As we close out the year we wanted to look back and remember 2014 and the great events, activities and connections we made this year. Take a look at our Year in Review today.
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In the Cleveland Neighborhood, we want to make sure every young person that is interested in having a job has that opportunity. The Step-Up program is a great opportunity for students ages 14-21 to begin or continue their steps into the job world, build their resume, expand your skills, try new things and, of course, earn a little spending money. We’ll also be looking to hire several students at CNA this summer and would love to have students from the neighborhood. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity. Sign up for STEP-UP Today!
If there are any teens on your block, please share this opportunity or let us know their address so we can get the word out to them.
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Join us for a discussion regarding the future of Penn Avenue. On December 8th 6:30pm at CNA, for our December Community Development Committee meeting, we’ll be talking with staff from Hennepin County about what the Avenue might look like and how it will change in the next 10-15 years. We’ll discuss what the landscape looks like, Buses, parking, biking and what businesses we want along the corridor. Hennepin County staff will provide a presentation on the current options being considered and you’ll have a chance to ask questions and give feedback. RSVP on Facebook! or Here!
December 8th, 2014
6:30-7:30pm
CNA Office, 3333 Penn Ave N.
Please note that our December Board Meeting will take place at 3422 Xerxes Ave N at 7pm. This is a location change from the normal board meeting location of the CNA Office. If you have any questions you can contact us at 612-588-1155.
If your inbox hasn’t already been inundated with requests for donations for Give To The Max Day it likely soon will be. There are many great organizations out there doing important work and we strongly encourage you to support those that you can. As the weather gets colder, we wanted to highlight one of the great events we put on each summer, Live On The Drive, a free summer concert series for the north Minneapolis community and neighbors each summer for the past seven years. Help us make 2015 the best summer series ever.
You can donate one of two ways:
Via Paypal (less fees taken out)
Or Via GiveMN.org (enters us to win additional funds today online)
Penn Avenue Community Works is an ongoing project by Hennepin County to improve to develop Penn Avenue. Metroquest is a great interactive tool for you to weigh in on what your priorities as a resident of this community are. Take a minute and visit Metroquest today and give your input for what you’d like to see on Penn Avenue!
October 22nd, 7pm at Lucy Laney School (RSVP Today!)
Come celebrate the many amazing things happening in the neighborhood this year. We’ll enjoy a community dinner, share some stories, and host our board elections.
Joining the Board of Directors is a great opportunity and experience for any neighbor. If you’d like to learn more about joining the Board please call or email the office or apply online today!
Come out and invite your neighbors and learn more about what the Cleveland Neighborhood does and share what with us what we can do to better serve you and your neighbors in the coming year.
What would you do with $500 to make your neighborhood even better?
Let’s turn our ideas into ACTION! We’ll have pizza for dinner and jump right into turning our collective energy into something real for our community. Will you join us? Sept 17, 6-9pm at CNA.
Ideas currently in the lab (but you can bring your own!):
-Neighborhood Cookout
-Business opportunities for neighborhood youth
-Farmers Market on vacant lots
-Hire youth to do neighborhood clean ups and educate on recycling
-Literacy initiative collaboration with Lucy Laney School
The Connector Lab will be a two hour workshop were you’ll come together with other residents on the topic of interest to you and put together an action plan to turn that idea into a reality. Those ideas with a plan, budget and a group of residents willing to carry them out will be our first Lab initiatives! We’ll have pizza for dinner and we won’t bore you with long speeches, just a chance to get your hands dirty and begin creating something as a community. Come for a little bit or stay the whole time. Will you join us?
RSVP here or on Facebook or email, call or text us at 612-567-1262 and we’ll make sure we have enough pizza for you 🙂
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Join us this Wednesday evening for our second Party in the Park event with the theme Healthy Living. We’ll have a custom backpack take-home project for students with Juxtaposition Arts, resource tables from Hennepin Teen and Child Check-ups, Center for Energy and Environment and more. This event is put on by the Cleveland Neighborhood Association’s Youth Committee.
The event is held near our office in the green space between Cleveland Park and Lucy Craft Laney School near Penn and Lowry Avenues north and reaches residents in the Cleveland Neighborhood and surrounding area.
This year we’ve chosen themes for the Party in the Park events. In June we had Summer Fun and Safety, July 16th was Healthy Living, and August 20th we’ll round it out with Back to School themes. We’d love for you to join us at the events as a resident or come as an organization. Come for Dinner, stay for the community!
RSVP on Facebook for our August 20th Event!
Would you like to Table at the event? Register Here!
(Sponsor Letter PDF)
The annual Northside summer concert series, Live on the Drive, finishes its seventh year with the up and coming Bomba De Luz on Thursday, August 14th, from 6 to 8pm. This will be the final of three concerts held outdoors this summer on the scenic Victory Memorial Drive at 34th Avenue North in Minneapolis, one of the most beautiful concert settings in the city.
Bomba de Luz is a very musical, up and coming group of indie rockers featuring songwriter Lydia Liza on guitar and mesmerizing vocals. The band’s played on NPR and 89.3 The Current, at First Avenue and at the Basilica Block Party. Members of the band have also shared stages with artists like Chastity Brown, Toki Wright, Jake Bugg, Kimya Dawson, Family of The Year, Astronautalis, and many others. They’ve got a new CD coming out soon, too. Come hear them!
Come with an appetite and enjoy dinner from food vendors The Lowry Café, Mama Donato’s Woodfired Pizza, Gramsky’s Sandwiches, and treat yourself with gelato from Nona Rossa’s. Stay into the evening for a movie in the park, featuring the black and white thriller Psycho at dusk right at the Live on the Drive concert site. And buy one of our AWESOME T-Shirts! All t-shirt purchases are donations to keep our concerts going, we’re asking $10 per shirt for our last concert. Our “green” events feature recycling and composting, diverting 93% of materials out of the waste stream last year. Be sure to invite your neighbors and bring your friends to this family-friendly, all-ages event!
Live on the Drive is presented by founding partner, North Memorial, with the Cleveland Neighborhood Association, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board,North End Hardware and The Lowry Café, Hennepin County, Westphal Auxiliary Legion, Healy Creative, North News, Victory Neighborhood Association, Camden Lions, Washburn-McReavy, Folwell Neighborhood Association, and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. This activity is funded, in part, by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general fund, and its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
Live on the Drive brings people together from across the Northside and throughout the greater Twin Cities to hear extraordinary music and to celebrate summer, good health and Northside city living. We’ve had an amazing summer already with an incredible slate of Minneapolis-based musicians: jazz vocalist Thomasina Petrus (June 12th), rock and classical fusion act Clocks & Clouds (July 10th), and now this month with folk/indie rock band Bomba de Luz (August 14th). Food vendors and Movies in the Park are back to finish out each concert night: family-friendly movie Remember the Titans (June 12th), Black Film Festival pick Soul Food Junkie (July 10th), and Black and White classic Psycho (August 14th). Our Bike to the Drive event in August, Artist Spotlights during intermission and more will round out what has become a staple of summer on the Northside.
For more information, call 612-588-1155 or visit www.liveonthedrive.org.