February 8, 2008 - The Neighborhood Partnership Initiative (NPI) program is designed to support innovative and effective partnerships that involve new constituencies, solve problems, and improve the community for everybody. Grants up to $10,000 will be awarded to successful applicants.

Partnerships applying to NPI must include at least one government-recognized neighborhood organization (Minneapolis Neighborhood Group or St. Paul District Council), and at least one youth, immigrant, or arts organization with nonprofit status. The neighborhood organization should be the lead partner.

The deadline for applications is April 15th, 2008.

CURA is holding two informative networking sessions about the program. Come to learn about NPI, have your questions answered and take the opportunity to network with other organizations who are also interested in the program. Light refreshments will be provided.

Session 1: Thursday February 21st, 2:00pm-3:30pm at the North East Library, 2200 Central Ave. NE,Minneapolis MN 55418
www.mplib.org/northeast.asp

Session 2: Tuesday February 26th, 5:00pm-6:00pm at the Rondo Library, 461 N. Dale Street, Saint Paul,MN 55103
www.stpaul.lib.mn.us/locations/rondo.html

If you have questions or would like more information, got to:

www.cura.umn.edu/NPI.php

or contact:

Kris Nelson, 612-625-1020, ksn@umn.edu
Jeff Corn, 612-625-0744, jcorn@umn.edu

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