https://mnrux.org Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange Wed, 03 May 2023 00:22:54 +0000 https://mnrux.org en https://mnrux.org/Header-Title-2 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:29:56 +0000 Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange https://mnrux.org/Header-Title-2 A Movement of Rural-Urban Connectors https://mnrux.org/Header-Image-2 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:29:59 +0000 Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange https://mnrux.org/Header-Image-2 <img width="4801" height="2144" width_o="4801" height_o="2144" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf5d1bed759a1bd713202d7edb12a2cd571714f3523d3bd83472fc1b3d8417f2/MNRUX_Header4-Cropped.jpg" data-mid="168415665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf5d1bed759a1bd713202d7edb12a2cd571714f3523d3bd83472fc1b3d8417f2/MNRUX_Header4-Cropped.jpg" /> https://mnrux.org/Intro-2 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:30:03 +0000 Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange https://mnrux.org/Intro-2 The Rural-Urban Exchange is a movement of individuals who yearn for complex, full, authentic representation of one another. Through exchange we actively commit to addressing the challenges affecting our most distant neighbors as if they lived next door to ourselves. https://mnrux.org/How-We-Gather-1 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:06:42 +0000 Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange https://mnrux.org/How-We-Gather-1 <img width="5198" height="4000" width_o="5198" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/81fe5ccf26d81d94649d2c43e044c438dec7289b1d6ef4f6bf723ed418628b0c/DSC03495.jpeg" data-mid="168576869" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/81fe5ccf26d81d94649d2c43e044c438dec7289b1d6ef4f6bf723ed418628b0c/DSC03495.jpeg" /> <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d93206b5ae2496fb1607a264782a500157fd98f51c2f101d165de4c1ad83a1a7/DSC02795.jpeg" data-mid="168576982" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d93206b5ae2496fb1607a264782a500157fd98f51c2f101d165de4c1ad83a1a7/DSC02795.jpeg" /> How We GatherThe Minnesota Rural-Urban Exchange cohort is a creative leadership program designed to develop skills and confidence, grow social capital, and cultivate relationships across racial, economic and geographic divides. RUX brings us to one another’s places to better understand who we are, what we love, what we fear, and what we need from one another. Each gathering is curated as a long-weekend retreat and will be hosted in various rural and urban communities across the state. The weekend retreats are designed with local partners to include an itinerary that uplifts the hidden treasures in their community and reveals the challenges and complexities of their place.Learn more about The Exchange https://mnrux.org/Meet-the-2023-Cohort-Connectors Wed, 03 May 2023 00:22:52 +0000 Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange https://mnrux.org/Meet-the-2023-Cohort-Connectors <img width="1667" height="1667" width_o="1667" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a035f5bab3aa6be8e1106ee7a025dab4923564bb8ceee07010b2533321ddcfd/MNRUX_2023Cohort-Headshots_1.jpg" data-mid="177565472" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a035f5bab3aa6be8e1106ee7a025dab4923564bb8ceee07010b2533321ddcfd/MNRUX_2023Cohort-Headshots_1.jpg" /> <img width="1667" height="1667" width_o="1667" height_o="1667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eb001f30fbd15a33b00cfe715f400fef1e961a58182e994061b9f20632d8e9b5/MNRUX_2023Cohort-Headshots_2.jpg" 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geography, culture, class, age, gender, sexuality, and race. Meet The Connectors https://mnrux.org/Coffee-Connection-2 Wed, 03 May 2023 00:22:54 +0000 Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange https://mnrux.org/Coffee-Connection-2 Coffee + Connection Join us monthly! Not a part of our cohort but still wanting to grow social capital, and cultivate relationships across racial, economic and geographic divides? Join us virtually the second Friday of every month for informal connection over coffee, lightly facilitated by our Core Connectors and intended to remove barriers that set us apart from others. Register Events https://mnrux.org/2022-Year-In-Review Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:01:07 +0000 Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange https://mnrux.org/2022-Year-In-Review Watch Our Year In ReviewIn 2022 we kicked-off the Minnesota RUX program with two Community Intensives in Rondo and Frogtown in St. Paul, and in Mahnomen and the White Earth Nation. https://mnrux.org/Our-Values-2 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:30:37 +0000 Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange https://mnrux.org/Our-Values-2 Our Values Honor our Differences We embrace and honor differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our members and our partners unique. Celebrate our AssetsWe believe that all people hold experience and knowledge to address our challenges, steward our resources, and model our collective future. Curiosity and CompassionCritique ideas, not people. We must be brave and curious. We lean into people’s inner pains and fears and seek to understand and empathize with their situation, even if we don’t align on position, worldview, or solution. Reciprocal ExchangeWe believe that providing opportunities for exchange and peer learning inspires people, evokes a shared sense of purpose, sparks innovation, and can begin to bridge solutions. Here you are invited to give of yourself and receive a part of someone else’s place and story. https://mnrux.org/Our-Approach-2 Tue, 14 Feb 2023 17:30:40 +0000 Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange https://mnrux.org/Our-Approach-2 Our Approach People and Relationships are ParamountWhen we are in relationship with one another–urban and rural–we see how our futures are interdependent. We believe connection and belonging are vital community capacities, and we value social cohesion as key to community health. By revealing and emphasizing these connections, we develop the trust and shared values necessary to advance our collective future. We prioritize curiosity and cultivate compassion to find more ways to believe the best in our fellow humans, and to not pass judgment about others’ values, needs, fears, and wants. Our Places Hold ValueBy exploring our relationship to place and sharing our places with each other, we are building greater awareness and appreciation–creating more ways for us to care about other people and places and to work together to create more equitable and inclusive communities. We come to one another’s places to better understand who we are, what we love, what we fear, and what we need from one another. We are here to reprioritize this way of knowing. It is All Adaptive and Emergent&nbsp;We are a values-based organization that uses a distributed leadership approach to movement building. Together, we participate and lead, plan and question our work. Our iterative approach involves strategizing with empathy, and bringing an understanding of reality coupled with imagination. Our partners, staff, and cohorts each have meaningful opportunities to contribute through program design, facilitation, and evaluation. Advance Equity and Dismantle RacismWe believe that equity is the cornerstone of progress toward a just and sustainable world, and we believe it is a moral imperative to build cultural competence and fight oppression in all its forms. This means that, in our approach to leadership development, we commit to pay witness to the cultural and historical experiences that are representative of our places, unearth how systems disenfranchise, discriminate, and oppress some of us, and reclaim our sense of belonging to each other. https://mnrux.org/Header Thu, 05 May 2022 23:35:49 +0000 Minnesota Rural Urban Exchange https://mnrux.org/Header The Exchange Cohort Experience