Building Home: What It Takes - 2/12/24
2024-02-12 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | Virtual
What does it take for Beacon to develop new affordable homes and change public policies around housing? This is your chance to find out!
Explore why homelessness exists, understand the “buckets” of funding needed to create affordable homes, discover the nuances of the housing development cycle, and find out why we can’t simply build our way out of homelessness.
Most of all, find out how you can help ensure all Minnesotans have a safe, affordable place to call home!

Beacon: 101 - 2/14/24
2024-02-14 16:30 - 17:00 | Virtual
Thousands of Minnesotans experience homelessness every single day, and hundreds of thousands more have housing that is unstable. At Beacon we work every day toward our vision that all people have a home. Come learn about our work to create deeply affordable, supportive homes and impact the policies and systems creating homelessness. This event is open to anyone to join, but it is especially designed for folks who are new to learning about Beacon. This is a virtual event – a Zoom link will be sent to you via email once you register.

Start with Home Rally for Affordable Housing - 2/20/24
2024-02-20 13:00 - 14:30 | MN State Capitol Rotunda, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, Saint Paul, 55155, United States
Please join Beacon for our Start with Home Rally for Affordable Housing on February 20, 2024 from 1-2:30pm. We are gathering for equitable and stable housing in Minnesota! We’ll be at the Capitol Rotunda with other leading nonprofit housing organizations to make sure home is front-and-center in the minds of our elected officials as they create state budgets.
Register to get more information. Then invite your friends, neighbors, congregation members, coworkers, and everyone else to join you! We all benefit when we can all afford our home.

Beacon: 101 - 2/21/24
2024-02-21 08:30 - 09:00 | Virtual

Rent is Due: Day of Action - 3/6/24
2024-03-06 08:30 - 09:00
As we work towards our vision for “all people to have a home,” we know that at the beginning of every month, over 200,000 households pay too much rent. Housing insecurity jeopardizes the health of individuals and families, drives the growing numbers of people experiencing homelessness, and increases the racial disparities already present.
We gather the first Wednesday of every month as Beacon advocates to change this reality. We are working to create rental assistance for all through Bring it Home, Minnesota, create new policies to make more deeply affordable supportive housing available, and other policies so all people have a home. During our 30-minute virtual meeting, you will hear updates on Bring it Home, Minnesota, and our other campaigns, hear from special guests or elected officials, and be given concrete actions to do.
Our goal is an efficient, clear meeting once a month for you to feel connected to the work and able to take impactful action. We have been holding this meeting successfully since June of 2020, and for these three years, people joining together to take action once a month have made a difference.
A Zoom meeting with Closed Captioning is available. Please register below to receive the link to join.

Beacon Lobby Day - 3/11/24
2024-03-11 09:00 - 14:00 | Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard, Saint Paul, MN, 55155, United States
Beacon’s 2024 Lobby Day will take place in person at the Capitol on Monday, March 11. Join us and share your passion for housing justice with your elected representatives!
Beacon staff will schedule your meetings with your representatives. Please register here. The deadline for registration is Tuesday, March 5 – this helps us do our best to coordinate a meeting time with your district’s elected official. Beacon staff will lead a housing policy training before you meet with your representatives.
Policy handouts, a Beacon t-shirt, and lunch will be provided. At noon, a housing policy expert will join all Beacon members for lunch to share their vision for equitable, sustainable housing in Minnesota and answer questions. We hope you’ll participate!
Please note that significant construction will be going on in the Capitol complex this session. We will be happy to set up virtual meetings with legislators on another date for those with mobility issues.
Please reach out to Nancy Nord Bence for more information at nbence@beaconinterfaith.org.
REGISTER HERE

Beacon: 101 - 3/13/24
2024-03-13 16:30 - 17:00 | Virtual

How to Build Your Beacon Leadership Team - 3/17/24
2024-03-17 14:30 - 16:30 | Virtual
Beacon Leadership Teams (or BLTs, as we like to call them) are the necessary liaison between the congregation and the collaborative. This workshop focuses on who to look for in creating your team, how to develop leaders and engage your congregation, and how to develop an organizing plan that connects your faith traditions to the work of the collaborative in housing and policy.

