The Prosperity Campaign is a community initiative that was developed in partnership with the Otto Bremer Foundation and whose mission is to build: An engaged, powerful, and equitable East Side of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Currently funded by Nexus Community Partners and Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation, the Prosperity Campaign’s vision is: A multi-cultural and economically diverse East Side where individuals, families, businesses, institutions, and organizations prosper in a positive relationship with each other, the natural and built environments, and the wider metro area.
Since 2007, the Prosperity Campaign has brought together 64 community organizations with a shared vision of a prosperous and engaged community in Saint Paul’s East Side neighborhoods. It has connected resource providers, non-profit organizations, businesses, and individuals.
The newest phase of the Prosperity Campaign has four main focus areas:
· Community Wealth and Prosperity
· Community Voice, Belonging and Action;
· Community Health & Wellness;
· Community Education and Learning
Hmong American Partnership, and HAP’s participants, have benefitted from the connections fostered by the Prosperity Campaign. Thanks to the Prosperity Campaign, HAP has made valuable contacts with local employers and with other East Side non-profit organizations. Some of these contacts are participating in HAP’s new ‘Training Opportunities for Personal Success’ pilot program. The Prosperity Campaign has also provided summer program interns to assist HAP’s youth and family programs.
HAP values its ongoing partnership with the Prosperity Campaign.
or read Nexus Community Partners’ blog entry for 1/27/2010 at
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