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    • Minneapolis Urban League elects new chair and Board, will this change be only self serving?

    Filed under: Business Relations, Changing North Minneapolis, Community Disparities, Community Engagement, Minneapolis Urban League, Organization, The usual "Gate Keepers"

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    MINNEAPOLIS, September 3, 2008 — The Minneapolis Urban League is pleased to announce that Catherine Wassberg, associate general counsel for Northwest Airlines, has been elected chairperson of its 24-member Board of Directors. The north Minneapolis-based non-profit also has elected seven new members to its board: Kenneth Charles, General Mills, Inc.; Roxanne Givens, ethnicHome, Inc.; Peter Hayden, Turning Point; Al McFarlane, McFarlane Media; Billy Russell, Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church; Kevin Wright, U.S Bank; and Leslie Wright, Minneapolis Marriott City Center.

     

    As board chair, Wassberg will serve a one-year term and must be re-elected each year to the position. The new board members each will serve a three-year term. Wassberg and the new board members, along with the rest of the board, assumed their responsibilities this summer and were charged with leading the search for the organization’s permanent president/CEO. The entire board, which includes the interim president/CEO, will convene on September 24 at the Minneapolis Urban League’s Glover-Sudduth Center.

     

    “Our chair and new members bring a wealth of experience and a set of established relationships with many of the communities we serve,” said David Oguamanam, interim president/CEO of the Minneapolis Urban League. “Their leadership will be crucial as we tackle the upcoming year’s objectives and define the goals and strategies that will determine our organization’s course for the next several years.”

     

    About the Minneapolis Urban League

    The Minneapolis Urban League is a community-based, not-for-profit organization that provides human services and advocacy that will enable African Americans and other diverse group members residing in the greater Minneapolis metropolitan area to cultivate and develop their individual and group potential on a par with all other Minnesotans. The organization provides a continuum of more than 20 programs and services, which operate from seven facilities throughout Minneapolis, and serves approximately 20,000 individuals and families so they can have access to quality employment, housing, health care, education and social services.

     

    For more information about the Minneapolis Urban League, visit www.mul.org or call (612) 302-3100. The Minneapolis Urban League is headquartered at the Glover-Sudduth Center, 2100 Plymouth Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN 55411.

     

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