Pollen vol 35 August 16, 2011 Curated by Lars Leafblad Principal, KeyStone Search http://www.linkedin.com/in/larsleafblad http://www.twitter.com/larsleafblad http://www.larsleafblad.

com Pollenites, Under the Radar Leaders and Community Connectors: Thanks again for your nominations of over 170 Under the Radar Leaders and Community Connectors shared in the last issue of Pollen. If you havent yet connected with this group of fellow leaders and connectors, you can download a PDF of the full nomination list via the secure link below: http://www.scribd.com/doc/61088282/Pollen-Profiles-FullRoster-July2011-Lars-Leafblad-KeyStoneSearch Pollen social gathering August 25th: Thanks to Kate-Madonna Hindes for organizing and to The Works for hosting a free evening gathering for Pollen on Thursday, August 25th from 5 to 8 p.m. Questions to Kate via thegirl-at-girlmeetsgeek.com. Full details and registration via secure link below: http://pollennetworkingaugust.eventbrite.com/ Regularly Scheduled Programming: For those of you just joining Pollen, you might be asking, so just what is Pollen? 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!

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5) Boards 6) Fun/Etc. Events: Aug 16, 17, 18, 25, 30 Minnesota Citizens Redistricting Commission Public Meetings (via Matthew Lewis) http://drawthelinemidwest.org/minnesota/public-meetings/

August 18 - Find Your Way Greater Twin Cities United Way has set up a unique volunteer event on August 18th that is perfect for groups, businesses and individuals and it requires as little as 15 minutes of time during the lunch hour! We are working to demonstrate the power of one volunteer and what one person can do to positively affect the community. Details: Thursday, August 18th 11 a.m. 1 p.m. Downtown Mpls: first floor of City Center building Downtown St. Paul: EcoLab Plaza Visit www.everyonecountstc.org to learn more and sign up for shifts from 15 minutes to an hour whatever you can give. Volunteers will be assembling healthy snack packs for kids, assembling dental hygiene kits for youth and expectant mothers, packaging laundry soap for families in transition and creating early learning kits for families to do together. August 23 Social Innovation Exchange hosted by Engine for Social Innovation and Ashoka Twin Cities featuring panel w/ Dana Nelson, Sec of State Mark Ritchie, Terrie Rose, Lars Leafblad, Diane Tran, and Jay Coogan discussing Exploring how to engage Individuals from all Sectors: http://six.eventbrite.com/ August 24 TORCH Community The Game of Life evening program w/ partners Aeon, Jeremiah Program, Minneapolis Foundation 4th Generation, United Way TC Emerging Leaders, and YouthFarm & Market keynote from Lars Leafblad http://torchcommunitygameoflife.eventbrite.com/ August 25 Pollen social gathering at The Works 5 to 8 pm http://pollennetworkingaugust.eventbrite.com/ September 11 Open house 11 am to 5 pm for the new Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts http://www.thecowlescenter.org September 14 Twin Cities Business Peer Network Stand Out by Building Your Personal Brand lunch program -> http://tcbpn.eventbrite.com/ September 23-24 Shes Geeky unConference at Science Museum of MN http://www.shesgeeky.org/sg/?s=&search_404=1 September 24 Walk to End Alzheimers! Did you know that half of all Americans know someone with Alzheimers? Or that someone in the U.S. develops the disease every 69 seconds? Join the Alzheimers Association on Sat. Sept. 24 at Hyland Park in Bloomington to raise awareness of and funds for Alzheimers and related diseases. Visit www.alz.org/mnnd for more information or call 952.830.0512. September 24 - the AMAZING WALK! Join the Sjai Foundation on Sat., Sept. 24 from 9-11 a.m. at North Mississippi Regional Park for a 5K like no other. Bring the kids, bring your friends, and bring a sense of adventure to try the sometimes challenging, sometimes goofy activities youll find spread out

