Good News Notes: “A Minneapolis nonprofit dedicated to helping end homelessness has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from a fund launched by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. North Minneapolis organization, The Link, announced the grant from the Bezos Day 1 Families Fund Tuesday. “The Link is honored and thrilled to be a recipient of a…
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Life Time to Eliminate Plastic Water Bottles by Labor Day
Good News Notes: “Life Time, the nation’s premier healthy lifestyle brand, announced today that it will stop selling water in plastic bottles at its 150+ athletic resorts across North America by Labor Day, cutting more than 1.6 million plastic bottles annually. The plastic bottles are being replaced by aluminum bottles with Life Time-branded natural alkaline spring water. While the vast…
3 Stillwater area sisters create nonprofit to help provide books to area youth
Good News Notes: “Stillwater area children will have free books delivered to their doorsteps every month thanks to three Minnesota sisters. Laurann Kirschner, Katie Bang and Nickie Ferguson have created Bridge to Books that they hope will boost child literacy. The program has enrolled more than 300 families, and expects thousands more. The idea comes from…
Duluth Teen Hailed as Hero for Saving Family from House Fire
Good News Notes: “A Duluth family is lucky to be alive after their house went up in flames, and fire officials are calling the family’s 15-year-old daughter a hero in the fire fight. “You might’ve been scared, but you really were a hero last night,” Duluth Fire Chief Shawn Krizaj said to Lizzy Grayhawk Tuesday….
The Kroger Co. Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation Announces Second Innovation Fund Cohort
Good News Notes: “The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation (“Foundation”) today announced the second cohort of its Innovation Fund (“Fund”). From a pool of more than 145 applicants, the Fund selected 10 startups to receive a total of $2.5 million in funding to launch innovative new consumer products made with surplus food or…
The VA Is Testing an Implant That Could Allow Paralyzed Veterans to Walk Again
Good News Notes: “Five years ago, Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Burch became the first paralyzed service member to walk to his own promotion ceremony, wearing an exoskeleton that helped him walk and stand to receive his corporal chevrons. Now medically retired, Burch, 26, hopes again to be a trailblazer — the first Department of Veterans Affairs patient…
Twin Cities nonprofit opens new kind of tiny home village — and it’s all indoors
Good News Notes: “In a massive North Loop warehouse in Minneapolis, a unique tiny home shelter space is taking shape. It’s called the Avivo Village — a shelter within a shelter. ‘We’re calling them tiny homes, they really are rooms,’ says Emily Bastian, Avivo’s vice president of ending homelessness. ‘Something COVID-safe, something that they could…
Stillwater man adopts Minneapolis homeless camps
Good News Notes: “For a man who claims to be terrible with names, Bryan Ring seemed to have no trouble last week at the homeless encampment near Sheridan Memorial Park in Minneapolis. ‘Hey, Robert,’ he said to a man headed to the camp’s portable toilet while wearing just one boot. ‘How are you doing? Get…
Nonprofit developer buys 74-unit property in Maplewood to preserve affordability
Good News Notes: “Aeon, a Minnesota nonprofit owner, developer and manager of affordable housing, recently purchased a 74-unit apartment building in Maplewood. This move will keep residents in Cobblestone Court Apartments at or below 60 percent of the medium income in their area. Despite a recent report that housing sales in the Twin Cities were…
Dairy Queen Customers Spark 900-Person Chain of Kindness
Good News Notes: “Nearly 1,000 customers at a Dairy Queen drive-thru in Minnesota took part in a kindness chain last weekend that lasted for two whole days. Tina Jensen, general manager of the Dairy Queen in Brainerd, told ABC affiliate KTRK it’s not unheard of for customers to pay for what the person behind them ordered as…