Happy hour benefit event moves to new location Beer flights, appetizers, games and a silent auction – all in a great new space to benefit Neighbors, Inc.! Plus, the Potter’s Pasties food truck will be parked outside selling delicious pasties and pies. Join us for a fun-filled evening at Taps & Apps on Wednesday, June [...]
Saturday, May 14, is the Stamp Out Hunger food drive. Each year across the country, mail carriers help their local food shelves by collecting food donations -- and all you have to do to participate is leave a bag or box of food next to your mailbox before your mail is delivered! Your mail carrier will pick [...]
It’s time for a different kind of food fight! Did you know that one in 10 Minnesotans doesn’t have enough food? Or that Neighbors’ food shelf serves about 550 people a month? Hunger is an issue in our community that can’t be ignored. Want to help? March is the perfect time to throw some food [...]
Class Raises Money, Selects and Wraps Gifts Recently, a first grade class at Lincoln Center Elementary School in South St. Paul took on a big challenge: collect enough money to buy presents for someone else. They were encouraged to earn money by doing extra chores around the house. The students would bring in their donation [...]
***Update: Thanks to everyone who contributed! Your donations helped raised $5,000 for programs at Neighbors.*** November 12, 2015 For this year's Give to the Max Day MN, Neighbors, Inc. is throwing a Bakeless Bake Sale. Why a Bakeless Bake Sale, you ask? We thought it made sense because when your neighbor is going through a [...]
The Star-Tribune's Janice Bitters did a nice piece on South St Paul's effort to raise our zip code (55,075 lbs.) for MN FoodShare this year. http://www.startribune.com/local/south/297856401.html?page=1&c=y
March is MN FoodShare month and all kinds of people and creatures have been coming out to help us out this year. A few sightings: Molly Guthrey of the Pioneer Press did a piece on a potbellied pig in WSP that is fundraising for Neighbors' food shelf Vivint Central Station wrapped up their efforts [...]
So you want to be a hero and help Neighbors in our fight against hunger? Great! Here are some ways you can help out during the Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign: Tell your friends! Lots of people still have not heard about Minnesota FoodShare, and hearing about it from you will mean a lot. Plan a [...]
Give to the Max Day is tomorrow. Donations to Neighbors, Inc. will help support the volunteer driven programs we offer to help low-income people in northern Dakota County. We offer 15 programs to help people with food, clothing and other emergency and supportive services. Our budget is less than $1 million dollars but through the [...]
Neighbors' Executive Director, John Kemp, accepted over $9,500 and additional food shelf donations from AFSCME at the recent Me2We convention held in Minnesota on September 11th. Special thanks to local AFSCME Council 5 for organizing! http://afscmemn.org/story/its-time-afscme-family-food-drive
Taps and Apps - a new event this year and what a success! We drank beer (summit, of course), we toured the brewing company. we ate chocolate, we ate cheese and we bid on items. The weather was perfect so people could enjoy a game of bean bags outside or relax in the cool atmosphere of [...]
A huge thank you to the students of Henry Sibley High School in the ALMAS and SADD programs. They collected 120 pairs of shoes for Neighbors' Clothes Closet. Robert Hanson, their Spanish Teacher came along but was too shy to be on camera. For more information on Almas, here is a dated story but you [...]
A GIANT thank you to First Presbyterian Church!!! They dropped off 500 pre- assembled personal hygiene kits and a check for $436.85. Each kit include 2 rolls of toilet paper (which we were totally out of in the food shelf as of earlier this week), a comb, razor, toothbrush and toothpaste, deodorant, soap, shampoo and [...]