ReCAST Resilience 365 Community Voting Process Answer Choices Responses I live in South Minneapolis 31.05% 964 I live in North Minneapolis 34.11% 1059 I live in Cedar Riverside 5.19% 161 I work in Minneapolis 35.39% 1099 I do not live or work in Minnepolis 0.00% 0 I live somewhere else in Minneapolis 6.92% 215 3105

Do you live or work in Minneapolis 40.00% 35.00% 30.00% 25.00% 20.00% 15.00% Responses 10.00% 5.00% 0.00% I live in I live in I live in I work in I do not live I live South North Cedar Minneapolis or work in somewhere Minneapolis Minneapolis Riverside Minnepolis else in Minneapolis Ripple Effect Proposals Projects Answer Choices Responses Budget

Project Name: Young Parents Facing Homelessness Project Team: Lutunji Abram, Professor Emerita Sandra McNeel Project Description: Conduct a training for parents that encourages/inspires parents to become increasingly engaged in their children’s IEP’s (Individual Education Plans). Provide a list of resources to assisting parents with elementary and high school aged Family youth. Coordinate MPS representative to assist parents to utilize their child’s parent portal to gain access with teachers regarding their child(ren’s) school progress. Conduct two to three in‐house workshops for Parents which will motivate and inspire parents to be active in creating the educational pathways for their children. (Even through transition) Create a campaign to encourage parents to go back to school or access training. Target Community: Working with teen and young parents including fathers Minneapolis ages 18‐24 40.32% $ 2,250.00

Project Name: Twin Cities Recovery Social Club Project Team: Marc L. Johnigan, LaTricia Tate Project Description: The participants will have the opportunity to discuss their feelings, concerns and develop a deeper understanding of their trauma/grief. The outcomes are to Increase participants' knowledge, understanding and recognizing their feelings and emotions; Increase participants' knowledge of the emotional stages during the grieving process; Increase participants' ability to demonstrate improved behavior, attitudes and habits; and Increase in participants' knowledge of the key definitions and components dealing with trauma/grief. Target Community: African American community between the ages of 18‐55 years of age 30.98% $ 2,250.00 Project Name: Tortoise at the Town Center Project Team: Brandon Burbach; Houston White Project Description: One small business, HW Mens Room, is expanding on local ownership in the Camden Neighborhood by creating a public gateway for all colors and races and creeds, with the vision of creating Camden Town Center. Research shows that for a new place to thrive, at least 8 elements need to be included. In this proposal we seek to start the process of establishing a public art district in Camden Town Center with the purchase a 5'2'' tortoise statue to spark community conversation. Target Community: Camden Neighborhood Residents 31.63% $ 694.00

Project Name: Star‐lite: MPLS Project Team: Donna L. Minter; Crixell Shell; Claire Moran; Antony Stately; Patina Park; and Laura Jones Project Description: We are partnering with the Native American Community Clinic (NACC) and the MN Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC) and their community partners to provide the STAR‐Lite Training to 20 individuals in Minneapolis in September 2018. STAR‐Lite is an evidence‐based, interactive training integrating neuropsychology, trauma healing and resilience, restorative justice, nonviolent conflict transformation, and broadly defined spirituality. Target Community: Division of Indian Works, the American Indian OIC, Little Earth, and other Native American Indian community groups. 18 and older 31.01% $ 2,250.00

Project Name: Next Step Narrative Medicine Workshops Project Team: Farji Shaheer, Constance Rhodes, Reverend Nicole Smith, and Dr. Syl Jonee Project Description: The idea is to have several workshops for Next Step patients who are healing from their trauma. Next Step patients are victims of a gun shot or stabbing who are also under the age of 28. We use the narrative medicine approach when working with them individually, now we would like to do it in a group setting. Narrative Medicine is exchanging a story for a story with patients. It helps them to heal from the trauma of being shot or stabbed. Target Community: Next Step patients at both Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Hospital 34.13% $ 2,250.00

Project Name: Minnesota Black Girl Magic Project Team: Kendra Barnes, Anika Bowie, Lenora Culverson, Demetria Dyer, Fardosa Hassan, Shanene Herbert, Jessica Jordan, Brianna Shareef, Keinesha Weekes, and Ashley Aguy Project Description: Through retreats, the Minnesota Black Girl Magic Showcase aspires to: (1) enrich the educational experience of Black girls by motivating them to focus on their studies, celebrating their academic success, connecting them with academic supportive resources; (2) provide encouragement to Black girls battling negative societal messages concerning their beauty and health through self‐empowerment workshops and exposure to stories and testimonies of black voices who speak on self love; (3) interrupt and redirect cycles of trauma by identifying triggers and connecting program participants with professionals who can help them develop the healthy coping skills. Target Community: Black Girls who live in Minneapolis neighborhoods Jordan, Hawthorne, Near North, Harrison, Cedar‐ Riverside, and Folwell 49.74% $ 1,600.00 Project Name: Liga Latina Sabatina Project Team: Karla Arredondo, NENA Community Organizer; Becky Timm, NENA Executive Director Project Description: A joyous bilingual celebration of the Liga Latina Sabitina / Saturday Latino League inaugural season will take place on Saturday, September 22, 2018. In its first year, this free volunteer‐led league attracted 24 youth soccer teams from all over Minneapolis to compete weekly at Bossen Field from May through September. This celebration will be an opportunity for area families, many of them immigrants, to connect, celebrate and share their vision for their community. The celebration will also honor Jose Garcia and his son who shepherded the idea of a free youth soccer league from a vision to reality this year. Target Community: Youth of Color Ages 8 – 16 in Nokomis East Neighborhood 36.25% $ 2,250.00

