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Watch a Live Webcast of Minnesota Meeting with Wendy Kopp
12/21/2011

Visit this link to watch a live webcast of Minnesota Meeting featuring Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach For America from 5 to 6 p.m. today.

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Register for the live webcast of Minnesota Meeting
12/21/2011

The Minneapolis Foundation would like to invite you to a special Minnesota Meeting live web broadcast featuring a gubernatorial debate on P – 12 education. This event is co-sponsored by the Itasca Project and the Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi … Continue reading →

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Education: A lesson in perseverance
12/21/2011

Thank you to everyone who attended or watched the special Minnesota Meeting on education reform held on June 10th, which The Minneapolis Foundation co-sponsored with RKMC Foundation for Children, and the Itasca Project. Special thanks to our guest speaker, Alex … Continue reading →

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Watch the video of Minnesota Meeting
12/21/2011

Minnesota Meeting on Education Reform on June 10, 2010 from Minneapolis Foundation on Vimeo. We are pleased to share with you the video of the special Minnesota Meeting, recorded on June 10 at TPT studios.

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Video: Wendy Kopp from Teach For America at Minnesota Meeting – April 2011
12/21/2011

Minnesota Meeting with Wendy Kopp of Teach For America from Minneapolis Foundation on Vimeo.

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Teach for America’s Wendy Kopp featured on MinnPost’s Learning Curve
12/21/2011

Upcoming Minnesota Meeting speaker shares her thoughts on how to reframe the discussion on education.

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Upcoming Live Webcast with Wendy Kopp of Teach For America
12/21/2011

Please join us for a live webcast of Minnesota Meeting featuring Wendy Kopp, founder and CEO of Teach For America. The webcast will be broadcast from TPT Studios, will be available on this site, and is generously co-sponsored by the … Continue reading →

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Minnesota Meeting 2011
12/21/2011

Check here after April 1 for more details about an upcoming Minnesota Meeting event.

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View the Gubernatorial Debate on P-12 Education
12/21/2011

Minnesota Meeting: Minnesota Gubernatorial Debate on Education from Minneapolis Foundation on Vimeo. Through its Minnesota Meeting public affairs program, The Minneapolis Foundation hosted a gubernatorial debate on P-12 education on September 23rd. The goal was to offer all Minnesotans a … Continue reading →

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Historic Afton House Inn New Years Eve Celebration
12/20/2011

Join us for Dining and Lodging on New Years Eve at the Historic Afton House Inn for our Special New Years Menu along with party favors and complimentary champagne at midnight. Entertainer Joe Myers will be performing in the Wheel Room. Call today for Reservations at 651-436-8883 or online at www.aftonhouseinn.com

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Historic Bed and Breakfast Inns of Duluth Holiday Tour!
12/20/2011

The Historic Bed and Breakfast Inns of Duluth are pleased to announce that all seven inns will be opening their doors this holiday season for a spectacular Holiday tour! On Sunday, December 11th, 2011 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, the Duluth Historic Bed & Breakfast Inns will be opening their doors to share their [...]

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Ultimate Girls Night out in Afton
12/20/2011

Ultimate Girls Night Out! – $Free Wine Tasting & 50% off any Room at the Afton House Inn Free Goody Bags to the First 30 Girls – Collect at Baglio’s of Afton. Complementary Wine Tasting at Swirl Wine Bar. Discounted Feather Hair Extensions and Free Hand Treatments at Bisou Bisou Salon. 10% off all items [...]

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Lanesboro Holiday Inn Tour Nov. 19 – 20
12/20/2011

The popular Lanesboro Holiday Inn Tour is coming soon, and this year it comes with a special twist.  The Tour welcomes people to visit the Bed & Breakfasts and inns that have made Lanesboro the Bed and Breakfast Capital of Minnesota. This year the Tour will happen over two days: November 19th and 20th.  Six [...]

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Ultimate Girls Night Out in Afton!
12/20/2011

Girls you won’t want to miss! AFTON ULTIMATE GIRLS NIGHT OUT THURSDAY, OCT. 20 – 5 TO 8 PM FREE Goody Bags to the First 30 Girls – collect from Creative Cottage Complimentary Wine Tasting at Swirl Wine Bar Free Chair Massages from Calla Lily Day Spa Discounted Feather Hair Extensions and Free Hand Treatments [...]

