Pollen vol 39 October 17, 2011 Curated by Lars Leafblad Principal, KeyStone Search http://www.linkedin.com/in/larsleafblad http://www.twitter.com/larsleafblad http://www.larsleafblad.

com Pollenites, What is Pollen? For those of you experiencing Pollen for the first time, heres a quick overview of who we are: Pollen is a community comprised of civic-minded connectors who share ideas, career and civic engagement opportunities and peer-to-peer recognition to create positive impact and personal and professional growth for its members. Pollen volume 1 was shared with several hundred members on December 4, 2009. Weve subsequently grown to several thousand community members thanks to your outreach, connectivity, and crosspollenation efforts. Thank you! Pollen on LinkedIn Click here to connect with 3,100+ Pollen members and have access to sharing jobs, events, and articles directly with fellow members: http://bit.ly/Pollen-LinkedIn Become a full fledged Pollenite! If someone has forwarded this to you and youd like to become a full-fledged Pollenite, which provides you with the opportunity to contribute content for distribution to the entire Pollen network, become a member by emailing larsl-at-keystonesearch.com. Volume 39 Contents: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Events Ideas/Inspiration Pollen Props Jobs/Internships Boards Fun/Etc.

Events: October 17 Minneapolis Parks Foundation fundraiser w/ Wise Acre Eatery http://mplsparksfoundation.org/as_fundraiser October 18 Small Business Survival Summit w/ MN Sec of State Mark Ritchie http://www.usamicrobiz.org/events/small-business-survival-summit-10-18-2011 October 18 Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce YPro & Mpls St Paul Business Journal What Makes a 40 under Forty? happy hour event: http://www.saintpaulchamber.com/cwt/External/WCPages/WCEvents/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=245011 2

October 19 That Used to Be Us event of MOJO MN & Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship at UMN http://anyvite.com/events/home/pznlxb4kuf October 20 Carlson School of Management breakfast series with Pollenite Jim Bernard, SVP, Digital, Star Tribune http://work.csom.umn.edu/AlumniEvents/event_details.asp?event_id=11116 October 20 Peter Hutchinson at The Theater of Public Policy at HUGE Theater in Uptown speaks on The New Normal http://www.incommons.org/t2p2 October 22 Minnesota Rising 2011 Un/Conference ->Building a network for whats next http://mruc2011.eventbrite.com/ October 22 Surge for Water A Drop of Gold event at the Minikahda Club http://www.surgeforwater.org/events/minikahdaclub.php October 24 MN High Tech Association CEO briefing event with UMN President, Dr. Eric Kaler http://www.cvent.com/events/ceo-briefing-featuring-dr-eric-kaler-president-university-of-minnesota/eventsummary-02c19bbf6b474e18bbb8f9ee45ee5deb.aspx October 24 Minneapolis Foundation Fourth Generation 2011-12 Launch event at Northern Clay Center with Dean Phillips, President and CEO of Phillips Distilling Company and Trustee of Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation https://www.minneapolisfoundation.org/Events/RSVP.aspx?id=214 October 24 CoMinnesota Co-op Day with MN Sec of State Mark Ritchie http://cominnesota.coop/ October 24 MinnPost Asks: Twin Cities 2024 What Lies Ahead? With Susan Haigh, chair, Metropolitan Council & Michael Langley, CEO, GreaterMSP http://www.minnpost.com/asks/series/ October 27 - Scholarship America: Creating Vibrant Futures for 50 Years at B.A.N.K. Restaurant, The Westin Minneapolis. $75/person, celebratory attire requested. The event will begin with a reception, followed by dinner and our Annual Awards Program and 50th Anniversary Celebration. Our 90-year old founder, Dr. Irving A. Fradkin, will be joining us for the evening. To register/get more information: Please contact Mackenzie Owens, at mowens-at-scholarshipamerica.org. October 31 Public Affairs Series of Saint Paul Chamber of Commerce lunch program w/ Susan Haigh, Metropolitan Council Chair, will discuss The Metropolitan Council and the Future of the Twin Cities Region http://www.saintpaulchamber.com/cwt/External/WCPages/WCEvents/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=245012 4 November 1 Non-Profit Young Professionals Group lunch event http://ypgconversation.eventbrite.com/ November 2 TORCH Community Whats Your Story? event http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2289774778?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaig n=new_eventv2&utm_term=eventurl_text

