Share mutual support and good food with neighbors and get ready for winter!
Neighborhood Block Connector Resource Fair & Dinner
East Phillips Park Cultural and Community Center
2307 S 17th Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55404.
Find resources for your family and block to be ready for winter! Enjoy connecting with neighbors in Phillips and City- Wide
Build and bring home a box fan filter to keep your indoor air healthy.
- Sign up to be a Neighborhood Block Connector with RCC/One Minneapolis to plan fun events with neighbors, to learn about and access resources from City Department staff and Resilience hubs
- Snow emergency text alerts so cars don’t get towed
- Home Energy Audits, home energy navigators, green cost share, energy assistance. lead and asthma healthy home assessments, purple air monitors, indoor air monitors.
- Free and low cost trees and removal of ash trees, tree watering, creating neighborhood-wide tree canopy visons/plans https://www.minneapolismn.gov/government/programs-initiatives/environmental-programs/city-trees/
- Legal support for immigrants and refugees,
- Ways to support our undocumented neighbors.
- Community Cleanups adopt a block, adopt a litter container,
- Achieving our city’s Zero Waste Goals to retire the HERC.
- Adopt a drain/ rake the leaves from the curb before it rains or snows
- Traffic calming/safe streets/pedestrian safety in the winter.
- Purple air monitors, cumulative air impacts/next steps
- The new Hi-Lake Safety Center/social service referrals, Narcan trainings, street outreach, Behavioral Crisis Response Team and low barrier housing to address opioid addiction/homelessness.
- Share and learn ways block/neighbors are building community between neighbors of all cultural back grounds, home owners and renters i.e. community gardens, little free libraries, movie nights, potlucks at the park, helping with shoveling sidewalks, etc.
Minneapolis Green Teams
Coalition Co-hosted by RCC, Minneapolis Climate Action & FRAYEO
Invitation for Minneapolis Neighborhood Environment Committees & Community Groups to help implement our new Minneapolis Climate Equity Plan by helping with
- Strengthening City-Wide Action Campaigns,
- City-Community Collaborative fundraising for Federal Grants &
- neighbor to neighbor & business Outreach to share City-Wide Action Campaigns to invite residents & businesses to take specific actions
Let’s Fund $1k Annual Stipends for Neighborhood Liaisons for the Minneapolis Climate Equity Plan in 2024 Proposal Summary
For the 2025 City of Minneapolis Budget – We’re requesting that the Mayor and City Council to add $80k
to the Neighborhood & Community Relations or Health/Sustainability department budget to provide
$1k annual stipends to Minneapolis Climate Equity Plan Neighborhood Liaisons in all 79 neighborhoods (in addition to the $15k base contract with NCR with Neighborhood Associations)
Streamlined Climate Equity Plan Outreach Contracts – with neighborhood associations & community partners to achieve specific deliverables – i.e. signing up neighbors for
Home Energy Squad/ Weatherization, Tree Planting, etc.)
paid for by current and future state & federal grants the City of Minneapolis and Hennepin Co. and Justice 40 Groups can apply for together.
Mpls Neighborhood Green Teams Hosts quarterly meetings of Minneapolis neighborhood organization staff and environment and sustainability committee members AND any interested community members, along with City of Minneapolis Sustainability staff. We have gathered to:
- Share techniques and tips for successful outreach and effective engagement embedded in environmental justice.
- Leverage our collective voice to support our neighborhood initiatives, goals, and projects.
- Build skills in communicating about difficult environmental topics.
- Create community and support for each other as we address our environmental opportunities and challenges.
- Minneapolis Green Teams meetings are coordinated by Minneapolis Climate Action and Resilient Cities and Communities. COVID and capacity issues meant that Green Teams meetings were not held officially the last two years. Minneapolis Climate Action, FRAYEO and Resilient Cities and Communities held an exploratory meeting on July 11th and we thank all those who showed up! There is obviously excitement, need and momentum to get these meetings going.
Join our MPLS Green Teams FACEBOOK GROUP to be informed on our future meetings and to share updates.
At our Minneapolis Green Teams Coalition quarterly gatherings leaders active with 30+ Minneapolis Neighborhood Environment Committees meet on zoom or in person to share our projects and to build power together to advance neighborhood environmental justice priorities
GREEN ECONOMY & WORKFORCE – https://rccmn.co/green-jobs/
- RCC supports the Green Economy & Workforce goals & strategies in the plan! They line up well with the Clean Economy Goals in the State of MN Climate Action Framework & Hennepin Co Climate Action Plan.
- To mobilize external partnerships and needed resources we recommend adding –
- Strategy 9 – Coordinate quarterly with workforce development partners (DEED, Hennepin Co. nonprofit, businesses & unions) to plan and secure funding to scale up business and workforce development programs & investments to meet the increased needs for skilled contractors and employees for all the goal areas of the Minneapolis Climate Equity Plan
Three Possible Levels of City Support for Neighborhood Outreach for the Climate Equity Plan
- Basic Level – $1k Annual Stipends for Neighborhood Liaisons for the Minneapolis Climate Equity Plan in addition to the $15k annual NCR contracts with neighborhood groups (paid for by Increasing the NCR Budget by $80k
- Half Time Neighborhood Staffing ($25k per year) for Climate Equity Plan Outreach
- Full Time Neighborhood Staffing ($50k per year) for Climate Equity Plan Outreach supported by
The Minneapolis Green Teams Coalition is co-hosted by Minneapolis Climate Action and Resilient Cities and Communities To get involved please contact:
Sean Gosiewski, E.D. RCC 612-250-0389 sean@rccmn.co
Leaders active with Minneapolis Neighborhood Green Teams regularly meet with and build power with their peers active with suburban communities through our RCC Hennepin County Cluster http://rccmn.co/hennepin-communities/ to collaborate to equitably meet our City and Hennepin County Climate Goals https://www.hennepin.us/climate-action on time