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Stillwater’s Harvest Fest this weekend
12/20/2011

  Oct 7th & 8th   STILLWATER HARVEST FEST AND GIANT PUMPKIN WEIGH-OFF   Giant pumpkins, chili cook-off, pumpkin carvers, kid games, bake-offs, bluegrass music, a pumpkin drop and a pumpkin regatta on the river and more! In 2010, the 1,810 pumpkin won a Guinness Book World Record. FAMILY FUN! Lowell Park.   OCTOBER 7 - [...]

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Fall colors peak soon in Lanesboro, MN
12/20/2011

Cool, crisp nights are upon us and the maples are starting to show their fall colors in South East Minnesota.  It looks like colors should peak around Oct 8-15 and we could get 3 good weeks of color in October.  It is time for you to book a fall foliage tour to Lanesboro. During the [...]

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Too Kill a Mockingbird – Commonweal Theatre Lanesboro, MN
12/20/2011

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is one of the plays running in repertory this fall at the Commonweal Theatre in Lanesboro, MN.  This play is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name by Harper Lee.  There is little debate that Harper Lee based “To Kill a Mockingbird” on factual events during the civil [...]

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Afton Art in the Park September 24 & 25th
12/20/2011

Enjoy the Scenic St.Croix Valley. Afton’s Art in the Park. Saturday, September 24th 10am-5pm and Sunday, September 25th 11am-4pm Fine art, Jewelry, Photography, Ceramics, Traditional Crafts & more.. plus great food, A Fat Tire beer garden, MG car club show on Saturday and more….. Sponsors: Pioneer Press TwinCites.com – ISPIRL – New Belgium Brewing – [...]

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The Forgotten Waltz
12/15/2011

There are two ways to read Anne Enright’s novel The Forgotten Waltz: The first, as a sexy page-turner filled with feigned nonchalance between instances of passionate hotel room hopping; The second, as one woman walking into the middle of life-as-she-knows-it with dynamite stuffed into her Wonder Bra. The premise is that Gina Moynihan is going [...]

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Hold Me Closer, Necromancer
12/15/2011

Necromancy: the ability to communicate with and raise the dead. Sam LaCroix had no idea what necromancy was or that he had this power. Living a boring, fast-food-employee life, Sam could barely make rent, had no girlfriend and no motivation or drive to change anything. He was sarcastically apathetic about his humdrum life. But when [...]

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It Chooses You
12/15/2011

At first I didn’t like Miranda July. She seemed too precious. Her first book of short stories, contrived quirkiness. Like watching Zooey Deschanel shop for leg warmers at Goodwill. But I didn’t like Miranda July in that way that meant I’d be peeking out from behind the curtains to watch her walk down the street. [...]

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The Leftovers
12/15/2011

Tom Perrotta was edgy with Election, spooky with Little Children, and wry with The Abstinence Teacher With his latest, The Leftovers, he’s, um, well he’s trying, I guess. What is good about The Leftovers is what is good about every Perrotta novel – the keenness with which he observes and details the condition of the [...]

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The Mysterious Benedict Society
12/15/2011

Reynie is an orphan with a gift for puzzles. Kate always carries a bucket full of gadgets that help her MacGyver any hairy situation. Sticky is probably the smartest kid on the planet. Constance is just plain stubborn. Together they are the Mysterious Benedict Society. But let’s backtrack. These kids didn’t know each other at [...]

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Something in red
12/15/2011

Hilary Jordan’s novel When She Woke is a modern day mashup of The Scarlet Letter and The Handmaid’s Tale. In this futuristic United States abortion has been banned because some weird STD called The Scourge has left many women sterile and the birthrate around the world has plummeted. Apparently in the future we’ll have solved [...]

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The Giant’s House: A top-five all-time favorite ever
12/15/2011

Even amongst voracious readers like us, there seems to be an air of decadence around re-reading books you’ve already read. How can you re-read something when there are so many books that you haven’t read yet? We ask. Or at least I ask. It seems so self-indulgent. And yet, here I am re-reading many books [...]

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