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“[We are working] towards creating an entire region of adults who understand what children need and how to provide it for them.”

“I wished I could give a fundraising pitch as persuasively as she did; I wished I could name hypocrisy as clearly as she did; I wished I could wear colors as boldly as she did.”

I wish more people would be involved with this work and understand that people who commit crimes need help. We are not monsters.

Getting funded requires a culture shift in society, she says. “A recognition that incarceration does not work. We do not acknowledge the reality of where the harm is coming from.”

“There is no accounting for the dead beaver, the dead muskrat, the poison in the water.”

Grant Township in Pennsylvania, a town of 600, was sued three times by an energy company and the state’s department

Almost half of 2021’s new entrepreneurs were women, up from 28 percent in 2019.

“This project has a bigger national image than it does in the state,” Hurston says. “I think what draws people outside of Minnesota to this is the fact that they are aware of the stories of Philando Castile and George Floyd, the banking drought.”

A group of ten women entrepreneurs are featured in the documentary “Shot of Influence,” produced by independent filmmaker Gabrielle Reece,

They did not want ‘those’ kids near ‘their’ kids.

A new ‘preventing homelessness’ committee member asked a panel of ten people to reflect on when they could have made a choice differently to avoid homelessness. That was his idea of prevention. In 2020, 350 Minnesotans died outside. Some of them were babies.

Women’s power is in our ability to find ways to support each other and tap into whatever skill sets we bring to the table.