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Welcome to Banyan Community

Banyan Community is a Family & Youth Development Center in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN. We offer youth development and support programs like after-school groups, summer camps, and early childhood education. We expand further into family and community programs like parent development classes, high school tutoring programs, and senior social clubs.

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Updating Program Indicators

Using data to measure progress and make programmatic changes to achieve outcomes has always been an important part of Banyan Community’s work. Essential to this effort is the input of all the stakeholder. Banyan’s key program indicators had not been updated for 10 years, and so much has changed since then. This year, Banyan engaged with consultants, Ava Yang-Lewis and Mark Lewis, from ACT Research to undertake a comprehensive review of our program evaluation process.

Beginning with our Theory of Change — that education is one of the most effective levers for addressing the complex challenges of poverty — Banyan met with each of our […]

April 16th, 2025|

Developing Community Since 1998

Banyan Community is rooted in the Phillips Neighborhood to transform lives by developing youth, strengthening families, and creating community. As a community development organization, Banyan believes that when youth, family, and community are synchronized the greatest progress is made on education and poverty.

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