Engage Winona

Engage Winona is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that drives equitable civic action and social change by working to ensure everyone has access, voice, and power in community planning, decision-making and changemaking. Engage Winona’s work begins with inclusive conversations and gatherings, continues with strategies and actions for collaborative change, and throughout involves training and nourishing people with lived experience to be empowered changemakers. We accomplish our mission through a variety of core programs, including hosting conversations and events, convening and guiding groups, providing training and education, connecting people and resources, launching and sustaining ideas, and leading community change in a variety of nimble and deeply collaborative ways that serve individuals, groups and organizations at every step of changemaking. Engage Winona began as a community-wide conversation project in 2016 to envision Winona’s future by bringing the full community to the table. The success of that project led to innumerable ideas and projects to improve Winona – including the idea to create an independent organization to help the community get that good work done. Engage Winona became that organization in early 2017. Today, Engage Winona is a nonprofit that leads social community transformation. Engage Winona is a convener, facilitator, teacher, and project manager working to align and unite resources to maximize community assets, bring and keep cross-sector coalitions in collaboration to work on complex issues, and teach and spread an inclusive process of engagement. All of Engage Winona’s work is open to all.