across the 5K walk. Visit the Sajai Foundations website, www.sajaifoundation.org, or contact Amy at 952288-3364 or by email at Amy-at-sajaifoundation.org for more information. September 25 Women Run the Cities Fifth Annual event - http://www.womenrunthecities.com/ September 30 October 2 How to Become a Nonprofit Rockstar leadership intensive in Washington, D.C. with Trista Harris and Rosetta Thurman http://www.becomeanonprofitrockstar.com/ Did you know that on any given night there are an estimated 400 people living with HIV/AIDS homeless and living on the streets in Minnesota? I hope you will consider attending a guided one-hour Journey Home tour of Clare Midtown, Clare Housings newest HIV-specific housing program. During this short tour, you have the opportunity to see Clare Midtown (recently completed and opened in February) and learn how affordable housing and supportive services improves the quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS in the Twin Cities. For information about Clare Housing, please visit their website at http://www.clarehousing.org. If you are interested in attending a Journey Home Tour, please contact Clare Board member, Chuck Peterson at cpeterson-at-mcf.org (via Chuck Peterson) Ideas/Inspiration: The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal has made a database available for all of their Forty under 40 alumni from 1994 to 2011. Learn more and access the database here: http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/blog/editors_desk/2011/07/business-journal-launches-40under.html?ana=twt The 12 Habits of Highly Connective People (via Arik Hanson) http://www.conversationagent.com/2011/07/12-habits-of-highly-connective-people.html More connecting resources via The HAPPO (Help a PR Professional Out) Report produced by Arik Hanson -> http://helpaprproout.com/ If you also havent checked out Blois Olson Morning Take daily e-newsletter on MN politics and public affairs you should. Learn more -> http://morningtake.posterous.com/pages/subscribe-to-morning-take Need help telling your nonprofits story? Leading PR firm seeks a non-profit pro bono client To help meet the needs of Minnesota nonprofits, Bloomington-based Weber Shandwick is seeking applications for its 2012 pro-bono client. Eligible nonprofits must be based in Minnesota and provide services that improve the lives of Minnesota families and/or children. They are also encouraged to have a specific or timely reason to tell their story a major milestone, a trend that has an impact on the organization, or a significant change in the way they are structured. Applications are due September 1. The selected pro-bono client will receive a specific set of communications services, depending on the organizations needs. The primary goal is to direct the organization on a path to an effective communications program through consulting and training. Weber Shandwick has been serving Minnesota communities for more than 25 years. The firms current pro bono client is Admission Possible, which helps make college admission possible for low-income students through an intensive curriculum of coaching and support. Additionally, Weber Shandwick conducts its annual Telling Your Story workshop for nonprofits (held in February) and offers Weber Shandwick on Loan, in which employees volunteer for various service projects throughout the year. If your nonprofit is eligible, or if you know a nonprofit that is, please learn more and apply at http://probono.webershandwick.mn (via Jackie Gustner)

League of Women Voters MN - Leaders of Today and Tomorrow (LOTT) Fellows seek mentors http://www.lwvmn.org/Page.aspx?pid=628 Harvard Business Review The Big Washington Disconnect http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/the_big_washington_disconnect.html Harvard Business Review The Opulence Bubble http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2011/05/the_opulence_bubble.html Andrew Eklund Twin Cities Business blog post Ambitions Equal Allocation http://tcbmag.blogs.com/postchaos_10/2011/08/ambitions-equal-allocations.html Issue 85 of Change This is a must read -> http://changethis.com/ Wall Street Journals The United States of Venture Capital (interactive map) http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/08/04/interactive-map-the-united-states-of-venturecapital/tab/interactive/ Lucy Marcus of Harvard Business Review and Huffington Post on corporate governance http://www.accountability.org/cr-leaders/lucy-p-marcus.html Greatest Minnesota blog post on The Brain Exchange in Mpls St. Paul -> http://greatestminnesota.com/2011/08/01/the-brain-exchange/ Peter Sims in New York Times Finding Creativity Through Imperfection http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/jobs/07pre.html?_r=2# Thoughts on some of the differences between Contingent and Retained Recruitment approaches http://www.stlrecruiting.com/2011/08/retained-search-is-about-hiring-contingent-search-is-about-power.html Do you know how much its costing (or youre investing) in an hour-long networking coffee? Check this out -> http://www.scribd.com/doc/61900308/Networking-Costs-Lars-Leafblad-KeyStoneSearch Thought provoking article on the future of recruiting: http://www.ere.net/2011/08/10/recruitment-4-0-crowdsourcing-gamification-recruitment-as-a-profit-centerand-the-death-of-recruitment-agencies/

