grassroots solutions honors the organizer Saul Alinsky each year by recognizing the next great generation of organizers through our annual “Organizer of the Year” Facebook contest.  This year, we co-sponsored the contest with our good… Read More »

Advocates of healthy living in Minneapolis and Olmsted County have had a lot to celebrate in recent months. Last fall — after a month-long push to collect and lift up the stories of ordinary folks… Read More »

Happy New Year! Thanks to the awesome networking of the grassroots solutions and EchoDitto communities, close to 200 people posted nominations for our 2011 “Organizer of the Year” contest! Your endorsements winnowed the nominees down to… Read More »

From the Occupy Wall Street protests that spread all over the world, to the largest act of civil disobedience by environmentalists in decades, and from the thousands of Wisconsinites who rejected Scott Walker’s anti-worker agenda,… Read More »

Healthy changes are taking root all across America. Farmers’ markets are cropping up in new neighborhoods, school-aged kids are growing their own vegetables on playgrounds and eating them in the cafeteria, bike paths are being… Read More »

Last night, the people of Ohio stood up for working families everywhere when they overwhelmingly repealed a regressive law that would have set a dangerous precedent for collective bargaining rights and protections for working families.… Read More »

Kentucky – Beshear / Abramson Proving that Democrats can win big anywhere, even in Kentucky, Governor Beshear earned a second term last night with a resounding 56% to 35% victory. Overall, it was a good… Read More »

On November 6, one year from the next presidential election, an estimated 10,000 citizen activists and environmental allies returned to Washington, D.C. to encircle the White House and ask President Obama to reject permits for… Read More »

After two days of being in the presence of thousands of nonprofit leaders and staff, one thing is clear: Minnesota’s nonprofit community is strong and has great expectations for the state, thanks in large part to the resources and support the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits has provided over the last quarter century. Read More »

Last month, faithful pilgrims to the Minnesota State Fair had an opportunity to see grassroots solutions in action with our partners at the Minnesota Idea Open – no, not just on the death-defying slingshot ride,… Read More »