Bring back small businesses.
Support families & youth.
Create opportunity.
Restore hope.
By coming together as a group of small businesses across the Twin Cities and sharing what we have, we can lift up small businesses, support families, and restore hope in communities left heartbroken.
100% of your donations will go directly to rebuilding efforts being led by Urban Ventures - a nonprofit anchored on Lake Street for 27 years and a leader in providing critical services to businesses, families and youth in the community. Urban Ventures will distribute proceeds from the Better Together campaign through the Better Together Minneapolis Community Support Fund.
For every donation of $30 or more, you’ll get a Better Together Minneapolis t-shirt.
Theft, fire, smoke, and water damage. For over a decade, Camacho and Isa have owned adjoining small businesses on Lake Street. Both were destroyed by recent unrest. Yet, both are standing by each other as they seek a path to rebuild.
They are standing by each other. Now, it’s our turn to stand by them.
To all of our donors, thank you for your amazing generosity!
Campaign proceeds go to the Urban Ventures “Better Together MPLS Community Support Fund,” administered by Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation – 501(c)(3). Urban Ventures––anchored on Lake Street for 27 years––uses a resident-driven, relationship-based approach to develop youth, strengthen families, and build healthy communities.
Elpis Enterprises, a local nonprofit that provides job training, work experience, and job placement for homeless or precariously-housed youth, is printing the Better Together t-shirts. During a time when many youth are facing countless challenges, we are proud to support an organization that is working hard every day to end youth homelessness.
Juxtaposition Arts is a non-profit youth art and design education center in North Minneapolis. They develop community by engaging and employing young urban artists in pathways to self-sufficiency. LEARN MORE
Reclaim the Block organizes Minneapolis community and city council members to move money from the police department into other areas of the city’s budget that truly promote community health and safety. LEARN MORE
Appetite For Change collaborates with community partners to distribute nourishing meals to neighbors in need. With your support, we can provide freshly made meals for families in North Minneapolis.
MIGIZI acts as a circle of support that nurtures the development of Native American youth in order to unleash their creativity and dreams. MIGIZI means "bald eagle" in the Ojibwe language. LEARN MORE
COVID–19 has not slowed down NAZ’s commitment to Northside families and scholars. They’ve launched an Emergency Fund to raise additional resources for needs not being met elsewhere.
The Lake Street Council is helping rebuild Lake Street. Starting with direct support to small businesses and nonprofits to help them rebuild their storefronts, reopen their businesses and serve our neighborhoods.
Changing society = changing policy. Contact your elected officials and make your voice heard. Find your poling place.
Urban Ventures’ Community Crew needs you!
