North Minneapolis nonprofit celebrates $1.5 million donation

A North Minneapolis nonprofit on Wednesday introduced the biggest donation within the group’s 11-year historical past. 

Urge for food For Change co-founder and President Tasha Powell stated the $1.5-million-dollar present is a dream come true for the group. 

“We have now spent the final 12 months actually specializing in constructing infrastructure all through the group so the timing is ideal,” Powell said in a press launch, including the donor needs to stay nameless. 

“This present will transfer us to a good higher degree of creating the constructive social change that’s the reason we do what we do.”

The group runs varied packages, such because the Northside Recent Coalition & Metro Meals Justice Community, geared toward constructing sustainable, native meals methods in North Minneapolis. 

On West Broadway, the nonprofit operates Breaking Bread Cafe & Catering and the native farmers’ market. 

Different efforts to fight meals inequity embrace the nonprofit’s seven city backyard plots and the Group Cooks program, which delivers boxed meals to lots of of households every week. 

Station 81 Drink and Eatery in St. Paul’s historic Union Depot is one other element of the group, elevating proceeds for the nonprofit’s programming. 

“We’re past grateful for the belief and unbelievable generosity of this donor, and the affirmation that AFC’s work is valued and appreciated, and that the group has earned this type of funding,” AFC board of administrators co-chairs Darlynn Benjamin and Lee Friedman stated in a press release. 

Cargill Basis, Philips Household Basis, Otto Bremer Belief, Polhad Household Basis and the Northwest Space Basis are different vital sources of philanthropic assist for the group, which has grown considerably since 2019.