Grant application and impact

The SpartanNash Foundation invites 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that align with our focus areas of Hunger, Heroes and Hope to submit a grant application.

To be eligible, an organization must be located within a 30-mile radius of any of our SpartanNash corporate offices, distribution centers or 144 retail stores, in order to support the communities we serve together.

Grant applications can be submitted once annually and must be received in full by 5 p.m. ET on the day of the submission deadline to be considered for that quarter’s Foundation board meeting. Grants are reviewed and approved by the SpartanNash Foundation Board of Trustees during their quarterly meetings.

Grant application deadlines for 2023 are:

Friday, April 7, 2023
Friday, July 16, 2023
Friday, September 8, 2023
Friday, December 8, 2023

Before beginning the application process, we encourage all 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations to read our Frequently Asked Questions section.

Completed grants should be submitted as one file and emailed to [email protected]. Grant applicants will be notified of their status within two weeks of the board meeting.

Begin the grant application process now.

2022 SpartanNash Foundation Grants

Agate Housing and Services (formerly St. Stephen’s Human Services/ House of Charity), Minneapolis, Minn. – $15,000

Agate Housing and Services’ goal is to support individuals and families experiencing homelessness in achieving permanent, affordable housing. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation will fund the operations providing food and shelter to individuals experiencing homelessness in their community.

AgeWell Services of West Michigan, Muskegon, Mich. – $10,000

AgeWell Services of West Michigan’s mission is to keep older adults nourished, active, learning and living independently. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation will support keeping older adults nourished through the Meals on Wheels program.

AYA Youth Collective, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $20,000

AYA’s mission is to create communities, rooted in belonging, for youth experiencing instability to own their future. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation will provide access to nutritious food for youth ages 14-24, who are experiencing housing instability and literal homelessness.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $5,000

Boys & Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids’ mission is to enable all young people to reach their full potential as responsible citizens through education, recreation and positive community experiences in partnership with the Grand Rapids Police Department. The grant from the SpartanNash Foundation will be used for their ‘Feel Good Fridge’ program which provides fresh produce to at-risk youth and their families at no cost.

Blessings in a Backpack, Bluefield, Va. – $5,000

Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for school-aged children across America who might otherwise go hungry. Every school-aged child in America has the nourishment needed to learn and grow. As a leader in the movement to end childhood hunger, Blessings in a Backpack strives to ensure children do not go hungry on the weekends by empowering individuals and communities to act.

Catholic Charities St. Cloud, St. Cloud, Minn. – $5,000

Catholic Charities Emergency Service Food Shelf provides nutritious food and essential personal care necessities, instilling hope to neighbors in need. They provide 5–7-day supply of food 1x/month to households.

Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust, Cold Springs, Ky. – $10,000

The Disabled American Veterans Charitable Services Trust fulfills a single purpose; to empower veterans to lead high-quality lives with respect and dignity. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will aid disabled veterans living in Va.

Feeding America West Michigan, Grand Rapids, Mich.- $5,000

Feeding America West Michigan is at the center of a united community effort driven by the core beliefs that hunger?is?unacceptable and meals can change lives. FAWM envisions a community in which all neighbors are nourished and empowered within an equitable food system. Together, they work every day to make this vision a reality. FAWM’s mission is to gather and distribute food to relieve hunger and increase food security in West Michigan and the Upper Peninsula.

Feeding South Dakota, Sioux Falls, S.D. – $5,000

Feeding South Dakota is a hunger relief organization, fighting daily to eliminate hunger in the state. Each week, Feeding South Dakota assists in providing temporary food assistance to approximately 21,000 hungry individuals and families in the state. Their Backpack Program gives food every weekend to over 5,000 kids who otherwise might go hungry.

Feeding the Valley, Midland, Ga. – $5,000

The mission of Feeding the Valley is to gather food to feed the hungry with a spirit of compassion, good stewardship, dedication, urgency and inclusiveness. The heart of their mission is to feed hungry people.

