Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless brings you a new approach to Hunger Awareness Month (September) with our new $100,000 food shelf challenge grant.
The recession has impacted more than half of the nation’s working adults, pushing them into unemployment, pay cuts, reduced hours.
More than 13.8 percent of households in Minnesota reported in 2009 not having enough money to
buy food that they needed during the prior twelve months for themselves or their family.
The emergency food safety net in Minnesota has responded to increased visits to food shelves, but we need your help to continue to meet the need.
The Challenge
Open Your Heart has created a new $100,000 challenge grant that will match monetary donations to participating Minnesota food shelves during the month of September. Grant funds will enable food shelves to obtain more food for people in need and raise awareness of hunger within our state. The match for each food shelf will be proportional to the amount donated by community members, so the more you give in September, the larger your food shelf’s grant will be!
Participating Food Shelves – Click to donate on GiveMN
Food shelves listed below without GiveMN accounts are accepting donations in-person and via U.S. Mail. Please contact your food shelf for more information about how to make a donation.
360 Communities
Avon Food Shelf
Battle Lake Emergency Food Shelf
Bemidji Community Food Shelf
Buffalo Food Shelf
CAER Food Shelf
Cannon Falls Food Shelf
Cass Lake Community Food Shelf
Catholic Charities Emergency Services
Centro Food Shelf-Minneapolis
Chum Emergency Food Shelf
Clearwater-Clear Lake Food Shelf
Crookston Care and Share
CROSS Food Shelf—Rogers
Deer River Area Food Shelf
Department of Indian Work
Eagan Resource Center
Emily Food Shelf
Falls Hunger Coalition
Family Pathways Cambridge Food Pantry
Food in the Hood Program
Friends In Need Food Shelf
Grand Rapids Food Shelf
Groveland Emergency Food Shelf
Hallie Q. Brown Community Center
Hastings Family Service
Hawley REACH Food Shelf
Helping Hands Emergency Services
Hibbing Food Shelf
ICA Center at St. David
Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners
Jacobson Food Shelf
Joyce Food Shelf
Keystone Community Services
Kingswood Church
Le Sueur Emergency Food Shelf
Longville Food Shelf
Mahtomedi Area Food Shelf
Maple Plain Area Food Shelf
Masjid An Nur Food Shelf
McGregor Area Food Shelf
Minnehaha UMC Food Shelf
Monticello Food Shelf
Moose Lake Area Food Shelf
NACE Food Shelf
NEAR Food Shelf
Neighborhood House Food Shelf
North St. Paul Area Emergency Food Shelf
Perham Community Food Shelf
Pillager Food Shelf
Pine Community Food Shelf
PRISM
PROP
RiverWorks
Rush City Food Shelf
SACA
Salvation Army Brainerd Lakes
Semcac Caledonia
SEMCAC Dodge County
SEMCAC Preston
SEMCAC Rushford
Sibley County Foodshare
South Metro Vineyard
Spring Valley Food Shelf
St. Charles Food Shelf
STEP
Tri-Community Food Shelf
VEAP
Waconia United Food Shelf
Warren Emergency Food Shelf
Watonwan County Food Shelf
Westonka Food Shelf
Willmar Area Food Shelf
Winona Volunteer Services
Worthington Christian Church Food Shelf
Thanks to Hunger Solutions Minnesota for providing logistical support for this initiative.