Beacon: 101 - 3/20/24
2024-03-20 08:30 - 09:00 | Virtual

Rent is Due: Day of Action - 4/3/24
2024-04-03 08:30 - 09:00

Beacon: 101 - 4/10/24
2024-04-10 16:30 - 17:00 | Virtual

Hearing: Multifamily Residential Development Act - 4/12/2024
2024-04-12 08:30 - 22:30 | State Office Building, 100 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Rm 10, Saint Paul, MN 55155, 100 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Rm 10, St. Paul, MN, 55155, United States
Join us in-person or virtually to support the Hearing: Multifamily Residential Development Act in the House State Government Committee at 8:30 am this Friday, 4/12, in the State Government Building, Room 10.
This bill would be transformational to changing our land use laws to make it easier to build more multifamily homes like Beacon creates.
There is opposition to changing the status quo, which gives outsized power to NIMBY. We need supporters in the room in their blue Beacon, showing their values that all types of homes belong in all communities.
If you cannot join in person, please register and mark you will be joining virtually below. We will email you the location to watch the hearing.
Click here to sign up for the event on Friday.

Beacon: 101 - 4/17/24
2024-04-17 08:30 - 09:00 | Virtual

Rent is Due: Day of Action - 5/1/24
2024-05-01 08:30 - 09:00

Beacon: 101 - 5/8/24
2024-05-08 16:30 - 17:00 | Virtual

Beacon: 101 - 5/15/24
2024-05-15 08:30 - 09:00 | Virtual

Rent is Due: Day of Action - 6/5/24
2024-06-05 08:30 - 09:00

Beacon Leadership Assembly: 6/10/2024
2024-06-10 19:00 - 20:30

Beacon: 101 - 6/12/24
2024-06-12 16:30 - 17:00 | Virtual

Rent is Due: Day of Action - 7/10/24
2024-07-10 08:30 - 09:00
As we work toward a vision where “all people have a home,” we know that over 200,000 households struggle to pay rent at the beginning of every month. Housing insecurity jeopardizes the health of individuals, families, and communities, drives people toward homelessness, and increases racial disparities.
During our Rent Is Due meetings, we’ll gather as Beacon advocates to change this reality.
Together, we’re advocating for new policies that make it easier for all people to have a safe, affordable place to call home.
During our 30-minute virtual meeting, you’ll hear updates on our current campaigns, hear from special guests or elected officials, and receive concrete actions to help you advance our mission.
Rent is Due helps us connect to our work as housing advocates and take meaningful, collective action toward a brighter future where all people have a home.
Since these meetings started in 2020, our collective actions have helped bring that ideal future closer. Working together, we helped advocate for state legislators to approve a historic $2 billion in funding for supportive housing. We broke ground on several new apartment homes and paved the way for many more.
Together, we can move mountains.
We will provide a Zoom link with closed captioning for this meeting. Please register below to receive the link.

Beacon: 101 - 7/10/24
2024-07-10 16:30 - 17:00 | Virtual

Beacon: 101 - 7/17/24
2024-07-17 08:30 - 09:00 | Virtual

Introducing The Aragon—A celebration of Beacon's newest development
2024-08-01 19:00 - 20:30
Join us on Thursday, August 1, at 7 p.m. as we celebrate the launch of The Aragon—a new development we’re proposing for St. Paul’s Conway neighborhood.

Currently, we envision The Aragon as providing around 50 affordable apartments with onsite supportive services. These services will help residents with everything from improving their mental health to finding gainful employment and much more.

As with all Beacon developments, the success of The Aragon’s development is contingent on the energy and support of community members like you.

So, join us to discover the details behind this unique development and learn how you can help make it a reality.

Sign up below.

Rent is Due: Day of Action - 8/7/24
2024-08-07 08:30 - 09:00

Beacon: 101 - 8/14/24
2024-08-14 16:30 - 17:00 | Virtual

Beacon: 101 - 8/21/24
2024-08-21 08:30 - 09:00 | Virtual

Rent is Due: Day of Action - 9/4/24
2024-09-04 08:30 - 09:00

East Metro Virtual Assembly, 9/9/2024
2024-09-09 16:30 - 17:30

Beacon: 101 - 9/11/24
2024-09-11 16:30 - 17:00 | Virtual

Vista 44 Grand Opening
2024-09-12 16:00 - 17:30
