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Minnesota nonprofits hit hard by COVID-19 begin long road to recovery Groups lobbying for $50M "resiliency fund" to bolster those still struggling.  May 29, 2021 — 3:55pm Text size Copy shortlink: While more than 9,000 nonprofits in Minnesota are seeing brighter days after a difficult 2020, many are just starting out on the long road to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Fewer nonprofits are cutting staff or facing financial distress. And a third of the respondents in a new survey say they've seen a spike in donations and grant...

Suzanne Burks is a business developer, an innovative thinker and a philanthropic strategist. She's also a relationship builder. She began her career right here in Twin Cities with General Mills and over a 20-year period, worked her way up from a summer intern through a variety of positions of increasing responsibility, emerging as a director of General Mills Foundation and as executive director of ethnic community relations. She's now back in town to lead the legacy institution, Phyllis Wheatley Community Center (PWCC). Her goal: rebuild and rebrand, moving the organization forward with a new...