WHAT WE DO
The Woman's Club of Minneapolis
Community Engagement
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis creates the community we all want to be part of — a community that is safe, engaged, and supportive, and that recognizes that education is key to systemic change. By focusing on four priorities — individual and community safety, food insecurity, community engagement, and essential human needs — The Woman’s Club enhances the vitality and livability of the city of Minneapolis.
Individual & Community Safety
Working to increase a vibrant public presence and improve safety in our neighborhoods.
Loring Park Neighborhood Safety Club
Every Thursday evening, a group of neighbors and Club members walk through Loring Park and neighborhood streets, checking in with
individuals and businesses and offering support and information for those who might need assistance.
People in Parks
Sponsoring free programs to bring people back
to Minneapolis parks, including, in 2024:
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Ellis Delaney, singer/songwriter in concert in
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ETC's Production (Education Theater Community) of Shrek the Musical Jr. in Loring Park & Chute Square
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Jazz Women All Stars featuring Patty Peterson, Connie Evingson, and Ginger Commodore in Loring Park, Sunday, August 18 at 2pm
Ard Godfrey House
The Woman’s Club restored the city’s oldest surviving wood frame house, located in Chute Square in Northeast Minneapolis, and has cared for it and offered free tours since 1976.
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Ard Godfrey House Let's Celebrate Thursday, September 26, 2024, 10:30 a.m.
National Night Out
Brings neighbors to The Woman’s Club every August to strengthen relationships in the community.
Food Insecurity
Using our commercial kitchens to partner with schools and nonprofits to help alleviate hunger.
Involve MN
This nonprofit, which prepares and delivers
meals to those in our community who are unhoused, leases The Woman’s Club’s kitchen — seven days a week — to make certain
that some our most vulnerable
neighbors do not go hungry.
Colectiva de Educación
Bilingüe Minneapolis
Emerson Dual Language School (part
of Colectiva de Educación Bilingüe) is located blocks from The Woman’s Club. Members of the Club sponsor snacks for students and a monthly meal for Community Conversations, and
host convenings, with food, at
The Woman’s Club.
Arts, Culture, &
Civic Engagement
Recognizing the importance of the artistic ecosystem of the Twin Cities and the need for nonpartisan civil discourse, The Woman’s Club focuses on Arts & Culture
Programming and Civic Engagement.
Lori Dokken
​Club Day Mondays with Lori Dokken features up-and-coming singers and Grammy award winning artists.
Connie Evingson
Connie appears monthly with her Jazz
in the Lounge concerts.
Lakes Area Music Festival
When not presenting programming at its home base in Brainerd, brings national and international artists from orchestras and opera companies to perform at The Woman’s Club.
Ten Thousand Things Theater
Ten Thousand Things Theater has performed
at the Club, as have Dan Chouinard, Bradley
Greenwald, and Prudence Johnson in their
productions of Dear Lenny: Bernstein’s Life
in Songs & Letters, and ’66 – Talkin’ Bout My
Generation.
City Council Forum
City Council Forum Candidates for Ward 7’s
open City Council race discussed the issues in a
community forum in the Club’s Theater.
Debates
including the Republican presidential
debates, were screened for the public at The
Woman’s Club.
Essential Human Needs
Addressing community needs, The
Woman’s Club partners with nonprofit organizations.
SPARKZ 3D Printing Camp
Providing 16 middle school students with the opportunity to participate in Jazmine Darden’s STEM-based class, which also introduces them to education and career possibilities for their
futures.
Project DIVA International
Helps Black girls develop and execute plans that will support their lives after they graduate from high school.
Drives for Impactful Organizations
Dunwoody College of Technology is a longtime partner of The Woman’s Club, collaborates on projects such as collecting clothing
appropriate for interviews for students who
are graduating.
Tubman clients, who are experiencing relationship violence, exploitation, and trauma,
receive self-care items from generous member donations.
Shop with a Cop brings public school students together with Club members and officers from the Minneapolis Police Department
to shop for holiday gifts for the students and
their families at the downtown Target store.
Donate
Please consider donating to support our work and partnerships in the community. We appreciate your support!