Pollen Props: Anne Sample on her new role as Chief Human Resource Officer with Thrivent Financial Dawne Brown White on her new role as Corporate and Foundation Giving Director for Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys Karen Louise Boothe, just completed a USAID project assignment in Guyana on civic engagement and strategic communications. Now, in September, she heads to Lebanon for similar work through the end of the year. Find her at: www.linkedin.com/in/karenlouiseboothe & www.preponeconsulting.com

To the KeyStone Search (http://www.keystonesearch.com) team of Marcia Ballinger, Rebecca Driscoll, Mike Frommelt, Lars Leafblad, Diane Meskan, Nathan Perez, and Bob Schoenbaum, on celebrating their 10 year anniversary. Lauren Melcher on her new role with Weber Shandwick in their Minneapolis office Corey Anderson on his four year anniversary with MinnPost; congrats Corey! To the staff and board of the new Cowles Center for Dance and Performing Arts http://www.startribune.com/opinion/editorials/127340458.html To the staff and board of Youthprise on their new website and rebranding (formerly OST-Minnesota and client of KeyStone Search): http://youthprise.org/ To the 2011-12 cohort of the HHH School of Public Affairs Policy Fellows! Full roster available as PDF here: http://www.hhh.umn.edu/centers/cspg/pdf/Fellowslist11-12forweb.pdf To Kate OReilly and Charles Youel -> In the past 4 years, Charles Youel and Kate O'Reilly have grown the locally-born Artcrank poster show from 2 cities to 8. The show revolves around bikes, design, and doing good. Next week, the show will open in London for its second year. In September, the pair have been asked to curate a show at Interbike, the world's largest bicycle trade show in Las Vegas. Denver, Portland, Bend, & San Francisco will follow, rounding out the 2011 shows. In 2012 the duo will add at least three more cities to their growing roster of shows featuring up and coming artists. All posters sell for $40 or less, guaranteeing everyone the ability to go home with an original piece of art. To Ron Lattin on his new role -> Long-time Pollen member Ron Lattin has recently started as Development Director for the Youth Performance Company. YPC is a world class, Ivey award winning youth theater company developing and empowering young actors, singers and dancers to reach their artistic potential and become community leaders." To Larissa Rodriguez -> I am launching Swimmunity (www.swimmunity.com), a new online swim community dedicated to inspiring and helping adults learn how to swim. Additional details (and statistics about the incidence of adult drownings/swim lesson rates) can be found in my news release here: http://www.swimmunity.com/page/newsrelease Amy Lewis on her new communications blog with Minnesota Business magazine http://minnesotabusiness.com/profiles/amy-lewis To MCAD President Jay Coogan on his profile in Minnesota Business http://www.scribd.com/doc/61870730/JayCoogan-MnBizMag-Aug2011 To Dan Grigsby and Drivetrain on their launch of new iPad app for Star Tribune http://drivetrainagency.com/

Jobs: CaringBridge SEM/Online Advertising Specialist http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=46635 Carlson School of Management U of MN Manager, Electronic Communications http://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=95897 Center for Hmong Arts & Talent (CHAT) Executive Director http://www.aboutchat.org/career-opportunities/2011/job-posting-for-executive-director/

