ADVANCING REGIONAL ISSUES
Narrative Change
North Dakota is a land of opportunity and it is our goal to share those opportunities and help you see them as well.
In 2020, Strengthen ND was one of 29 organizations from across North America selected to receive $100,000 from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Voices of Economic Opportunity Grand Challenge to support narrative change in rural North Dakota. With our narrative change work, we are building empathy and create acceptance of newcomers, especially newcomers who look differently than and have backgrounds different from the majority of North Dakotans, by rural community members. By highlighting a shared ancestral and/or lived experience of immigrating/migrating to a new country/state for opportunity (i.e. past homesteading heritage of many rural North Dakotans; current migrants and immigrants), our work will change the narrative around newcomers and the three components of economic mobility (autonomy; economic success; being valued in the community). In partnership with AgWeek, we served as messengers for both newcomers and homecomers finding opportunity in North Dakota.
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AARP Awards Grants to Seven Organizations in North Dakota as Part of Nationwide Program to Make Communities More Livable
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 26, 2024 MEDIA CONTACT:Marnie Piehl, Communications Director, AARP North Dakota 701-391-6534 or mpiehl@aarp.org AARP Awards Grants to Seven Organizations in North Dakota as Part of Nationwide Program to Make Communities More Livable ...
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