The June 20, Business Forum is a joint event between the East Town Business Partnership and the minneapolis downtown council.  It will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at Ryan Companies – Millwright Building – 533 S 3rd St Suite 100.  This month’s event is free, but please RSVP using Eventbrite.

Description:

What does it mean to be an inclusive downtown? What issues, trends and challenges affect our ability to make this real? What prevents us from being the kind of downtown that is welcoming and where social, personal, and economic aspirations are available to all? This joint forum with the mpls downtown council will unveil the results from the yearlong “Inclusive Downtown Think Tank” co-sponsored with the YMCA that set out to cast a bold new vision for an increasingly welcoming downtown.

Presenting Sponsor: TBD

Spotlight Presentation: A Representative from the Center for Economic Inclusion (INVITED)

Feature Presentation/Panelists:

• Dr. Hedy Lemar Walls, Chief Social Responsibility Officer, Greater Twin Cities YMCA
• Dr. Ramón Pastrano, President and CEO, Impact Lives
• Dan Collison, Director of Downtown Partnerships, Minneapolis Downtown Council-DID and Executive Director, East Town Business Partnership

The next ETBP Business Forum is on Thursday, May 16, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at Sawatdee.  The featured presentation is titled, “Crime and Safety, Sentencing and Restorative Justice.”  Registration, lunch and networking start at 11:30 a.m., with the program beginning at Noon.  Please RSVP via Eventbrite by Noon on Tuesday, May 14.

Description:

Crime and safety are consistently on the minds of those who live and work downtown. In this forum our panel of local, city and national experts will explore a significant shift in the way crime, modern policing, sentencing, incarceration and restorative justice intersect to improve to dramatically improve crime and safety strategies through more holistic approaches to people and systems.

Presenting Sponsor: Sawatdee

Spotlight Presentations:

• Spotlight Presentation: Vanessa Haight and Kim Forbes, EPNI –
  “Why we love Elliot Park Neighborhood”
• Spotlight Presentation: Charles Carlson, Metro Transit –
  “BRT advancement and an all electric bus to and from East Town”

Feature Presentation/Panelists:

• Mark Osler, Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas (To discuss the national narrative)
• Mary Ellen Heng, Deputy City Attorney-Criminal Division, City of Minneapolis (to discuss the City’s shift in policing and policy)
• Cynthia Prosek, Executive Director, Restorative Justice Community Action (To discuss stories from the community)

Presentation Agenda:

• Welcome, Call to Order, Introductions (John Campabasso?) (5 Minutes)
• Sponsor Recognition, Announcements (Dan Collison) (5 Minutes)
• Presenting Sponsor: Cyndy Harrison, Sawatdee
• Spotlight Presentation: Vanessa Haight and Kim Forbes, EPNI –
  “Why we love Elliot Park Neighborhood” (10 Minutes)
• Spotlight Presentation: Charles Carlson, “BRT advancement and an all electric bus to and from East Town” (10 minutes)
• Feature Presentation: (Moderated by Dan Collison)(25 Minutes)

• • Mark Osler, Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas
  • Mary Ellen Heng, Deputy City Attorney-Criminal Division, City of Minneapolis
  • Cynthia Prosek, Executive Director, Restorative Justice Community Action

• Adjournment (Dan Collison) (2 Minutes)

The ETBP Annual Meeting is coming up on Thursday, April 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the Best Western Normandy Inn.  The annual meeting will include elections to the ETBP Board of Directors.  The featured presentation is titled, Advancing Arts and Entertainment in East Town.  Registration and networking start at 11:30 a.m., with the program beginning at Noon.  Please RSVP via Eventbrite, by no later than Tuesday, April 16, at Noon.

Description:

We invite East Town Business Partnership members and guests to our 2019 Annual Meeting! This meeting will include annual district highlights, a discussion of emerging priorities, and an overview of where our new strategic plan will take us and the district in the coming years. And, our feature topic will be advancing arts and entertainment in East Town. We are known for the Guthrie Theater, MacPhail Center for Music, the US Bank Stadium and the Armory Event Center. Are you also familiar with the nationally award-winning Open Book Partnership, the Gamut Gallery and the emerging Good Arts Collective?