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia, Norfolk, Va. – $5,000

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia distributes emergency food to over 400 partner agencies and programs throughout their 4,745 square-mile service area, including the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Franklin, and Virginia Beach, as well as the counties of Southampton, Northampton, Sussex, Isle of Wight, and Accomack.

Food Bank of the Heartland, Omaha, Neb. – $5,000

Food Bank for the Heartland is committed to fighting food insecurity. For 40 years and counting, we’ve worked to provide emergency and supplemental food to our neighbors in Nebraska and western Iowa. We couldn’t do this life-changing work without our 544 network partners and the support of volunteers, advocates and donors like you. See how you’re helping to make an impact across the 93 counties we serve.

Gleaners Food Bank, Indianapolis, Ind. – $10,000

Gleaners school-based pantry program was created in response to the overwhelming rate of child food insecurity and the need to provide proper nutrition able to combat the side effects of chronic hunger for low-income children and families. By partnering with local schools to establish community pantries. Gleaners aims to reach the most vulnerable children in their service area, all at no cost to the schools, students or families. These pantries are intended to specifically combat the symptoms and sources of hunger for students and their families. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation will help fund these programs.

Greater Lansing Food Bank, Lansing, Mich. – $10,000

The mission of the Greater Lansing Food Bank is to alleviate hunger one meal at a time and to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food. The grant from the SpartanNash Foundation will fund programs to ensure food access for the most underserved in their community.

Great Plains Food Bank, Fargo, N.D. – $5,000

Their mission – ending hunger all together.

Guiding Light, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $20,000

Guiding Light partners with individuals to fulfill their God-given potential through rescue, recovery and reengagement in community. Funds from the SpartanNash Foundation will be used to help fund programs to help men find paths out of addiction, homelessness and joblessness.

Hand2Hand, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $5,000

Hand2Hand delivers nutritious food to students over the weekends and on extended school breaks by mobilizing churches, schools, individuals and businesses to join together, providing hope and opportunity to thrive. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation will help ensure students have access to weekend food rescue.

Hoosiers Hills Food Bank, Bloomington, Ind. – $5,000

Hoosier Hills Food Bank?in Bloomington, Indiana,?provides over three million pounds of food annually to nearly 100 other nonprofits serving people with low incomes and personal challenges, children and seniors. HHFB member agencies serve an estimated 7,500 people each week and 25,800 individuals annually.

LOGAN Community Resources, Inc., South Bend, Ind. – $10,000

LOGAN Community Resources supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities so they and their families can achieve their desired quality of life. The funding from the SpartanNash Foundation will provide general support of LOGAN Protective Services, along with some funds targeted for emergency needs, as LOGAN Community Resources, Inc. protects individuals with intellectual and development disabilities from abuse, neglect or exploitation, meeting their needs for housing, food and basic needs.

Manna Food Bank, Pensecola, Fla. – $5,000

Manna Food Pantries in Pensacola, Florida, is a local, grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting hunger in Escambia & Santa Rosa counties. Their mission is to offer emergency food assistance, service the food–related needs of vulnerable populations and engage the entire community in the fight against hunger.

Maryland Food Bank, Landover and Severn, Md. – $5,000

The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. For more than 35 years, the Maryland Food Bank has partnered with communities across the state to distribute food to individuals and families in need.

Meals on Wheels of Norman, Inc., Norman, Okla. – $10,000

Meals on Wheels of Norman, Inc. volunteer drivers deliver nutritious lunch meals to the ill, disabled, and senior members of their community. The grant from the SpartanNash Foundation will be used to battle rural senior hunger.

Military Family Advisory Network (MFAN), Arlington, Va. – $25,000

Military Family Advisory Network’s mission is to amplify the experiences of military families through trusted research, connection and convening. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation will help identify and develop solutions that will get food to military families in the most efficient, scalable and sustainable way possible.

