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Sunday December 21st 2025
“THINK SMALL” Parent Leadership Program
By Raymond Jackson
The Wilder Foundation hosted the Cross Cultural Leadership Action Program, recognizing Parent Leadership graduates from around the Twin Cities and African Americans American Indian, Latino, South East Asian & Somali representatives.
The graduates included two Phillips residents, Darrell M. & Misty J., who graduated in 2011. They both agreed that they gained an assortment of parenting skills and a lot of legislative knowledge.
The Parent Leadership workshop mission is to advance quality care and education of children in their critical early years. There were good speakers and good cross-cultural food at the event.  The speakers included Senator Bobby Joe Champion, Senator Foung Haws, and Kevin Lindsey, Commissioner of Human Rights. They all spoke well of the Think Small, Parent Leadership Action Plan.
Senator Champion, who represents North Minneapolis and a large portion of downtown Minneapolis, spoke about the importance of early childhood education. He said, “When children are 3 & 4 years old, it is important to develop them and get them ready for kindergarten and beyond. Daycare for toddlers is important and for the children to be around trusting adults, who are making sure the child receives not just  academics, but how to become critical thinkers.”… Read the rest ““THINK SMALL” Parent Leadership Program”
Garden Funding Opportunities
Gardening Matters is excited to offer 10 community garden mini-grants of up to $500 for community food production gardens in the following South Minneapolis neighborhoods: East Isles, Elliot Park, Loring Park, Lowry Hill, Lowry Hill East, Phillips (East, Midtown, West, and Ventura Village), Powderhorn Park and Whittier. These mini-grants are funded by:
The Green Patch Program at The Wedge Natural Foods Coop. Thank you to the members and shoppers at the Wedge Co-op, who Choose to Reuse and pass the benefits on to their community
Donors who participated in Powderhorn Empty Bowls”' fall fundraising and community-building event to raise funds to end hunger in Powderhorn Park community
Eligible gardens are welcome to apply by discussing the grant with your garden group, downloading and filling out the application on Gardening Matters website and submitting your application by May 15, 2013 to Gardening Matters. Grantees will be notified by June 1st and checks will be sent by mail within two weeks to the mailing address provided in the application. www.gardeningmatters.org/funding-opportunities
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Cellist Hans Christian Plays Benefit for Malaria Initiative
May 11 7 PM
Our Saviour”'s Church
2315 Chicago Avenue
By Amy Blumenshine
This extraordinary virtuoso cellist Hans Christian tours the world, playing music of his own composition featuring many stringed instruments including the nyckelharpa, sarangi, and sitara. He integrates music from a variety of cultures and traditions, with a strong East Indian flavor. By using an electronic looping device, he layers on different melodies and sounds for a very meditative effect ”“ ethereal and transcendant.
The concert is free but donations will be asked for an anti-malaria initiative. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) seeks to make malaria history! Their initial focus is Uganda. In Uganda, thousands of children die each year from malaria ”“ a preventable and curable disease. The entire population is at risk of malaria, but less than 50 percent are protected by preventable measures like insect-treated bed nets and mosquito spraying. Hospitalization and deaths from malaria have increased in recent years.
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