Thank you to our Presenting Sponsor: The Minnesota Vikings

 

 

 

Feature Presentation/Panelists: 

• Britt Udesen, Executive and Artistic Director, The Loft Literary Center
• Cassie Garner, Gallery Director, Gamut Gallery
• Ben Kelly, Organizer, Good Arts Collective

 

Agenda:

• Call to Order (Paul Mellblom)
• Introductions, Sponsor Recognition, Announcements (Dan Collison)
• Partnership Report (Steve Cramer, CEO, mpls downtown council-DID)
• Year in Review (Christie Hantge)
• Casting Vision for the Year Ahead to Next Business Forum Season (Dan Collison)
• Recognition of Outgoing Board Members (Paul Mellblom)
• Board Candidate Election (Paul Mellblom)

There are five candidates running for the East Town Business Partnership Board of Directors: 

Jacquie Berglund from Finnegans Brewing Company; Richard Kiemen from Sherman Associates; Deborah Moses from House of Charity; Theresa Pesch from Hennepin Healthcare; and Julia Lauwagie from MN Adult & Teen Challenge.

• Feature Presentation:
  • Britt Udesen, Executive and Artistic Director, The Loft Literary Center
  • Cassie Garner, Gallery Director, Gamut Gallery
  • Ben Kelly, Organizer, Good Arts Collective
• Adjournment (Paul Mellblom)

 

Please RSVP via Eventbrite, by no later than Tuesday, April 16, at Noon.

The next East Town Business Partnership Business Forum is a joint event with the minneapolis downtown council on Thursday, March 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at Dorsey & Whitney, 50 South 6th Street, #Suite 1500.  Registration, networking and lunch start at 11:30 a.m. with the program beginning at Noon.  This month’s event is free, but please RSVP via Eventbrite so that we have a good attendee count for food.

Description

The next East Town Business Partnership Business Forum is scheduled for Thursday, February 21, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at The Depot – 225 3rd Avenue South.  The title of this month’s forum is “Ways the Social Determinants of Health are Transforming Institutions.”  Registration, lunch and networking starts at 11:30 a.m. with the program starting at Noon. Please register via Eventbrite.  If you are a Platinum member, or if you purchase lunch coupons with your membership, please contact Christie for the coupon code.

Description

The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age.” In this forum East Town and Hennepin Healthcare’s Upstream Health Innovation Team will share how they are leveraging human-centered design as both the mindset and the toolkit to promote health equity and meet the upstream needs of patients and communities.

Presenting Sponsor

Hennepin Healthcare, Spokesperson TBD

Spotlight Presenter: The Final Four Local Organizing Committee —Kate Mortenson, President and CEO

Featured Speakers

Upstream Health Innovation Team:

• William Walsh, Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, Hennepin Healthcare
• Andrea Brown, Senior Human Centered Designer, Hennepin Healthcare

Agenda

1. 11:30 am: Registration and networking
2. 12:00 pm: Welcome and Introductions—Paul Mellblom, President
3. 12:05 pm: Announcements and Updates – Dan Collison, Executive Director
4. 12:10 pm: Final Four Spotlight: Local Organizing Committee, Kate Mortenson, President/CEO
5. 12:25 pm: Upstream Health Innovations Feature Presentation + Q & A
6. 12:55: Wrap up – Dan Collison
7. 1:00 pm: Program ends

Date And Time

Location

The next East Town Business Partnership Business Forum is scheduled for Thursday, January 17, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at Padilla – 1101 West River Parkway, Suite #400.  The title of this month’s forum is “Car Lanes, Bus Lanes, Bikes – OH MY!”  Registration, lunch and networking starts at 11:30 a.m. with the program starting at Noon.

Description
Figuratively speaking it seems that modes of transportation do not always get along. This forum will feature a panel of transportation design experts talking frankly about downtown street design, emerging trends in multimodalism and potential disruptive technologies such as autonomous vehicles.

Featured Speakers

• Bill Dossett, Executive Director, Nice Ride Minnesota
• John Barobs, Communications Manager, Move Minneapolis
• Charles Carlson, Senior Manager, BRT/Small Starts Projects, Metro Transit
• Council Member Steve Fletcher, Ward 3, City of Minneapolis

 

Spotlight Presenter: GreaterMSP Inclusion Toolkit, Caroline Karanja, Founder, 26 Letters

Agenda
11:30 am: Registration and networking
12:00 pm: Welcome and Introductions—Paul Mellblom, President
12:05 pm: Announcements and Updates – Dan Collison, Executive Director
12:10 pm: Minneapolis Ward 3 Update—Council Member Steve Fletcher
12:15 pm: Green Minneapolis Spotlight—Beth Shogren, Executive Director
12:25 pm: Feature Panel

• Bill Dossett, Executive Director, Nice Ride Minnesota
• John Barobs, Communications Manager, Move Minneapolis
• Charles Carlson, Senior Manager, BRT/Small Starts Projects, Metro Transit
• Council Member Steve Fletcher, Ward 3, City of Minneapolis

12:55: Wrap up – Dan Collison
1:00 pm: Program ends

Please RSVP via Eventbrite by no later than 4 p.m., on Monday, January 14, 2019.  If you are Platinum member or if you purchased lunch coupons with your membership, please contact ETBP Executive Coordinator Christie for the coupon code.

