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The Minnesota Center for Employee Ownership Receives McKnight Foundation Grant to Raise Awareness of Employee Ownership Share Article Employee Ownership Offers a Valuable Business Succession Planning Tool While Generating Wealth for Employees and their Communities Funding from the McKnight Foundation empowers us to amplify awareness of employee ownership as a valuable, flexible succession planning tool that enables owners to sell their businesses to their employees while preserving jobs and kee...

County Chief Administrative Officer releases recommended $7.03 billion budget Copyright 2018 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. KGTV FILE and last updated 2021-05-06 20:05:04-04 SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego Countys Chief Administrative Officer Helen Robbins-Meyer recommended spending $7.03 billion in fiscal year 2021-22 for the running of the county government Thursday, a 7.3% increase from this year. The recommend...

DMC and Rochester get $335,000 in development grants Money coming from the McKnight Foundation. Posted: Apr 20, 2021 5:31 PM Posted By: Mike Bunge ROCHESTER, Minn. - The Destination Medical Cener Economic Development Agency (DMC EDA) and the City of Rochester are getting $335,000 from the McKnight Foundation. A $150,000 Vibrant and Equitable Communities grant will be directed toward equitable development and racial justice by accelerating economic mobility, cultivating a fair and just housing ...

McKnight Foundation awards a pair of grants to help city and DMC efforts. Written By: Post Bulletin staff reports | 1:20 pm, Apr. 20, 2021 × Destination Medical CenterEconomic Development Agency and city of Rochester are among the first grantees in the McKnight Foundation’s new Vibrant and Equitable Communities program. They will also receive a McKnight Climate and Energy Grant. The Vibrant and Equitable Communities grant of $150,000 will be used to help DMC and the city continue ...

Note : Congress recently voted on a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus package—the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA, P.L.117-2). It includes stimulus checks for individuals, expanded unemployment benefits, and funding for vaccines, state and local governments, schools and child care. The ARPA marks a huge win for the Biden administration during its first 50 days in office. Before the ink is dry, the administration has already pivoted to the second phase of the Biden agenda: Build Back Better. Whil...

County creates homeless department, launches North County outreach In this photo from December 2019, Bria McClain of Family Health Centers of San Diego (left) speaks with a homeless man at the Lamont Park in Spring Valley. (John Gibbins) SAN DIEGO —  The county’s efforts to help homeless people will expand beyond the unincorporated area and into cities as part of a new department created by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, April 6. Board Chairman Nathan Fletcher said he propos...

Full Transcript: San Diego State of the County Address 2021 Nathan Fletcher, Chair of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, delivered his first State of San Diego County Address on Feb 18, 2021 Credit: KFMB Published: 8:01 PM PST February 18, 2021 Updated: 9:49 PM PST February 18, 2021 SAN DIEGO COUNTY, California — Thursday, February 18, 2021  OPENING I come to you tonight from the County’s Emergency Medical Operations Center.  370 days ago, our coun...

San Diego County will take progressive approach to jobs, justice, health, Fletcher says County Board of Supervisors Chairman Nathan Fletcher, shown speaking at the Petco Park vaccination super station in January, delivered the annual State of the County address Thursday night. (K.C. Alfred/The San Diego Union-Tribune) Supervisor Nathan Fletcher talked up initiatives and departments dealing with homelessness, immigrants, a film office and more SAN DIEGO —  In his first State of t...

Austin Utilities makes a change; SMIF doles out $160,000 in grants. Written By: Post Bulletin staff reports | 7:21 am, Jan. 19, 2021 × PINE ISLAND — Pine Islands eighth annual Winter Fest will be held Jan. 30. Activities for this year’s Winter Fest will promote getting out while keeping a safe social distance. There will be groomed cross country ski and snowshoe trails at the golf course provided theres enough snow. New this year is a Pine Island Scavenger Hunt that can be comp...

Winter maintenance begins on Lock and Dam 4 near Wabasha; Winona County looking to continue Phase 1A COVID-19 vaccinations.