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Community Kitchen MPLS

Fiscal Host: Raft Foundation

Community Kitchen makes, packs, and delivers hundreds of meals each week to unhoused neighbors. We're powered primarily by volunteers and food rescue, and we believe everybody deserves tasty and nutritious food. Join us: linktr.ee/communitykitchenmpls

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Financial Contributions

Goal
Packaging provider

$40 covers approximately one meal's worth of to-go containers!

$252 USD of $480 USD / month raised (53%)

Starts at
$40 USD / month

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+ 12
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Fruit funder

All our meals include a side of fruit. A lot comes in free from produce rescue, but we need help filling in gaps!

$161.50 USD of $400 USD / month raised (40%)

Starts at
$20 USD / month

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+ 35
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Treats team

Our awesome home bakers need backup sometimes - we think dessert isn't optional!

$111 USD of $400 USD / month raised (28%)

$10 USD / month

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+ 39
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Hydration help

$7 a month covers fifty bottles of water - about 10% of what we distribute in a week.

$7 USD of $420 USD / month raised (2%)

$7 USD / month

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+ 5
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Supplies supporter

We try to fulfill requests when we can and deliver supplies like socks, hand warmers or hand sanitizer!

$34.50 USD of $400 USD / month raised (9%)

Starts at
$5 USD / month

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+ 57
Custom contribution
Donation
Make a custom one-time or recurring contribution.

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+ 427

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Conversations

Let’s get the discussion going! This is a space for the community to converse, ask questions, say thank you, and get things done together.

Is there a meal delivery plan for T-giving?

Published on November 12, 2022 by Jessie Adams

I'm free to drive 🚗

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How do we use canned green beans?

Published on July 8, 2021 by Eileen King

Community Kitchen - like most food shelves - has more canned vegetables than we know what to do with. We're chipping away at most of them a little at a time, but the green beans in particular are coming in faster than we can use them up! Wh...

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News from Community Kitchen MPLS

Updates on our activities and progress.

New Fiscal Sponsor

Hello community! You may have seen some emails come through indicating that we had dropped our previous fiscal sponsor, PWGD, and/or that we have a new sponsor,...
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Published on June 30, 2025 by Tony

Reflections on 2024

Now that we don't have OCF's deadline of the winter solstice for posting an end-of-year update, this is coming to you a little bit later than it has the last few years - it still seemed valuable both to take time to reflect and to share som...
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Published on January 1, 2025 by Eileen King

Big news - fiscal sponsorship update!

Edit: thanks to everyone who contributed, shared, and encouraged - our "Getting Back in the Black" fundraising need was met! Expenses we racked up while we didn't have a fiscal sponsor are now covered, which means we can ke...
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Published on September 18, 2024 by Eileen King

Budget


Transparent and open finances.

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Today’s balance

$675.99 USD

Total raised

$108,902.32 USD

Total disbursed

$108,226.33 USD

Estimated annual budget

$46,466.00 USD

About


Community Kitchen started as an effort to feed a hot meal to folks living in Powderhorn Park in summer 2020. Soon after, partnering with First Congregational Church gave us the space to cook a lot more food and get more volunteers safely involved. 

Several years and tens of thousands of hot meals later, we're still going strong, thanks to volunteer kitchen workers and delivery drivers. Working with Twin Cities Food Justice and other food-related mutual aid groups has made it possible for us to cook food that's familiar, comforting, and nutritious for just over a dollar a meal. The vast majority of funds raised are to cover things we can't get from food rescue: packaging, silverware, and drinks.

Our team

Tony

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