Created under the premise that “we all do better when we all do better” and starkly aware of the disinvestment by the City of Minneapolis in its neighborhood organizations, Love Your Neighborhood MPLS’ mission is to keep these grassroots, vitally important community-based groups alive and functioning to better connect neighbors to each other, to local businesses, and to their City. We do this in two ways:

Love Your Neighborhood MPLS offers nonprofit planning, community engagement, grant writing, event implementation, and project management to organizations that support and strengthen neighborhoods and communities. Since forming in 2023, Love Your Neighborhood MPLS has worked with the City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis Park and Recreation, and directly with multiple neighborhood associations.

Additionally, Love Your Neighborhood MPLS strives to help Minneapolis neighborhoods build their base by creating a stronger brand-identity, while also bringing in a stream of unrestricted revenue. We do this by offering this free sales space for branding merchandise like t-shirts and tote bags to neighborhood associations, as well as to local businesses who are interested in supporting their community by donating their share of the profits to their local neighborhood groups.