CoCo MSP Instigator in Residence http://cocomsp.com/2011/08/looking-for-a-few-good-instigators/ Job opening at CoCo Mpls: Brain Exchange Intern. Ongoing. Every three-to-six months we will hire a new Braintern to help out at the very exciting new Minneapolis innovation center. Strong admin/tech, mar/comm/related, outgoing. Please send resume to Kate O'Reilly - kate-at-clever-kate.com for consideration. College of Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resource Sciences U of MN Development Officer http://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=95613 Comcast Manager, Employee Communications (via Mary Beth Schubert) http://www.comcast-jobs.com/all-jobs/Manager-Employee-Communications-St-Paul-MN64536422/118919 Faiths Lodge Executive Director http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=45791 Hennepin County Bar Association Executive Director (search being conducted by Marcia Ballinger and Lars Leafblad of KeyStone Search) http://bit.lyl/HCBA-ED iConstituent hiring 4 positions in Washington, D.C. (via Andrew Foxwell) http://www.iconstituent.com/index.cfm?sectionid=29&sectiontree=2,29 National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) Marketing & Communications Director http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=45963 Office of the President, University of MN Stakeholder Engagement Coordinator http://employment.umn.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=95101 OneVillage Partners Executive Director (via Aaron Ackerman) http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=46332 Public and Nonprofit Leadership Center, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Director http://bit.ly/HHH-PNLC-Director Rock Star Supply Co. Program Committee members Rock Star Supply Co. has a GIG OPENING. We are seeking stellar volunteers to join our Program Committee. On this committee, you will help develop events, centered around the creative arts, to promote and foster the work we do. Ideal Rock Stars will have strong event planning and project management skills. To apply, please write a brief email of intent and send your resume to: tim-atrockstarsupplyco.org. We look forward to hearing from you. Rock on! (via Jessica Conrad) The BrandLab Minnesota Executive Director http://www.minnesotanonprofits.org/job-details?id=46298 The Minneapolis Foundation VP, Philanthropic Services (search being conducted by Lars Leafblad and Rebecca Driscoll of KeyStone Search) http://bit.ly/TMF-VP Boards: Minnesota Environmental Fund seeks board nominees (via Greg Seitz) http://www.mnenvirofund.org/boardnom.html

Northside Economic Opportunity Network (NEON) seeks board nominees.(http://www.neon.mn.org) Mission: NEONs mission is to promote, educate, encourage, and develop businesses by providing training and creating new businesses among northside residents of Minneapolis, Minnesota. NEON was developed to bring community economic development to north Minneapolis generally, and specifically to the West Broadway business corridor. NEON, in partnership with a collaborative network of economic development organizations, recruits, trains and supports small business and start-up entrepreneurs in an effort to expand economic opportunities and create jobs in the area. Interested candidates should email Pamela Wandzel at pwandzel-at-fredlaw.com. Additional MN non-profit board openings c/o MAP for Nonprofits: http://bit.ly/MAP-BoardOpenings

Fun/Etc: Why Were Here: Twin Cities video http://www.sevenandsixty.com/home/project/why-were-here A gallery of sad Wall Street Traders photos http://egotvonline.com/2011/08/05/37568/ DJ Spooky + Joshua Roman (cellist) + Radiohead = this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkjJZ-2vHcA Coldplay singing Fix You live at Lollapalooza August 5, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHMCV2-Dkdk Picture of a shooting star taken from space: http://twitpic.com/662hqp Reminder to connect with Pollen on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter Facebook: Join 1,000 + fellow Pollenites who are now engaging with one another on Facebook. Join: http://www.facebook.com/bepollen LinkedIn: Connect w/ over 2,800 fellow Pollenites who are sharing their networks on Pollens group on LinkedIn. Join: 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! Gratefully yours, Lars Curator, Pollen, Principal, KeyStone Search larsl-at-keystonesearch.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/larsleafblad http://www.twitter.com/larsleafblad http://www.larsleafblad.com