Neighbors, Inc., South St. Paul, Minn. – $10,000

Neighbors, Inc. is committed to helping those in need by activating a robust volunteer community to provide support for families and seniors. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will help provide healthy food to more than one hundred households/month through hunger relief programs.

Our Daily Bread, Bellefontaine, Ohio – $5,000

Our Daily Bread is located at Lutheran Community Services’ headquarters in Bellefontaine, Ohio. It is a free meal program available to the public. The program is from 4 to 6 p.m. during the week. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday it is held at 223 Oakland Square. On Tuesday and Thursday, it is at the Eagles Annex at Indian Lake.

Regional Food Bank of OK Oklahoma City, Okla. – $5,000

The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, a member of the Feeding America network of Food Banks, is the largest private domestic hunger-relief charity in the state—providing enough food to feed more than 116,000 hungry Oklahomans every week, 37 percent of whom are children.

Robeson County Church & Community Center, Lumberton, N.C. – $5,000

Food insecurity is common in Robeson County, where economic opportunity can be difficult to come by. Our food assistance program, also known as our food pantry, provides an emergency supply of about a week’s worth of food for all members of a household, as often as once per month.

San Antonio Food Bank, San Antonio, Tex. – $5,000

The San Antonio Food Bank provides food and grocery products to more than 500 partner agencies in 16 counties throughout Southwest Texas. In fiscal year 2013, the San Antonio Food Bank provided nearly 50 million pounds of food. The mission of the San Antonio Food Bank is to fight hunger in Southwest Texas through food distribution, programs, education and advocacy.

Second Helpings, Indianapolis, Ind. $5,000

For more than 20 years, Second Helpings has operated a three-part approach to addressing hunger and poverty in Central Indiana. Each day, Second Helpings volunteers and staff rescue prepared and perishable food from wholesalers, retailers and restaurants – preventing unnecessary waste. That rescued food is used to create more than 4,500 nutritious meals each day that are distributed to more than 90 social service agencies that feed Hoosiers in need. Using that same rescued food, Second Helpings Culinary Job Training program prepares adults with barriers to employment for careers in the food service industry. This helps eliminate hunger and poverty at its source. More than 900 adults have graduated from this program. Second Helpings alumni are working in Central Indiana as cooks, executive chefs, business owners and culinary instructors.

Sojourner Project, Hopkins, Minn. – $10,000

Sojourner Shelter is a free, confidential safe haven for survivors of domestic violence and their children, with services that promote healing, increased safety and stability. They provide emergency safe haven, basic needs, legal advocacy and support programs and services. The Foundation grant supports Sojourner’s capacity to provide victim-oriented services that help them reclaim their immediate and long-term safety and stability.

Special Olympics Georgia, Norcross, Ga. – $2,000

Special Olympics Georgia’s mission is to provide year-round sports training, athletic competition in a variety of Olympic type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in the sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their family, other Special Olympics athletes and the community. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation will provide approximately eighteen athletes the ability to compete in the State Games.

Vetshouse, Virginia Beach, Va. – $30,000

Vetshouse is a unique nonprofit organization serving homeless veterans in Hampton Roads, Va. The SpartanNash Foundation is proud to support Vetshouse and their mission to provide housing, food, clothing, counseling and other assistance to homeless veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces to facilitate their return to gainful, independent, responsible and productive lifestyles. Their 12-month program provides contemporary living quarters in a group environment, assisting in job hunting, transportation, personal skills and development guidance.

West Ohio Food Bank, Lima, Ohio – $5,000

The West Ohio Food Bank in Lima, Ohio, will deliver about six and a half million pounds of food this year to over 100 agencies, shelters, soup kitchens and pantries in their 11-county service area.

YWCA Cass Clay, Fargo, ND – $15,000

YWCA Cass Clay is using the funding from the SpartanNash Foundation to fund the operation of a 24-hour crisis shelter and provide services to heal and empower women and children. Women will gain help to overcome barriers to independence, gain jobs and improve health.

