2018 – The Year in Review
Marnita’s Table celebrates the end of a year in which we achieved our ambitious strategic goals, nurtured and developed our growing team, and began our exciting national expansion journey.
In 2018…
- We had three stories appear in the Star Tribune.
- Marnita appeared on WCCO Radio and gave her first Ted Talk at TedX Mahtomedi.
- We launched our playful new podcast series From A to 10.
- We can no longer count the number of people who have have hosted IZIs on their own, and we’ve now trained more than 2,700 people in the IZI model.
- We trained the United Way of Steele County to be IZI master trainers, joining Suburban Ramsey as a center for IZI in our state.
- We delivered 3 Tea at the Table sessions to introduce new community members to IZI.
- We welcomed over 8,000 people throughout the country to IZIs.
- We wrapped up work with the United Way of Steele County and the Live, Learn, Earn Initiative of Scott County.
- We began a series of IZIs with Carver County Public Health and the Best Buy Diversity and Inclusion Team.
- We continued our relationship with the Catalyst Initiative as their ongoing convener-of-choice.
- We began a partnership with Mitchell Hamline College of Law.
- Event Co-Chairs Sam Goldstein and Perran Wentzel successfully led a team to deliver the most financially successful Start the Conversation fundraiser in our history!
- We also began to build the resources and connections necessary to deliver Rapid Response pop-up IZIs from coast to coast.
