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2026 SEED Recipients
January |
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota |
The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota helps immigrants and refugees gain legal status, work authorization, and citizenship so they can build safer, more stable lives in our communities. SEED funds will support free legal services and community outreach for immigrants and refugees in Minnesota, including deportation defense, legal help with work permits, green cards, and citizenship. |
February |
Rent Assistance for South Minneapolis Residents Impacted by ICE |
February’s SEED funds will be divided among four grassroots community groups in the Bryant, Central, Powderhorn, and Phillips neighborhoods organizing to provide rent assistance for families impacted by the current ICE deployments in Minneapolis. |
March |
Southside Foodshare |
Southside Foodshare is a mutual aid project that cooks and delivers wholesome meals to unhoused neighbors in South Minneapolis four days a week, with respect and dignity. SEED funds will be used to purchase fresh & healthy food, water, compostable delivery containers, and to-go supplies; and will sustainably increase the amount of days per week they can distribute meals. |
April |
Cempazuchitl Collective |
Cempazúchitl Collective promotes self-sufficiency and teaches culturally relevant ways of harvesting and processing wild foods on occupied Dakhóta lands—creating space for cultural resilience, healing, and ancestral wisdom. Cempazúchitl Collective spaces center the experiences of Indigenous youth and two-spirit, queer, and trans folks, while nurturing multicultural, multiracial communities working in solidarity towards collective liberation. SEED funds will be used for general operating costs, as well as providing free programming focusing on local foraging, harvesting and food processing of Native foods that can be found in the Twin Cities. |
May |
Needs-Based Discount |
Seward Co-op’s needs-based program assists households with financial need by providing a discount on grocery purchases. |
June |
Centro Tyrone Guzman |
As the oldest Latine organization in Minnesota, Centro Tyrone Guzman leverages cultural strengths and intergenerational collaboration to promote equity for Latine families, while building community through healing, belonging, and joy. SEED funds will help launch “Colores,” a bold new program supporting the mental health, identity, and leadership of LGBTQIA+ Latine youth. |
July |
The Good Acre |
The Good Acre purchases food from local BIPOC farmers and sells it to wholesale customers who buy in quantities that are too big for a single farmer to fill. This work helps build wealth for those farmers and makes our food system more resilient. SEED funds will support The Good Acre’s Pay What You Can Community Supported Agriculture program, increasing accessibility to fresh produce, mitigating food insecurity, and furthering the program’s financial sustainability. |
August |
Needs-Based Discount |
Seward Co-op’s needs-based program assists households with financial need by providing a discount on grocery purchases. |
September |
Midwest Food Connection |
Midwest Food Connection teaches hands-on food lessons to students in K-8 classrooms via cooking lessons, schoolyard gardens, and engaging children through the arts. SEED funds will go towards increasing their capacity in South Minneapolis, allowing MFC to teach at schools in the neighborhoods of Seward Co-op’s stores. |
October |
Little Earth Residents Association |
Under Little Earth’s Food Sovereignty Initiative, their Urban Farm provides 100 days of food security for 1000 residents thanks to the efforts of Little Earth’s youth, staff, residents and community partners. SEED funds will be used to teach youth to build and operate an outdoor hydroponics system on the Urban Farm. |
November |
Needs-Based Discount |
Seward Co-op’s needs-based program assists households with financial need by providing a discount on grocery purchases. |
December |
Sisters’ Camelot |
Sisters’ Camelot nourishes the community and prevents food waste with free organic groceries and meals. SEED funds will be used to hold a weekly free community meal at New City Center for Healing Justice, serving healthy organic food with vegetarian and vegan options. Meals will be delivered to unhoused neighbors, as well as shared with all community members who wish to join each week. |
