Minnesota Project Inc

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Jun 21, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.0

Gross Receipts

$395,760

Major Activities

Activity 2

Local Food - The Local Foods Program is expanding our work on policies and projects to improve access to healthy local food in urban and rural communities. Our initiatives include Fruits of the City and the Garden Gleaning Project. Fruits of the City, a gleaning program which trains and organizes volunteers to harvest the fruit from homeowners' backyards and regional orchards to donate to area food shelves, and the development of community orchards. To date that program has harvested over 110,000 lbs. of fresh food for more than 31 community food shelves. The Garden Gleaning Project is a collaborative effort to connect gardeners to area food shelves and build a relationship where the gardeners are growing foods that specifically address a food shelf's fresh food needs - culturally specific foods for which food shelf guests have difficulty accessing. The project published a toolkit designed to assist growers and food shelves in implementing a garden produce donation program.

Activity 3

Agriculture - The Minnesota Project works to ensure that fair farm systems reward family and locally owned farms for growing diverse crops while protecting soil and water resources. This is accomplished by bringing together diverse agriculture and environmental interests in order to bring about policy change that is shaped to reward farmers for farming in ways that conserve natural resources and protect the water supplies, allows for wildlife habitat, and produces healthy food. We work in collaboration with partner organizations to connect Immigrant and Minority farmers to buyers who will buy locally produced food. The Minnesota Project works with the demand side of local food, building strong markets for local food to put more money in the hands of farmers. The Minnesota Project continues to connect farmers to restaurants, chefs, institutions and distributors, while also educating and promoting the benefits of local food to the general public.

Filer

EIN

41-1344162