December 2020

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Thank You for Feeding Our Community

Our hearts and our homemade spoon-ometer are full after an incredible Give to the Max campaign. Thank you for helping us raise $250,000, which will provide many more hot, prepared meals for someone in need.  Your generosity ensures that the most vulnerable people in our community will be able to access lunches and dinners when they need it. They will no longer have to wake up and wonder if they'll have a meal that day.

Thank You Message from  Executive Director Cathy Maes

Our Dream Kitchen is Open

A dream became reality for Loaves & Fishes in November with the opening of the commissary kitchen in collaboration with Urban Ventures. The full commercial kitchen will be used by Loaves & Fishes staff to cook large quantities of rescued food. Those entrees will be reheated and distributed at community meal sites. Prepared food will also be used for Urban Ventures’ needs and programming. It didn't take long for the kitchen to get put to good use with mass preparation of Thanksgiving meals just a week after opening.

Learn More About the Commissary Kitchen

Challenge Accepted!

If you missed out on Give to the Max Day, there is another exciting opportunity for you to stretch your year-end gift. Loaves & Fishes has accepted a challenge from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation to raise $100,000 from supporters like you. Once we've reached that milestone, they will donate another $100,000!  Every gift received by check or online now through December 28, 2020 counts. To make a pledge, please contact Cathy Maes at 952-992-0000.

Stretch Your Year-End Gift Today!

A Taste of Home

We are thankful for our volunteers that helped bring a taste of home to our guests with Thanksgiving meals across our sites last week. From prep in our commissary kitchen to putting together and handing out meals at our sites, nothing would have been possible without their care for our mission.

Watch KARE 11 Thanksgiving Day Story

Mobilizing Your Impact

Your impact reaches the streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Every week our Street Outreach program brings healthy, mobile meals to urban locations including people who are unsheltered and homeless, in transitional housing or struggling with reliable transportation. We tagged along for a morning with our Street Outreach team with stops at The Salvation Army Harbor Light Center, Free Grace United (Downtown Minneapolis), St. Paul Evangelical and Avivo (South Minneapolis). People of all ages and many families received fresh fruit and vegetables, sandwiches, premade meals, juice and more!

See Street Outreach in Action

Loaves & Fishes www.loavesandfishesmn.org (612) 377-9810 Meals. Comfort. Kindness.

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