How can community members across Greater Minnesota work collectively to ensure their towns are welcoming to all residents, regardless of their race, ethnicity, language or other characteristics? The new Creating a Welcoming Community toolkit shares ways to meaningfully and inclusively engage with immigrants, refugees and Black, Indigenous and people of color, so that all feel welcome.
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Extension podcasts have become a routine yet engaging way to connect in Minnesota and beyond.
The fall 2020 letter from Dean Bev Durgan.
Publication credits for the Fall 2020 edition of Source.
4-H reaches Minnesota youth in kindergarten through one year past high school. During the COVID-19 era, 4-H educators and volunteers have innovated to keep kids learning and growing.
Extension’s groundwork in food safety for cottage food producers meant speedy response during COVID-19.
Antonio Alba Meraz, an Extension educator with the Latino Financial Literacy Program, has been helping to fill in the gaps for Minnesota’s Latino audiences.
Pigs without a market — and farm family children at home to feel the tension — made 2020 a difficult time.
Even young college students need opportunities to get involved. When the U of M Twin Cities campus became a certified Bee Campus, freshman Lillian Prybil got to represent students on the Bee Campus committee.
Housing is a basic need that all Minnesotans share and is essential to creating resilient communities. Meeting that need, however, can be a complex challenge. A new community-university project seeks to design resilient and affordable housing solutions that embrace Minnesota’s ecological, economic and cultural diversity.