1. Community Action Trainings...
2.
TogetherMinnesota! Community Meeting...
3. House Party Host Training...
4. Next People of Faith Roundtable...
5. OutFront Minnesota Offering Legal
Program Series...
6. Grant Announcements...
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Community Action Trainings
On
December 15, 2005, Together Minnesota, kicked off the first
Community Action Training in Eagan and on January 11, in
Bemidji. TogetherMinnesota! is traveling throughout the
state hosting Community Action Trainings for gay, lesbian,
bisexual, transgender, and allied people who want to take
action in their local communities to help defeat current
attempts to amend our state constitution. The purpose of
the training is to develop the skills of GLBT activists
to affect change in their home towns. Change in the state
begins locally. It is the right and responsibility of every
citizen who cares about GLBT-equality to take action today
to ensure fairness remains in Minnesota .
Register
now to be a part of the statewide group of people who will
go through Community Action Trainings by the start of the
legislative session. Want to know when they will be in your
town or want to schedule one in your town?
Look online.
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Campaign Update:
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TogetherMinnesota!
The next community
meeting will be on:
February 13, 2006
6:30- 8:30 pm
Sabathani
Center
310 38th Street,
Minneapolis MN
3rd Floor, Rooms D1 &D2
Nichole Wicks, Central Regional Media Manager, GLAAD--Gay
& Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
will be the guest speaker for that evening. She
will address many of the GLBT media issues nationally
that impact same-sex marriage and impact our fight
to stop the amendment in Minnesota!
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House Party Host Training
House
parties are an especially important piece of our campaign
to stop the constitutional amendment banning legal recognition
of same-sex couples. By hosting a house party, you can raise
money and awareness for OutFront Minnesota. To learn more,
visit our
website or attend the upcoming House Party Host Training
on:
January,
26th from 6:30 - 8:00pm.
Family and Children's Services
4123 E. Lake Street, Minneapolis
Please
RSVP by emailing
Jim Halloran or calling (612) 822-0127 ext. 104.
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Next People of Faith Roundtable
Our
next regularly scheduled People of Faith (POF) Roundtable
will feature speaker Reverend Meg Riley. Reverend Riley
has been the Director of the Advocacy & Witness Programs
for the Unitarian Universalist Association since 2002. UU's
Out 4 Marriage, a statewide working group of the
Metro UU Social Justice Alliance, will present information
on organizing from the UU perspective.
Monday,
January 30th, 2006, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
First Unitarian Society
900 Mount Curve, Minneapolis, MN, 55403.
Phone
(612) 377-6608 for driving directions. Check out the
Faith Family Fairness Alliance website for other events,
to download the resolution, and stay informed.
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OutFront Minnesota Offering Legal Program
Series
Every
week, the OutFront Minnesota Legal Program and Rainbow Families
receive inquiries from members of the GLBT community with
questions about a wide range of legal issues. Now, community
members have the opportunity to attend free and informal
presentations by local attorneys to learn more about their
rights under the law or the challenges the laws present.
The sessions are scheduled to take place in Minneapolis
on February 7 (employment issues) and March 7 (real estate
and related tax issues). Child care, provided by Rainbow
Families, can be available for those who need it AND who
register ahead! For more information and to register (space
IS limited), please
click here.
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Grant Announcements
OutFront Minnesota Community Services
receives grants from the Hugh J. Andersen Foundation, the
Mardag Foundation, and the General Mills Foundation.
Last
month, the Hugh J. Andersen Foundation awarded a $10,000
grant to OutFront Minnesota Community Services for its education,
community-building, and direct service programs. The Hugh
J. Andersen Foundation has been a staunch supporter of OutFront
Minnesota Community Services for several years.
In addition, two new foundations announced support of OutFront
Minnesota Community Services last month. The Mardag Foundation
awarded OFMCS a $15,000 grant to support a pilot project
to organize youth in the East Metro region. The project
is a component of the justFair Campaign, our effort
to create systemic change in our state by developing grassroots
support for human rights and moving the needle of public
opinion from negative to positive on GLBT issues.
The other new addition to our list of funders is the General
Mills Foundation, which selected OutFront Minnesota Community
Services as a recipient of its Celebrating Communities of
Color grantmaking program. The $10,000 grant was awarded
to help further our efforts to better serve GLBT people
of color. Incorporating people of color in our work across
the state is a priority for OutFront Minnesota. The grant
from the General Mills Foundation will help enhance the
involvement of people of color in all of OutFront Minnesota’s
programs, and will help us utilize the information gained
in our recent People of Color Listening Sessions to inform
future organizational planning. This is the first grant
that OutFront Minnesota Community Services has received
from the General Mills Foundation.
OutFront Minnesota Community Services wishes to thank the
Hugh J. Andersen Foundation, the Mardag Foundation, and
the General Mills Foundation for their generous support.
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Looking
for something to do?
Events
of interest to the GLBT and allied community.
OutFront
Minnesota's web-based community calendar is THE place to
check for events and happenings this summer. Are you
planning an event that you want the GLBT and allied community
to know about? It's easy to
submit your event! OutFront Minnesota is proud
to offer community organizations this opportunity to reach
others.
Check it out each week for more current events!
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