Peace House Community
Year: 2022Location: Minneapolis
Amount: $4295
Funding will go toward a double-wide commercial freezer and stainless-steel food preparation table. A new freezer will increase storage space, ensuring that Peace House Community can provide generous and healthy meals to community members in need
Western Communities Action Network (WeCAN
Year: 2022Location: Mound
Amount: $5088
Funding will go toward an additional refrigerator unit, providing safe storage of a greater quantity and a variety of perishable items for WeCAN’s food programs
Hamline Midway Coalition
Year: 2022Location: St. Paul
Amount: $7116
Funding will go toward a refrigerator, freezer, shelving, and other needed infrastructure, allowing volunteer and neighbor-led initiatives to function more independently. For The Midway Project’s neighbors experiencing food insecurity, giving them a dedicated, discrete, and organized space to choose their food and other supplies will increase their access and comfort
Loaves & Fishes
Year: 2022Location: St. Cloud
Amount: $8000
Funding will go toward a three-door fridge for Loaves & Fishes commissary kitchen in St. Cloud. By opening a commissary kitchen in St. Cloud, Loaves & Fishes will be able to prepare large bulk amounts of food to be prepared and served throughout the St. Cloud community. A three-door fridge will help them properly equip this commissary kitchen which ultimately will allow them to provide more meals to people in need
Trinity Lutheran Church of Minnehaha Falls: Nokomis East Giving Garden
Year: 2022Location: Minneapolis
Amount: $1726
Funding will go toward a garden shed and the installment of an underground irrigation system, ensuring that all of Nokomis East Giving Garden’s various crops are watered based on their unique needs to produce at the highest rate and also survive during the hottest days. The ultimate beneficiaries are the many residents in Nokomis East’s surrounding neighborhoods who are experiencing food insecurity.
360 Communities
Location: BurnsvilleAmount: $5812
Funding will go toward the purchase of a new freezer. The new freezer will enable 360 Communities to provide The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP) foods to their clients, particularly frozen vegetables during the colder months when produce is not in season in addition to frozen proteins.
Hallie Q. Brown
Year: 2022Location: St. Paul
Amount: $5748
Funding will go toward the purchase of two new two-section reach in refrigerators for Hallie Q. Brown’s Basic Needs program. This funding will increase Hallie Q. Brown’s capacity to serve participants a wider variety of healthy nutritious food.
Haven Housing DBA St. Anne’s Place
Year: 2022Location: Minneapolis
Amount: $3493
Funding will go toward the purchase of a new commercial refrigerator for St. Anne’s Place emergency family shelter. A commercial refrigerator is a crucial piece of equipment in St. Anne’s Place’s kitchen and is required for them to produce the 13,000 meals they serve annually to mothers and children experiencing homelessness. This helps reduce food insecurity among guests and provides a stable base for them in a time of crisis and transition.
Avenues for Youth
Year: 2022Location: Minneapolis
Amount: $7000
Funding will support the purchase of replacement bed frames and memory foam mattresses. This grant will improve the quality of Avenues’ crisis and basic needs services. When given a safe place to call home and the support of caring adults, youth experiencing homelessness can grow into thriving young adults.
FreedomWorks Incorporated
Year: 2022Location: Minneapolis
Amount: $3845
Funding is going toward the Pantry Saver software and much-needed hygiene items. Since opening to the community, FreedomWorks has seen the number of households served double from one month to the next. A more efficient software database will help FreedomWorks keep up with this rapid rate of growth.
The Open Door
Year: 2022Location: Eagan
Amount: $7392
Funding is going toward the purchase of a floor scale for The Open Door’s new food pantry facility. This floor scale will enable The Open Door to take in food donations and purchases quickly and efficiently from hunger relief partners, enabling them to distribute a wide variety of fresh food and pantry staples to the food insecure across Dakota County.
The Link
Year: 2022Location: Apple Valley
Amount: $7000
Funding is going toward the purchase of supplies for youth experiencing homelessness served by The Link’s Street Outreach Program and C.O.R.E. Drop-In Center. These funds will allow The Link’s Street Outreach Program and C.O.R.E. Drop-In Center to provide basic needs supplies to help youth stay safe and comfortable during winter months.
Neighborhood House
Year: 2022Location: St. Paul
Amount: $8000
Funding is going toward temporary hotel/motel stays. This support will help Neighborhood House prevent eviction and homelessness for low-income St. Paul families in crisis or transition.
1st Step Housing Consultant
Year: 2022Location: Plymouth
Amount: $2000
Funding is going toward needed documents and resources that will aid a person experiencing homelessness, or at risk of becoming homeless, in housing stability. This funding will remove barriers by enabling 1st Step Housing to provide the documents necessary for their clients to obtain certain benefits, pay application fees and/or apply for housing
Servants of Shelter of Koochiching County
Year: 2022Location: International Falls
Amount: $7765
Funding is going toward security cameras, helping to create a secure, fair, and safe housing community. Servants of Shelter have community guidelines based on harm reduction, client choice, and maintaining safe, accessible, low-barrier housing. Security cameras help to promote accountability and provide equity to guests who may not be able to express themselves as well as others.
Advocates Against Domestic Abuse dba HOPE
Year: 2022Location: Atkin
Amount: $9743
To replace the broken boiler heating system for the safe housing apartments. These emergency housing spaces provide safety and shelter to domestic violence victim/survivors, their children and pets in greater MN.
Central Lakes College Food Pantry
Year: 2022Location: Brainerd
Amount: $7000
To provide students who are housing insecure with emergency motel stays until they can find safe and affordable housing options. Funding will help get students out of their cars on cold winter nights, out of dangerous and abusive living situations, and off of the streets.
Channel One Food Shelf
Year: 2022Location: Rochester
Amount: $2254
Funding for two mobile beverage coolers in support of Channel One's Mobile Market, which will improve access for people living in the most food insecure neighborhood in Rochester. The Channel One Mobile Market will remove transportation and accessibility barriers that often keep low-income people from accessing nutritious, culturally appropriate food.
Churches United for the Homeless
Year: 2022Location: Moorhead
Amount: $6500
To purchase new beds and bed frames in additional family spaces, addressing the uptick in the number of families need shelter. The beds from this grant will furnish these new rooms with the equipment necessary to set guests on a path toward healing.
Emergency Community Help Organization (ECHO)
Year: 2022Location: Mankato
Amount: $6245
To upgrade ECHO's electrical circuit, meeting the demand of refrigeration units and avoiding a loss of operation time and product. Upgrading the electrical circuit will correct current electrical issues, allowing ECHO to operate without issues and reducing the possibility of food loss.