November 5 U of MN College of Education & Human Development Saturday Scholars event http://www.cehd.umn.edu/alumni/events/saturday-scholars/ November 5 AC Johnson Photography Lake Superior Art Show benefitting DesignWise Medical http://www.acjphotoblog.com/lake-superior-art-show-2011/ November 7 MinnPost.com 4th Birthday Party Celebration Solera http://www.minnpost.com/birthday/ November 8 Carlson School of Management First Tuesday with John Stumpf, Pres/CEO/Chairman of Wells Fargo http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/events/013322/November-2011-First-Tuesday.aspx November 9 Citizens League 2011 Civic Celebration http://citizensleague.org/events/past/2011/11/2011_annual_civ.php November 10 VSA Minnesota fundraiser - 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Melting Pot, 80 S. 9th St., Minneapolis Cost: $25. Appetizers, silent auction. More details to follow. www.vsamn.org November 11 Celebrate the Journey dinner and fundraiser for ThreeSixty Journalism celebrating 10 year anniversary: http://www.threesixtyjournalism.org/celebratethejourney November 12 Jeremiah Program Bullfrog Bash and Late Night Leap gala http://www.jeremiahprogram.org/?page_id=34 November 12 The Works museum grand opening http://www.theworks.org/ November 15 Economic Club of MN hosting event with Michelle Rhee, Founder and CEO, StudentsFirst http://michellerhee.eventbrite.com/?ref=eivte&invite=MTM1MjEyMi9sYXJzbEBrZXlzdG9uZXNlYXJjaC5jb 20vMA%3D%3D&utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=invite&utm_term=respond here November 15 2011 Dialogue for Peace event http://www.norwayhouse.org/2011/08/2011-dialogue-for-peace-fall-peace-initiative-event/ November 16 Give to the Max Day 2011 from GiveMN.org! Learn more -> http://www.givemn.org November 17 Robotics Alley hosted by ReconRobotics and MN High Tech Association http://roboticsalley.org/ Ideas/Inspiration: Read about the recent work (and current searches) of Pollenites Marcia Ballinger, Rebecca Driscoll, Mike Frommelt, Lars Leafblad, and Bob Schoenbaum at KeyStone Search in their quarterly client update, Culture Matters via the link below: http://www.keystonesearch.com/culture_matters.php Learn more about the 2011 Give to the Max Day on November 16th via: http://givemn.razoo.com/p/gtmd Congrats to Common Grounds (http://www.commongroundsmn.org) and the Bush Foundation on their new partnership effort this fall!

