Every four years Blandin Foundation works with the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) to survey grantees on the strengths and opportunities in our grantmaking. Survey data offers insight on the Foundation’s relationships, processes and structure as compared to other foundations. The CEP survey is one tool the Foundation uses to assess our work and invite …
Cheryl Adams Forest Ecologist – UPM Blandin Paper Mill As the frontrunner of the new forest industry, UPM leads the integration of bio and forest industries into a new, sustainable and innovation-driven future. We reshape markets through cost leadership, change readiness and leading innovation. We create value from renewable and recyclable materials by combining our …
Community Visioning Events: The virtual community visioning process took place online via Zoom. See below for meeting materials, including the PPT, notes, and recordings. The Vision Meeting – Friday, June 19. Watch the Recording – password: CLA619)) The Brainstorm Meeting – Wednesday, June 24. Watch the Recording – password: CLA624!*
For his research, advocacy and leadership at the national level on behalf of community broadband networks, via public sector ownership and cooperatives, as a strategy for maximizing community benefits from broadband network development. Director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance where he researches and publicizes the benefits of community-owned …
For its early recognition of the importance of telecommunications to its economic future and for its perseverance in deploying a fiber optic network that has transformed the city’s local Internet environment. In 2005, in response to business and resident complaints about slow, unreliable Internet access and overly expensive telecommunications services, the City Council appointed a …
For vision and perseverance to construct and operate Minnesota’s first municipal fiber-to-the-home network and its support of regional broadband via Southwest Minnesota Broadband Services. Well into the 1990s, the quality of available internet service in Windom was poor. Community frustration was on the rise. Community leaders did not quit after a failed vote to build …
Funders, both large and small, can support rural Census work to ensure a fair and accurate count. Blandin Foundation Communications Director Allison Ahcan and Allen Smart, project director at Campbell University’s Office of Rural Philanthropic Analysis, offer ways for philanthropy to get involved in “the most important upcoming policy moment” for rural communities in this …
Online resources you can use to bring the power of broadband to your community
Bernadine Joselyn testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet.
In recognition of their visionary early work on community access to dial-up Internet which led years later to their innovative partnership that enabled deployment of over 800 miles of Fiber to the Home network stretching from Lake Superior to the end of the Gunflint Trail and the Canadian border. In 2010, the United States Department …