It's time to jump into action! Greater Twin Cities United Way is bringing together community changemakers for our annual Action Day initiative to provide backpacks full of school supplies for 50,000 local students!
Each year, more than 100,000 greater Twin Cities students return to school without essential school supplies to support their work in the classroom.
Thank you to everyone who had the opportunity to join us at the 2022 Annual Celebration!
We hope you enjoyed every moment of the event in being able to network, visit the volunteer fair organizations, and be inspired by our presentation and special guest, Justice Alan Page.
Volunteer Opportunities: Pack at the Park
Pack at the Park is back! Come and pack Feed My Starving Children meals at Target Field July 20-21.
Volunteer Opportunities: Meals on Wheels Volunteers
Brighten someone’s day with a meal and a smile!
Volunteer Opportunities: Celebrate Northeast Parade
Click here for more information about the Celebrate Northeast Parade.
Volunteer Opportunities: Family Fun Day
We’d love for you to join Living Well Disability Services to help out this June 16 as we bring back the fun – Family Fun Day!
CVC-TC Program: Principles and Power of Pro Bono Volunteerism
In this session, Tracy Nielsen and Joy Altmann from HandsOn Twin Cities will share the power of pro bono volunteerism and the impact that it can make for companies, nonprofits, and individual volunteers.
Join us for the CVC-TC annual celebration event on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, from 1pm – 4:00pm at Edinburgh USA in Brooklyn Park. We are excited to finally come together and enjoy some appetizers, desserts, and network with one another.
Justice Alan C. Page will be making an appearance to say hello and take pictures.
This month, we're highlighting three volunteer opportunities: gardening for Living Well Disability Services, special event volunteers and Meals on Wheels volunteers for Wilder.
Join Greater Twin Cities United Way for Flavors of Our Community – a food initiative focused on increasing access to culturally specific food items at local food shelves.
Our community is home to many cultures with a variety of meaningful foods and flavors. It is important that our neighbors experiencing food insecurity have access to foods and spices that are familiar and significant to their culture. In partnership with local nonprofits, Greater Twin Cities United Way developed 7 pantry packs.
Twenty one ECMC Group volunteers braved the cold water to support Special Olympics Minnesota through the Polar Plunge!
Each year, the Polar Plunge challenges thousands of brave jumpers at numerous locations around Minnesota to jump into a lake during the winter months. All funds raised go toward programming and events for more than 8,200 athletes statewide.
We are excited to finally come together and enjoy some appetizers, desserts, and network with one another.
Justice Alan C. Page will be making an appearance to say hello and take pictures. In addition, you can learn more about his Page Foundation and from CVC-TC Associate Member Organizations at the volunteer fair!
Second Harvest Heartland is experiencing a large shortage of volunteers putting us behind on food repacking and impacting delivery of high demand produce and other food items to our neighbors experiencing food insecurity.
We offer shifts Mondays-Saturdays morning through evening from 4-40 spots.
Hammer Residences has created a new volunteer program called “Cooks in the Kitchen”. We are inviting small groups of 4 to 6 volunteers to cook two recipes at a time in our Central Office kitchen in Wayzata, MN.
These two meals are then distributed to four of our homes which are often short staffed. Having prepared meals available allow the staff at the homes more time to focus on the personal care and needs of the individuals living there. Recipes, groceries, and supplies are all provided. Hammer Central Office employees piloted the program by testing out the recipes. The homes just loved the meals!
Blue Cross associates share the love with local seniors for Valentine’s Day
Each year nearly 400 local seniors receive valentines put together by volunteers at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.
Annual Meeting 2022
Thank you to all who attended the Annual Meeting on February 24. We had over 35 people on the Zoom call!
Let’s meet our new CVC President: Caroline DeVinck
Annual Meeting to be virtual on Feb. 24, Celebration Postponed
Due to the current climate of COVID and the uncertainty in the rise of cases in the next few weeks, we are moving the Annual Celebration to an outdoor network setting in the late spring.
Feed My Starving Children was open for volunteering at all eight of its permanent packing facilities where over 1900 volunteers packed meals for 2 hours on this MLK Day of Service. These volunteers were able to pack enough food to provide a FMSC meal a day for a year to over 1,100 children in countries like Nicaragua, Uganda and Haiti.
Member Spotlight: Megan White
Currently: Institution Relations Manager, Open Arms of Minnesota