Project Name: Lifting Every Voice! Project Team: Susan Ann Gust ‐ Project lead, Alley Communications Transition Team Project Description: The Alley Newspaper is 42 years old, one of the oldest community newspapers in the Twin Cities. It has been a community‐governed, nonprofit media source since its beginning. This is a perfect time to transition leadership and include more cultural perspectives and voices. Our hope and our goal is that The Alley Newspaper can continue with deeper cultural representation that will assist in the trauma healing of the community, lifting up its incredible resiliency and advocating for systems change through community‐governed media. Target Community: Midtown Phillips Neighborhood 33.61% $ 2,250.00 Project Name: Free community Reiki for Women of Color, LGBTQ community, and healing practitioners Project Team: Erica Wallace Moore, Reiki Master Practitioner Project Description: Anticipated Outcome: For under‐voiced, under‐heard, and important communities across Minneapolis to be tended to, loved, and cared for. Increased diversity and access to alternative, holistic care. Results: More compassionate and aligned support for ourselves, each other, and our greater purposes. Participants will feel more comfortable seeking alternative care. Community Reiki will be a source for healing outreach during situations that include trauma and crisis. Target Community: Women of Color, LGBTQ, and healing practitioners. 25.51% $ 2,250.00 Project Name: FAIR School P. E.A.C.H ‐ Peer Educator Activists for Community Healing Project Team: Mary Pat Cumming Project Description: This project will train high school students to be mental health peer educators for their school community and neighborhoods. Many students who attend FAIR School in Downtown Minneapolis have experienced trauma, especially gun violence and racial oppression. Students will be trained as mental health Peer Educators to support and educate their peers at school and in the community about mental health, resources, and healthy self‐care through mindfulness practices. Students at FAIR School will create portable labyrinths that can be used back in their communities for mindfulness practice. Target Community: Our target audience will be high school students who attend FAIR school and reside in North Minneapolis, Phillips, and South Minneapolis. Students will be in grades 10 ‐ 12 and will be African American, Native, LatinX, and White ages 15 ‐ 18 33.06% $ 1,580.00

Project Name: Activism Requires Healing Project Team: Ralph Crowder, Makeda Zulu‐Gillespie Project Description: This project will bring a group of families together who, in the 60s, took on a set of values and created a way of being that was more in line with who we are as African people. The goal is to bring these families together with a community healer to process what happened to us and to begin our healing journey. Brother Resmaa Menakem, Elder Atum or another healer who is NOT from this geographic community would sit with us to process, cry, write, dance, drum and heal so we don't repeat the same negative patterns. Target Community: Ralph Crowder family; El ‐ Kati family; Zulu Family; Hickman Family; Matey‐Keke Family; and Propes Family 32.73% $ 2,250.00 Total $ 21,874.00 I choose not to fund any projects in this category. Please provide a reason below. 7.44% Wave Effect Answer Choices Responses Budget Project Name: Minnesota Fight Club Project Team: Jihad Muhammad Project Description: Minnesota Fight Club aims to reduce trauma from inner‐city gun violence by providing a boxing and MMA sparring platform for members of the community, with intention of the platform to serve as an outlet for aggression in a safe and constructive environment. Target Community: Minnesota Fight Club's target audience are youth of color 12‐25 years old, living in inner‐city neighborhood effected by gun violence. 31.98% $ 25,000.00

Project Name: Community‐based Birth Trauma Response Team for Families Affected by Incarceration Project Team: State, and Local Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities; Department of Pediatrics – University of Minnesota; Culturally‐Specific Reproductive Health Care Providers Project Description: With the support of ReCAST Minneapolis Resiliency 365 Fund, the Minnesota Prison Doula Project will recruit, train, and hire 10 culturally reflective doulas to provide pregnancy and parenting support for justice‐involved parents. Doula support offers a holistic experience providing informational health support, emotional support vis a vis the opportunity to practice trust and experience safety, and physical support during the labor and delivery process. Our evaluation methods capture depressive symptoms over the course of pregnancy and the postpartum period so that existing or emergent mental and physical health needs can be identified and proper health care referrals and treatment can occur. Target Community: Our project has an existing relationship with potential doulas in our community who are interested in becoming culturally reflective birth doulas with the purpose of supporting incarcerated pregnant people. 18.50% $ 25,000.00

Project Name: Building Community Assets and Resiliency Project Team: Sunny Chanthanouvong, Chongchith Saengsudham, Vilamone Tran and Kathryn McGraw Schumann Project Description: The Lao Assistance Center of Minnesota (LACM) will work with Lao community members to understand how sustained historical trauma resulting from war, resettlement, refugee status and racism has impacted the community and what actions are effective in helping the community heal. To accomplish this, LACM has designed a community conversation forum that allows community members to discuss trauma they have experienced through stories as LACM gathers input on ways the agency can assist the community to overcome the trauma. LACM will use these initial conversations to inform its strategic planning process and developing a long‐ term approach to healing trauma in the Lao community. Target Community: Lao immigrants and refugees 18.26% $ 20,555.00

