Who is eQuality?

Maple Grove Community Center

The Maple Grove Community Center has provided employment opportunities for eQuality Associates since 2000. The center, as our longest tenured job site, has been an invaluable partner as we have grown – adding both new associates and expanded program opportunities over the past eleven years.

At the community center Associates are integral members of the staff and assume the responsibility for a large portion of the general housekeeping tasks during the morning hours. Afternoons are filled by a combination of skill building experiences and community integration activities that utilize the facility.

This mutually beneficial relationship epitomizes the relationships that eQuality has been able to develop with dozens of other community partners through the years. We are extremely grateful to the Maple Grove Community Center for providing the first opportunity for us to demonstrate the feasibility of a community based approach.

Minnetonka Center for the Arts

Beginning in May of 2010, eQuality has partnered with the Minnetonka Center for the Arts for arts instruction. eQuality Associates enjoy weekly studio art classes at the Art Center’s Ridgedale location. Not only do they learn from some great instructors, they have a lot of fun! When the Art Center received grant money from the State Arts Board, they proposed an expanded partnership with eQuality. We jumped at the chance. As a result of the grant funding, twenty-four additional eQuality associates have been able to take part in two more weekly classes. In addition to classes in painting, mixed media, and print-making, associates were able to work with an artist/instructor to create a mural. The mural will be displayed publicly in the Ridgedale Mall atrium from May 13th until mid- June. Studio art classes are one more way that eQuality associates are active in the community.