Minneapolis friends! Federal #COVID19 checks are arriving. For some, they& #39;re embarrassingly inadequate. If you& #39;re one of the lucky ones like me with steady employment, here& #39;s a few charities doing vital work that could use a small slice of your check. Please reply with more! 1/8
The Sheridan Story is helping Minneapolis Public Schools provide 100,000 meals *a week* to hungry kids (2/8):
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The International Institute of Minnesota is an amazing nonprofit that provides services to immigrants: tutoring, college-prep classes, English instruction, refugee resettlement, and now, unfortunately, help filling out complicated unemployment forms. (3/8) https://iimn.org/covid-19/ ">https://iimn.org/covid-19/...
The Minnesota Freedom Fund pays cash bail and immigration bonds for people who are only locked up because they don& #39;t have money—which could mean the difference between life and death in facilities ripe for coronavirus outbreak (4/8) https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/ ">https://minnesotafreedomfund.org/">...
Simpson Housing Services has provided shelter to people experiencing homelessness for almost 40 years. They led the "navigation center" that provided services to people living in the Franklin/Hiawatha encampment in 2018/2019. (5/8)
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The Minnehaha Food Shelf is the food pantry near me, but there& #39;s almost certainly one for your neighborhood as well—if they& #39;re still operating, they probably need help, and MONEY makes the biggest impact. (6/8)
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If there isn& #39;t a reliable food pantry near you, check out Second Harvest Heartland instead—they& #39;re a massive Twin Cities food bank that works with dozens of smaller orgs to distribute millions of meals per year. (7/8) https://www.2harvest.org/ ">https://www.2harvest.org/">...