Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Storytelling and Event Branding Assistance Needed!

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Fun, dynamic, community planning team looking for volunteer assistance on raising visibility of this project. If you are interested in helping support a small local nonprofit raise awareness and funds for affordable housing in our community please contact .

Project Deliverables

  • A compelling narrative, or set of stories related to Empty Bowls
  • Visual branding guidelines / style guide that include specific colors, fonts, and other graphic design elements to use in print and digital communications materials
  • High-resolution materials for print and social media delivered electronically (in formats for digital and print use)
  • A 4-week content calendar for an event social media platform, including graphics & copy (12-20 posts, or as agreed upon by both parties)

 

What kind of volunteer are we looking for?

  • Experience managing social media accounts for business or other organization
  • Experience creating and populating social media content calendars
  • Excellent writing and communications skills
  • Familiarity with narrative storytelling
  • Ability to conduct interviews, synthesize information and craft stories for marketing purposes
  • Proficiency with design software and creating visuals for different platforms (print and social media)

When? Can spend 10-20 hours over 2-3 weeks, Dec 27-January 17

Thank you!

Personal Safety Tips

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Personal Safety is on peoples’ minds right now as there have been a number of attempted car-jackings in Kingfield, along with other criminal activity. KFNA is encouraging community members to review common safety strategies such as these below. These are ways a few of the ways we all can reduce opportunities for crime and protect ourselves, our neighbors, and our belongings.

Remember the best way to protect yourself, and others, is to always be aware of your surroundings and to listen to your gut when something feels “off”.  Also as a reminder that although many of us are on edge and frightened, sometimes in our efforts to protect ourselves and those we know and love we also end up causing harm to others.  More often than not, that harm falls on people of color, many of whom are our neighbors. One of the best ways to protect ourselves, and our entire community, is to get to know one another by name, knowing each other’s comings and goings, kids, roommates, and cars.  This way we can watch out for each other, as opposed to watching in fear to protect ourselves.  Please take this as a reminder that as our nerves are jangled, we need to be even more careful about checking the implicit biases we all carry and be bold about being active in our community and claiming it as a safe and welcoming space.

Personal Safety Tips Handout 2021

Please Consider KFNA in your Year-end donations this year

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Understanding the Kingfield Neighborhood Association is as easy as ABC: KFNA is Always Building Community.

Whether that is through discussions and exploration of hard issues like safety and racism, working side by side to improve our neighborhood, or through events where we celebrate being together, KFNA knows that community building work we do is the foundation of community safety.

What would your life be like without your neighborhood association?

  • Less Informed? Who else would host civic discussions with stakeholders on both sides debating the issues, to make sure you are educated and engaged in making change in your community?
  • Lonelier? Who else would organize Nicollet Open Streets, all-day Election Polling Party, and Light It Up Kingfield as fun, local activities, simply as a way for you to build relationships to your neighbors and be out on our streets in neighborhood streets?
  • More Isolated? Who else would collect and send you a weekly e-news of everything going on in Kingfield neighborhood and work with block clubs to provide up-to-date public safety tips?
  • Quieter? And who would organize your musically gifted neighbors into street parties like PorchFest and On Thursdays We Sing so we share and see the talents of all our neighbors?

The Kingfield Neighborhood Association connects neighbors to each other and to important actions and activities that help you amplify your voice in our city. For this work, we are asking for your donation to support KFNA today. The Kingfield Neighborhood Association (KFNA) needs your financial support for the work we do in our neighborhood.  Due to changes that City of Minneapolis made in how funds are distributed to neighborhood associations, KFNA has a $30,000 budget gap this year.

A gift of any size at this time of year helps us close our year-end funding gap.
A sustaining monthly donation of $10 or $20 helps us plan for the future.

Donations can be made by:

  • Scanning this QR Code which will take you to www.org/organization/Kingfield-Neighborhood-Association
  • Texting ‘KFNA’ to 44-321
  • Mailing a check to our address at the South Nicollet Action Center, c/o KFNA,
    3537 Nicollet Avenue South, MPLS 55408


Thank you!

—Your KFNA Board of Directors

Interested in Being part of a Grassroots Sponsor circle for Afghan Refugees?

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Come to the virtual meeting on Monday December 13 at 7pm on Zoom.  Register for more details.  Interested but can’t make it? Sign up anyways so you will be on the list as more information rolls out!
These groups are being organized by Solomon’s Porch, 100 West 46th Street, in cooperation with Sponsor Circles. 
 
In September of 2021 after a US withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan the Taliban retook full control of the country forcing many Afghan peoples to flee. Thousands of Afghan refugees were evacuated out by US armed forces but many more were left to flee across borders causing a new wave of refugees seeking safety in neighboring or far off countries.

Here in the US,  thousands and thousands of Afghan refugees have been flown into military bases across the country awaiting resettlement. They are tired, grieving, traumatized. As states struggle to resettle these refugees many are ill prepared after years of almost no refugee resettlement. The agencies that usually did this work have been gutted by the financial cuts and are overwhelmed at their diminished capacities. In response, the federal government launched two new initiatives in an effort to have all Afghan refugees off of military bases by February of 2022. These initiatives include utilizing local non-profits through state coordination to help resettle and a community Sponsor Circles initiative. [Read more…]