Programs and initiatives

Learn about City programs and efforts to improve our City. Search by department or interest area to learn more.
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adopt-a-recycling container

Adopt-a-Recycling Container

You can help keep Minneapolis clean and beautiful by adopting a recycling container.
adopt a street sign

Adopt-a-Street or Highway

We invite you to adopt a street or highway to help keep our city clean. The City provides free bags and gloves for cleanup and recognizes volunteers with an Adopt-a-Street or Adopt-a-Highway sign.
people picking up litter with litter grabbers, gloves and yellow litter bags

Litter cleanup

Minneapolis stays beautiful with the help of volunteers like you. When you sign up to remove litter, we'll provide supplies for your cleanup event.
sewer grate that says "flows to creep keep drain clean" with turtle

Storm drain stenciling

You can organize a group to stencil our motto and clean up storms drains in your neighborhood.
Bus lane along East Lake Street

Resilience Center at Waite House

We are serving all community members to find support after the Sept. 15 mass shooting on Lake Street.
Wooden fist sculpture at George Floyd Square. Photo credit: Uche Iroegbu.

Minneapolis: five years later

After the murder of George Floyd, the City reflects on its journey of reform, healing and commitment to building a safer, more equitable future.
A street corner in Minneapolis

Request for street or alley vacation

You can ask the City to give up rights to a public right of way and return control of the land to a private party.
Sunrise at Lake Street Minneapolis

Community safety centers

Learn about the Community Safety Centers being planned in Minneapolis.
A hand placed on someone's shoulder in a comforting way.

Community Trauma Response

We partner with groups that support healing, recovery and resilience in neighborhoods.
People working in community garden

Homegrown Minneapolis

We expand our community's capacity to grow and share food.
Two people shaking hands

Community Works

We offer career coaching and help finding a job.
Family posing for photo

Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot

A pilot project that gave a monthly payment to families who needed it.
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