Round up throughout May for Appetite for Change in North Minneapolis.

All donations made at the register go to our SEED grant recipient, and often total over $20,000.

Thank you to everyone who rounded up for Sexual Violence Center in April. We are currently tallying totals.

Our SEED program really speaks to the power of our cooperative community. In March, 51,381 shoppers collectively donated $22,728 for Soup for You Cafe, a radical soup kitchen down the street from the Franklin store.

About Appetite for Change
Appetite For Change advocates for food justice and economic development in North Minneapolis, with SEED funds supporting our Youth Training and Opportunity Program and our policy and advocacy work through Northside Fresh Coalition.

About Seward Co-op’s SEED Grant Program
For more than 45 years, Seward Co-op has been committed to giving back to our community. In 2011, we introduced SEED, a new way for customers to participate in this commitment. This simple yet powerful community giving program allows customers to round up their grocery or Seward Co-op Creamery Café bill for recipient organizations that share our commitment to a healthy community. As part of the staff-led selection process for 2019, owners and shoppers were invited to contribute further by voting for Community Choice SEED recipients. Learn more about becoming a SEED grant recipient here.

Village Financial Cooperative is an emerging Black-led credit union on the Northside of Minneapolis, with a mission to ignite a financial renaissance within the local Black community and beyond through cooperative economic practice. Our members believe in reversing the racial disparities of our state and come from all backgrounds and walks of life, including anyone who lives, works, worships or goes to school in Hennepin or Ramsey County.

Black folks who crossed the Middle Passage in America fought vigorously for their freedom and that fire to be liberated, both socially and economically, continues to burn. Join us for a kickback to commemorate Juneteenth on Thursday, June 13, 5:30-8 p.m., at 2515 Third St. N., Minneapolis.

In 2019 alone, Village Financial Cooperative has made headway in securing a physical location for the credit union, gained important partnerships, and held a number of important conversations on what building a Black cooperative economics system in the Twin Cities means. Now we’d like to celebrate these accomplishments and what’s to come with our members. So enjoy a good time with us, hear some exciting news about where we’re headed, and begin the festivities of Freedom Day with us.

•Family friendly

•DJ

•Activities

•Performances

•And more!

Register for free on eventbrite.com and learn more at villagefinancial.org.

Where you live shouldn’t determine whether or not you have access to healthy, affordable foods. Unfortunately, that’s the reality for hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans who currently live in communities without sufficient access to a grocery store.

The MN legislature is currently in final budget negotiations. It, along with Governor Walz, will decide whether to help address Minnesota’s food access challenges by reinvesting in the Good Food Access Program. Seward Co-op is collaborating with coalition members from the Good Food Access Campaign, and other Twin Cities co-ops, to support food access for all at a policy level.

The Good Food Access Program was created in 2016 to provide resources and support to small food retailers – from grocery stores to corner stores, farmers’ markets and more – who are working to increase access to healthy, affordable foods. Despite this progress, food access challenges still exist in Minnesota, and now this work is at risk. Without a new investment this legislative session, funding for the Good Food Access Program will run out this year.

Please take a moment to contact Gov. Walz and ask him to support the Good Food Access Fund. Thank you to Hunger Solutions for supporting our food access efforts and setting legislative priorities.