We are accepting nominations for the 2010 Connecting with Youth Award. The award, presented in conjunction with the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota, recognizes an employee of an MBP member company who shares his or her time, talents and energy mentoring young people – and encouraging others to join them. Nominations are due by August 20, 2010. (Nomination information.)

With support from MBP members Mortenson Construction, Federated Insurance, 3M, IWCO Direct and The Travelers, the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota is currently supporting and guiding 35 mentoring programs through the Quality Mentoring Assessment Path (QMAP) process. QMAP is an innovative tool to help mentoring programs validate and build their programs based on nationally recognized quality standards and research and evidence. More. 

The Partnership is proud to support mymn, a nonpartisan effort to unite and engage Minnesotans who care about keeping our state a special place to live and work. Join the conversation at http://www.mymn.org/. 

The Partnership entered the 2010 legislative session focused on reform in each of our policy areas. The global recession and the state’s budget deficit had everyone talking about “jobs” and how to create more of them in Minnesota. Race to the Top fostered broad, bipartisan support for education reform. And the national debate over health care spilled into the State Capitol. In the end, it was a productive session. We scored some victories . . . More.