Many immigrants in Minnesota are going hungry out of fear of leaving their homes to go to the store due to ICE crackdowns. You can help by donating to one of the food banks listed below to help get food to those in need:
FOOD BANKS
- BrightSide Produce
- Calvary Food Bank
- Casa Maria Food Shelf
- CEAP
- Channel One Regional Food Bank
- Every Meal
- Joyce Uptown Food Shelf
- Lowry Hill East Neighborhood Association
- Open Cupboard Food Shelf
- Second Harvest Heartland
- The Food Group
- Valley Outreach
- VEAP
MUTUAL AID FUNDS
- Community Aid Network: providing food, diapers, and household items (plus water for volunteers)
- La Guadalupana Community Support Fund: providing food and household items
- LSFDistro: providing food delivery, including staples like eggs and milk
- Northern Coffee Works: supporting 10 immigrant families every week
- Sol of the Cities Rapid Response Fund: providing food and household items
ORGANIZATIONS
- CANDO – Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization: providing food, rent money, and rides
- Community Driven: supporting local food shelters and soup kitchens
- Isuroon: providing halal food distribution
- Meals on Wheels MN: supporting meal deliveries
- Mi Casa: providing a food pantry
- Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee: supporting Latino and Somali immigrant communities
- Modern Times and Amigos One Stop: teaming up with CANDO (above) to provide hot meals
- MORE: delivering groceries
- Neighborhood House: offering food shelves and family services
- North Country Food Alliance: providing culturally appropriate food
- North Minneapolis Pet Resource Center: offering pet food and vet care support
- TC Food Justice: partnering with grocers, bakeries, and farmers to deliver food to hunger relief organizations
- The Real Minneapolis: providing 500 meals per week
- The Sanneh Foundation Mobile Food Box Distribution: distributing culturally specific foods
- Unidos MN, an immigrant-run grassroots group that’s organizing legal-observer trainings, supporting protests, and running a hotline to report ICE activity. also offers legal-observer trainings.
- The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, which offers free legal representation to immigrants and refugees in Minnesota, is taking donations to help fund its efforts.