund on

Nexus is Hiring 2 Public Allies!

Nexus staff at 15th anniversary

In partnership with Public Allies Twin Cities, Nexus Community Partners is hiring for two dynamic 2020-2021 Public Allies positions: Community Engagement Coordinator, Nexus Community Engagement Institute (NCEI) Program Associate, Human Resources & Organizational Culture (HROC) Nexus Community Partners is a community-building intermediary whose mission is to build more engaged and powerful communities of color by supporting community-building

CLLI Leadership Survey Report Now Available

The full report to the CLLI Team at Nexus Community Partners is now available online. This report shares findings of a pre-initiative survey completed in February 2020. Findings reveal how CLLI learning community participants define and think about community leadership values, processes, strategies, and practices. Survey responses reported here were collected before the initiative’s first

What Have We Been Learning? A Community Leadership Learning Initiative Update

Survey findings from the Community Leadership Learning Initiative   The Community Leadership Learning Initiative (CLLI) goal is to deepen our collective understanding of community-driven leadership. We want to raise the visibility of community leadership to philanthropy and the broader ecosystem of leadership and community development. CLLI welcomes people from across the country to share in