We are replacing fear with presence. Every gift is doubled up to $100,000 to provide the mental, academic, and financial stability families need to recover.
Rebuilding Resilience
in South Minneapolis
"Hope is the people who refuse to abandon each other."
Israel, Youth Mentor
What Recovery Looks Like
These are the three ways we're focusing our recovery efforts right now. Urban Ventures has spent 30 years doing exactly this work: the long-term, relationship-based support that helps families move from surviving to stable.
Closing the Academic Gap
Educating Kids
Kids stopped logging in. Stopped turning in assignments. When safety and security go away, school isn't where your head is.
That's understandable. It's also a problem. These are kids who were already behind, and the gap just got wider. We're doubling down on literacy and after-school support because a few months can change a trajectory.
Building
Resilience
Strengthening Families
The families who held together best had built something before the crisis hit. An emergency fund. Strong relationships. People to call.
Siempre Padres helps families build that. And more families understand what they truly need to feel secure. We’re responding to the next wave of neighborhood famlies ready to build a better future.
Restoring Peace of Mind
Building a Healthy Community
It's quieter than it was, but the fear hasn’t gone away. Weeks of uncertainty, risk, and intimidation create an anxiety that is still rippling through the lives of our neighbors.
We're weaving mental health support into our programs and connecting families directly with professionals. Some things need more than time.
"Interrupted isn't the same as lost."
Israel is Urban Ventures' youth mentoring director. He was in it with this neighborhood for every hard day of the last three months. Here's what he saw and why it matters for what comes next.
A generous donor is doubling every gift.
Someone who believes in this neighborhood has put $100,000 on the table. Every dollar given to Side by Side is matched, dollar for dollar.
That means your gift goes twice as far for families rebuilding right now, and for the ones building something that will hold the next time things get hard.