Upcoming Events
Changing the Face of Housing * Leader’s Summit
Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Wellstone Center/Neighborhood House
179 Robie Street East
Saint Paul, MN 55107
The Leader's Summit is being held primarily to invite alumni from the Careership Program, Public Policy Initiative, and Krusell Fellows from the Humphrey Institute to the table to delve deeper into issues around regional equity.
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Past Events
Changing the Face of Housing in Minnesota’s 8th Annual Event
Featuring Cherokee Film Producer and Director Heather Rae
Changing the Face of
Housing in Minnesota 7th Annual Event Featuring
Community Development and Arts Education Leader
Bill Strickland
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (followed by a
reception in the atrium)
The O'Shaughnessy at the College of St. Catherine
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for more information.
Changing the Face of Housing
in Minnesota 6th Annual Event
Featuring environmental justice advocate Majora Carter
Majora
Carter is connecting race, poverty alleviation,
and the environment in ways that address all issues—demonstrating
solutions for our most persistent community development,
public health, and global climate concerns. Hence
her motto: “Green the Ghetto!”
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
9:00 a.m. to Noon
The O’Shaughnessy at the College of St. Catherine
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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“Changing Face
of Housing” Housing Policy Leadership Training
8 Sessions - Monday nights beginning
September 10, 2007.
Special training experience prepares
participants to make their voice/views heard through
direct participation in advocacy organizations, legislative
or rule making institutions, and with various housing
related public policy issues.
From Dialogue to Action
Featuring a theater performance and discussion by The ProGroup Players
Tuesday,
August 7, 2007
8:30 to 11:30 a.m. • St. Paul
“From Dialogue to Action” is produced and performed by The
ProGroup Players, a professional theatre troupe affiliated with ProGroup, Inc.,
one of
the nation’s leading diversity consultants.
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invitation
Changing the Face of Housing
in Minnesota's 5th Annual Event featuring Anna
Deavere Smith
December 1, 2006
9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
The O'Shaughnessey at the
College of Saint Catherine
Don’t miss this event! Changing the Face of
Housing in Minnesota is marking it’s 5th Annual
Event by bringing renowned actress and playwright
Anna Deavere Smith to the stage at the O’Shaughnessy.
Hailed by Newsweek as “the most exciting individual
in American theater,” Smith uses her singular
brand of theater to explore issues of race, community,
and character in America. Best known as the author
and performer of two one-woman plays about racial
tensions in American cities—Fires in the Mirror
and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992—Smith also plays
the National Security Advisor Nancy McNally on The
West Wing and co-starred in the drama Presidio Med.
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Card
Changing the Face of Housing in Minnesota
3rd Annual Event featuring:
Yolanda
King’s Open My Eyes, Open My Soul
Friday, December 10, 2004 (Human Rights Day)
8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Concordia University, Theatre Arts Center
312 Hamline Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55104
March 25, 2004
Changing the Face of Housing
Leadership Workshop
Thursday, March 25, 2004
8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
McNamara Alumni Center, A.I. Johnson Great Room
University of Minnesota
200 Oak Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55422
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the invite here (.pdf format)
November 18, 2003
Changing the Face of Housing
2nd Annual Event
Tuesday, November 18, 2003
1:30 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.
Theatre Performance, Discussion, and Reception
Metropolitan State University Auditorium
700 East Seventh Street
Saint Paul, MN 55106
RSVP for the event here
Please join us for the second annual event of Changing
the Face of Housing in Minnesota. This year’s event
will feature an entertaining and thought-provoking
performance by the professional theatre group Breaking
Ice, whose mission is to foster a better understanding
of the self, other persons, cultural traditions and
lifestyles. Breaking Ice has created a tailored performance
that speaks to issues of diversity and inclusiveness
in the affordable housing field. A facilitated discussion
will follow the performance. Guests are invited to
stay for a reception with hors d’oeuvres and beverages
following the discussion.
July 22, 2002
Changing the Face of Housing
in Minnesota Presents a Diversity and Inclusiveness
Leadership Workshop
Tuesday July 22, 2002
8:00 a.m. to Noon
Courage Center Headquarters
3915 Golden Valley Road
Minneapolis, MN 55422
May 22, 2002
LEE MUN WAH’S LAST CHANCE
FOR EDEN
Changing the Face of Housing in Minnesota
Presents a second viewing of Lee
Mun Wah’s film
“Last
Chance for Eden”
Thursday, May 22, 2002
8:30 a.m. to Noon
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
301 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455
For directions and parking information for the Hubert
H. Humphrey Center, please visit:
http://www.hhh.umn.edu/news/conference/
March 23, 2003
Introduction to Housing
Development & Finance
Purpose:
- Increase the understanding of the development
and financing process for affordable housing and
available resources for technical assistance and
other expertise.
- Gain a broader understanding of housing issues
in ethnic and cultural communities.
