| Open Your Heart Funds These Community Agencies:
Food and Shelter Grants | Education Grants
2008 Food and Shelter
Grants as of August 2008:
Ruth's House of Hope
- Fairbault
$5,000 for
transportation and daycare vouchers for families in their
new permanent supportive housing program.
Casa Guadalupana -
St. Paul
$8,400 to cover
partial costs of window replacement and increase energy
efficiency of the heating system in a building to be used as
an emergency shelter for women and children in St. Paul.
Our Saviour’s Outreach
Ministries/Our Saviour’s Housing - Minneapolis
$7,213 for the
installation of a new fence along their property as part of
a larger grant project funded by the City of Minneapolis.
Family
Housing Fund/Project Homeless Connect -
Minneapolis/Hennepin County
$10,000 for
vouchers for attendees to receive dentures.
Second Harvest Heartland
- Maplewood
$4,170 for the
purchase of three replacement dock shelters.
Family Pathways
- Cambridge
$7,321 for food
storage equipment for a new food shelf in Hinckley, MN.
The Link, Inc. -
Minneapolis
$2,400 to purchase
new mattresses to furnish apartments for homeless and
disabled youth and young adults.
Lutheran Social Service of
Minnesota - Minneapolis
$10,000 for roof
replacement on a family transitional housing building.
Ascension Place,
Inc./St. Anne’s Place - Minneapolis
$10,000 for
replacement of flooring, carpeting and tile.
People Serving
People, Inc. - Minneapolis
$9,500 to assist
in furnishing new infant and toddler rooms for the recent
collaboration between People Serving People and the
Institute for Child Development at the University of
Minnesota.
Hunger Solutions
Minnesota - St. Paul
$200,000 to support summer food needs at food shelves
($60,000), emergency food grants to food shelves facing a
crisis ($20,000), grants to emergency meal programs to
support food needs ($15,000), grants to support the purchase
of culturally appropriate and special needs foods ($25,000),
and purchase of fresh produce and protein items for food
banks to distribute to agencies ($80,000).
Walker Area Food Shelf - Walker
$2,245 for
the purchase of new equipment for their food shelf.
Northwoods Coalition for
Battered Women - Bemidji
$10,000 for
necessary roof repairs and to replace flooring.
Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis -
Minneapolis
$10,000 to
purchase storage lockers for clients of the Dorothy Day Center.
Evergreen House
- Bemidji
$10,000 to
purchase a used vehicle for transportation that serve
homeless youth.
Ascension Place,
Inc. - Minneapolis
$4,848 to replace flooring in the dining room.
Pelican Rapids Food Shelf -
Pelican Rapids
$10,000 for electrical (overhead lighting),
mechanical (furnace replacement), carpentry (new sheet
rock), and accessibility (ramp) improvements to the building
that was purchased for a permanent facility for the food
shelf.
New
Foundations, Inc. - St. Paul
$9,635 for industrial tables, chairs,
benches, and picnic tables for the community room and
adjacent patio.
Family
Housing Fund/Project Homeless Connect
- St. Paul/Ramsey County
$6,200 for photo ID service, dentures, and
bus cards.
The Salvation Army -
Albert Lea
$9,842 to purchase equipment (air cooker,
freezer, pots, buffet table, etc.) needed to implement a hot
meals program.
Sister’s Camelot -
Minneapolis
$9,685 to purchase a new oven range,
refrigerator, exhaust hood & fan in the new mobile organic
kitchen.
Cabrini Partnership -
Minneapolis
$9,278 for new heavy duty vinyl flooring in
the dining room and to purchase a dish sanitizer.
Dakota Woodlands
- Eagan
$9,541 for building repairs,
equipment repairs, and purchase of garbage disposal,
multi-beam detector for elevator, furniture and carpet.
Emergency
Foodshelf Network - New Hope
$8,000 for building a food
safety approved packing room.
Wayside House, Inc.
- St. Louis Park
$5,000 for kitchen equipment,
refrigerator, mixer, and mobile dish dispenser
Bi-County
Community Action Programs, Inc. - Bemidji
$10,000 for
roof replacement for their
transitional housing units.
Union Gospel Mission,
Inc. - Duluth
$10,00 for
update and replacement of kitchen equipment
Pillsbury United
Communities - Minneapolis
$9,278 for
refrigerator, freezer, pallet, jack and shelving.
Minnesota
Coalition for the Homeless - St. Paul
$6,800 for
scholarships to support attendance by individuals
experiencing homelessness at the 2008 MCH conference.
Clear Waters Life
Center - Clearwater
$10,000 for
purchase and installation of a cooling system for their
transitional housing program.
Partners for
Affordable Housing - Mankato
$6,591 for
security cameras and access control system.
Safe Haven Shelter for
Youth - Shakopee
$1,524 for
new appliances for the men’s and women’s shelter.
People
Incorporated - St. Paul
$10,000 for
survival gear (two person tents, blankets, sleeping bags,
socks, boots, and other basic gear) to be distributed to the
homeless.
The Family Place - St. Paul
$10,000
For a security system with
external cameras and access system.
Education Grants committed
for the 2008-2009 school year:
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