Past Grant Recipients

Each year, our wholesale and SpartanNash Military distribution centers also personally select local food pantries to receive $5,000 donations through the Foundation. This annual tradition goes back to 2004, and the company’s distribution centers have donated more than $1 million to community food banks and pantry partners as a result.

Many of our Associates also volunteer at the nonprofit organizations we support through the SpartanNash Foundation, continuing our commitment to giving back to the communities where we live, work and play.

2021

Ending hunger

Gleaners Food Bank, Indianapolis – $10,000

Gleaners Food Bank is a leader in the fight against hunger for central and southeastern Indiana. A grant from the SpartanNash Foundation will go to support Gleaners school-based pantry network, which consists of 55 food pantries throughout the 13-county territory Gleaners serves. These pantries are intended to specifically combat the symptoms and sources of hunger for students and their families.

Securing shelter

The Bridge for Youth, Minneapolis – $15,000

Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will support Bridge for Youth’s mission of providing runaway and homeless youth with safe shelter and assisting in the prevention and resolution of family conflict with the goal of reunification when possible. Grant funding will provide emergency shelter, housing and basic needs for homeless youth, with comprehensive services to increase youth safety, well-being and self-sufficiency.

Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minn. – $20,000

A grant from the SpartanNash Foundation supports program operations for the Higher Ground facility. Higher Ground St. Paul serves more than 5,000 people each year and offers those experiencing homelessness with dignified shelter stays, permanent housing and pathways to opportunities.

Jeremiah Program, Fargo, N.D. – $10,000

Jeremiah Program is committed to ending the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children. Their whole-family approach focuses on programming and opportunities for families to find stability and a pathway out of poverty.

Logan Community Resources, South Bend, Ind. – $10,000

Logan Community Resources supports those with intellectuals and developmental disabilities in northern Indiana. A grant from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards Logan Protective Services, providing shelter, food, medical care and critical services for clients who have been removed from their environment due to abuse, neglect or exploitation.

Sojourner Project, Hopkins, Minn. – $10,000

Sojourner Shelter is a free, confidential safe haven for survivors of domestic violence and their children, with services that promote healing, increased safety and stability. Sojourner Project is committed to advocating for increased victim safety, supporting the transition from victim to survivor and educating for the prevention of domestic violence. A grant from the SpartanNash Foundation will support free emergency housing and comprehensive services provided to residents and their children.

Supporting our military heroes

Vetshouse Inc., Virginia Beach, Va. – $30,000

Vetshouse is a unique nonprofit organization serving homeless veterans in Hampton Roads, Va. The SpartanNash Foundation is proud to support Vetshouse and their mission to provide housing, food, clothing, counseling and other assistance to homeless veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces in order to facilitate their return to gainful, independent, responsible and productive lifestyles. Their 12-month program provides contemporary living quarters in a group environment, assisting in job hunting, transportation, personal skills and development guidance.

2020

Ending hunger

Blessings in a Backpack – $5,000
Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes communities, individuals and resources to provide food on the weekends for elementary school children across America who might otherwise go hungry.

Catholic Charities St. Cloud – $5,000
Catholic Charities in St. Cloud, Minn., provides a 5- to 7-day supply of healthy food to households in the St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Sartell, St. Augusta and Wait Park communities. They connect people able and willing to help with those facing challenges in meeting their own or their family’s basic needs.

Community Food Club, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $5,000
Community Food Club is an innovative and dignified approach to food insecurity rooted in consumer choice, member participation and access to healthy foods. Community Food Club serves nearly 1,000 members a month through a multitude of programs to support healthy nutrition and reduction of food insecurity. Support from the Foundation will go towards the diversification and expansion of the healthy food selections in the grocery store program.

Feeding America – $250,000
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the SpartanNash Foundation granted $250,000 to 19 food banks and food pantries in the 16 states we serve. SpartanNash’s food bank partners are part of the Feeding America network of more than 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs, feeding more than 46 million people a year. The SpartanNash Foundation’s grant helped provide between 750,000 and 2.5 million meals for families in need during this most challenging time.