Project Name: Unfit for Human Consumption: Healing from the Trauma of Mass Incarceration Project Team: Vina Kay and the team includes two men who were recently released from prison and who were partners while in prison, two family members of incarcerated people, and currently incarcerated people. Other partners include: Breaking Free, Little Earth, Power of People Leadership and Personal Development Training Class (POP), Ujamaa Place, Minnesota Department of Health. Project Description: Our project centers the experiences of people directly affected by mass incarceration in a process of relationship building, storytelling, community‐based research practices, and healing from this trauma. We will host gatherings of family members of people incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. These gatherings will offer the space for conversations about healing from trauma as family members of incarcerated people and as formerly incarcerated people, as well as how we can support incarcerated loved ones in recovering from their trauma. Target Community: The target population are people impacted directly by incarceration, either as family members or as formerly incarcerated people 18.26% $ 15,000.00 Project Name: Healing Voices Story Collection Project Team: National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition Project Description: NABS has contracted with Sundance Native Film Fellow, Missy Whiteman (Arapaho/Kickapoo) at Independent Indigenous Film and Media for youth media training and video production. The project would include a week‐long youth media training with interviews of boarding school survivors focusing on a message of hope, healing, and resiliency and culminating in a community event with screening and discussion for the Healing Voices videos. We know (and research has proven) that validation of one’s trauma can aid in healing, that healing historical trauma for Native communities happens with the leadership of our elders, and that breaking the silence about our trauma helps break the cycle of inter‐generational transmission of trauma responses. We have completed the NABS Healing Voices Youth Media Training and Video Production in Turtle Mountain, ND and Anchorage, AK thus far with outstanding results of powerful storytelling videos and healing experiences. Target Community: Minneapolis Native American Community‐‐all ages, but specifically youth and elders. 17.53% $ 20,000.00

Project Name: WE WIN Project Team: Marques Armstrong, Jesse Buckner Project Description: The WE WIN Institute project for the Recast Minneapolis Resilience 365 Fund is called Ako‐ko Nan; Akoko Nan is an Adrinka symbol that means nurturer and protector. The Akoko Nan project's aim is to alleviate cultural trauma in young males of African descent to help them develop resiliency in the face of systemic and social trauma. This is an engagement method that helps boys deal with trauma, develop resiliency and make good choices. Holding 8, two‐hour circle sessions, over the course of three months; each session will address a different subject in the areas of: Understanding your Environment; Past Experiences (Trauma); Dealing with Emotions (positive and negative); Leadership (development and practice), Planning for the Future (goals), Akoko Nan (Lessons Learned). Target Community: Akoko Nan will be offered, at no cost to 25 youth, ages 9‐14. The youth served will be from surrounding neighborhoods in Minneapolis. The project will happen in both North and South Minneapolis. 17.49% $ 15,000.00

Project Name: Appetite for Change Project Team: DeVon Nolen, YPQA and Family Development Specialist; Princess Titus, Certified Teacher and Life Coach; TBD; Licensed Mental Health Professional Project Description: Activity 1 | Healing Circles for Northside Youth Healing Circles will take place at AFC or at the West Broadway Farmer’s Market. Four healing circles will be provided, with each lasting 2‐2.5 hours. Healing circles will be led by DeVon Nolen, an Northside expert in community healing, and a licensed mental health practitioner. Activity 2 | Community Cooks Workshop on Healing for Northside Youth Community Cooks workshops are regularly held at AFC and bring community members, families, elders, and youth together through food to dialogue and advocate for change. Activity 3 | Cross Agency Youth Retreat YTOP youth leaders and select youth leaders from partner agencies will attend a 1.5‐day retreat that will focus on trauma recovery, leadership and personal development, and healing. Target Community: This project will serve African‐American youth in North Minneapolis. 16.72% $ 24,995.00

Project Name: Future Northside Leaders: An Afterschool Club for Middle School Students Overcoming Trauma and Building Community Project Team: Peter Everett, Program Founder & KIPP team Project Description: Staff members of KIPP North Star Academy seek funding to create a new afterschool program designed to provide middle school students who are experiencing trauma with the tools, fellowship, and community engagement opportunities that will help them build individual resilience and become school leaders. KIPP Minnesota is highly aligned and supportive of this staff‐driven effort to provide additional pull‐out support and opportunities beyond the school day to students in grades 5‐8 who are facing traumas including: divorce, abuse, homelessness, and proximity to chronic diseases, violence, and death. Target Community: Webber‐Camden ‐ KIPP North Star Academy students whom we know or suspect are facing significant adversity are our focus. The opportunity will also be made available to all 196 students we expect to be enrolled in grades 5‐8 on a first‐come, first‐served basis. 16.68% $ 14,565.00 Project Name: Sabathani Community Center Project Team: Kevin Sanders Certified Forklift Instructor/ Pat Anderson 20 years of experience of providing services to underserve populations, Cheryl Childs, SCC's program evaluator, and Cindy Booker BA. Economics, MS in Diversity Studies (curriculum and survey developer) Project Description: Our goal is to support and provide wrap‐around services to individuals on probation and/or recently release complete employment training and workplace activities to gain employment and/or higher wage employment with quality employers. Target Community: Our target audience is 50 men of color (on probation and/or recently released) and their families living in North or South Minneapolis and are between 18 and 50 years of age. 15.75% $ 22,250.00

Project Name: Family Stabilization Project Project Team: Imam Makram El‐Amin, Sakinah Mujahid, Chasma Dixon Project Description: A program that serves a minimum of twenty households and a maximum of fifty households during its pilot period in 2018. The FSP works with individuals and families through case management in the following areas of: Housing, Employment, Health, and Behavioral health. Households identify mental health needs and become connected to culturally competent practitioners for both mental and chemical health. Community Engagement ‐ encourage individuals under court supervision to remain compliant to conditions of release as they integrate back into family and community. Target Community: The head of household under the FSP must be eighteen years of age or older. The FSP households primarily although not exclusively reside in North Minneapolis.They consist of African American, African, immigrant, Latinos, unemployed, under employment, uninsured, returning citizens of incarceration. 15.71% $ 25,000.00

