"Anything finance-related was the one thing that always made me nervous about being an executive director. This leadership cohort gave me financial skills, helped me build my confidence at a strategic level, and also gave me these relationships."
Mary Uran, Executive Director, Girls on the Run Twin Cities
"Propel doesn’t take on projects that aren’t values-driven and that aren’t looking for a true change. That’s why I went with Propel."
Hoang Murphy, Founder/Executive Director, Foster Advocates
"This confirms what I’ve thought: our mission has gotten out there. Individuals, organizations, the press, and others get that yeah, people with disabilities should have access to the arts."
Craig Dunn, Executive Director, VSA Minnesota
"What this approach and grant has done is empower marginalized communities and people who run organizations on their behalf."
Kevin Robinson, Executive Director, ANEW BAM
"We offer maternal/child health services in a nontraditional clinical setting to bridge western medicine with traditional cultural activities and teachings."
Natalie Nicholson, Nurse and Doula, Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming
"Our business model uses electronics recycling and refurbishing as a laboratory for gaining work skills and experience."
Amanda LaGrange, CEO & Founding Board Member, Tech Dump/Tech Discount
"It's an equity issue. It’s not fair that kids who live half an hour away have the most beautiful facilities and space, and our students are crammed into a strip mall by a bus terminal with no green space."
Helen Fisk, Co-founder & Director, Global Academy
"I’m grateful to have multiple layers of expertise, from basic financial reconciling and reporting to the strategizing about how we think about our growth to what we might consider as build financial models to match our strategies – it’s more than we would be able to find one person at this time."
Bo Thao-Urabe, Executive Director, Coalition of Asian American Leaders
"A relationship that’s deep typically doesn’t get broken. A mentee might give up, but we don’t give up on them."
Darrell Thompson, President, Bolder Options