Mankato Free Press (September 22, 2022) — The Mankato Area Foundation announced Thursday that MAF and 11 of their public, private and nonprofit sector partners are “launching one of the largest community-led, mixed-method inclusivity studies in America.”
Intercultural Competence Edge, Inc., a national firm, will be conducting The Greater Mankato Inclusivity Study — which is both publicly and privately funded — to “gauge the current status of inclusivity for students, individuals who work in and residents of the Greater Mankato area” including Blue Earth and Nicollet counties, according to a news release.
The efforts were prompted pre-pandemic after a number of stakeholders and groups in the community met and discussed the need to have a baseline of where the community is at.