Money/Biz

As publisher and editor of the Minnesota Women’s Press platform, I ask our readers: Help us find and share — in virtual forums, in our magazine pages — the stories about community-based economies, green cooperatives, and women-led innovations that are working to truly correct our inequities.

This is exactly why we are overdue in having conversations about how to build equity into our community. We must do work together so that those without privilege are able to improve on financial security.

COVID-19 has impacted everyone’s lives. While we live in a great state for healthcare and physical distancing standards, which has

We found commonality in our experiences, and were able to speak to hurdles that are hard to articulate.

I have become very much a holistic architect. I know that I have to use many different ways at looking at a project, and on behalf of the people who are not there. This is especially important to me because I come from the people who are not there.

Growing up on a farm helped me to understand that, more than a daughter or a granddaughter, I was a

Cinema has always called me, but it took many years for me to listen. My grandpa had a Polaroid and

In the last 40 years, women entrepreneurs have increased in number from 5 to 42 percent of small business owners.

“The vitality of our region, and the strength of our rural economy, depends on everyone being able to contribute, and it starts before birth. We need to ensure all our kids — our Indigenous children, our seventh-generation immigrant children, and our first-generation immigrant children — get the best possible start to life.’’ — Southwest Initiative Foundation President Diana Anderson

All women today — unlike 30 years ago — will say they know how to do money. But one-third at best are doing it. We need to take a leap to do something — not perfect, not monumental, but a start. We need to keep asking ourselves, what can we do today to get what we need?