Strategic Plan
The Stevens Square Community Organization Board of Directors and committees have determined this Strategic Plan will guide their work, with staff support, for a 3-year-term. Annual reviews will ensure we continuously progress towards success in reaching our goals. This strategic plan for January 2021 – December 2023 was approved at the 12/07/2020 Board of Directors meeting.
Mission Statement
SSCO provides a respectful forum for community involvement and leadership that builds on neighborhood strengths to promote and improve Stevens Square-Loring Heights as a fun place to live, work, and play. SSCO works to strengthen Stevens Square-Loring Heights by initiating, integrating, and implementing key priorities:
Economic Development
Neighborhood Development
Community Safety
Clean Green Environment
Building Community Through the Arts
Community Involvement
Land use acknowledgement
Minneapolis is situated on the homelands of the Dakota people. An area that is steeped in rich Indigenous history, and today is home to Indigenous people from more than 30 different nations. As a City, we have a responsibility to care for the land on which we live and work and all its natural surroundings. This stewardship is an integral part of our involvement in SSCO, and we honor it.
Our commitment to accessibility
SSCO invites and encourages participation by all residents to each and every one of our organized programs, services and events. As our programming has moved online, please reach out if you need assistance setting up or understanding Zoom, Signup Genius or any of the Google forms we use. You can reach our Director, Rachel Boeke, by calling (612) 874-2840 or emailing director@stevenssquare.org. Until we are able to gather in-person once again, be well and stay safe.
Pronoun statement
SSCO recognizes that name and gender identity are central to most individuals' sense of self and well-being, and that it is important for SSCO to establish mechanisms to acknowledge and support individuals' self-identification. One way we can support identity is by honoring the name and pronouns that each of us go by. Many people might go by a name in daily life that is different from their legal name. In our gatherings, we seek to refer to people by the names that they go by. Pronouns can be a way to affirm someone's gender identity, but they can also be unrelated to a person's identity. They are simply a public way in which people are referred to in place of their name (e.g. "he" or "she" or "they" or "ze" or something else). At all SSCO Board and committee meetings, you are invited (if you want to) to share what pronouns you go by, and we seek to refer to people using the pronouns that they share. The pronouns someone indicates are not necessarily indicative of their gender identity.
By-Laws
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