grassroots solutions is back in the movie business! This time, we’re working with the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) and the makers of the highly anticipated new documentary, BULLY, to promote the film as… Read More »

Bullying is a rising crisis in our schools, and children with learning disabilities are at particular risk for being bullied. grassroots solutions and our partners at EchoDitto are working with the National Center for Learning… Read More »

A Jewish rabbi, a Christian minister, and Muslim comedian walk into a theater. No, this isn’t the start of a really bad joke. It’s a plug for the first-ever Minnesota Idea Open comedy show! Minnesota… Read More »

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Last night, the people of Ohio stood up for working families everywhere when they overwhelmingly repealed a regressive law that would have set a dangerous precedent for collective bargaining rights and protections for working families.… Read More »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