Join us for the annual Edina Parade and Fireworks on July 4th. All the details are available on the Edina Parade website. The Edina Community Foundation organizes this event annually with support from the City of Edina. Special thank you to Explore Edina for their sponsorship.
On May 15th, we are hosting a special night for single seniors aged 60 and older. Mingle and get dating tips from a professional matchmaker. Snacks are provided and a cash bar is available. Suggested donation of $25 to the Edina Community Foundation. Sign up using the link below or call 952-300-2378 to register.
Thank you to the event’s sponsor Luma Matchmaking and to The Hilltop for hosting the event.
Join us for a special benefit for Hope Chest for Breast Cancer and the Edina Community Foundation. The interactive rosé wine and art event will feature four wines created by women winemakers, paired with four women artists for an afternoon of fun. Come contribute to the interactive community art project where each piece represents a loved one lost or celebrates a survivor.
We are excited to work with the following artists:
Gina Gaetz https://www.ginagaetz.com/
Louisa Podlich www.weshopamano.com
Coreen Johnson coreenjohnsonfineart.com
Lauri Prins lauriprins.com/
And, we are excited to serve the following wines:
Donations for the display go directly to Hope Chest for Breast Cancer. Ticket donations support Edina Community Foundation programs.
Donations for the display go directly to Hope Chest for Breast Cancer, a Minnesota-based nonprofit. Ticket donations support Edina Community Foundation programs.
Thank you to our sponsors, Explore Edina, Tradition Wealth Management, Tradition Capital Bank, and the E Edina.
Mark your calendar for the Edina Reads Writing Contest’s special night. You’ll hear the prose and short story winners read their winning submissions aloud. Follow the student-led account Edina Reads on Instagram for details.
2023 Student Winners
Save the date for our 2024 Leadership Breakfast at the Edina Country Club.
Registration is open.
We are partnering with the 50th/France Business Association on a day’s worth of fun events.
It’s Small Business Saturday so there will be special events happening at the local businesses as well as holiday-themed events for kids, families, and adults. And, of course, the main event is the Holiday Tree Lighting.
Join us at the Edina Mann Theatre for a special wine-themed fundraiser for the Foundation.
$49 for the happy hour at 6 p.m. with six wines (a blind tasting between French and American wines) followed by a screening of the 2008 film Bottle Shock.
Register today to secure your spot!
Our annual 4th of July Parade will be held at 10 am on Tuesday, July 4th. As details are finalized, information will be posted on edinaparade.org. The fireworks show will be back on July 4th at dusk in Rosland Park.
Join us for the second year of this FUN-raiser. This year we will sponsor a kids race at 5:30 and an adults/business race at 6:15. The Blue Bell ice cream truck will return, and we are adding a duck decorating contest.
Our newest Community Impact Partner, The Edina Asian American Alliance (EAAA), will host its annual Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Month Festival: Visibility, Community, and Pure Celebration, on Saturday, May 27.
The Festival is open to all who wish to celebrate our Asian Edina/Minnesota cultures and contributions alongside friends and neighbors.
The event will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 27, at Rosland Park. The program is organized to highlight the rich cultures, voices, and strengths of the local Asian Edina/Minnesota community, as well as the partnerships, friendships, and coalitions that EAAA has built this past year.
Featured speakers include:
AshaUSA Executive Director Sayali Amarapurkar
Asian American Unity Coalition (AAUC) President SK Lo
Chinese Community Center (CCC) Executive Director and Minnesota International Chinese School (MICS) Principal Melody Zhou
City of Edina Mayor Jim Hovland
Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) Executive Director ThaoMee Xiong
Edina High School Asian American Pacific Islander Student Union (AAPISU) Co-Presidents Lexi Han, Emily Leung, and Sabeeh Mirza
Edina State Representative Heather Edelson
India Association of Minnesota (IAM) President Tanwi Prigge
Korean Institute of Minnesota (KIM) Director Jennifer Arndt-Johns
Featured performances include:
DTG Lions
Edina's Desi Dance Group
JangmiArts
Master Chang's Yong-in Martial Arts
School of India for Languages and Culture (SILC)
TaikoArts Midwest
Featured participants include small businesses, nonprofits, schools and community organizations, such as:
Anti-Racism Collective
Black Student Union (BSU)
Eggroll Queen
Inherited Stories
Ku•ma•in
League of Women Voters of Edina (LWVE)
Num Nuts
Edina Elementary School families will host featured cultural tables celebrating our rich Asian/Edina heritages. The Festival will conclude with naming the first recipient of EAAA's Teacher of the Year Recognition.
The Festival is free and open to the public and includes a book giveaway for the first 100 attendees, thanks to the Friends of the Edina Library: local author Bao Phi's Caldecott Honor Book, A Different Pond and You Are Life (both published by Capstone Press). Additional EAAA sponsors include Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL); Edina Community Foundation (ECF); Master Chang's Yong-in Martial Arts; and The Petal.
The third annual Edina Reads Writing Contest concludes with a reading of poetry and short stories submitted by kindergarten through adult authors. Winners will read their submissions aloud during this celebration of literature. The event takes place in Dragseth Auditorium at Southview Middle School.
The Anti-Racism Collective is having an in-person Meet and Greet on Saturday, April 29 from 8:30 am-10:30 am in the Edina Community Center Room 166. Jasmine Stringer will lead the Meet and Greet. Please RSVP by emailing info@ar-collective.org or on their website.
