Action Groups Kick-off

Are you a young person
looking to get involved in our community?

Join a Citizens League Action Group! Come to the project kick-off to learn more.

Tuesday, January 27th
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Five Event Center
2917 Bryant Avenue S, Minneapolis
Dinner will be provided

Click here to RSVP
or contact Annie (alevensonfalk[at]citizensleague.org)
if you can't make it on the 27th

Young Citizens League members are organizing three action groups around the broad topics of education, poverty, and financial literacy.

What you'll do:

  • Identify a specific question to work on in your topic area
  • Talk to people in the community and do research to learn about the question
  • Make a plan to address the question
  • Do it! Put the plan into action

What you'll get:

  • On-the-job training on organizing skills
  • Connections with other young leaders
  • Relationships with established leaders in the Citizens League
  • Organizing support from the Citizens League staff

The project: Each group will decide on its own time line, which will vary depending on the project and the work plans the groups develop. We've drawn up a potential time line as a starting point, showing the groups working from February to September.

The kick-off: At the event, we'll hear a little about the Citizens League and our approach to citizen-based policy making, get some background on the project, and then break into the three groups and start to talk about what we want to do with the project. Click here to view the agenda.

Joining us at the kick-off will be:
  • On education, Traci Parmenter, Chief Operating Officer, Admission Possible
  • On financial literacy, Ruth Krueger, Employment and Economic Assistance Director, Dakota County
  • On poverty, John Turnipseed, Family Center Director, Urban Ventures

Click here to find out more about the Action Groups project, and contact Annie Levenson-Falk at alevensonfalk[at]citizensleague.org or 651-293-0757 ext. 16 if you have any comments or questions.


Here are a couple ideas of what each group could work on -- we welcome yours!

  Poverty:
  • What are health care options for young Minnesotans without employer-sponsored insurance?
  • How do we encourage ideas like micro-credit?
  • How do the retiring Boomer and elder generations share their knowledge and experience with the X and Millennial generations?
  • How can we reduce the environmental aspects of urban poverty? Things like hotter summer temperatures, noise, lead, and asthma have a big impact, especially on kids living in poverty in the Twin Cities.
  Financial Literacy:
  • Would young people benefit from more information about things like managing personal finance and how credit works? If so, what's the best way to provide this information?
  • How can we use new technology and social media to interest young people in financial literacy?
  Education:
  • Work to advance one of the recommendations of our forthcoming report on immigrant students and higher education, such as helping older students be mentors.
  • Help connect first-generation college students connect to resources to make their transition easier
  • Homelessness and education - with a growing number of homelessness in the Twin Cities, this may be an issue of greater concern

The Action Groups, like all our work, will be run in accordance with the Citizens League's civic operating guidelines.

Click here to RSVP


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