Our Streets

Name

Our Streets

Legal name

Our Streets

Website

https://ourstreetsmn.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Transportation Advocacy

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Civic and Social Organizations (81341), Environment, Conservation and Wildlife Organizations (813312)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Active Transportation & Micromobility Infrastructure (Bike/Ped Networks, Shared Mobility Programs) (BPAIALAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Sustainable Cities, Urban Development & Green Infrastructure (BPADALAL), State/Provincial Housing, Urban/Regional Planning & Community Development (BPAIABAM), Community Centers & Neighborhood Support Services (BPAGAEAL)

Keywords

• Transportation advocacy
• Community organizing
• Transit equity
• Urban planning
• Nonprofit advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Minneapolis

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: Individual donations from supporters passionate about equitable transportation, including hosted fundraisers and direct contributions.
2. Community Fundraising Events: Community members host their own fundraisers to support the organization, providing a grassroots revenue stream.
3. Advocacy Campaigns: Mobilizing supporters to contact legislators and policymakers on transportation issues.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Our Streets is a nonprofit transportation advocacy organization that runs community organizing programs, awareness events, and policy campaigns to transform transportation and infrastructure in the Twin Cities and Minnesota. Its offerings include experiential event programs (Open Streets MPLS, Imagine, Street Smarts), major advocacy campaigns (Twin Cities Boulevard, Bring Back 6th, Save the Brooklyns, Streets for People, Bicycle Benefits, Municipal Sidewalk Plowing), educational resources (Transportation Academy, Environmental Justice Portal), and direct supporter mobilization through donations, volunteer action, and policymaker contact tools.

Product overview

Our Streets is a transportation advocacy organization offering a portfolio of event programs, campaigns, and educational resources focused on transforming transportation in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. The core offerings include Open Streets MPLS™ and Imagine events, major campaigns like Twin Cities Boulevard and Bring Back 6th, advocacy tools including an Environmental Justice Portal with interactive data, and educational programs like the Transportation Academy. The organization does not offer a technology product platform but rather provides community organizing, advocacy, and educational services centered on people-first transportation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Open Streets MPLS: An event series celebrating the joy of car-free street closures in Minneapolis.
• Twin Cities Boulevard
• Bring Back 6th
• Bicycle Benefits

Products and services

• Open Streets MPLS A car-free street closure event series celebrating the joy of walking, biking, and rolling without car traffic, typically held on major avenues like Lyndale Avenue South. Open to Twin Cities residents as a free community event.
• Imagine An event series co-creating future street designs that put people first, including the Imagine 6th Avenue North program. Open to community members as a free co-design event.
• Street Smarts A reading and education series focused on important transportation issues facing the community, designed for residents and advocates to learn about transportation policy.
• Twin Cities Boulevard A major advocacy initiative advocating for converting the I-94 corridor into a multimodal boulevard, framed as a once-in-a-generation opportunity for reparative and environmental justice. Campaign engages Twin Cities residents, donors, and policymakers.
• Bring Back 6th A coalition initiative advocating for the removal of Olson Memorial Highway (Highway 12/6th Avenue North) in North Minneapolis, framed as reparative justice for communities destroyed in 1939 for highway construction. Engagement includes engineered design concepts and community-led advocacy.
• Save the Brooklyns A campaign opposing the expansion of I-94 and Highway 252, demanding meaningful study of transformative alternatives instead of repeating harmful planning history. Engages residents and policymakers in the Twin Cities.
• Streets for People Advocacy campaign addressing how designing streets solely for car traffic harms communities, promoting complete streets and alternative transportation modes. Targets Twin Cities residents and policymakers.
• Bicycle Benefits Program promoting active, carbon-free transportation through bicycling that doesn't burden local businesses with congestion and parking demands. Engages Twin Cities residents and partner businesses.
• Municipal Sidewalk Plowing Local campaign advocating for the City of Minneapolis to plow sidewalks, improving pedestrian accessibility during winter months. Targets Minneapolis residents and city policymakers.
• State Legislative Priorities Advocacy efforts focused on state-level transportation policy to support reparative and environmental justice through practical, not radical, solutions. Engages Minnesota state legislators and supporters.
• Environmental Justice Portal Interactive data visualization tool exploring the region's geographies of inequity related to environmental and transportation justice. Public resource for community members, researchers, and policymakers.
• Transportation Academy Training program that helps community members become advocates for safe and accessible transportation networks. Delivered to volunteers and grassroots advocates in the Twin Cities.

