Our mission is to provide healthy meals to Minnesotans in areas where need is greatest. We are guided by our vision that all people deserve to meet their basic needs for food, dignity, and respect. We serve meals and rescue food in Aitkin, Anoka, Carlton, Carver, Cass, Dakota, Hennepin, Lake, Lyon, Mille Lacs, Ramsey, Scott, Sherburne, Stearns, St. Louis, and Washington counties and continue to expand into Greater Minnesota.
The Good Acre unlocks economic opportunity for farmers in our region, especially those who historically have been excluded from opportunities to make a viable living. Our unique combination of personalized support and market development promotes both economic well-being and a more sustainable, resilient, and community-centered food system. We approach our work through partnerships that create meaningful, long-lasting market access for farmers and food access for our communities.
Community Driven is a registered 501(c)3 tax-exempt nonprofit organization operating in the Twin Cities. Community Driven's mission is to help ensure that all people deserve and have all of their basic needs met from education, housing, food, and long-term stability through public education and direct charitable support.
Farmers Rising builds sustainable local food and farm systems through experiential education and training programs in partnership with rural and urban people.
First Nations Kitchen is primarily a justice-focused, Gospel-based ministry. Its primary intent is to provide food to indigenous people who would not otherwise have access to high-quality, fresh organic food in an environment of radical hospitality and cultural empowerment.
SPROUT supports established and developing small-scale and sustainable farmers in Louisiana with technical and social support to build a stronger, more equipped community of growers in Louisiana and help all New Orleanians be part of a community food system.
We utilize the Lakota philosophy of Mitakuye Oyasin, "we are all related," as our guiding principle, to unite, reinvest in and empower our communities. We use traditional teachings along with modern and technological knowledge to advance education, promote culture, further self-sufficiency especially food sovereignty, and to encourage reconciliation and cooperation among all peoples, creating pathways to living in unity.
EATS stands for Eat Awesome Things and began in 2013 concerned with the goal of removing the 15 most harmful ingredients from school lunch. Fast forward to where scratch-made lunch has now become a reality in all seven of the school district’s elementary and middle schools. With school lunch now on a healthier path, EATS remains dedicated to its mission of empowering and growing healthy communities with fun, food, and nutrition advocacy.
The mission of Second Harvest Heartland is to end hunger together. Our goal is to fuel the region’s hunger relief network, because no one should go hungry in our food-rich community.
Indy Hunger Network (IHN) is a collective impact organization composed of leading anti-hunger organizations working together to make a hunger-free Indianapolis. IHN and partner organizations collaborate to regularly identify opportunities to build a more efficient and effective food assistance system. IHN advocates for food justice by focusing efforts on improving access to healthy food for all and working to address higher rates of food insecurity in African American and immigrant communities.