End of One Way

Describes the role of three South Minneapolis community-based organizations. Demonstrates how the organizations form partnerships and share leadership with their communities. Explores a set of themes derived from each example of community engagement

Juvenile Probation Officers Call for a New Response to Teen Drug and Alcohol Use and Dependency

Shares lessons learned from RWJF's Reclaiming Futures initiative from a juvenile justice practitioner's perspective. Discusses the need to reform the system's treatment services, the challenges faced at the ten project sites, and recommendations

Toward Power-Shifting Solidarity with Black-Led Change: The State of Philanthropic Investments & Transformative Invitations to Advance Racial Justice in Minnesota & Beyond

Leaders of the Black Collective Foundation MN, the state's first Black community foundation, are working to ensure that Black-led organizations and communities are adequately recognized and resourced. In the spring of 2022, the  Collective and the Center for Evaluation Innovation formed a partnership to consider how to build power-shifting solidarity with Black people and communities across Minnesota.Doing this required better understanding what foundation staff believe is possible, what will motivate courageous action, and how to support those who have made commitments to stay the course.This report, and the research that informs it, considers the question: What will it take for institutional philanthropy in MN and beyond to move at the speed of courage and invest wholly in Black lives