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Are you interested in learning more about how other non-profits are using geospatial technologies? Is your non-profit using or developing GIS technology? 1000 Friends of Minnesota is hosting a quarterly GIS User Group. Our first meeting was April 30th at the Rondo Community Library. We were thrilled with the diverse group of non-profit representatives that attended! There was great interest in continuing to meet and learn from each other. Our next meeting, which will include informative presentations on topics requested by the group, will be held in late June. If you would like to be notified of more details later this month, please contact Sally Wakefield at swakefield@1000fom.org or 651.312.1000. |
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Community Growth Options Update ******Now Accepting Applications****** 1000 Friends of Minnesota and their University of Minnesota partners, the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs and the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, are now accepting applications from interested communities for Community Growth Options (CGO). CGO is a multi-year project funded by the McKnight Foundation and designed to deliver to small, fast-growing communities financial and other assistance for community planning, ordinance development, and implementation. Please visit the Community Growth Options page for information on eligibility and how to apply. |
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1000 Friends of Minnesota has moved! With the latest developments in our program areas, we outgrew our office space in downtown St. Paul and we've moved to the main floor of an historic mixed-use building on West 7th Street.
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Met Council Directions features 1000 Friends’ Technical Resource Center The latest edition of the Metropolitan Council’s newsletter, Directions, discusses geo-visualization techniques for local communities and touts the work of 1000 Friends of Minnesota’s Growing By Design Technical Resource Center. Follow this link for the full article.
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Compact development promoted in Business Week Even business journals are embracing the notion that building new developments in more compact ways is necessary to make a dent in the number of miles we drive and the emissions our cars create. When we live in walkable neighborhoods that require shorter trips for most errands, research shows that we drive less. Read the full story at Business Week magazine. |
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1000 Friends of Minnesota is a member-supported non-profit organization. Please contribute today to help us achieve our mission! Visit our About Us page to learn more. |
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1000 Friends is a proud partner of the Embrace Open Space collaborative
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We have been hard at work laying the groundwork for the next phase of Envision Minnesota, the program area that encompasses our statewide education and policy efforts. We’re pleased to announce that we have the program planned through 2010, and have received a $100,000 inaugural grant from a foundation that is part of the Opus Philanthropy group. This grant will be used to kick-start our efforts in 2008. For more information see our