February 2024 - MCCD | Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers

Policy & Advocacy Training at the Capitol

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MCCDMN

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February 17, 2024

Field Building, Membership, Policy & Advocacy

Policy & Advocacy Training at the Capitol

Thank you to everyone that joined us at our Policy & Advocacy Training at the Capitol! We learned, laughed, and teared up from some incredibly moving testimonies.

Access to the Capitol can be intimidating and difficult to navigate. Our training focused on using access to the Capitol as a powerful platform to share narratives and reaching advocacy goals with confidence. Attendees learned about plain language, wrote an elevator pitch, practiced their testimonies in ahearing room, and took a tour of the Capitol!

Thank you to our speakers!

Jeru Gobeze – Advocacy Director, Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota
Representative Mohamed Noor – Representative for District 60B
Chair, Human Services Finance Committee
Kadra Abdi – Director of Local Policy & Field Building, MCCD
Kari Johnson – Director of State Policy & Field Building, MCCD
Kelly Law – SeniorPolicy & Field Advisor, MCCD
Tina Stennes – Communications Manager, MCCD

Thank you to our sponsors!

Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
MN CDFI Coalition

Learn more about our 2024 policy agendas!

Home and Community-Based Service Cooperatives

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MCCDMN

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February 16, 2024

Shared Ownership

Home and Community-Based Service Cooperatives

It’s National Caregiver Day! Ever wondered what happens when caregivers come together? They develop cooperatives that are building wealth among workers and providing exceptional care for their clients!

Despite the benefits to workers, their clients, and the community, there are very few Home and Community-Based Service cooperatives in Minnesota. Our Director of Shared Ownership, Electra, has been busy expanding shared ownership opportunities to our BIPOC and underinvested communities. We are currently working with 5 worker-owned home care businesses providing financial support and technical assistance to address the unique legal, business, and organizational characteristics of cooperative and employee-owned business models!

The owners of Cardinal Comfort Care LLC embraced the worker owned model and is now thriving with a mission to create a Care Model that puts caregivers and their clients first. By offering member ownership to raise wages and offer innovative training opportunities that create competent compassionate quality care for their clients.

Shared Ownership Collaborative St. Paul

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MCCDMN

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February 13, 2024

Policy & Advocacy, Shared Ownership

Shared Ownership Collaborative St. Paul

One of our guiding goals for this years legislative session is to create and expand shared ownership opportunities to support worker-cooperatives, real estate strategies, and housing cooperatives to promote wealth-building, prevent displacement, and ensure community control of assets in BIPOC and intentionally underinvested communities!

Integral to achieving this objective is our collaboration with organizations including our Shared Ownership Collaborative St Paul! This collaborative is BIPOC-led organizations working together with a shared belief that our communities should have the power, resources, and support to control and make decisions about their land, jobs, and housing. Our collaboration includes Metropolitan Consortium of Community Developers, Model Cities of St. Paul, Rondo Community Land Trust, and West Side Community Organization (WSCO)