What does Minnesota FoodShare do?
Each March, FoodShare runs the largest food drive in the state (known as the March Campaign,) and restocks 260 food shelves across Minnesota. It recruits thousands of congregations, businesses, civic groups, and schools to run local cash and food drives to aid in the effort.

Year-round FoodShare educates the public about Minnesota's hunger problem and lobbies the state legislature and U.S. Congress to lend a compassionate and logical voice to poverty public policy debates that impact Minnesota families living in poverty.

Year founded?
1982

Is FoodShare fiscally responsible?
Minnesota FoodShare is a program of the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches. GMCC proudly meets all standards of the Charities Review Council and only spends about 10 percent of its annual revenues on fundraising and administration — well below the industry standard.

Number of food shelves that FoodShare helps to restock each year?
260

Religous affiliations?
Interfaith

What is the difference between Minnesota FoodShare and other hunger organizations?
Minnesota FoodShare provides information, tools, media relations, and direction to run the state's largest food drive, the March Campaign.

Second Harvest and the Emergency FoodShelf Network (EFN) are both food banks or warehouses which supply food shelves with surplus and donated food.

Hunger Solutions Minnesota is an association of food shelves, which advocates on behalf of food shelves in the legislature and manages some food bank distributions.

Does FoodShare "match" donations?
Minnesota FoodShare is not able to match donations to your local food shelf. We do have an incentive food fund (paid for by corporate and individual donors), which means the more a food shelf raises, the more money they receive from the fund.

Need more information?
FoodShare fact sheet

 

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