Community donations during Give to the Max and throughout the year are incredibly important to small community organizations like Como Community Council, and help ensure continued growth and that we are able to connect with more of the neighborhood! Donate to D10 now.
In 2025, D10 has:
- We continued our community engagement program, anchored by Community Events in each of our four subdistricts. In total, we got to meet over 2,000 neighbors at these free events.
- We've sent our Newsletter every week to over 2,300 subscribers , maintaining an over 60% open rate and over 20,000 clicks!
- We've held 20 community meetings with over 400 attendees to plan our initiatives and discuss prescient neighborhood and regional topics. 20 Recorded Presentations from these meetings have been added to our website.
- Between meetings we've been hosting monthly Community Socials at Half-Time Rec, providing a less formal way for our board and community members to connect.
- In partnership with Capitol Region Watershed District, we planned four Lake Como Cleanups where over 100 volunteers helped remove 214 pounds of trash from our lake and surrounding paths
- This Fall we've been coordinating a Curb Cleanup that last year prevented 3.13 Tons of curly leaf pondweed from blooming in the lake, and we've already broken our registration record!
- In partnership with the Saint Paullinators and Minnesota Board of Water & Soil Resources' Pollinator Pathways program, we've continued our work planting 13 more boulevard gardens and community gardens at Orchard Rec and the long-vacant Front and Jameson lot, and the new Como Railroad Garden (official name tbd).
- We've published 16 Know Your Como Stories written by volunteers who interviewed their neighbors, local business owners, and researched neighborhood history.
- In partnership with Como Zoo and Conservatory and the American Red Cross, we've held four community blood drives that collected 155 units of blood from 167 donors, totaling 918 units and 914 donors since we began the partnership in 2021.
- We've partnered with the Saint Paul Art Collective to host two Como pop-up locations for both the Spring and Fall Saint Paul Art Crawls, hosting over 40 local artists for no fee, attracting over 1,100 visitors total!
- Helped coordinate the 2025 Como Garage Sale Map, with 59 households registered for no fee.
Your financial contribution to District 10 builds a better community. Most of our operating budget comes from grants, which means it comes with strings attached. Currently none of our grants allow for expenses for many of the things that make our community events enjoyable: food, music, kids crafts, etc.
If you've found value in our work this year, please consider a donation.
And PS, you can view all of our upcoming events here on our website: https://district10comopark.org/events/
All D10 events are free to the community and include food, live music, family activities, local organization tabling, and an aspect unique to the event (pie contest, ice cream social, community clean up, or a pancake breakfast). We partner with local organizations to continually improve these events and make them even more accessible to all of the neighbors who call Como home.
In order to host these events and keep them relevant to our increasingly diverse community, we need financial support to keep planning and growing our reach in the neighborhood.