Quantifiable outcome

• Open Streets events create car-free corridors for community enjoyment
• +1 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Smart MobilitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2025Smart Mobility, led by Norm Marshall, is evaluating Bring Back 6th alternatives using an enhanced version of the Metropolitan Council travel demand model. Conducting alternatives analysis for Olson Memorial Highway corridor.
• Toole Design GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2024Conducted the Reimagining I-94 report with Visible City, funded by Our Streets. Toole Design Group provided engineering design concepts for boulevard conversion alternatives.
• Visible CitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2024Co-authored the Reimagining I-94 report with Toole Design Group, measuring and applying land use analysis to project the economic and community impacts of boulevard conversion.
• Bring Back 6th CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition of organizations advocating for removal of Olson Memorial Highway in North Minneapolis since 2021. Released engineered design concepts for the corridor's future.
• NUMO (New Urban Mobility alliance)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNUMO and World Resources Institute (WRI) released a report highlighting severe safety issues on Olson Memorial Highway, walking the corridor with MnDOT staff and community members.
• World Resources Institute (WRI)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered with NUMO to conduct safety inspection and report on Olson Memorial Highway, identifying issues contributing to crashes and crash risk on the corridor.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• PeopleForBikes: National bicycling advocacy organization supporting better bike infrastructure and policies nationwide. Comparable because Our Streets runs the Bicycle Benefits program and broader bike/active-transit advocacy, but PeopleForBikes operates at industry scale across all 50 states.
• Smart Growth America: National coalition advancing equitable, land-use-efficient, multimodal transportation. Operates the National Complete Streets Coalition — directly relevant to Our Streets' complete-streets framing — but at national scale with broader scope.
• National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO): Association of major-city transportation departments producing design guidelines for bike, street, and transit infrastructure. An institutional counterparty to Our Streets' advocacy — they shape the technical standards Our Streets campaigns demand cities adopt.

Regional players

• Move Minnesota: Twin Cities–based transportation advocacy coalition focused on transit, walking, and biking. Directly overlapping geography and mission with Our Streets, often working alongside or in coalition on the same state-level policy fights.
• Greater Greater Washington: DC-region urbanism and transportation advocacy nonprofit. Comparable because it combines local policy advocacy with a strong content/insights platform and community engagement, but with a more digital/media-led model.

Direct peers

• Transportation Alternatives: New York City-based advocacy nonprofit pushing for safe streets, better bike infrastructure, and reduced car dependence. Closest direct peer — operates the same model (events, campaigns, policy lobbying, education) at larger scale in NYC, and overlaps directly on highway-removal/reconnecting-communities advocacy.
• Walk Bike Nashville: Nashville-based advocacy nonprofit for walking and biking infrastructure. Closely mirrors Our Streets' combination of community events, policy campaigns, and complete-streets advocacy in a mid-size Southern city.
• BikeWalkKC: Kansas City nonprofit advocating for bikeable, walkable communities through policy, education, and community events. Same mid-size-city advocacy model with comparable team size and event-driven engagement.
• Active Transportation Alliance: Chicago-based nonprofit advocating for walking, biking, and transit. Same playbook (community events, policy advocacy, complete streets campaigns) and comparable team scale; the most operationally similar peer outside Minnesota.

Others

• Congress for New Urbanism: Membership organization promoting walkable, mixed-use urban design. Thematically aligned with Our Streets' Twin Cities Boulevard vision and reparative-justice framing, but focused on urbanist professional practice rather than direct community organizing.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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