THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE IMPACT ON SOCIAL CHANGE

2015 Annual Report Note from Our About Community Shares Executive Director of

THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE IMPACT ON SOCIAL CHANGE Nearly 40 years ago a handful of people in Minnesota started down the path of building a MISSION community of supporters. In 2016, our 38th year, that handful has grown to thousands of supporters, thanks to people like you who understand the power of community. You’ve helped us build a coalition of more than 40 nonprofits that can claim successes like these: Create a fair, just and • Reforming sexual assault laws; • Outlawing 515 laws in Minnesota that allowed discrimination on the basis of sexual equitable Minnesota. orientation; • Promoting gender equality through the Women’s Economic Security Act; • Reforming fair housing laws; • Reforming drug-sentencing laws in the criminal justice system.

Community Shares of Minnesota needs your financial contribution to further fund the CSMN accomplishes its PURPOSE advancement of social justice and continue to win the ever-changing social justice battles. By giving to Community Shares of Minnesota, you are helping to build a brighter future through mission by: advocacy.

Community Shares provides an avenue for employers to stand up for change and encourage Supporting collective Connecting donors Empowering nonprofit social responsibility in the community. I am sure many of you have heard that by the year 2020 action to eliminate root with a meaningful organizations in the nearly half of the workforce will be Millennials and they want to give back! Your financial support causes of inequality and opportunity to invest in creation of a fair, just and of Community Shares allows us to raise more money for our member organizations through workplace giving. injustice. social justice. equitable community.

We raise much needed general operating funds for our member organizations that are working on the root of community problems rather than just treating the symptoms. Our members are organizing communities, changing assumptions, speaking truth to power, changing Maureen Hartung Executive Director Julie Anderson Finance Manager policy, and working every day to reduce inequalities and injustices. Amy Brockman Campaign and Paula Neuman-Scott Accounting Manager Help us provide the financial backing forover 40 organizations that Development Associate Wink Newcomb Combined Federal Campaign Manager make lasting change happen. STAFF Thank you for helping us change the future,

BOARD MEMBERS

Erin Aldrich Family Tree Clinic David Kang Hana Media & Development

“ PFLAG Twin Cities is grateful for being a part of Community Shares Martha Field Community At-Large Leo Reid Missing Children Minnesota Dawn Frederick Access Press Claire Todd PFLAG because it allows a much larger base of people to hear about our “ Sue Horvath Ergodyne Carol Watson Missing Children Minnesota organization and have the opportunity to donate to us through CS. Tamara Huf UnitedHealthcare/Optum Lynn Hill, PFLAG Board Secretary Impact ... and Outcomes

The West Bank Community The Minnesota Coalition Against Part of a national Pioneering support for Development Center provided Sexual Assault (MNCASA) network nearly 500 units of affordable Prevention Program works to end grassroots social justice workforce housing in the Cedar sexual violence before it happens in our community since Riverside Neighborhoods in by changing the cultural norms 2015, impacting nearly 3,000 and environment that are the root 1978 causes of sexual violence. In 2015 individuals. Providing safe, MNCASA worked with over 130 affordable housing, creates community leaders across the stability, a vital contributor to a state, impacting thousands in each Provide a resource for fair and just community. community. Raised $21.5 million connecting thousands of through workplace donors with the charities they value through workplace giving campaigns over The Ten Thousand Things Theater The Voices for Racial Justice’s giving campaigns brought award-winning, high- Education Equity Project is a the past 37 years quality theater to more than community-based approach to 7,000 people with little access closing our state’s racial education $$$$$$$$$$$$$ to the wealth of the arts in 2015. opportunity gap. The goal: to They provide free performances begin closing the city’s education Connecting donors at homeless shelters, correctional opportunity gap by engaging Creating a with progressive and facilities, low-income senior community and education leaders in centers, after-school programs, changing the policies and practices fair, just and community advocating women’s shelters, and locations in that perpetuate racial disparities members who are rural Minnesota — any place we can in our schools. In 2015, nearly equitable reach people who do not have easy 5000 individuals across the state tackling difficult issues access to the wealth of the arts! participated in this project. Minnesota at their core GIVING PARTNERS MEMBERS