Project Title: Power Not Panic Minneapolis Project Team: Estefania Navarro Lead Organizer & Maria Zavala Minneapolis Resident Project Description: Power Not Panic Minneapolis are intentionally created and held spaces, resources and campaigns built by and with Latinx DACA/Undocumented community organizers in education facilities and in the community at large that serve as a niche to reflect on the current reality, build support, exchange ideas and resources, build power and resilience with undocumented students, MN Dream Act students, DACA recipients, LGBTQ identified students, U‐Visa, mixed status families, families of a recent deportee and other immigrant or foreign‐born students and their families who are Minneapolis residents or go to school in Minneapolis. Target Community: Latinx DACA/Undocumented folks 15.18% $ 25,000.00

Project Name: Signifyin’ and Testifyin’ Storytelling Festival Project Team: Vusi and Nothando Zulu; Makeda Zulu‐Gillespie; Darrell Gillespie Pastor; Dylan Lindsey, Project Description: Black Storytellers Alliance is exemplary in integrating the art of storytelling into the social fabric and identity of this north side community. This grant would allow black storytellers to expand their work with their partners to: Build on, align, and further work being done to advance community healing and resilience and/or eliminate structural racism, center the experiences and leadership of communities most impacted by patterns of structural racial inequities, and leverage opportunities that are likely to have the greatest impact. Target Community: African Americans who live, socialize and/or are educated in north Minneapolis and African American School aged youth 14.98% $ 10,000.00

Project Name: The Black Love Effect Project Project Team: Elizer Darris, Darris Consulting Group; Anika Bowie, NAACP Minneapolis Chair Criminal Justice Reform Committee; Teto Wilson, Owner of Wilson's Image Barbers and Stylist; Lewis McCaleb IV, Founder of Individuals With Dreams and Northside Artist Project Description: "The Black Love Effect Project" (BLEP) is an existing collection of events that concentrates on self‐love, healing and trauma within the interpersonal relationships of Black people in the Twin Cities. The BLEP events address barriers to building healthy interactions within our intimate relationships, families and larger community. A critical component of the Black Love Effect Project is to engage residents in health & wellness. An intentional increase in indicators of love will be the outcomes. These indicators include community participation, narratives of the power of love, collaboration among local organizations and leaders, connecting residents to professional services, and furthering the usage of trauma‐informed practices. The project will include a Project Manager, three Project Coordinators, and 7 Ambassadors to handle overall logistics, event planning, outreach and community collaboration. Target Community: The target ethnicity for each of the Black Love Effect Project will be individuals predominately residing in North Minneapolis of African descent. BEP #1: Black Love Mixer 21 years old and up BLEP #2: Black Love Movie Screening 15 years and up BLEP #3: Black Love Listening Session 14 years and up 14.86% $ 25,000.00 Project Name: The Healing Center Project Team: Brian Herron (Pastor), James Bean, LICSW (Pastor), Darrell Gillespie (Pastor), Paul Slack (Pastor), Nothando Zulu (Storyteller), Williams Harris (Drummer), Allison Stivland (Yoga instructor), Rosalind Sullivan (Pastor), Mary Jo Winston (Pastor) Project Description: The Healing Center is seeking grants funds from the Wave Effect pool of the ReCast program to initiate Healing Circles throughout the North Minneapolis community. Healing Circles are a cooperative and consensus effort in which participant, cyclical, community‐based, and kinship‐oriented opportunity to engage a person’s full self in a healing modality. Based on values of sharing, respect, and honor, the Healing Circle is one way people to communicate about life events and the impacts of those events on their physical, mental and emotional health. Target Community: North Minneapolis and surrounding neighborhoods that have been most affected by significant traumatic circumstances in the community. 14.33% $ 25,000.00

Project Name: Moving to Heal Project Team: Kristi Pearson, Thomas Redd Project Description: Northside Hennepin County Libraries will collaborate with community members and healers to offer programs bringing neighbors together to process, connect, and gain tools to heal. We will offer a series of programs through September at our three Northside libraries: North Regional, Sumner, and Webber Park. This programming will include healing circles, youth yoga, adult yoga, portrait photography, and storytelling. The neighborhoods these libraries serve have experienced many traumas recently, as well as the ongoing traumas of institutional and systemic racism. As trusted neighborhood institutions, Hennepin County Libraries are uniquely positioned to promote healing in our communities, and we see ReCAST Minneapolis funding as an exciting opportunity to begin this essential work. Target Community: Our target audience will be African American, West African, and East African community members of the Northside. 14.09% $ 10,700.00

