Northwest Minnesota Foundation
The Communities Thrive Program is a “deep dive” in a small number of communities to help them capitalize on the current “Brain Gain” trend in the ways that best fit their unique community, ultimately building on the strengths and diversity within our region. This program uses place making and planning approaches to support community vitality.
A MESSAGE FROM NMF PRESIDENT & CEO, KAREN WHITE
Boba tea (also known as bubble tea) is a Taiwanese tea-based drink that traditionally contains milk or a similar creamer, with chewy tapioca “bubbles” that float to the bottom.
“I wanted to take a moment to thank Northwest Minnesota Foundation for their generosity in helping to fund the Life Story Project here at Fosston High School. I thought I’d give you an overview of the project and give you a more personal ‘flavor’ of what we do.
Warroad is one of two communities currently going through NMF’s Communities Thrive program. Through this process they have identified priority areas (such as community education, wellness, arts and culture).
The city of Halstad is a community that is used to coming together when it means finding creative solutions to problems at hand. That’s why they were one of two communities selected to participate in NMF’s Communities Thrive program.
Everyone knows that today’s youth are the future, and based on the compassion and talent that Mahnomen area youth have displayed, Northwest Minnesota’s future is in good hands.
The following story is a firsthand account from a woman whose life seemed picture perfect, until her marriage took an unfortunate turn.
As this blog post is being written, the temperature in Bemidji is -51 with windchill in January. Each winter in northern Minnesota, we can anticipate extreme cold weather to a certain extent, but it hasn’t dipped this low since 1996.