Access Press Jewish Community Action PFund Foundation * Advocating Change Together KFAI, Fresh Air Radio Quatrefoil Library Access Press Jewish Community Action Robbinsdale Area Schools AchieveMpls Kennedy & Graven Chartered Rondo Community Land Trust Alley Communications Lexington-Hamline Community Rondo Community Land Trust Council Advocating Change Together, Inc. KFAI Radio, 90.3 FM & 106.7 FM Roseville Area Schools Asian Media Access Southside Family Charter School Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual AFSCME Council #5 League of Minnesota Cities Saint Paul Port Authority Can Do Canines Voices for Racial Justice (formerly Assault Alley Communications Linden Hills Co-op Saint Paul Public Housing Agency Center for Victims of Torture Organizing Apprenticeship Project) Minnesota Coalition for Battered Alliance for Metropolitan Stability Saint Paul Public Schools City of Lakes Community Land Trust West Bank Community Women Ameriprise Mahoney Ulbrich Christiansen & Russ Seward Co-op Energy CENTS Coalition Development Corp Minnesota Women’s Consortium Amherst H Wilder Foundation P.A. Southside Family Charter School Family Tree Clinic Women Against Military Madness Anoka County McGrann Shea Carnival Straughn & Missing Children Minnesota St. Catherine University Friends for a Non-Violent World (WAMM) National Federation of the Blind Asian Media Access Lamb State of Minnesota YouthCARE Hawthorne Neighborhood Council Minnesota Augsburg College Metropolitan Council Stinson Leonard Street Youth Farm Headwaters Foundation for Justice * Organizing Apprenticeship Project Bank Cherokee Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd. Sunrise Community Banks HOME Line Pangea World Theater Bremer Banks Public Schools The Saint Paul Foundation In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Better Business Bureau of Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual PFLAG Twin Cities Mask Theatre Minnesota, Inc. Assault Thomson Reuters Can Do Canines Minnesota Coalition for Battered Three Rivers Park District Center for Victims of Torture Women Travelers City of Bloomington Minnesota Council of Nonprofits UCare Minnesota GRANTS City of Edina Minnesota Women`s Consortium Kowalski’s Markets – Groceries for Good Causes City of Golden Valley Missing Children Minnesota University of Minnesota- Duluth Minnesota Community Foundation - Mary and Paul Orman Fund City of Lakes Community Land Mounds View Public Schools University of Minnesota Physicians The Saint Paul Foundation - Delta Giordano Trust National Federation of the Blind University of St. Thomas The Saint Paul Foundation - Lori Berg City of Minneapolis Minnesota Venture Bank The Saint Paul Foundation - Michael Conaboy City of St. Paul North American Council on Voices For Racial Justice The Karen Viskochil Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation Community Shares of Minnesota Adoptable Children Samsara Foundation Shayna Berkowitz and Phyllis Wiener and Still Ain’t Satisfied, A Foundation With Attitude Staff Northern Lights Combined Federal Washington County Dakota County Campaign (CFC) Wells Fargo & Company Energy CENTS Coalition PFLAG Saint Paul West Bank Community Development Family Tree Clinic PFund Foundation Corp 2014 2015 Greater Twin Cities United Way Pohlad Family Companies Western Bank Campaign Contributions, Net 581,909 542,480 Hamline University Project 515 Education Campaign Hamline Mitchell College of Law FINANCIAL SUMMARY Grants Received 33,814 50,702 Hawthorne Neighborhood Council Project for Pride in Living (PPL) Winthrop & Weinstine P.A Campaign Management Fees 279,777 211,992 HealthPartners Prudential Insurance Company of Women Against Military Madness Hennepin County America (WAMM) 2015 Revenue 2015 Expenses Dues 289,315 362,269 Hennepin County Medical Center Public Radio International Inc Youth Farm Other Revenues 35,242 24,275 (HCMC) Quatrefoil Library YouthCARE Total Revenue 1,220,058 1,191,719 In the Heart of the Beast Puppet Ramsey County 30.4% and Mask Theatre Grants to Agencies 579,158 581,496 49.2% Community Services 541,645 622,216 45.5% 45.9% 17.8% Management and General 37,644 35,389 Fundraising 27,379 25,737

Total Expenses 1,185,826 1,264,838 Change in Net Assets 34,232 (73,119) “ I have witnessed firsthand the positive impact funds from Community Shares have had on the people served by Rondo CLT. The affordable

housing Rondo provides, allows new owners to find a better job, go back to school and become active in the neighborhood.“ It is a long term investment in people and the community.

Charles Bradley, Board President, Rondo Community Land Trust (CLT) Board of Directors

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