Great Dreams Campaign

OUR PLACES:

Having completed the renovation of the Tubman Chrysalis Center in South Minneapolis, the Great Dreams campaign will make critical infrastructure improvements to improve the universal accessibility, safety, and utility of Harriet Tubman Center East.

These essential capital improvements include the addition of accessible restrooms and an elevator to serve the public, non-residential areas of the building, as well as electrical upgrades, new windows, partial roof replacement, and fire suppression.

OUR PROGRAMS:

The Great Dreams campaign will invest in the acceleration and expansion of innovation programs for Tubman. Included are:

Creation of the Twin Cities’ first pet-dedicated space in a domestic violence shelter, Harriet’s Haven for Pets. Harriet’s Haven will allow people experiencing domestic violence to find safety with their pets. Nearly half of domestic violence victims delay leaving, and nearly 1 in 4 return to an abusive situation due to fear over their pet's safety. In addition, animal abuse is one of the primary indicators of those domestic violence cases that are more likely to end in homicide.

A feasibility study resulting in a plan to convert our shuttered commercial kitchen into a new social enterprise. Located at the Harriet Tubman Center in Maplewood, Tubman is partnering to create the Tubman Food Innovation Center which will house a commercial kitchen and contract manufacturing site for consumer-packaged goods (CPG) and food service products. The contract manufacturing facility will prioritize scaling food businesses that are owned by people who identify as Black, Indigenous, People of Color, women, non-binary and LGBTQIA+. And the commercial kitchen will make 10,000+ ready-to-eat meals per week for folks who are experiencing homelessness and living in encampments or outside of the shelter system. 

Needed investment in critical program delivery and access, including additional security for domestic violence survivors, with a corresponding investment in staff and technology for program enhancements.

OUR PEOPLE:

Tubman is deepening in both scope and scale, offering a wide array of programs and services in increasingly complex, interconnected cases. Tubman is building a stronger, more diverse, and better equipped organization, and the campaign will include an investment in an operational assessment of staffing and program design to enhance our capacity.

This will help us meet future challenges and opportunities in response to community needs, changes, and trends. This investment will also help ensure we can add key positions from that assessment as well as continue to attract and retain staff we need to serve with the level of knowledge, experience, and cultural competence our clients and community need.

A portion of this investment will be used to support the evolution of our fundraising team, allowing us to increase our ability to sustain these changes over the long-term.

OUR CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE:

COMMITTEE CHAIRS:

Jake Blumberg and Christina Farhart
Junita Flowers

CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE:

• Marcia Ballinger
• Tommie Braddock
• Shannon Brooks
• Donnie Brown
• John Butorac
• Colleen Carey
• Keyla Duran
• Sarah Erickson
• Diane Gates
• Mary Lucic
• Shareen Luze
• Erin Horne McKinney
• Jeff Justman
• Christina Kolles
• Laureen O'Brien
• Max Rosen
• R. Christopher Sur*

* Active committee member until his death in February 2023