Project Title: Healing Trauma in the Somali Community through Mind Body Medicine Project Team: Abdi Ali, Project Coordinator and Trainer Project Description: The Healing Trauma in the Somali Community through Mind Body Medicine Project will engage the Somali community of south Minneapolis on the principles of Mind Body Medicine and how they complement the principles of traditional Somali culture and Islamic values regarding the importance of prevention, healing and the overall well‐being of the community. The project is designed in response to the historical and ongoing trauma and its ancillary effects that are endemic in the Somali community. Target Community: Somali Community Residents 13.24% $ 21,750.00 Total $ 324,815.00 Project Name: The Black Identity Series: Mental Health Project Team: Farrington Llewellyn and West Broadway Area Coalition partners Project Description: The Black Identity Series exists in 2 parts: Intimate video interviews on a black identity theme, for this project mental health and trauma and Public Screenings and talk back, for this project in activated vacant commercial space Northside Target Community: African Americans in North Minneapolis 12.27% $ 15,000.00 Project Name: Man Up Retreat Project Team: Korey "Xross" Dean, Shemeka Bogan; Mariaha Dean; Sammy McDowell; JC Dampier; Delilah Montgomery; Benny Samuels; and Tyler Klatt Project Description: This one‐day empowerment retreat for black males age 14‐24 focuses on these key elements of black male development: trauma, personal hygiene and grooming, the impact of the criminal justice system, man‐hood and social skills, financial literacy. Target Community: Any male that considers themselves a black male in any neighborhood in North and South Minneapolis ages 14‐24. 12.27% $ 25,000.00 Project Name: A Voice Against Police Brutality Support and Healing Group Project Team: Toshira Garraway; Shirley Graham, Tiffany Roberson Project Description: Our mission is to provide a group that gives families in the community a voice, support and a safe environment to share their stories of losing loved ones due to police brutality. We understand that there is healing in sharing your story and experience. My name is Tiffany Roberson, the sister of Jamar Clark, a 24 yr old young man that was murdered by Minneapolis Police November 15th 2015. I have had the pleasure of meeting a young lady by the name of Toshira Garraway who lost her sons father Justin Teigen at the hands of St. Paul Police in 2009. We have come together to start a group that will help give support and healing to families that have suffered trauma due to losing their love ones at the hands of police while building a community network to bring upon change. Target Community: Our targeted audiences are all under served communities in the City of Minneapolis esp. African American who have suffered trauma due to police brutality however we will welcome people of all ethnic backgrounds who have experienced this trauma and maybe other trauma into our group. 12.11% $ 25,000.00

Project Name: Building Bridges and Breaking Bread Initiative Project Team: Eduardo Cardenas Project Description: The reconstruction of the East 38th Street Bridge has presented an opportunity for the community surrounding East 38th Street, in the Central and Bryant neighborhoods, to share open, facilitated, neighbor‐to‐neighbor dialogue about the history of disenfranchisement and racism connected with I‐35W highway construction in Minneapolis. During the inauguration event, we will kick off the Breaking Bread and Building Bridges Initiative, a first of 5 dinners in the Central and Bryant neighborhoods that will address historical trauma around community division and displacement; engage marginalized and underutilized members of the community through assigned roles during the event; reinforce the contributions of communities of color; and build cross‐ cultural competency around public safety strategies that foster reconciliation rather than further marginalization. Target Community: The Building Bridges and Breaking Bread Initiative seeks to engage neighbors in the Bryant and Central neighborhoods along the East 38th Street corridor. 12.06% $ 11,190.00

Project Name: Art of Anger Project Team: Marquita Stephens, Minneapolis Urban League, Dr. Eboni Bell, Educator and Professional Artist Project Description: "Art Over Anger" is an arts based program, consisting of six art modules, ninety minutes each, targeting urban families for the purpose of increasing the knowledge and understanding of the therapeutic nature of art. The program will address the effects of trauma and offer participants skills and techniques to add to their repertoire of language which allows them to communicate their feelings about trauma they experience, in everyday life. Through visual and literary arts, the program seeks to equip participants with the language to reduce the effects of trauma. Target Community: The target audience is urban families of color, including children, age 5 and up. 11.74% $ 15,630.00

Project Name: Rebound Inc. Project Team: Carmeann Foster Project Description: Rebound, Inc. will bring together 20 young professionals of color to study best practices in serving communities experiencing trauma. Cohort members will support one another in implementing their learning in their work within the North Minneapolis community. Together we will train and develop the next generation of community healers. Through the cohort program, the North Minneapolis community will gain 20 young professionals at the beginning of their career. These professionals will go on to serve hundreds of community members per year for decades to come. Target Community: Young professionals of color, between the ages of 22 and 30 years old entering the social service field in North Minneapolis (within the first 5 years of their career). 11.01% $ 24,000.00 Project Name: Restorative Justice Community Action Cynthia Prosek Project Team: Dr. Raj Sethuraju; Tina Sigel and Cynthia Prosek Project Description: “Community Conversations: Understanding and Addressing Implicit Bias” is a three hour long guided discussion on how racial and other biases shape our perception and our personal, community, and systemic relations. Individuals are invited into a discussion which honors personal experience as expertise. Participants engage in a Circle process – a restorative justice model which centers on shared values, and allows all to participate in a safe and meaningful way. The objective of the Community Conversation is to provide an intentional space for members from all different parts of our community to come together and discuss the implicit bias each of us hold individually and how this impacts the larger community. Target Community: African American, Latinx, and Somali communities as well as government, law enforcement, schools, religious institutions, and community organizations across the Twin Cities. 10.97% $ 12,200.00

Project Name: Second Annual Youth Healing Justice Network (YHJN) Community Healing Workshop, Art Share and Conversation: A Partnership between People's Movement Center and Irreducible Grace Foundation. Project Team: Rebeka Ndosi, Sandy Agustin, Marie Michael, Qui Alexander, Jan Mandell, Darlene Fry, Project Description: Community members will be engaged in a workshop and performance led by youth and young adults of color where skills for addressing stress and trauma are shared and practiced. Community members will learn about and experience the artwork and tools we have created along with other useful tools including MEHUBMN.COM, the Youth Mind‐Body Engagement Hub. Community members will meet and be in conversation with community healing practitioners of color from the Youth Healing Justice Network @People's Movement Center. Community members interested in healing support and spaces for youth of color will be connected to each other in order to grow the network. Target Community: Black, indigenous and other youth of color; the adults who surround and support them including parents, educators, and mentors; and Black, indigenous and other healing and health care practitioners of color (BIPOC). 10.65% $ 19,755.00

