Avivo

Year: 2020
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $2284
to provide protective and sanitation supplies to help people living in outdoor encampments protect themselves from exposure to the coronavirus.

Neighbors to Friends

Year: 2020
Location: Sauk Rapids, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $1500
to provide safe shelter and an isolation area in a local motel for homeless individuals who have health conditions.

Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative

Year: 2020
Location: St. Paul, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to support families experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 response, which has caused Beacon to cancel congregation hosting and move families into motels for overnight stays.

New Oil Christian Center

Year: 2020
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to support seniors that are homeless and trying to survive the Coronavirus with emergency shelter, food, and hygiene packages.

Bountiful Basket Food Shelf of Eastern Carver County

Year: 2020
Location: Chaska, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $2000
funding towards allowing their food shelf budget to stay stable while more aggressively helping with hunger relief efforts during this time of crisis.

North Anoka County Emergency Foodshelf & Clothing Closet (NACE)

Year: 2020
Location: Cedar, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to purchase more food and supplies in order to respond properly to the Coronavirus pandemic.

Casa de Esperanza

Year: 2020
Location: St. Paul, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $1500
to purchase food, essential household supplies and fund hotel vouchers for individuals who are uncontaminated and at high-risk.

People Incorporated

Year: 2020
Location: St. Paul, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to purchase food and water to be distributed by street outreach teams to individuals living in encampments.

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St. Cloud

Year: 2020
Location: St. Cloud, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to provide hotel vouchers for clients who are vulnerable that have not contracted COVID-19.

Peoples Church ELCA

Year: 2020
Location: Bemidji, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to support increased food/supply needs in Shelter Services for people who are homeless and/or hungry in Bemidji.

Churches United

Year: 2020
Location: Moorhead, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to support the purchase of extra food and supplies needed to serve guests.

Place of Hope Ministries

Year: 2020
Location: St. Cloud, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to set up hand washing stations, porta-potties, sanitation and infection control measures for those who work with and who are themselves experiencing homelessness.

Community Emergency Assistance Program (CEAP)

Year: 2020
Location: Brooklyn Center, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to help continue serving their neighbors the same amount of meals, visits and pounds; but pivoting distribution approach to limit exposure.

Red Lake Homeless Shelter

Year: 2020
Location: Red Lake, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to help offset the cost for all of the extra cleaning supplies to keep the shelter safe for the duration of the quarantine time from the virus.

Damiano Center

Year: 2020
Location: Duluth, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to purchase additional unplanned food and supplies for individuals, families, and youth facing food insecurity.

Ruth’s House of Hope, Inc.

Year: 2020
Location: Faribault, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $1500
to purchase local hotel vouchers for any current resident fifty years of age and older, or those with compromised immune systems in case of a COVID-19 outbreak within the shelter.

Family Promise of Kandiyohi County

Year: 2020
Location: Willmar, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
to host overnight guests at the current day center and still provide for their needs until the churches can host in the future.

Sojourner Project

Year: 2020
Location: Hopkins, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $1500
to provide hotel vouchers to clients in need of isolation because of the COVID-19 virus due to exposure or underlying conditions that put the victim at greater risk of illness.

Grace House of Itasca County

Year: 2020
Location: Grand Rapids, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $3000
motel vouchers to provide better isolation and private restrooms for each individual experiencing homelessness instead of the cubicles and communal restrooms at the shelter.

St. Andrew’s Community Resource Center

Year: 2020
Location: Mahtomedi, MN
Type: COVID-19 Response Fund
Amount: $2920
to help provide an extended stay hotel as a temporary shelter solution for families experiencing homelessness to practice social distancing from the others in a congregate setting.