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.
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!
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
African Food Shelf
Aliveness Project
Annandale Community Food Shelf
Avon Food Shelf
Battle Lake Emergency Food Shelf
Becker Food Shelf
Bemidji Community Food Shelf
Brian Coyle Community Center Food Shelf
Buffalo Food Shelf
CAER Food Shelf
Cannon Falls Food Shelf
Cass Lake Community Food Shelf
Catholic Charities Emergency Services
CEAP Anoka
CEAP Brooklyn Park
CEAP Maple Grove
Centro Food Shelf-Minneapolis
Channel One Supplemental Food Shelf
Chippewa County Food Shelf
Christian Cupboard Emergency Food Shelf
Chum Emergency Food Shelf
Clearwater-Clear Lake Food Shelf
Community Emergency Service—MPLS
Crookston Care and Share
CROSS Center for Benton County
CROSS Food Shelf—Rogers
Crosslake Food Shelf
Deer River Area Food Shelf
Department of Indian Work
Diversified International Community
Dorothy Day Food Pantry Moorhead
Eagan Resource Center
ECHO
Elijah’s Pantry-Two Harbors
Emergency Food Pantry—Fargo-Moorhead
Emily Food Shelf
Falls Hunger Coalition
Family Investment Center—Virginia
Family Pathways Cambridge Food Pantry
Family Pathways Forest Lake
Family Pathways Hinckley
Family Pathways Lindstrom Food Pantry
Family Pathways North Branch Food Pantry
Family Pathways Onamia Food Pantry
Family Pathways Sandstone
Food for Life
Food in the Hood Program
Friends In Need Food Shelf
Garrison Area Caregivers Food Shelf
Good News Food Shelf
Grand Rapids Food Shelf
Groveland Emergency Food Shelf
Grygla-Gatzke Food Shelf
Hallie Q. Brown Community Center
Hastings Family Service
Hawley REACH Food Shelf
Hearts and Hands Food Shelf
Helping Hands Emergency Services
Henning Community Food Shelf
Heron Lake/Okabena Food Shelf
Hibbing Food Shelf
Hugo Community Food Shelf
ICA Center at St. David
Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners
Jacobson Food Shelf
Joyce Food Shelf
Keystone Community Services
Kingswood Church
Lakes Area Food Shelf
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
McLeod Emergency Food Shelf
Menahga Food Shelf
Milaca Area Pantry
Minnehaha UMC Food Shelf
Montgomery Food Shelf
Monticello Food Shelf
Moose Lake Area Food Shelf
Murray County Food Shelf Inc
NACE Food Shelf
NEAR Food Shelf
Neighborhood House Food Shelf
Neighbors, Inc.
North St. Paul Area Emergency Food Shelf
NorthPoint Health & Wellness Center, Inc
Ogilvie Food Shelf
Paynesville Community Services
Pelican Rapids Community Food Shelf
Perham Community Food Shelf
Pillager Food Shelf
Pine Community Food Shelf
Princeton Pantry
PRISM
PROP
Rice Area Food Shelf
Richland Wilkin Emergency Food Pantry
RiverWorks
Rush City Food Shelf
Sabathani Community Center Food Shelf
SACA
Salvation Army Brainerd Lakes
Salvation Army International Falls
Salvation Army St.Cloud
Semcac Caledonia
SEMCAC Dodge County
SEMCAC Rushford
Sharing Corner
Sibley County Foodshare
South Metro Vineyard
Spring Valley Food Shelf
St. Charles Food Shelf
St. John’s Food Shelf
St. Vincent de Paul Faribault
STEP
Stevens County Food Shelf
Strandquist Area Food Shelf
Thief River Falls Area Food Shelf
Tower Area Food Shelf
Tri-Community Food Shelf
VEAP
Waconia United Food Shelf
Warren Emergency Food Shelf
Watonwan County Food Shelf
We Care Project
W-E Share-Elysian
Westonka Food Shelf
White Bear Lake Emergency Food Shelf
Willmar Area Food Shelf
Winona Volunteer Services
Worthington Christian Church Food Shelf
YWCA Cass Clay
Zumbrota Area Emergency Food Shelf
Thanks to Hunger Solutions Minnesota for providing logistical support for this initiative.
