Our History

The Center sponsored The Bike+Walk Minnesota Conference, geared toward everyone interested in supporting and promoting biking and walking in Minnesota, bringing together people from fields of parks and recreation, public health, tourism, transportation planning, politics, and advocacy. 

Nice Ride began expansion into new neighborhoods and added 1,500 dockless bikes to the fleet. Nice Ride was the first bike share system in North America to widely introduce the hub parking concept for dockless bikes, allowing Nice Ride to quickly expand into additional neighborhoods and bring bike share to more communities in Minneapolis. 

The Center for Prevention expanded the partnership with ThreeSixty Journalism to support their annual TV Broadcast and News Reporter camps. ThreeSixty Journalism, a nonprofit program at the University of St. Thomas, uses the principles of strong writing and reporting to empower youth to tell the stories of their lives and communities. Both camps focused on telling the stories of local organizations working to address negative health outcomes and implement community-led solutions. 

Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth successfully implemented laws to restrict the sale of menthol tobacco products to adult-only retail establishments, once again putting Minnesota on the map as a leader in community-led advocacy and policy change to redress decades of targeting of low-income communities.