Learn more via Pollenite Leah Lundquist below: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/cil/myblog/2011/09/business-law-and-policy-students-reflect-on-integrativeleadership.html Read about current Common Grounds cohort: http://www.commongroundsmn.org/about_us Learn more about United Front initiative of Greater Twin Cities United Way: http://unitedfrontmn.org/ Steve Jobs How To Live Before You Die speech: http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html Great ideas on how to manage your personal brand online via Geek Girls Guide: http://www.geekgirlsguide.com/designcamp/ Special welcome to new Pollen member, Nilofer Merchant. Follow her work at http://www.nilofermerchant.com Learn more about Fourth Generation initiative of Minneapolis Foundation in this video and see how many Pollenites you can recognize! http://www.youtube.com/user/mplsfoundation?http://youtu.be/Tg1ctp9vaxU Good nonprofit/philanthropy counsel from The Good Counsel blog of Toscano Advisors: http://thegoodcounsel.com/2011/08/16/the-golden-opportunity/ Steve Jobs Oral History transcript from 1995 (via Jeff Heegaard) http://www.cwhonors.org/archives/histories/jobs.pdf The Qualitative Manifesto by Tom Osenton http://peopleseconomist.blogspot.com/2011/10/qualitative-manifesto.html NY Times GDP Doesnt Measure Happiness: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/opinion/sunday/gdp-doesnt-measure-happiness.html?_r=2 The United Way has set out on an important and ambitious project to support social enterprises in the Twin Cities. They have asked Engine for Social Innovation to start by helping to define what a social enterprise is and then to find all of the social enterprises operating in the Twin Cities. We are working on this project in collaboration with Social Venture Partners and Social Enterprise Alliance to cast a wide net. Please click the link below to help identify organizations doing important work and help the United Way foster the social enterprise movement in the Twin Cities. Also, there is an incentive we will draw five names from those who respond to each win a case of Finnegans Irish Amber! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SocialEnterprise2011 (via Jim Delaney) TechdotMN TV Episode 6 now available: http://tech.mn/news/2011/10/14/techdotmn-tv-episode-6/ MinnPost has launched its fall sustaining member campaign! Join Bill Moyers, Vin Weber and Lars Leafblad and several other Pollenites in becoming a member..(via Stephanie Johnson) http://www.minnpost.com/donate/sustaining/?utm_source=staffemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaig n=junememberdrive

Carlson School of Management launches new Carlson Global Institute http://carlsonschool.umn.edu/news/09/29/11/Carlson-School-of-Management-Launches-Global-Institute.aspx What it Means Today to be Connected by Lucy Marcus in Harvard Business Review blog: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/10/what_it_means_today_to_be_conn.html New University of Minnesota President, Dr. Eric Kaler, in cover story of Twin Cities Business, Can Eric Kaler Retool the Engine? http://www.pageturnpro.com/Twin-Cities-Business/29615-Twin-Cities-Business-September2011/index.html#34 Tom Friedman in NY Times Somethings Happening Here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/opinion/theres-something-happening-here.html?smid=twNYTimesFriedman&seid=auto Betsy Buckley in Minnesota Business, Ask Yourself First blog post: http://www.minnesotabusiness.com/blog/ask-yourself-first Andrew Eklund in Twin Cities Business Are We Entering a Post-Advertising Age? http://tcbmag.blogs.com/postchaos_10/ The MBTI Personalities visualized as a Subway Map: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2009/08/10/mbti-map/ 15 Learnings on networking by Pollenite Lars Leafblad http://www.scribd.com/doc/68708413/Networking-and-Social-Media-Lars-Leafblad-Notes-Oct-2011

Pollen Props & Profiles: Megan Leafblad on her new role as Assistant Director, International Programs for Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MCAD) Michelle Geo Olmstead on her new role as Campaign Director for Breck School Meghan Murphy Suszynski, Jamie Millard, and Regan Smith of Paper Darts on their interview with METRO magazine: http://metromag.com/blog/arts/metro-100-paper-darts To the 2011 Leadership Saint Paul cohort! http://issuu.com/saintpaulareachamberofcommerce/docs/nexus_october_2011 Katrina Zabinski on her participation as a 2011-12 HHH Policy Fellow To the Saint Paul Foundation and Minnesota Community Foundation on their rebranding as Minnesota Philanthropy Partners: http://www.mcf.org/news/minnesota-philanthropy-partners Richard Proudfit, the founder of Kids Against Hunger and Feed My Starving Children to be featured on KARE 11 on Oct 20 at 10:00 pm. Sylvia Mathews Burwell on her new role as President of the Wal-Mart Foundation http://philanthropy.com/blogs/the-giveaway/former-gates-official-to-lead-wal-mart-foundation/795 Pollenite and St. Olaf grad Paul Minkler on his engagement to Staci Fick

