Does your student love band? Basketball or boxing? Cooking or hula hoops? North Minneapolis families with children in grades K-12 won’t want to miss this year’s exciting new roster of free summer camps designed by educators at five Minneapolis Public Schools campuses.
The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota is honored to award its second year of Genius & Joy grants, which will support 11 distinct summer programs in July and August.
Genius & Joy grants enable MPS educators – including teachers, education support professionals (ESPs), support staff, and administrators – to design engaging and enriching summer learning opportunities for their students. These camps occur at students’ home schools and bring them together with their familiar educators to sustain these relationships through the summer.
“We are thrilled at the variety of activities that Northside educators are planning for this year’s Genius & Joy camps, and we can’t wait to see what their students create together,” said Joel Luedtke, a Program Director for Education who works on behalf of the Phillips Family Foundation.
Families can register their students for all 11 Genius & Joy camps through Minneapolis Public Schools’ Community Education website: https://minneapolis.ce.eleyo.com/. Search the MPS catalog for “Genius and Joy.”
2022 Genius & Joy camps include:
Cityview Elementary
- Reach for the Stars (August 1-18)
Lucy Laney Elementary
- Cooking Around the World (August 1-11)
- Boxing and Autobiographies (August 1-18)
- My Voice, My Art (August 1-18)
- Xpress Yourself (August 8-18)
- HBCU-Styled Steppers Camp (August 15-18)
- Hoop Hoop Achieve (August 15-18)
Loring Elementary
- Northside Joy Camp (August 1-18)
North Community High School
- Northside United Summer Band Camp (July 11-21)
Patrick Henry High School
- What’s My Name?! (July 18-21 and August 15-18)
- Joy, Justice & Healing II (August 1-11)
About the Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation: The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation is dedicated to honoring the legacy of its founders for supporting efforts that address the unmet human and social needs of individuals, families, and communities that have the least access to resources. Since 2016, the Phillips Foundation has focused on education efforts, specifically student-centered learning and parent engagement, and on supporting a thriving local economic ecosystem and wealth creation in North Minneapolis communities of color. An independent foundation, the Phillips Foundation receives a range of administrative and impact services through a strategic operating partnership with the Minneapolis Foundation. phillipsfamilymn.org
About the Minneapolis Foundation: The Minneapolis Foundation drives collective action to realize strong, vibrant communities. The Foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs—partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a difference in their communities. www.minneapolisfoundation.org
