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Immigrant worker turned software engineer encourages graduates: Be bold
Clyde Rodriguez worked for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, and his love of computers has taken him around the world."It all feels like a dream at times," he said.
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Project Diva founder bolsters black girls with intensive, immersive mentorship
Neda Kellogg is "being who she needed at the time when she was young."
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'Whole lot more fun': St. Louis Park hospital uses harmonicas for breathing rehab
At Methodist Hospital, harmonica therapy helps patients with breathing disorders.
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Shakopee woman helps women battling breast cancer with Hope Chest
At age 52, Barbara Hensley left her well-paying career and began working full-time to bring her idea to reality.
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Rotary Club leads the way in improving quality of life in St. Cloud
It has fought to improve the city's parks and fought youth homelessness in the city.
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Four-year-old in a superhero cape hands out food, love to homeless
Austin Perine's efforts in Birmingham, Ala., have garnered worldwide attention.
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'A League of Their Own' pioneers reflect: 'Boy, did we make a dent'
A $7 million fundraising campaign will help build the International Women's Baseball Center and Museum in Rockford, Ill.
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Indiana mom bestowed 40 acts of kindness, then desperately needed one
Kelly Asbell has cystic fibrosis, an inherited life-endangering disorder that damages the lungs and digestive system.
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Pohlad Family Foundation focuses its giving on housing issues
The shift comes as new generations of the family get involved with the foundation.
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Minneapolis nonprofit builds hope, new lives through running
With fellowship and discipline, former convicts go the distance to find community and rebuild their lives.
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Recent St. Thomas grad helps clear a path for fellow refugees
Mohamed Malim co-founded an online business that sells bracelets made from recycled life jackets that were worn by refugees. Half the profits go to charity.
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Philando Castile exhibit at Minneapolis Institute of Art embraces beauty and trauma
Bringing Castile's story into the Minneapolis Institute of Art gives it weight, artists say about "Art and Healing: In the Moment," which opened this weekend.
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Philando Castile exhibit at Minneapolis Institute of Art embraces beauty and trauma
Bringing Castile's story into the Minneapolis Institute of Art gives it weight, artists say about "Art and Healing: In the Moment," which opened this weekend.
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'All about family': Movement to reform foster care takes root in Minnesota
As state seeks to change foster care, it looks to Brooklyn Park couple getting it right.
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Baltimore woman climbed her way out of poverty to become scientist attending MIT
Corshai Williams will take her next step in the fall, when she begins graduate studies in chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Sacramento councilman brings his baby to work, changing perceptions
Eric Guerra isn't doing anything that working women haven't been doing for generations, balancing family, work and child-care constraints.
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94-year-old woman thanks 'guardian angel' who saved her from sinking car
When Fabio Franca got to Alice Modine's car, the front of her vehicle was mostly submerged, and the water was up to Modine's chest.
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A Minneapolis salon owner's kindness project honors beauty within
Last fall, Katie Steller launched the Steller Kindness Project to share the stories of local people who lend a hand to others.
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Skyscraper-climbing raccoon rescued, set free in the wild
The critter was lured to a trap containing wet cat food on the top of the UBS Plaza in St. Paul. It's been set free in the southwest suburbs.
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Raccoon that scaled skyscraper in downtown St. Paul is safe and sound
The little critter's antics on the exterior of a downtown office tower delighted scores of onlookers in person and online.
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