Mill City Museum / 704 South 2nd Street / Minneapolis
Join Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, Superintendent Bernadeia Johnson and other community leaders for the AchieveMpls tenth anniversary party at Mill City Museum! Admission is free for the event, which will feature live music, appetizers and cash bar.
There are a lot of ways for the wealthy to give back that come accompanied by healthy doses of public recognition or an association with a warm and fuzzy charitable effort. Yesterday, the family of Wayzata philanthropist Tom Grossman and the Minnesota Community Foundation wrote a check for $500,000 to a local nonprofit that did none of the above.
by Nancy Kuehn, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
Tue April 24, 2012
U.S. Bancorp CEO Richard Davis led a group of 100 Twin Cities business professionals Monday to help low-income students sharpen their interviewing techniques as they prepare to apply for summer jobs. Monday was the first of a four-day event at the Minneapolis Convention Center where more than 400 businesspeople are to help 1,600 students in mock interviews.
Eye contact. A firm handshake. Clear speech and diction. Good posture. Confidence. These are some essential skills of a good job interview, and this week, more than 1,600 low-income Minneapolis Public Schools students had a chance to try out their skills at the annual Step-Up Summer Jobs Program mock job interviews.
AchieveMpls community partner Wells Fargo has provided a generous $55,000 grant for AchieveMpls general operating support and creation of the new AchieveMpls web site.
Three of Tom’s former STEP-UP Achieve interns are now employed by his office, including two permanent full-time employees. Tom has been supervising STEP-UP Achieve interns since 2005.