Join us for an evening of celebration, wine and music while raising funds for the Edina Community Foundation. Experience more than 35 amazing wines, live festive music and delicious appetizers, all while supporting a good cause.
Choose a ticket price that works best for your budget ($40, $50 or $100), all donations appreciated.
This is a 21+ event.
Thank you to Royal Credit Union, our event sponsor!
All day on December 8th, Evereve Edina is donating 15% of sales to the Edina Community Foundation. Stop by anytime from 10 am to 8 pm, or swing in during “Sip & Snack” from 5-8.
Thank you to Evereve for supporting the Edina Community Foundation!
Join us for a special event highlighting a nonfiction book about the works of Edina sculptor Nick Legeros. Nick Legeros will speak as will the book’s writer and designer. Books will be available for sale at the event and also can be purchased in advance at the Edina Community Foundation’s office at 6750 France Avenue South, Edina, MN 55435. $43 tax included.
*Foundation Fundraiser*
Join fellow Edina residents to celebrate the holiday season with a showing of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation at the newly reopened Edina Mann Theater.
$10 goes to the theater and any additional funds you pay ($30 minimum donation using our Eventbrite link) will go to the Edina Community Foundation to support our programming in the community. Happy hour (with holiday trivia) at 5 pm in the “Gold Room” with the movie showing at 6:30.
Join us to celebrate Edina Reads founders Maureen Millea Smith and Dick Crockett.
Room 348 of the Edina Community Center
Join us for a “fun-raising” event. Buy a duck or just join us at Arden Park on July 13th at 6 pm for a new fundraiser that benefits the Edina Community Foundation.
We’ll have food trucks and the spectacle of a creek full of eight-inch ducks!
Join us for the 2022 Edina 4th of July Parade.
Details are posted on the parade website. Registation for community groups closed on June 10. Businesses who wish to be a sponsor may contact Eda Rivers at erivers@edinacommunityfoundation.org.
Each year the Edina Parade Team organizes a veterans dinner to thank area veterans for their service to our country. The annual event includes music, speeches, and dinner for veterans and their families. The Independence Day Brass Band plays each branch’s anthem as each group of veterans is celebrated. Parade organizers share parade day details with veterans marching in the parade on July 4th.
To add a veteran to the RSVP list, contact Amanda Clarke.
Join Edina Reads for an evening with author Matt Goldman. He will be reading from his latest novel, Carolina Moonset, in the Edina Library Meeting Room.
Join us to hear writers read their entries to the 2022 concert. Judges and organizers will be on hand to celebrate the literary accomplishments.
Join Edina Reads and the League of Women Voters Edina for a virtual discussion of the novel The Sum of Us.
Details forthcoming. Visit the League of Women Voters Edina website for information.
Join Edina Reads and the Edina Historical Society to hear author Chad Montrie, the author of Whiteness in Plain View: A History of Racial Exclusion in Minnesota.
Chad will discuss his book at the Edina History Museum in the Terrace Room. His book examines the history and legacies of racial disparities in Minnesota, delving into how Minnesota’s legacy of racial exclusion has been interwoven into the state’s contemporary politics, economy, and culture.
Whiteness in Plain View will be available for sale at the event; attendees will have the opportunity to meet the author.
Chad is a professor in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, and is an expert of American Social, Environmental, and Labor History.
The event is free. Please register using the link below.
The annual Connecting with Kids Leadership Breakfast returns to its traditional March date. This year we are celebrating 11 high school students who are leaders amongst their peers.
Kurt Vickman, Founder, Good Grocer
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83954144318?pwd=VTN0QjBWenZpV3VnL0IzR05kT3pZUT09
Meeting ID: 839 5414 4318
Passcode: CWK2022
Join Edina Reads and the League of Women Voters Edina for a book discussion of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix by Ibram X.Kendi and Jason Reynolds. This is the youth edition of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi.
This free event will be held on Zoom.
Email Sshull@edinacommunityfoundation.org or call 952-300-2378 for a copy of the book.
Register on the League of Women Voters Edina website.
The City of Edina will honor the community’s Black pioneers and dedicate Yancey Park, 5220 Hansen Road, 4:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4.
The names of Edina’s pioneering Black families are these: Byley, Carson, Fyte (Fite), Gillespie, Gleason, Joice, Joy, Lucas, Mitchell, Payne, Pittman, Sigger, Staples, Stoddard, Washington and Yancey. According to Census records, their birthplaces were generally east and south of Minnesota.
Some families stayed for several generations and some moved on as opportunity presented a better chance at work. The Yancey family name was a constant in the Census through many decades and founders B.C. and Ellen Yancey loom large throughout the early history of Edina.
In honor of the Yancey family, Garden Park has been renamed “Yancey Park.” The renaming serves as a reminder of the many contributions of the Black families who settled in Edina with other early homesteaders.
“The dedication of Yancey Park uncovers an inspiring piece of history of our city,” said Paramedic/Firefighter Ivan Mazurkiewicz, one of the City staff members planning the event. “Through this park, that history will continually be told as well as new memories made. The visions the Yancey family had for the future of our city will forever continue through the youth who enjoy it. As a community, join us in being a part of the story.”
The dedication is free and open to the public. Race & Equity Task Force Co-Chairs Jessi Kingston and James Pierce and Human Rights & Relations Commissioner Jasmine Stringer Moore will share the story of the park’s renaming and Mayor Jim Hovland will make closing remarks. The event will include complimentary refreshments and family activities.
For more information, contact Race & Equity Coordinator Heidi Lee, 952-826-1622 or Hlee@EdinaMN.gov.
