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Fall 2023 Family Programs
Recap of Fall 2023 – programming for the whole family
2023 Summer Genius Labs Recap
A look back on the success of our summer program
Genius Labs Summer Camp Week Five
Theme: Summer Fun!
Genius Labs Summer Camp Week Four
Theme: Amazing Agriculture – Farms & Food
Genius Labs Summer Camp Week Three
Theme: Spark! Electricity & Magnets
Genius Labs Summer Camp Week Two
Theme: Minnesota Wild
Genius Labs Summer Camp Week One
Theme: Spectacular Space!
Spring 2023 Family Workshop Series
Every Saturday from April 29th to June 24th, GMCC welcomed families into our facility to participate in workshops for both parents and children of all ages.
2023 March Campaign Results and Wrap Up
Thank you Minnesota food shelves, businesses, nonprofits, and individuals for a successful 42nd Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign!
GMCC Executive Director, Adrienne Dorn – Keynote Speech from Minneapolis Women’s Leadership Summit June 2022
Dealing with Resistance: Get Your Team to Accept and Invest in Change
PRESS RELEASE: GMCC presents WBAC Summer Festival
Local community groups secure O-1 Visa for Somali Superstar Sharma Boy, artist-in-residence for Minneapolis-based cultural festival
2022 March Campaign Results and Wrap Up
Thank you Minnesota food shelves, businesses, nonprofits, and individuals for a successful 41st Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign!
Growing Clean Energy & Fresh Food with MVF
The abundance that many of us relish in the form of fresh, nutritious, sustainably grown food is not universally accessible in Minnesota—not yet, anyway. But Minnesota Venture Farms has a plan to change that.
GMCC Women’s History Month Town Hall 2022
In celebration of the many Women creators, movers, shakers, and leaders in our community and around the state, GMCC brought together a group of Women Leaders for a virtual Town Hall and a podcast series.
Masterful Collaborations Podcast: Women’s History Month featuring Dr. Nerita Hughes
Throughout March, the GMCC Masterful Collaborations Podcast will be featuring some of the great Women leaders of our community, both those in the forefront and behind the scenes doing masterfully collaborative work across many sectors.
Tech Teens Fall 2021 Recap!
During the Fall of 2021, every Saturday for 10 weeks, 11 BIPOC high school students gathered for Tech Teens, GMCC’s newest out-of-school experience…
Masterful Collaborations Podcast: Women’s History Month featuring Dr. Nerita Hughes
Throughout March, the GMCC Masterful Collaborations Podcast will be featuring some of the great Women leaders of our community, both those in the forefront and behind the scenes doing masterfully collaborative work across many sectors.
Masterful Collaborations Podcast: Women’s History Month featuring Pam Borton
Throughout March, the GMCC Masterful Collaborations Podcast will be featuring some of the great Women leaders of our community, both those in the forefront and behind the scenes doing masterfully collaborative work across many sectors.
Masterful Collaborations Podcast: Women’s History Month featuring Gloria Lewis
Throughout March, the GMCC Masterful Collaborations Podcast will be featuring some of the great Women leaders of our community, both those in the forefront and behind the scenes doing masterfully collaborative work across many sectors.
Masterful Collaborations Podcast: GMCC Pop Up Food Shelf
In this the fourth episode we hear about GMCC’s recent Pop Up Food Shelf initiative from GMCC staff members Sarah Taubner (Data and Logistics Manager) and Ameen Hassan (Imitative Logistics Manager).
Ag In Action: GMCC’s Minnesota Venture Farms
Minnesota State Mankato, 3 Partners Receive $224,744 USDA Grant to support Ag In Action Project to support food and agriculture education.
Masterful Collaborations Podcast: Minnesota Venture Farms
In this the third episode we hear about one of GMCC’s most masterful and most impactful collaborations, in the area of food, specifically food equity. Initiative Co-Leaders, Reynolds-Anthony Harris and Douglas Belton had a vision to unleash, scale, and harness the power of urban farming which has since become the initiative known as Minnesota Venture Farms.
Masterful Collaborations Podcast: Genius Labs
In this the second episode we will hear about Genius Labs from the four members of our founding design team. Genius Labs brings together technological access, studio learning, and youth-centered design to create opportunities to middle school youth that foster creativity, independence, critical thinking, and self-awareness.
Minnesota Venture Farms Collaborator Feature: “40 Acre Co-op looks to empower minority farmers”
Angela Dawson and her team believe it’s important to grow your own food, especially in the times we’re living in.
Masterful Collaborations Podcast
Welcome to the first episode of the GMCC Masterful Collaborations Podcast, focused on and featuring the various masterful collaborations that GMCC is inspiring and driving around the state of Minnesota.
GMCC Collaboration Receives Investment from USDA’s NIFA
NIFA Invests Over $3.5M to Develop Food Agriculture and Farm Safety Education for Youth in Underserved Communities
A Summer for Discovering Genius
At the core of Digital Café is the belief that all students have the capacity for GENIUS when given intentionally-designed resources, opportunities, and access.
National Day of Prayer – Interfaith Leaders Panel
On May 4th, 2021(National Day of Prayer) GMCC and a panel of interfaith leaders gathered for a time of virtual prayer and discussion to kick off our 2021 Annual Campaign, “Masterful Collaborations: Rooted in Legacy, Empowered by Faith, and Growing Together”.
GMCC selected for MWMO New Stormwater & Habitat Project Funding
Grantees Include City of Minneapolis, GMCC, Juxtaposition Arts, and North Loop Neighborhood Association
Board Member Spotlights
Congratulations to Heather Riddle and Jeff Peterson, two GMCC Board Members, on their new respective roles with American Public Media Group (APMG) and Turning Technologies.
Fund for Shared Insight Feature – How We Listen
Flexing its Listening Muscle, a 115-Year-Old Organization Stays in Shape to Address Evolving Needs
MLK’s Beloved Community Episode 1:2
On this second episode of the GMCC podcast, host Jeffrey Bissoy spoke with GMCC staff members, Megan Young and Jess Roberts, chief financial officer at Optum, Selemon Asfaw, CEO and founder of Brother Justus, Phil Steger, and founder and managing director of Lyceum Partners, Reynolds-Anthony Harris, about how they show up for their beloved communities.
Light In The World Episode 1:1
On today’s episode, which takes place on the winter solstice, we chat with GMCC Executive Director, Adrienne Dorn, and co-host, Jeffrey Bissoy, about the solstice and what it means to shed light on our work and in our communities.
Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign
Every year, GMCC hosts the Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign with nearly 300 partnering organizations throughout the state of Minnesota. This month-long campaign encourages communities and organizations to replenish their local food shelves as food shelves tend to...
Learning Labs 2020
Learning Labs were created at the onset of the pandemic as attending school online posed greater obstacles for students. Serving majority East African and newcomer families in Minneapolis, these socially distanced labs began with traditional tutoring for students....
Sprout
GMCC’s partnership with Sprout MN on the sprint project strengthened Sprout’s capacity to collaborate with partners in agriculture and build hunger relief spaces; improve food access and food security; grow the local economy; and a more resilient food system in...