Project Name: Restoring Hope, Increasing Resilience and Creating Impact Project Team: Constance Rhodes, David Carson, Winston Allen Project Description: This is a trauma informed project that utilizes a mixture of community healing, cultural practices and best practices from programs that specialize in treating families experiencing trauma. It is a community‐based initiative that utilizes workshops and healing circles that help reduce stress, increase resiliency and restore hope in communities responding to trauma. Through September, 2018, we will engage community members in four events (2 Healing Circles and 2 Therapeutic Art Workshops) that will address community trauma like police shootings, gang violence,systemic racism, and historical trauma. During the beginning of the school year, we will engage youth in the BUILD Violence Prevention Curriculum which include peace circles, topics that increase resilience and foster hope and increase conflict resolutions.Target Community: Target Audience for Healing Circles and Therapeutic Art Workshops ‐ all ages, living in North Minneapolis. Target audience for BUILD Curriculum Lessons ‐ Lucy Laney students ages 9 to 12, Cleveland, 98% African American 10.53% $ 12,501.00

Project Name: 11 Points of Light Project Team: Sharif Willis Project Description: 11 Points of Light is looks at the communities we live in and has seen far too many lives wasted and the potential, that is being squandered. We have trained 12 members from various organizations to identify and address various levels of trauma that exist within the community. This trauma may be identified as trauma based on unforeseen violent events or adverse trauma that presents itself over time. Target Community: Communities greatly impacted by trauma 8.91% $ 25,000.00 Project Name: 612 Rocks! Project Team: Dedra Herron‐Slack; Pastor Paul Slack; Pastor Brian Herron Project Description: 612 Rocks! is an extension of an existing global project entitled The Kindness Rocks Project™. There are no registered groups within the North Minneapolis Metro Area currently participating. In fact, there are not many groups participating in the state of Minnesota The purpose is simple, to cultivate connections within communities and lift others up through simple acts of kindness. The Kindness Rocks Project™ Mission is "One message at just the right moment can change someone's entire day, outlook, life." In our context we will create Two Kindness Rock Gardens and populate it with Kindness rocks to be found and hidden. These Rock Gardens will be in North Minneapolis Churches. We will also create one outside, Memorial Rock Garden, to remember the victims of violence in the Minneapolis Community. We will extend the invitation to other congregations to join us in our 612 Rocks events as we paint rocks and share lessons on incorporating kindness into our everyday lives. Target Community: New Creation Church, Zion Baptist Church and two other Congregations TBD on the north side of Minneapolis within the 55411 zip code. 8.18% $ 9,251.00

Project Name: Firewood Youth Advisory Board Project Team: Heidi Affi, Co‐lead is Annie Mason Project Description: We have invited a group of Minneapolis youth to participate in four events during late summer and early fall 2018. Ultimately, this project will (1) facilitate stronger relationship‐building between youth and adults who represent institutions that shape those youths’ experiences in formal and informal education, (2) shift conversations away from pathologizing approaches to responding to “traumas” and toward humanizing and healing, (3) centralize youth voices in conversations about trauma in our communities, and (4) build on #s 1, 2, and 3 to impact curriculum and program development in public schools and teacher preparation. Target Community: Youth of Color 7.85% $ 9,119.00

Project Name: HerSiliency Project Team: Shaundelle Darris; Kamisha Johnson Project Description: HerSilincey is a program that produces multiple workshops within the community to heal release and restore ourselves. We aim to be more proactive with our work then reactive. Linking the community with not only valuable but tangible resources to eventually become self‐sufficient in the healing process. Every other month we rotate between women, men and youth event. Focusing on core areas such as mental health, relationship balance, financial wealth and spiritual growth. Target Community: Men women and youth(13‐18) within the African American community 7.61% $ 6,240.00

Project Name: Zen Binn ‐ Safe Space Healing Project Team: Kamisha Johnson; Cassandra Sawyer; Jasmine Boudah; HerSiliency ‐ Get Lit & Let Go Organizational Partner Project Description: Every month, we host a variety of safe space sessions to encourage community healing and expression. In all of our healing sessions we provide opportunity for discussion as well as actual tools and resources that can applied to our communities as they embark on their healing journey. Our events have been extremely successful and we have organically attracted a community of over 500 people who are all embarking on their healing journey. We will be attracting members of our existing community as well as more Minneapolis residents in need of healing. Target Community: Minority men and women 17‐45, who live within a 5 mile radius of North Minneapolis (55411). 7.49% $ 14,146.99

Project Name: Milestones Project Team: Stephenetta “Isis” Harmon; singer, song writer; Tina Toins, Actress, Kenneth Caldwell, Painter, Arts Access Teacher, Devohn Bland, Comedian, Activist, Film Studies Major, Antonio Flowers, Poet/Actor, Yaceante Williams, Hip Hop Artist, Poet, Actor Project Description: #MILESTONES: the Stage Play is anticipated to bring awareness generational, societal, systematic and work place trauma. The outcome of the play focuses on healing through the art of storytelling. Tools for coping and healing are promoted, resources to behavioral and emotional health partners, health and wellness groups and the art community are shared. With comedy, dance, hip‐hop, music and spoken‐word poetry, trauma is not only identified, we shed light on its reasons and stuck points, the symptoms, triggers and coping skills resulting in a more emotional, mentally and physically (spiritually) healthy communities. Target Community: The target audience will include all from ages 4‐90, pregnant or planning to be pregnant. The audience includes homeless high school drop outs, and the doctors, nurses, psychologists who live in Edina and Shoreview. No one is exempt, no one will be turned away. 7.49% $ 15,630.00 Project Name: Liberation Lit Project Team: Dave Marcotte YCB north side street outreach and Liberations Lit Founder , Naja McComb, YCB North Side Youth street team leader and Hood Nerds Youth Inc Founder, Alfonso Mayfield SAFE MN Founder and Male Mentor Project Description: Liberation's Lit conducts trauma and education awareness workshops and sessions using literary arts, dance and discussion to creatively address traumatic events in the lives of our youth. Liberations Lit was started and has been delivered for more than a year by trusted youth worker and YCB street outreach team member “Dancin Dave” Marcotte. Dave is a dedicated youth worker and has also attended ReCast Trainings throughout his tenure at YCB. Liberations Lit is a program model for an approach to liberatory forms of critical education that use artistic expression to heal from, interpret and resist the effects of power on marginalized people and communities in North Minneapolis. Target Community: Underrepresented male and female youth of color in the Webber / Camden and surrounding areas, Cleveland , Harrison and Near North 6.84% $ 25,000.00

