Patrick Ness Email & Phone Number

Minnesota, United States

The Heading Home Minnesota Funders Collaborative is a member organization comprised of grant makers and intermediaries committed to working together to prevent and end homelessness in Minnesota. The Heading Home Minnesota Funders Collaborative believes that philanthropy is uniquely positioned to help innovate, incubate, and advocate for strategies that.

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Community Faculty member teaching graduate courses in nonprofit legislative advocacy through the Masters in Advocacy and Political Leadership program (MAPL). MAPL courses are designed to help students learn how to ethically and effectively bring about social change and influence public policy.

Saint Paul, Minnesota

Responsible for launching and directing legislative affairs around issues of social and economic opportunity and human services for low-income communities.The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation is a non-profit social services organization. We combine direct service, research and community initiatives to make progress with and for low-income people in Saint Paul.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Direct the legislative advocacy, organizing, and coalition building efforts throughout the 2011 Minnesota state legislative session. Our collective efforts led to the full protection of all homeless funding in a year of deep state budget cuts. Note: The brief tenure was mutually agreed upon hiring. The position was designed for the legislative session.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for promoting the broad legislative agenda of the Office for Social Justice (immigration, health care, housing, child care, public assistance programs, global warming, criminal justice, living wage, etc), as well as preparing Catholics in social justice committees to become powerful citizen activists in the public arena.

Over the course of 3+ years was promoted from youth worker to family advocate to shelter manager of a 92-family, 500-person family shelter in downtown Minneapolis. Co-created an after-school and summer academic program, developed an ongoing tenant rights & responsibilities training, launched an expansive budgeting & savings program, a new line of service.

Masters In Public Administration

B.A., Psychology