Jason, The PEACE Foundation was established early in 2004 with plans to be fully operational in 2005. Our purpose is to bring awareness and resources from the broader community to areas facing disparities of crime and violence. As we raise resources, we will begin to identify solutions to violence at the street-level and support efforts that have the capacity to address the root of the problem, including economic development initiatives and projects that create better social networks in areas where violence has taken ahold. We have been looking at comprehensive and successful models such as the Boston Strategies for Violence Prevention and the Harlem Project to guide us as we work to establish a better support network in Minneapolis for empowering citizens and preventing violence.
As a first attempt to seek solutions at the street-level, we are implementing a pilot project this month. We have defined 10 blocks along 26th Ave, at the heart of the crime and drug problem on the northside, as a PEACE Foundation empowerment area. We have recruited over 30 volunteers from the broader community and are partnering with multiple organizations in the area to empower neighbors to take back 26th Avenue. Utilizing these resources with an aligned purpose, we will help neighbors organize themselves until they increase community involvement and decrease violence. We will work with neighbors trying to prevent specific problem situations on their blocks, provide resources and options to individuals and families facing challenges, and help residents in the area to develop their own solutions to the violence that faces them right on their own streets. This will be a pilot project that we intend to evaluate and use to build a model to replicate in other areas searching for solutions. For more information about this first-step effort, go to this PEACE Foundation website link: http://www.citypeace.org/foundation/26thAve.html I believe as we continue to build the Foundation, engage the broader community, and focus resources to the areas that need them most, we will begin to develop solutions that haven't been seen before to ending local violence. Thanks for your inquiry and please continue to check back with us on our progress. Or, join up and lend your own ideas and assets to this effort. Michelle Martin PEACE Foundation Director Armatage -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason C Stone Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 4:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Mpls] PEACE Foundation Since the Peace Foundation web site is indeed light on content, perhaps you could shed some light on your organization, Andrew. Jason Stone Diamond Lake --- Andrew Reineman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Dyna and the rest of the list members, > > I am a volunteer with the PEACE Foundation, and would like to correct > this misconception about the Target exit money and the PEACE > Foundation. The PEACE Foundation has received absolutely no money from > Target or from the money set up after they left North Minneapolis. As > I understand it, that $300,000 is still in escrow at the Minneapolis > Foundation, and that none of it has been touched yet. I also > understand that CM Samuels doesn't really have anything to do with that > money anymore, or with the foundation that is being formed to decide > what to do with it. REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
