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Coffee & Answers
a breakfast series for Twin Cities professional
advisors
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Find Out How
Immigration Policy Is
Affecting Minnesota’s Future
Gloria Contreras Edin, Executive Director of
Centro Legal, will discuss Minnesota’s
immigration policy and how philanthropy can play a key
role in defusing tension and creating a more productive
environment for immigrants.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2008
7:30 - 8:30 am
at
The
Minneapolis Foundation
800 IDS Center, 80 South
Eighth Street, Minneapolis
About this event:
Immigration
is one of the hottest domestic issues facing Minnesota
policymakers and business owners. State Demographer, Tom
Gillaspy, has warned the state’s economic future and
standard of living are in jeopardy unless it can become
more welcoming to new workers, particularly immigrants.
This is because the state’s labor force will
dramatically decrease in 2008 and for the following decades
due to unprecedented levels of retiring workers fueled by
aging Baby Boomers. However, serious investments of
charitable capital now are helping to counteract, and even
reverse, the risk.
About
Gloria Contreras Edin:
As
Executive Director of Centro Legal and the Minnesota
Senate’s and State Supreme Court’s Immigration
Representative, Gloria has helped Centro Legal provide
immigration and family law legal services to low income
Latinas/os and empower the community through legal
education and promoting civic engagement. She is leading
litigation in two significant federal lawsuits regarding
immigration raids that occurred recently in Worthington,
Willmar, and Austin, Minnesota.
Her talk during
Coffee & Answers will be a supplementary discussion to
the Foundation’s Minnesota Meeting event, Embracing
Immigration, occurring on March 3.
Coffee and Answers is an informal
breakfast series for professional advisors on community
issues and charitable planning strategies. Learn more about
challenges facing our community and how your clients can
make a difference through philanthropy.
You're invited to bring a friend or colleague. The event is
free, but reservations are requested. Contact Bill
Sternberg, Professional Advisor Development Officer
with questions at (612) 672-3825.
The
Minneapolis Foundation is
a statewide center for philanthropy. Founded in 1915, it is
the oldest foundation in Minnesota and one of the oldest
and largest community foundations in the United States.
Managing assets of $710 million, it administers more than
950 charitable funds and awards an average of $36 million
in grants each year. The Foundation also shares its
philanthropic expertise by establishing partnerships with
other organizations and seeks to engage the community on
critical social issues through public information campaigns
and convenings.
The
Minneapolis Foundation 800 IDS Center, 80 South Eighth
Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402
(612) 672-3878
e-mail@mplsfoundation.org
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