The next East Town Business Partnership Business Forum is scheduled forTuesday, December 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the new Elliot Park Hotel – 823 S. 5th Avenue.  (Please note that this is two days ahead of our regular meeting date).  This is a joint forum with the minneapolis downtown council.  The title of this month’s forum is “Downtown Demographics: Who Are We Becoming?”

Registration, lunch and networking starts at 11:30 a.m. with the program starting at Noon.  Please RSVP for this event via Eventbrite by no later than Friday, December 14, at 4 p.m.

FORUM DESCRIPTION

The Downtown Minneapolis residential population continues to surge year over year, and demographics continue to shift and change. Join us for this shared forum with the East Town Business Partnership and mpls downtown council as our panel of experts explore who we are becoming together.

PRESENTERS

• Andrea Brennan, Director of Housing Policy and Development, City of Minneapolis, C.P.E.D.
• Erik Hansen, Director of Economic Policy & Development, City of Minneapolis, C.P.E.D.
• Mary Bujold, President, Maxfield Research and Consulting

AGENDA

• 11:30 am – registration & networking
• 12:00 pm – lunch & program
• 1:00 pm – event concludes

 

There are significant challenges impacting businesses in the downtown core and across the entire city of Minneapolis. At this multi-association event, moderated discussions about the impact of policies, resources and partnerships will take center stage. Engage in genuine dialogue about the economic future of the city with some of those who help make the decisions. Register today.

This event is hosted in partnership by BOMA, ETBP – East Town BusinessPartnership, Greater Minneapolis Hotel Association, Lake Street Council, Meet Minneapolis, Minneapolis Regional Chamber, Minneapolis Downtown Council, Mpls Warehouse District, NuLoop Partners, Experience Southwest, and West Bank Business Association.

DRAFT AGENDA

7:50-8:00 – Mayor Comments- confirmed
8:00-8:05 – Questions for Mayor Frey
8:05-8:20 – Housing Panel (proposed: Gordon, Schroeder, Andrea Brennan)
8:20-8:35 – Economic Development Panel (proposed: Ellison, A Johnson, D. Frank)
8:35-8:50 – Public Safety Panel (proposed: Cano, Fletcher, Rondo)
8:50-9:00 – Comments by CP Bender

Registration links below:

www.mplschamber.com/cityhall

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/business-day-at-city-hall-tickets-52683101575

The next East Town Business Partnership Business Forum is scheduled for Thursday, November 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the FINNovation Lab at Finnegan’s – 817 5th Ave S. 4th Floor.  The title of this month’s forum is “What is the Difference Between Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?”  Registration, lunch and networking starts at 11:30 a.m. with the program starting at Noon.  Please RSVP for this event via Eventbrite.

Description

Minnesota has some of the worst economic racial disparities in the nation creating a host of missed opportunities for our marketplace. Business and civic leaders alike are leaning into our challenges with courage and clarity around diversity, equity, and inclusion and seeing some good gains. However, this work is complicated and cannot be solved easily or quickly. This forum will feature a panel of economic, social enterprise, and policy leaders discussing emerging strategies for investment in the growth of human capital at all levels of business.

Presenting Sponsor

US Bank

 

 

 

 

Featured Speakers

• Trina Olson, Co-Founder, Team Dynamics
• Ixchel McKinnie, Community Innovation Director, Impact Hub MSP
• Elizabeth Campbell, Director of Emerging Business Inclusion, Ryan Companies
• Alex Tittle, Director of Disparity Reduction, Hennepin County

Spotlight Presenter: GreaterMSP Inclusion Toolkit, Caroline Karanja, Founder, 26 Letters

Agenda

11:30 am: Registration and networking

12:00 pm: Welcome, Introductions, Announcements and Updates – Dan Collison

12:10 pm: US Bank Sponsor Presentation— Ann Dyste, Assistant Vice President, LGBTQ Strategy Manager

12:20 pm: GreaterMSP Inclusion Tool Kit Spotlight—Caroline Karanja

12:30 pm: Feature Panel

12:55: Wrap up – Dan Collison

1:00 pm: Program ends