Impact and Programs
Accomplishments
From July 2020- June 2021, Every Meal provided 2,346,944 meals to children in the community. We expanded our multiple food gap programs - Weekend Food Program, Summer and Winter Break Programs, the Grow and Give Garden Initiative, and our Community Meal Distribution Sites to 544 distribution locations, a 110% growth over prior year.
Further, we continued to deepen connections with community partners, built stronger relationships, and responded to emergent food insecurity needs due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Current Goals
Our programmatic goals are to offer our Weekend Food Program to all schools in any district where Every Meal has a presence, increasing our total number of schools from 300 schools to 500 (at minimum) schools in the 2021-2022 school year. Additionally, our goal is to distribute 500,000 meal bags (approximately 1.9 million meals) throughout this process. The Winter Meal Program is another area of focus for our team, and we aim to double this program to 100 locations throughout the state, with the goal of distributing 38,330 meals from November 2021 - January 2022.
Community or Constituency Served
Every Meal serves Minnesota children living in food insecurity, providing meals during out-of-school times-weekends, school breaks and summer. The majority of our program recipients are elementary age.
Geographic Area Served
Our Weekend Food Program and other food gap programs make our impact on child hunger significant throughout the Twin Cities and beyond. Our services aren’t restricted by certain cities, counties, or school districts. We serve children in urban, suburban, and rural communities in the following Minnesotan and Western Wisconsin school districts:
• ANOKA-HENNEPIN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• BLOOMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• BROOKLYN CENTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
• CAMBRIDGE-ISANTI PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• COLUMBIA HEIGHTS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• DELANO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• DISTRICT 191 BURNSVILLE-EAGAN-SAVAGE
• DISTRICT 196 ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN
• EDEN PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• ELK RIVER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• FRIDLEY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• INTERMEDIATE DISTRICT 287
• INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT 917
• INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS
• JORDAN PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• MORA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• NORTH ST PAUL-MAPLEWOOD OAKDALE DISTRICT
• NORTHEAST METRO 916 DISTRICT
• ORONO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• RICHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• ROCKFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• ROSEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• SHAKOPEE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• SOUTH ST. PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
• ST. ANTHONY-NEW BRIGHTON SCHOOLS
• ST. LOUIS PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.
• ST. MICHAEL-ALBERTVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT
• ST. PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• WATERTOWN-MAYER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
• WEST ST. PAUL-MENDOTA HTS.-EAGAN DISTRICT
• WESTONKA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
More information can be found here: https://www.everymeal.org/what-we-do/where-we-work/