Project Name: Service to Opportunity aka “ServTunity” Project Team: Mohamed Mohamed ‐ Founder of ServTunity, Hani Hassan ‐ Outreach/Project recruiter, Mohamed Hajji Mohamed ‐ Program Coordinator/Facilitator Project Description: ServTunity will host 4 listening/ storytelling session with youth, a safe space where they can express themselves freely with 3‐4 young Somali professionals as a special guest to share their stories. The aim of this session is to build brotherhood and sisterhood with one another and also to be a support system for each other. During the 4 sessions, the youth will be taught skills to build their professional journey. Skills include resume building, public speaking, networking, job interview preparation. Also, we will hold two major events where the youth can put their acquired skills to practice. Target Community: The target audience is Black/POC male and female youth and young adults who are from families that have low income, immigrant, minority students currently enrolled in high school or college and also non‐students who need help finding work. Ages 14‐21. 6.48% $ 9,900.00 I choose not to fund any projects in this category. Please provide a reason below. 4.05% Tsunami Effect Answer Choices Responses Budget

Project Name: Choosing Life in the Black Community: Learned Self‐Management Project Team: Alfred Babington‐Johnson, MDIV, Samuel Willis, Michael Powell, Marlon Moore, Vincent Fields, Menia Buckner, Resmaa Menakem , Mike Wynne, Dr. Harvey, Dr. Pearl Barner, Willie Garrett, Pam White, and Dr. Jonathan Miller Project Description: The purpose of the Choosing Life in the Black Community program is to disrupt the historic, inter‐generational and community transmission of trauma among African Americans. The horrific level of violence experienced in the African American community has resulted in widespread and untreated Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and grief that then promotes further violence. Further, untreated PTSD erodes general health and leads to the development of diseases of the heart and stomach. Stairstep Foundation in collaboration with prominent members of the Minnesota Black Psychologists Association is developing and deploying a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy based program for trauma group intervention called Choosing Life in the Black Community. Target Community: African American Males between 16‐45 in Minneapolis, 19.71% $ 75,000.00 Project Name: Black Women's Wealth Academy Project Team: Kenya McKnight, Lisa Dunlap Project Description: The Wealth Academy will be a 90‐day learning experience launching in August 2018 and closing in November 2018 with more than 40 workshops/trainings/sessions designed to address topics related to wealth building and financial trauma for up to 50 black women in Minneapolis and across the Metro. Black Women’s Wealth Alliance (BWWA) developed the idea for the Wealth Academy by listening to the desires of our network—we know that in order to build sustainable wealth, the whole individual must be considered—not only the financial aspect of their lives yet the reality their financial traumas is rooted in that contributes to generational poverty thinking and behaviors. Target Community: Historical Black women between the ages of 16‐60 in North Minneapolis 19.58% $ 75,000.00 Total $ 150,000.00

Project Name: Healing Our Communities of Color Project Team: Jeffrey Aguy‐Vice President Minneapolis NAACP, Jonathan Lofgren‐Health/Wellness, Ashley Aguy – Health/Wellness, James Badu‐El‐ Prison Reform, Anika Bowie‐Criminal Justice, The Minneapolis NAACP Executive Board Project Description: “Healing Our Communities of Color” is a lifelong plan to help heal, support, encourage, and empower people of color to deal with trauma in our lives, communities, workplace, and abroad. The Minneapolis NAACP is a nonprofit organization that is supported solely on volunteers. However, it has been our mission to address the needs of our communities, support them, and make change. The Minneapolis NAACP addresses trauma everyday. Life happens, and the Minneapolis NAACP is there to help navigate the communities through the various traumas that they encounter. Some of the traumas we have address are deaths, loss of a job, loss of a home, a fire, children taken away, family member incarcerated, mental health, abuse, and homelessness to name a few. Target Community: African Americans in Minneapolis. 16.19% $ 75,000.00

Project Name: Project Ujima Project Team: Nate Hurse, Dundra Willis, Laurina Nkosi, Burgundi Herbert, Brian Herron, Nekima Levy Pounds, ESQ, Marques Armstrong, Antwon Wright Project Description: We will host a monthly workshop to offer helpful evidence‐based practices to community members for gaining the skills to cope with and assist their loved ones and other community members in appropriately addressing trauma. We will also hold community healing circles twice a month, which will be facilitated by mental health professionals, mental health practitioners, including cultural and spiritual leaders. The goal of community healing circles is to create space(s) which community members can use to learn about trauma and begin the healing process. For some, this will be sufficient, however, others will need further supports like therapy, prayer, and/or other types of physical healing activity. Target Community: Our primary target demographic is the African American community in North Minneapolis 15.61% $ 55,989.23 Project Name: No Locked Doors Project Team: Damien Markham, MADDADS, Jerry Gamble Boys and Girls Club Project Description: No Locked Doors will use afterschool and summer programming to do the following activities: Bring awareness to meditation and reflection; Use the arts to provide healthy outlets for self‐expression; Provide a platform for youth to grow socially & emotionally; Expose youth to the “pace of real life”; Assist youth in gaining relevant transferable skills that will prepare them for higher and provide education to youth to become contributing members of society Target Community: Inner City Youth 12 – 18 Years old 13.93% $ 75,000.00 Project Name: BLOOM Project Team: Mo Nijie, Rosemary Williams, Kela Williams, Earl Branch, and Ma’Tajah Willliams Project Description: BLOOM will be a mentorship program geared toward helping young men set goals and strive to achieve them. The anticipated outcome is to give young men skills to overcome obstacles, be resilient and plan and drive goals though. Target Community: Middle school at risk African American boys. 12.51% $ 75,000.00

