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Eastside Social Leader Action Network

About the Eastside Social Leaders Action Network (SLAN)

Eastside SLAN Background

Eastside SLAN Benefits

Get Involved

Join us at the Eastside SLAN Networking Breakfast - Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at Mounds Theater, E. St. Paul

Eastside Social Leader Action Network

The Eastside is changing and it’s time to join together and strengthen our connections as citizens of this community. We have many diverse talents and resources that can contribute, collaborate, and take action on issues affecting the Eastside of Saint Paul.

Background

The Social Leaders Action Network (SLAN) is an initiative of the MN Council of Nonprofits to bring board and staff members of nonprofit organizations, together with residents and business persons of the communities they work in, to talk and act upon their mutual interests in protecting and enhancing our community. It is a “space” to create new relationships and build upon existing ones; a space enabling a broad diversity of people who care about the Eastside to come together and make things happen.

SLAN is based on an assumption that communities at their most basic are centers of human relatedness; that relationships thrive when there is a culture of appreciation – when people recognize the good in each other, when they can share their dreams and concerns in an affirmative way, and when they are connected in ways that reveal and leverage their capacities for creating new and better conditions.

Benefits

• Structured opportunities and resources for Eastside residents, business people, nonprofit staff and board members, and other civic leaders to discuss and learn more about our common concerns on the Eastside.

• A greater understanding of Eastside issues, developments, and opportunities.

• Building and strengthening long-term trusting relationships with others who care about the Eastside, which can lead to valuable yet unanticipated benefits.

• Informal breakfast gatherings each 6 weeks or so, enabling us to easily get together, get to know other Eastsiders, and learn more about Eastside resources.

• A rotating group of some four locations throughout the Eastside will help engage a broad range of Eastsiders and Eastside concerns.

Get Involved

If you are a Board member, staff or volunteer of a nonprofit organization, please consider coming to a monthly meeting. For more information, contact: Ed Lambert, Daytons Bluff Community Council at ed@daytonbluff.org or 651-772-2075 or Naomi Chu, Asian Pacific Cultural Center at nchu@apccmn.org or 612-282-1915.

Eastside SLAN Networking Breakfast

Join us at this first session of an ongoing breakfast series to strengthen our connections as Eastsiders.

Residents, business owners, government and nonprofit agency board and staff, as well as foundation representatives and others interested in the Eastside are encouraged to attend.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
7:30am – 9:00am
Historic Mounds Theater located at 1029 Hudson Road, Saint Paul 55106
Venue hosted by The Portage for Youth

Keynote Speaker:
Mayor Chris Coleman
Mayor Coleman will discuss the City’s efforts to strengthen the Eastside Community via the Invest Saint Paul program, among others.

***The Networking Breakfasts are free and open to the public***

Food and beverages provided by the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and the Eastside Social Action Leaders Network.

PLEASE RSVP TO: Judy Bakula at Theresa Living Center Organization jabssnd@juno.com or 651-774-5594 by January 9, 2008 or if your schedule changes please come!

Future Breakfast Series topics will include:

* Housing and Commercial Development
* Chief of police – operations plan
* Crime Prevention and Intervention in our Community
* Economic Development
* Our Parks… Our Streets
* Education and Youth
* Business and more business
* Healthy Living Healthy Communities

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