Showcase Your Minnesota Community Pride This Summer!
“2010 Reinventing Minnesota -- Minnesota Community Pride Competition” is co-sponsored by the Minnesota State Fair, MinnPost.com, and Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc (MRP) and is open to all Minnesota communities, including neighborhoods. Special categories this year include Rural Urban Partnering and Youth-Led Community Engagement .
The contest is part of MRP’s Reinventing Minnesota initiative to recognize communities statewide for their efforts to move beyond the current economic challenge with creative and proactive community and economic development innovations. Sharing these best practices with neighbors across the state --and across America –is equally important.
Minnesota Community Pride is an old-fashioned community improvement competition to reward, inspire, showcase and share the (re)inventive good work already going on in Minnesota towns and neighborhoods.
Community Showcase and Awards Ceremony on Sunday August 29 at the 2010 MINNESOTA STATE FAIR!
The 2010 Minnesota Community Pride communities will be featured in the Minnesota Community Pride Showcase at Carousel Park, at the Minnesota State Fair, August 29, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Competition award winners will be announced on stage at 12:30 p.m. Here is the link to the draft schedule for the day.
The contest and event is co-sponsored by the Minnesota State Fair, MinnPost.com, and Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc.
Join newsmakers and entertainers featured on stage throughout the day to celebrate the strength and resilience of Minnesota’s communities, from small town to big city neighborhoods across Minnesota.
A display tent at the park will showcase the community projects entered in the 2010 community competition to help Minnesotans and Minnesota “Connect, Create, and Thrive.” This contest motto expresses a way to think and act, to turn the current economic challenges into an opportunity that encourages people to connect and share good ideas and resources to move us into a thriving future for all, say contest organizers.
“Minnesota’s strength lies in the vitality and can-do spirit of its communities and neighborhoods and the ingenuity of our people,” said Jane Leonard, president of Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc. (MRP, Inc.). “The State Fair has always been a place and time for Minnesotans to showcase, recognize and share creative ideas and innovations. It’s the perfect venue to spotlight communities that are helping our state be the best we can be.”
Minnesota Community Pride participants exemplify Minnesota’s history of inventiveness, innovation and compassion. The contest recognizes the goodwill and good actions that communities, neighborhoods and organizations across our state are doing right now to help one another.
The competition will lift up and publicly recognize Minnesota’s communities in both comprehensive community-wide improvement efforts and achievements in specific disciplines, such as broadband deployment and applications, health care & wellness, entrepreneurship support, arts & culture, and community design.