To the 20 named as Leaders on the Rise by MN Hispanic Chamber of Commerce http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2011/10/12/hispanic-chamber-names-20risers.html?ana=RSS&s=article_search&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Chuck Swensson on his new role as President of Morsekode Lars Leafblad joins MinnPost.com Advisory Board http://www.minnpost.com/about/ Jennifer Foth on her new role as Planned Giving Officer with CaringBridge.org Bill Sternberg on his new role as Vice President, Philanthropic Services with the Minneapolis Foundation: http://www.scribd.com/doc/68684612/The-Minneapolis-Foundation-VP-Philanthropic-Services-SternbergKeyStone-Search GreaterMSP on launching with a bang: http://tcbmag.blogs.com/daily_developments/2011/10/greater-msp-says-it-can-help-the-twin-citiesprosper.html Nate Garvis on being the featured TEDxTalk for his presentation at TEDxTC: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxTC-Nate-Garvis-Creating-the;FeaturedTalks?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=on.ted.com-copypaste&utm_source=t.co&utm_content=awesmpublisher To the WNBA Champion Minnesota Lynx! Nathan Magel on his new role with The Brand Lab as program director Jobs/Internships: American Public Media Director of Development Services (via Jen Hanlon Ash) http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=48112 Hammer Residences, Inc. CEO (via Mike Frommelt and Lars Leafblad) http://bit.ly/Hammer-CEO InCommons Interactive Coordinator (via Lars Leafblad) http://www.modernstorytellers.com/pages/position-incommons-interactive-coordinator-haberman Minneapolis College of Art & Design Advancement Intern (unpaid) (via Lars Leafblad) http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=48131 Minnesota Education Corps Program Coordinator (via Christine Fankhanel) http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=48223 Minnesota State Fair Foundation Associate Director of Development (via Lars Leafblad) http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=48003 People Serving People Director of Development (via Lars Leafblad) http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=48290 Teach for America Twin Cities seeks Director, Growth Strategy & Development (via Daniel Sellers) https://teachforamerica.taleo.net/careersection/01/jobdetail.ftl?&job=11506 University of Minnesota Alumni Association VP, Outreach (via Phil Esten) http://www.minnesotaalumni.org/s/1118/content.aspx?sid=1118&gid=1&pgid=3304

Works Progress Project Assistant (via Colin Kloecker) www.springboardforthearts.org/resources-and-referrals/jobs-and-internships/project-assistant/ Yinghua Academy Executive Director (via Lars Leafblad) http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=48060 Boards: Community Shares of MN seeks board members (via Kate Cimino) http://www.communitysharesmn.org/index.php?main_menu_id=1&content_id=2106 Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition seeks board members (via Parker Mullins) http://mplsbike.org/content/seeking-board-applicants Minnesota Center for Book Arts (http://www.mnbookarts.org/), the premier book arts organization in the U.S., is looking for candidates for board service. Senior managers from arts-friendly corporations preferred, but will consider other experience. For more information, contact board member Pam Johnson at pjohnsonsearch-at-gmail.com. (via Pam Johnson) Numerous MN non-profit board openings c/o MAP for Nonprofits: http://bit.ly/MAP-BoardOpenings

Fun/Etc: Pollen uniform suggestion by Frank Steck: www.bonobos.com/pollenators-pants Autumn in northern MN via Duluth News-Tribune: http://fall.areavoices.com/ Apples The Crazy Ones ad narrated by Steve Jobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA Pictures of Scared Bros At A Haunted House http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/scared-bros-at-a-haunted-house Reminder to connect with Pollen on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter Facebook: Join 1,100 + fellow Pollenites who are engaging with one another on Facebook. Join: http://www.facebook.com/bepollen LinkedIn: Click here to connect with 3,100+ Pollen members and have access to sharing jobs, events, and articles directly with fellow members: http://bit.ly/Pollen-LinkedIn Twitter: Follow Pollen on Twitter by using the hashtag #BePollen Profile: http://www.twitter.com/larsleafblad Thanks again for being part of Pollen! Go forth and cross-pollinate! Lars

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