MPA Student of the Year and Elevator LIFT
Mounds Park Academy NSPMO Student of the Year Cassie Atkinson and Elevator LIFT with Jim Hunt. Jim presents a new presentation about the Elevator LIFT (formerly Fast for Hope) project.
ISD 622 Update with Christine Tucci-Osorio
Christine Tucci-Osorio, ISD622 Superintendent, discusses school updates over the past year.
Uganda Refugee Settlements with Rick Olson
Nakivale Refugee Settlement, established in 1958. 132 miles from Kampala, Uganda’s capital city. Refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eritrea (and others). Run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and assisted by NGOs. 71 square miles, Nakivale is within the Isingiro District in southwest Uganda, in which…
Girls are Powerful with Shawntan Howell
Founded in 2013, Girls Are Powerful is the brainchild of Shawntan Howell, who was frustrated with the lack of cultural appropriateness options available in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area to help girls build healthy self-esteem and awareness of self and others. With her eyes set on a brighter future, she began planning and organizing a movement…
Books for Africa with Erin Moran
Books For Africa remains the largest shipper of donated text and library books to the African continent, shipping over 54 million books to all 55 countries on the African continent since 1988. Last year alone, Books For Africa shipped 3.1 million books, valued at over $26.2 million, and 224 computers and e-readers containing over 885,000…
Kenya Orphanage with Rev. Ann Mekena
To meet the needs of abandoned and orphaned in Kenya, supporting placing of children in loving homes and strengthening families. We provide high school education to oppressed, needy girls who would otherwise drop out of high school due to lack of tuition since government doesn’t provide funding for high school which lack of, compounds abuse…
Hill Murray Rotary Student of the Year & Books for Babies
Congratulations to our Hill Murray Rotary Jack Nelson. Jack is very involved with his academics and the fine arts, with being in over 40 plays and musicals in the past 4 years. He is one of the founding members of the Hill Murray Student for Change, which is an organization that brings awareness and combats…
Amarok Society with Laurel Schell
Amarok Society with Laurel Schell If the world’s children are going to write their own stories… they’re going to need to know how to write. We stand for the freedom of children. We stand for their freedom from poverty, from violence, from oppression. For the freedom to direct their own lives, exploring and contributing their…
Tony Pedriana with Jump Start to Literacy
Books in the home build foundational skills, and kids are learning the following when they are read to: Alphabetic knowledge. Being able to identify the letters of the alphabet upon entering kindergarten gives them a jump start. Phonemic awareness. If they already understand and have been inundated with how letters sound, they are ahead of…