Project Name: Empowering Our Youth Trauma Division Program Project Team: Roderic Gholston, Larry Wilson, Linda Wilson, and Benesha McCall Project Description: This program is designed to help assist students through trauma. Students will be taught how to become resilient through trauma, stress, depression, racism etc. Students will have the option to participate: one on one or group setting discussions and trainings. The Trauma Division 7 Steps consist of learning and modeling effective ways to process trauma situations. We'll peel back the layers to reach the core of the problem, students will know how to identify trauma and in the end gain positive insight on how to over come it. We anticipate student to leave the program with resilience. We will provide tools, skills, and resources that will help students understand the process of trauma as we coach students through the process. Target Community: Students dealing with trauma, death, racism or lack of equality for all will be welcome to our program. Our program will provide support from ages 5‐17 years of age. 11.97% $ 75,000.00 Project Name: Art in Commons Project Team: Noel Raymond, Mike Hoyt, Molly Van Avery, Jessica Lopez Lyman, Sayge Carroll, and Erin Sharkey Project Description: Art in Commons is a new initiative of Pillsbury House + Theatre that will transform how we use our busy community center in order to significantly deepen our support for low‐income, POC, queer, and political artists while creating collective exchanges of expression and connection for community members. AIC has three main components: 1) a lobby studio and host four artists in residence that culminate in a free art give‐away, 2) cabarets to showcase new performance work, and 3) small business start‐up support for ten artists who will sell their work in our lobby marketplace. Target Community: Our geographic area includes 33% Latinx residents, 21% African American residents, and 37% White residents. Over 20% of area residents live below poverty, and nearly 25% are first generation Americans. 11.59% $ 75,000.00 Project Name: Survivors Lead Project Team: Rachel Joseph Project Description: Survivors Lead, professional and peer support, advocacy for survivors of gun violence. We provide peer‐to‐peer support to survivors of gun violence as they advocate to reduce violence in our cities. Gun violence survivors will provide advocacy for and alongside other survivors of violence as they navigate difficult processes including; open/unsolved gun deaths and injuries, throughout the trial process, and provide community support beyond. Target Community: Communities most significantly impacted by gun violence in Minneapolis, including north Minneapolis. 10.17% $ 75,000.00 Project Name: Uplift Squad Project Team: Shukri Hussein, Ibrahim Hassan, Adam Khadir, Andrea glover, Aliyah Alinor, and Cady Bashir Project Description: This project is designed to address a growing problem of loss of identity and low self esteem amongst the East African Youth in South Minneapolis. Most of the youth in such disadvantaged communities are struggling with social and emotional issues and their prospective neighborhoods does not have effective teams of counselors and mentors on demand, to address these issues. Thus, this is where "the Uplift Squad" comes to the rescue. Target Community: Powderhorn East African youth and their families 9.83% $ 75,000.00 Project Name: Loving From The Inside Out (LFTIO)‐ An Inclusive LIFE Reset experience Project Team: Deborah Watts: Co‐Founder, Executive Director of Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, Tiffany Washington, Teri Watt, Isaac Snell, Rose McGee, Tene Wells, and Jessica Rodgers Project Description: A forum and retreat for women, men and teens of color who have been impacted by trauma to participate in an empowerment series that aims to help participants embark on a powerful and life changing experience. LFTIO‐ Reset My Life is an opportunity for women, men and teens of color to come together in a safe and brave space to engage, heal, grow and embark on a journey healing, self discovery and self‐love. Target Community: Women and Men of color, age range 19 plus. Teens Age 13‐18 of color, Inclusive of Urban, native and immigrant communities. North and South Minneapolis. 8.95% $ 75,000.00

Project Name: Twin Cities Stories Project Team: Rachelle Minor ‐ Principal Investigator/Project Lead, Dr. Cheryl Seals, Robertson Bassy, Judge Tanya Bransford, Khadijah Shumpert, Inez Chatman, Roslyn Harmon, Annette Minor, Chet Goree, Edrin Williams, and Kiah A. Smith Project Description: This project, named Twin City Stories, will be an online, educational platform designed to advance community healing after traumatic events with the Minneapolis Police Department, promote positive images of law enforcement, educate youth and the Minneapolis community on local laws, reinforce positive cross‐cultural communication skills, and address self‐evaluation tactics. Target Community: Youth living and/or attending school in Minneapolis between the ages of 15‐24 and local public service workers 7.03% $ 69,800.00

Project Name: Keeping My Focus Project Team: Cynthia Wilson; Odell Wilson II, Jane Barrash Project Description: "KMF" is a program designed to engage, motivate, empower, and inspire youth to maximize their strengths and build on their weaknesses through positive interactive tools. The goal of KMF is to meet youth where they are, and help them get to a better place. KMF uses hands‐on exercises, and real life experiences to develop a relationship that garners respect, trust, and a sense of comfortability. We use several models created to empower the youth to set realistic goals that are achievable. Target Community: African American youth ages 13‐21 from North Minneapolis 4.73% $ 34,400.00 I choose not to fund any projects in this category. Please provide a reason below. 2.80%