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Community Kitchen MPLS

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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Packaging provider

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

$341.75 USD of $450 USD / month raised (76%)

Starts at$40 USD / month

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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!

$363 USD of $350 USD / month raised (104%)

Starts at$20 USD / month

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Treats team

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

$246.50 USD of $250 USD / month raised (99%)

$10 USD / month

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Hydration help

$7 a month covers two packs of water - half of what we send to most camps in a week

$15.75 USD of $400 USD / month raised (4%)

$7 USD / month

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Supplies supporter

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

$376.45 USD of $400 USD / month raised (94%)

Starts at$5 USD / month

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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.

Reflections on 2022

This month marks the end of our second full year, and we're grateful to everyone who's contributed time, gas, money, and spread the word about us. With the help of the Open Collective Foundation, we’re sitting down to reflect on this year a...
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Published on December 22, 2022 by Tony

Election Day: success!

Tuesday night looked a lot different from usual - since the church we cook from was being used as a polling place, we had t...
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Published on November 10, 2022 by Eileen King

Join us for dinner on Wednesday!

Our hosts and partners at First Church have a long tradition of holding a first-week-of-September community night, to build connections between neighbors as college students settle in. This year, we're excited to collaborat...
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Published on September 6, 2022 by Eileen King

Budget


Transparent and open finances.

+$62.00USD
Completed
Contribution #660911
+$40.00USD
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Contribution #620957
Contribution #481460
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Today’s balance

$1,808.72 USD

Total raised

$41,414.97 USD

Total disbursed

$39,606.25 USD

Estimated annual budget

$34,829.86 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 right around 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

Jene

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Tony

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