Blog Posts from May 2019

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MDI was featured on KSTP Channel 5 Minneapolis St Paul news.  The segment highlighted MDI’s 100th Career Skills graduate, along with manufacturing, medical and production services.  View here.

From the outside, it looks like any other industrial building in Northern Minnesota. Minnesota Diversified Industries (MDI) in Cohasset occupies an 110,000 square foot building with a busy workforce that includes people with and without disabilities working at the company’s commercial plastic and environmental services facility. Inside, the building is part office, part warehouse, and now – thanks to a unique partnership with the local arts...

MDI will celebrate the 100th graduate of its Career Skills Program at a graduation ceremony on May 13, 2019, starting at 9:30 a.m. at its Minneapolis facility. First implemented in 2017, the program provides people with and without disabilities the professional skills needed in today’s workforce, including attitude, grit, punctuality, communication, leadership, initiative, work ethic, teamwork and critical thinking. MDI is a nonprofit...

Be part of a fun night to support careers for people with disabilities. Events will be held at Bauhaus Brew Labs in Minneapolis on Tuesday, June 25th and at Klockow Brewing Company in Grand Rapids on Wednesday, July 17th. ...