Twin Cities Center for Arts & Technology (TCCAT)
The replication strategy for TCCAT is designed with a focus on workforce development based on the needs of the Northside community and its businesses. Skills training will be focused on current economic demands; centered around the health care profession, green industry and other rising employment trends.
This creates a direct pipeline for low-income adults to connect with job training options that have a direct impact on their ability to secure and maintain employment. As adults, they will be better equipped to provide support and guidance to their own children, breaking the cycle of generational poverty.

Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ)
NorthWay had solidified partnerships and brought on NAZ’s first staff member to usher its work into the coming year. Northside Achievement Zone was formed to address the educational achievement gap between African-American and white children. This achievement gap hits hard in North Minneapolis. From youth violence to incarceration rates, to educational and wealth attainment, North Minneapolis leads the nation in disparities along geographic, racial, and class lines.
NAZ is working to replace the “cradle to prison” pipeline that has developed in North Minneapolis with a more promising path that leads to college and a successful life. The effort is focused on 255 blocks in North Minneapolis, the area most impacted by crime, violence and poverty.
NAZ will revolutionize the way non-profits and community organizations work together. They will refocus efforts around clear outcomes for families and children in the Zone by building a coalition of over 50 existing area service-providers will revolutionize the way organizations work together. Local schools, mentoring programs, family support organizations, health services, arts organizations and worship organizations will work in coordination with each other around a shared achievement plan for kids in the Zone. Where one program ends, another picks up the process in support of NAZ kids.
These service providers will establish a new level of accountability with a “NAZ-Tested Seal of Approval.” They will take a family-centered and child-centered approach to refocus resources on achievement for kids and families within the Zone, rather than a focus on organizational outcomes.

Public Policy Training
NorthWay Community Trust has completed a series of Public Policy Trainings, graduating 18-20 participants who developed knowledge and skills in public policy engagement. The trainings targeted three areas: public policy, financial and media literacy. Some of our graduates have since, found employment with organizations where they are able to apply themselves in work directly related to the trainings. To date, at least one graduate is currently running for public office.

NorthWay Family Project
NorthWay Community Trust launched this partnership of Minneapolis Public Schools, Hennepin County Family Services and the City of Minneapolis Employment Training Program. In 2008 the initiative reached youth and families in the lowest economic quintile that were previously unassisted by the usual employment and training programs offered. NorthWay Family Project placed 93 youth in jobs as well as eight parents who received training through the program. An additional 13 parents participated in life coaching workshop classes.

Case Statement for the Northside
Self-reflection helped us to understand ourselves a little better in 2008. NorthWay invested in an assessment of our assets and an investigation of our opportunities. The resulting work has connected people to resources and to each other. It also encourage private and public investment in our community.
Among those assets are organizations founded and/or supported by NorthWay Community Trust. The Comprehensive Community Development Group, Hmong American Mutual Assistance Association (HAMAA), NEON, Northside Arts Collective, PEACE Foundation and YMCA continue to have a strong presence in the community. In distinctly different ways, each contributes to the vitality of our North-side neighborhoods.