Happy New Year LOTL @ Peking Garden 1/9

Midway Chamber Coffee Club @ Flava Coffee & Café 1/23

SAVE THE DATE 106th Annual Celebration @ Allianz Field Sat, Feb 8, 2025

On behalf of the Midway Chamber, we want to wish you and yours a very happy and safe holidays. We thank our committee members and volunteers for their support of our initiatives and efforts throughout the past year. In this season of giving, we encourage you all to consider supporting Midway businesses for your gifting needs. Stay safe and festive tidings as we usher in another great year ahead. While we will continue to accept content for eblast inclusion, newsletter updates will resume January 7!

Midway Nonprofit of the Month Recognition

Blaze Credit Union is a long-time sponsor of the Midway Chamber of Commerce’s Nonprofit of the Month program. At our December event, Blaze announced that not only will it continue to sponsor the Nonprofit of the Month program in 2025, but that each organization recognized next year will receive a $1,000 donation from Blaze.

Blaze is also pleased to extend that donation to each of the Midway Chamber’s 2024 Nonprofit of the Month awardees as well! Thank you Blaze for this generous support of the Midway Chamber and our incredible non-profit members.

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2024 Celebration of Nonprofits

Newly updated Nonprofits Guides are hot off the presses provided by our partners at Seven Corners Print & Promo! You can grab a copy at an person chamber event or request copies from chamber staff.

Photo Credit: Tesha Christensen, TMC Publications CO - Midway Como Monitor

This month's nonprofit was Germanic-American Institute

Thank you to the over 100 attendees who made this year's Celebration of Nonprofits a success! Thanks to Hamline University for hosting us. We want to thank your morning panelists:

• Kari Aanestad, MN Council of Nonprofits
• Amy Brendmoen, Mighty Consulting
• Damon Shoholm, Ballinger Leafblad

We also want to thank our luncheon keynote: Chris Coleman, President/CEO of Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity and former Saint Paul Mayor!

We're grateful to all our nonprofits who participated in the expo as well as our other nonprofits who were not with us.

Nonprofit Expo Participants included:

Congratulations to Our Lady of Peace, who was the recipient of our Giving Moment donation. The total earned onsite was $621!

Thank you to our Sponsors

Additional thanks to

Happy New Year LOTL @ Peking Garden

Longstanding family-owned Peking Garden is thriving in the former Mai Village location in a building shared and leased by the Hmong American Partnership (HAP). Join us in supporting a restaurant that has been a staple of our Taste! of Lunch on the Line event.

Date/Time:

Thursday Jan 9, 2025

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CST

Location:

Peking Garden

394 University Ave W

St Paul, MN 55103

Fees/Admission:

Please register to let us know you are attending! 

RSVP

Midway Chamber Coffee Club @ Flava Coffee & Café

The Midway Chamber continues it's new Coffee Club in the fashion of our Lunch on the Line events! This is a fun, casual networking program to kickoff your morning on the way to work. This month we will be at Flava, which is inside the NDC building. Flava aims to build community through coffee and create opportunities for young women of color and gender expansive youth by propelling them from coffee to career.

Date/Time:

Thursday Jan 23, 2025

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CST

Location:

623 University Ave W.

St Paul, MN 55104

Fees/Admission:

Free to attend, but register to let us know you're coming!

RSVP

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Early Bird Registration for Hmong National Development 20th Conference

As we gear up for the 2025 Hmong National Development Conference (HNDC), we’re thrilled to share some important updates and opportunities to get involved in this landmark event. Here’s what you need to know:

Early Bird Registration Ends Soon! Early bird registration closes on December 31, 2024. This is the perfect opportunity to lock in your plans to join us in Minneapolis from April 16–19, 2025 as we celebrate 50 years of the Hmong in the U.S. and the 20th anniversary of HNDC. Register now and save!

Volunteer Applications Are Open: Be a part of making this extraordinary event a success by joining our volunteer team. Volunteers are essential to ensuring the smooth operation of the conference, and it’s a fantastic way to engage with the community and network. Volunteers work a minimum of 8-10 hours throughout the conference, and your registration fee and leadership award banquet ticket are fully waived. Volunteer Applications are open now and due by January 31, 2025.

HNDC 2025 Impact Awards: Call for Nominations: Do you know someone making a remarkable impact in the Hmong community? Nominate them for the HNDC 2025 Impact Awards! These awards celebrate individuals and organizations driving meaningful change, innovation, and progress within our community. Submit your nomination by visiting this link and help us recognize those who inspire and uplift us all. Nominations will open in mid-December!

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