A Call for Presentations: Grassroots & Groundwork 2008 Conference

Conference Shares What Works in Poverty Reduction

Fr:  Susan Buckles, APR
      Northwest Area Foundation                            
      60 Plato Blvd. E
      St. Paul, MN  55107
      (651)  225-3865

 For Immediate Release 

St. Paul, Minn., November 19, 2007.   The Northwest Area Foundation has issued a call for presentations for the Grassroots & Groundwork 2008 conference which focuses on providing tools and sharing what works in poverty reduction.  Sponsored by the Northwest Area Foundation, Grassroots & Groundwork will be held May 28 -30, 2008 at the Sheraton Bloomington Hotel in Bloomington, MN

Northwest Area Foundation is looking for non-profit or government organizations, social entrepreneurs or community members engaged in the work to submit working models on poverty reduction.  This may include, but is not limited to, social ventures, workforce development, affordable housing and asset building.

Proposal will be accepted for three model types: 

• Emerging ideas in poverty reduction – newly implemented poverty reduction strategies
• Tested models, programs or tools in poverty reduction – successful programs that have been evaluated and can be replicated by others
• Advocating for poverty reduction – efforts on the local, state and federal levels to work with policymakers to encourage understanding and support of poverty reduction programs

Please submit applications by December 14, 2007 at www.grassrootsandgroundwork.org.  Online applications are encouraged.  Presenters will receive a $2,000 honorarium to be donated to a non-profit organization of their choice to encourage sharing of the poverty reduction model. 

The Northwest Area Foundation realizes its mission – helping communities reduce poverty – by supporting strategic efforts within a small number of urban, rural and American Indian communities in: Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.  These states were serviced by James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railway.  Hill’s son, Louis W. Hill, established the foundation in 1934.  Since 1999, the Foundation has invested approximately $193 million in community-based poverty reduction programs.  The Foundation has assets valued at approximately $500 million as of March 31, 2007.    For more information: www.nwaf.org, or 651-224-9635.

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