• Inreach 1-1 Practice and Open House for Visitors

    This is an additional, optional opportunity for people serving as visitors in our Inreach Campaign: Powerful Together. Attendees will have the opportunity to go deeper on the principles and skills […]

  • Inreach Training – 9/13/21

    This fall, congregations across the collaborative will simultaneously engage in an inreach: one-to-one conversations to listen to each other’s deep connection to home and share our determination to make affordable […]

  • Inreach Training – 9/30/21

    This fall, congregations across the collaborative will simultaneously engage in an inreach: one-to-one conversations to listen to each other’s deep connection to home and share our determination to make affordable […]

  • Powerful Together Coordinator Check-in

    Powerful Together: Conversations for Change are underway in 25 congregations! All coordinators are encouraged to gather and share what’s working and where you need support. We have a collective goal of over 1000 conversations – let’s work together to reach it! This Zoom event will have Closed Captioning available. To learn about our event accessibility […]

  • Recognizing Hosting, Expanding Community

    Families Moving Forward hosts are invited to join us for a hybrid event happening in person at Robbinsdale Parkway UCC and online on Zoom. This event will be especially meaningful for FMF hosts who are experiencing the closure of the Hennepin program, adapting to the pandemic and in some cases the end of hosting as […]

  • Clergy and Staff Gathering

    A quarterly virtual gathering space for clergy and staff of congregations to build relationships and skills for the work we share as a collaborative. In October, join us for a preview of our policy work for 2021-22 and a conversation about where clergy involvement is most impactful in these campaigns. The common theme is calling […]

  • Leadership Assembly – 11/11/21

    Are you a leader of a Beacon Leadership Team or a Campaign Action Team? Interested in learning more about the work we do together to create change? Need some inspiration? Leadership Assemblies are a place for established and emerging leaders to come together to get grounded, energized and connected. The October Assembly will focus on […]

  • Powerful Together: Sharing Our Learnings

    Congratulations! We are nearing the end of our 2021 inreach campaign, Powerful Together: Conversations for Change. It’s time to gather as a collaborative and find out what we have learned. Beacon staff will lead this process (and you will be invited to do something similar with visitors from just your congregation as well). All inreach […]

  • Power Tools: Leadership For Change Virtual Retreat – December 2021

    To create the change needed to ensure all people have a home, we need skilled leaders who are able to build meaningful relationships with decision makers, hold power and act effectively in the public arena. This three-part virtual workshop focuses on how we understand and use power to address issues of homelessness; ways to act […]

  • Leadership Assembly – 1/13/22

    Are you a leader of a Beacon Leadership Team or a Campaign Action Team? Interested in learning more about the work we do together to create change? Need some inspiration? Leadership Assemblies are a place for established and emerging leaders to come together to get grounded, energized and connected. The January leadership assembly will focus […]