Show up for Prairie Pointe at the crucial city council vote! You are encouraged to join us either in person or on a virtual event. Our first priority is to keep everyone safe. If you're joining us in person: You must wear a face mask; Please keep a distance of at least 6 feet between […]
George Floyd was killed by a police officer in the Central neighborhood, one of the historically redlined neighborhoods of South Minneapolis. The Mapping Prejudice project at the University of Minnesota has uncovered thousands of racial covenants on properties around Minneapolis and beyond which actually created the map used to exclude Black families from home ownership […]
Join us from 4:00 – 6:00 PM for this virtual leadership assembly focusing on the special session and Beacon’s bold policy initiative, Bring It Home Minnesota. Ben Helvick Anderson, Beacon’s Policy Director will highlight the strategy for the summer and fall leading to the January legislative session. There is much we can do to influence […]
Please register below to join us for the July 1 Rent is Due: Day of Action. We know that hundreds of thousands of our neighbors struggle to pay their rent every first of the month. This is disproportionately true for Black, Brown, and Indigenous families due to economic inequities stemming from centuries of historical injustice. […]
3 Tuesdays: July 7, 13, and 21 at 4 p.m. As racial injustice consumes our local and global attention, Beacon leaders in St. Paul will take read and discuss the Pulitzer Prize winning book Evicted, by Matthew Desmond. Desmond uses narrative nonfiction and a close lens on another Midwestern city with extreme racial inequality, Milwaukee, […]
Whether you’re brand new to Beacon or have been a supporter for years, we invite you to attend a virtual “Beacon Now” session. In this session, we’ll touch on the basics of Beacon’s work, go in depth on one aspect of that work, and discuss how we can make a difference for our neighbors now. Encampments of neighbors without a home are again growing. Racial […]
Clara Lind, our Donor Experience Manager, will be hosting this event with information from Ben Helvick-Anderson, Director of Public Policy, and Craig Freeman, Community Connection Manager. Craig will give an overview of Beacon’s organizational structure and our policy initiatives, and Ben will provide a perspective on what the current Minnesota legislature has (or hasn’t) accomplished […]
Beacon invites you to watch and play “Hennepin County Jeopardy,” hosted by Rev. Cindy Hillger, Deacon at St. Martin’s by the Lake Episcopal Church. Providing crucial information about this year’s upcoming elections for Hennepin County commissioners, we will learn about the power of Hennepin County government and the influence commissioners wield in making local policy, […]
On Monday July 13 from 4 - 5:30 p.m., Beacon will hold a Regional Strategy Meeting for congregations in Suburban Hennepin County. This will be a more informal conversation about Suburban Hennepin’s regional strategy to Advance Bring It Home MN in the strategic region of Minnesota’s State Senate District 44 and Build Hennepin Power in […]
Whether you’re brand new to Beacon or have been a supporter for years, we invite you to attend a virtual “Beacon Now” session. In this session, we’ll touch on the basics of Beacon’s work, go in depth on one aspect of that work, and discuss how we can make a difference for our neighbors now. Encampments of neighbors without a home are again growing. Racial […]