SVP Community Newsletter – Aug 2023

We hope you are enjoying the hot summer and staying cool!  Summer is always a busy time for everyone, so we kept this newsletter light with just a few updates about upcoming SVP and community events.

Please save the dates on your calendar now!

SVP UPCOMING EVENTS

GOLF FUNDRAISER 

Friday September 22nd , 8:00am-1:30pm: SVP is hosting its Fall Golf Tournament & Fundraiser @ Bramaer Golf
Course in Edina.   Lunch and a brief program is included with the registration fees. You can register individually or as a foursome. All proceeds will support our work with youth-serving organizations in the Twin Cities. More information and registration can be found here. Get your foursome signed up now!  Please come golf with us for a good cause!!!

NAVIGATING RETIREMENT AND ‘RE-WIREMENT’

Thursday, September 28th 5:30- 8:00pm

Are you retired or thinking about retirement? Or are you in a transition period or ‘re-wirement’ between positions and trying to figure out what’s next or considering a big transition?   Join SVP MN for a discussion on how to navigate retirement and ‘re-wirement’.  This session is open to SVP Partners, friends of Partners and Community Leaders.

Oftentimes there is not much support for folks when they stop working but we can learn and support each other as we navigate this next phase of our lives.  We will talk about how we move from professional positions to living a life with a new purpose.   We will explore the following questions, plus many more:

• What activities align with my personal values?
• How can I use my skills and/or continue to grow my skill
  set?
• How do I find the “right” places and purposes to invest my time, talent and resources?

And we will explore hurdles and barriers that we may need to overcome in the retirement/ re-wirement phase.   If you are interested  in attending you can register here or contact Deb @ [email protected].

ANTI- RACISM RESOURCES: Place-based educational opportunities

Saturday September 9th 8:30am- 3:00pm:  Learning from Place: Bdote. The Minnesota Humanities Center offers an amazing opportunity to learn about indigenous roots and history in Minnesota. Learning from Place: Bdote is an immersive experience that brings participants to sites of great significance to Dakota people in the Twin Cities. Participants will learn from Dakota community members through storytelling and oral history that have often been left out of our state’s history. This experience is open to the general public and is particularly beneficial for educators who want to include new perspectives in their history curriculum.

Saturday September 9th:  Penumbra Theater will hold its Black Community Healing Circle.  They launched this project in 2021 and believe that creating a more just world begins with healing ourselves. Join Penumbra for this culturally specific space where you can start or sustain your personal healing journey. They also hold a Black Artists Healing Circle and other community workshops as part of their Racial Healing work.

• Pneumbra also has a  new play Re-Memori by Nambi E. Kelly that opens  in October. Re-Memori Brooks heals people through their hair. At least that’s what her hands do as her mind careens through the dreams of her kin, past and future — their puzzle of memories informing a painful family saga. A poetic tour de force, Nambi Kelley’s one-woman show fuses personal stories with American history, from enslavement to Black Lives Matter, and asks “Are the struggles of our ancestors ever really in the past?” 

Other Resources:

• Last week, on what would have been Emmett Till’s 82nd birthday, President Biden signed a proclamation designating a national monument to honor the child who was abducted, tortured, and murdered in 1955 after being accused of whistling at a white woman.  This national monument will have sites in Illinois and Mississippi. Read more here.

• September 15 thru 0ctober 15 is LatinX Hispanic Heritage Month.  Look for upcoming events in the Twin Cities and check out the Annual Cine Latino Film Festival at MSP films Oct 12- 15.

• Virtual Tours of the Clayton Jackson Mcghie Memorial in Duluth are available online. Many Minnesotans may be unaware of the lynching of 3 Black Men that took place in 1920 in Duluth.  This Memorial was erected in 2000 on the 80th anniversary of this heinous act and is located at E 1st St and N 2nd Ave E in Duluth.  A day
  of remembrance is held every year on June 15.  More information about the incident and this virtual tour can be found here.

SVP catalyzes equitable social change by expanding the impact of youth-serving organizations, and building an effective community of engaged philanthropists. Together we’re building better futures!