Changemakers Alliance (CALL) was launched by Minnesota Women’s Press in 2022 to move our statewide community of engaged readers off the page and into connection and action together. We host discussions on core topics that can support legislative advocacy, story development, multimedia communication, and other ideas generated by CALL members.
A new model of collaborative media that is not simply reported FOR community but WITH community.
CALL takes the legacy of Minnesota Women’s Press — the longest continuously run feminist publication in the country — one step further. Together we amplify powerful everyday people who have solutions in order to co-create collective action.
We have several multimedia series planned for 2023. These are stronger and deeper with your contribution. The more conversations we can have, and the wider we can connect around the state, the better. Please fund our unique new model of solutions journalism. We have a fiscal agent option for large tax deductible gifts.
We are gathering rural, suburban, and urban Minnesotans in conversation to create long-lasting change. Please support our work.
Changemakers Alliance is a fiscally sponsored project of Tiny News Collective Inc, a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Tiny News Collective will receive grants for the charitable purposes of Changemakers Alliance, provide oversight to ensure that grant funds are used in accordance with grant agreements, and provide reports as required by the grantor. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Changemakers Alliance must be made payable to Tiny News Collective, and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
If you prefer to give a tax deductible donation to Changemakers Alliance by check, please make it out to “Tiny News Collective” with “CALL” on the memo line, and send to Fariba Sanakhatam, Minnesota Women’s Press, 800 West Broadway, Suite 3A, Minneapolis, MN 55411.
If you don’t care about tax deductible status, please contact [email protected] to make a CALL donation by check or credit card.
We want to get to know your interests. The unique aspect of Changemakers Alliance (CALL) is that we connect people statewide to develop our stories. We do not simply ‘drop in’ to a topic and then move on. CALL is about deeper issues that deserve sustained attention, supported by community members who care about those issues. We go where the interests are. CALL is about developing teamwork and action steps WITH community, not simply FOR community. Please sign up for the topics that interest you in order to help us create the kinds of conversations, events, solutions, and solidarity that will lead to statewide change.
Defusing Patriarchal Violence
Underwriter: Valvoline of Northern MN, Family Tree Clinic
“Values & Vision” (started January) enables us to reflect on who we are and what we care about. How do we evolve statewide in curiosity and acceptance of people who have different experiences? How do we roll up our sleeves together to make our communities safer for all, including multicultural education, crisis response, supportive housing, gun-sense legislation, and anti-racism efforts? Underwriters welcome.
“Melanated Main Streets” (started in March)
Underwriters welcome.
“Being a Safe Haven” (March 25 in-person discussion)
Underwriter: Women’s Foundation
Minnesota is the only safe place in the five-state region for people who need to access their own reproductive health choices. How are we keeping it safe for visitors? What restrictions and access should we be talking about? How are advocates continuing to take action to try to address issues such as state-funded “pregnancy centers”? Reading list.
“Reimagining Public Safety” (starts May)
Underwriters needed.
This series is about exploring solutions, including legislative action.
Participants thus far have included people from Apple Valley, Aurora, Babbitt, Blaine, Burnsville, Centerville, Crookston, Eagle Bend, East Bethel, Edina, Faribault, Hinckley, Lake Vermilion, Little Falls, Mankato, Maplewood, Minneapolis, Ortonville, Richfield, Roseville, Saint Charles, Saint Paul, Savage, Shakopee, Staples, Wayzata
In the 1980s, Minnesota Women’s Press featured articles such as:
It has been four decades, and we are still circling around the same issues.
In 2021, we quoted Melissa Scaia of Global Rights for Women: “My frustration is not that we do not know how to end violence against women. It is that we have not changed the thinking that women are less.”
Robin Wonsley’s comments at our “Celebrating Badass Minnesota Women” April event
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Your magazine and articles of Change Makers is so informative.! And reading about good ,hard working, achieving women encourage me to want to do more with my own life, and within my community. I wish everyone would read your articles on a monthly basis. Thank you.
Thank you for writing Patricia! Yes, we agree. 🙂 Please share our stories freely with your friends.