Date/Time/Location:
Thursday, April 10, 2003
Registration; Beginning at 8:30am
Workshop; 9:00am - 2:00pm
Skyline Towers Advantage Center Community Room
1247 St. Anthony Avenue in St. Paul, MN
Contact: Tanya Cannady at LISC (651-649-1109
or tcannady@liscnet.org)
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complete information (microsoft .doc format)
December 12, 2002
GATES MILLENNIUM SCHOLARSHIP
NOMINATION
Washington, DC - Nomination Materials for the Gates
Millennium Scholars program are now available for
the 2003-2004 Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) awards.
Principals, teachers, guidance counselors, tribal
higher education representatives, and other professional
educators are invited to nominate students with outstanding
academic records, strong leadership potential and
commitment to community service. Nominators must act
in their personal capacity. Institutional nominations
will not be accepted.
click here for information about the
scholarship nomination
December 3, 2002
CHANGING THE FACE OF HOUSING
INITIATIVE LAUNCHED
TO INCREASE THE PARTICIPATION OF COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROCESSES AND DECISIONS IN MINNESOTA
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complete press release (.doc format)
December 3, 2002
LAUNCH Workshop
Title: “The Realities of Racism and Affordable Housing”
Please join us for a motivating and thought-provoking
workshop by nationally acclaimed lecturer and filmmaker
Lee
Mun Wah (of Stir
Fry Seminars) for the official launch of Changing
the Face of Housing in Minnesota. Changing the Face
of Housing is a diversity,inclusiveness,and affordable
housing initiative that seeks to increase the participation
of communities of color at all levels of housing production,
planning,management,policy,and decision-making.Come
learn how you and your organization can help the affordable
housing field in Minnesota become more representative
of all the people we serve.
Click here for Lee Mun Wah's "7
Healthy Ways to Communicate".
Schedule
8:30 AM.to 9 AM
Registration and light breakfast
9 AM to 11:30 AM
Workshop with Lee Mun Wah
11:30 AM to 11:45 AM
Break
11:45 AM to 1PM
Lunch and Kick-off of Changing the Face of Housing in
Minnesota
Changing the Face of Housing in Minnesota
LAUNCH Workshop
Tuesday, December 3, 2002
9:15 - 11:15 A.M
Objectives
Changing demographics makes it increasingly imperative
that we learn how to create organizations that embrace
and value racial and ethnic diversity. Despite our
best intentions, elements of racism embedded in our
culture and reflected in our institutions continue
to frustrate our efforts to move towards inclusion,
respect and valuing of our racial and ethnic diversity.
A major obstacle to valuing diversity is the invisibility
of racism to many people. As a result, people who
are not targets of racism lack awareness of how it
impacts and damages people of color. Emphasis will
be placed on how racism impacts access to affordable
housing and creates barriers to the participation
of communities of color at all levels of housing production,
planning, management, policy, and decision making.
The workshop objectives for participants are:
- Through the use of Last Chance for Eden,
Part One video and group dialogue, make
the existence and damaging effects of systemic and
institutional racism evident.
- Demonstrate how racism and its effects can be
discussed in multiracial and multicultural groups
with safety and respect.
- Using the feelings and thoughts stimulated by
the video, exercises and structured discussion,
provide opportunities to process how racism has
affected ourselves, others and our organizations
and institutions.
- Develop sensitivity and listening skills necessary
for effective dialogue on race and ethnicity.
- Learn how to build multicultural alliances to
eliminate racism.
Workshop Structure
Dealing with issues of race and ethnicity can be
intimidating for many. Some people can become very
anxious because this subject deals with deeply held
values and assumptions. Creating a safe environment
is paramount. The facilitators do this by modeling
respect for diverse viewpoints and managing conflict
in a healing and productive manner.
Within a safe container, the video stimulates the
expression of feelings, thoughts and memories on race
and ethnicity. Utilizing this energy in structured
dialogue and exercises, participants will have opportunities
to question assumptions, acquire knowledge and develop
cross-cultural competencies that can lead to cognitive
and behavioral change.
August 2002
Changing the Face of Housing
in Minnesota
Purpose
Initiated in January 2000, the diversity, inclusiveness,
and affordable housing project, known as Changing
the Face of Housing in Minnesota, seeks to correct
the significant under-representation of communities
of color in affordable housing processes and decisions
in Minnesota.
The Strategic Approach
Organizers chose a number of tangible strategies
to support the mission of bringing participation for
broader segments of the community to a new level.
The strategies fall into four key areas.
RECRUITMENT
- Identifying model recruitment and outreach tools
to improve the participation of communities of color
in affordable housing organizations.
SELF-ASSESSMENT
- Identifying and developing self-assessment tools
and training that allow affordable housing organizations
to understand the value of diversity and ways to
integrate diversity into the culture of an organization.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- Increasing careerships (Mid-Career work and learning
opportunities), scholarships (Community Development
Scholarship Program), and other job experiences
in the affordable housing field for diverse community
members.
ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT
- Providing multi-year seed capacity building grants
and technical assistance for culturally diverse
affordable housing organizations to expand leadership
in communities of color.
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