Feeding South Dakota – $5,000
Feeding South Dakota is a hunger relief organization, fighting daily to eliminate hunger in the state. Each week, Feeding South Dakota assists in providing temporary food assistance to approximately 21,000 hungry individuals and families in the state. Their backpack program gives food every weekend to more than 5,000 kids who otherwise might go hungry.

Feeding the Valley Food Bank – $5,000
Feeding the Valley Food Bank in Columbus, Ga. works with more than 275 partner agencies annually to support food closets, food pantries and soup kitchens; provide food for programs; support child hunger programs in schools and after school; and reach into rural areas where emergency food is not available. Feeding the Valley distributes 9.5 million pounds of food annually to family and children experiencing hunger in the community.

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia – $5,000
Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia distributes emergency food to more than 400 partner agencies and programs throughout their 4,745-square-mile service area, including the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Franklin and Virginia Beach, as well as the counties of Southampton, Northampton, Sussex, Isle of Wight and Accomack.

Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Indianapolis – $4,000
Gleaners Food Bank is a leader in the fight against hunger for central and southeastern Indiana. The SpartanNash Foundation grant will cover food costs for the Lincoln Apartments food pantry, a community pantry established for veteran residences of the complex as well as the surrounding neighborhood. In 2018, 20 percent of the households served by Feeding America contained either a veteran or active duty servicemember.

Hand2Hand, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $5,000
Hand2Hand delivers nutritious food to students over the weekends and extended school breaks by mobilizing churches, schools, individuals, and businesses to join together, providing hope and opportunity to thrive. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will support Kent County Growth Initiative – making weekend food accessible to up to 5,500 new students in 21 new schools in Kent County.

Hoosiers Hills Food Bank – $5,000
Hoosier Hills Food Bank in Bloomington, Ind., provides more than 3 million pounds of food annually to nearly 100 other nonprofits serving people with low incomes and personal challenges, children and seniors. HHFB member agencies serve an estimated 7,500 people each week and 25,800 individuals annually.

Journey’s End Ministries – $5,000
Journey’s End Ministries in Newcomerstown, Ohio is committed to helping those in the community experiencing food insecurity. Now in their 25th year, Journey’s End Ministries provides people with food, clothing and household items, providing ministerial support along the way.

kidsPACK – $5,000
kidsPACK in Lakeland, Fla. is a nonprofit organization supported by community leaders, corporate sponsors, churches and concerned citizens, joined with a core of volunteers throughout the county and dedicated to improving the lives and opportunities of children.

Loaves and Fishes, Minneapolis – $10,000
The SpartanNash Foundation grant supports Loaves and Fishes meal programming (public dining with advocacy, student meals, street outreach, The HUB), food sourcing (food rescue, local farm/gardens, partners and donors) and nutrition programs. In 2019, Loaves and Fishes provided 1.3 million healthy meals to Minnesotans in need. Its mission is to provide healthy meals to Minnesotans in areas where need is greatest, guided by the their vision of equity that all people — regardless of socioeconomic, cultural, religious or ethnic background — deserve to meet their basic needs for food, dignity and respect.

Manna Food Bank – $5,000
Manna Food Pantries in Pensacola, Fla., is a local, grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting hunger in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. Its mission is to offer emergency food assistance, service the food-related needs of vulnerable populations and engage the entire community in the fight against hunger.

Maryland Food Bank – $5,000
The Maryland Food Bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization, leading the movement to end hunger throughout Maryland. For more than 35 years, the Maryland Food Bank has partnered with communities across the state to distribute food to individuals and families in need.

N Street Village, Washington, D.C. – $5,000
Over the last 47 years, N Street Village has grown to be the largest provider of supportive services for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will provide basic food essentials to more than 100 women in a socially distanced environment currently living in permanent supportive housing.

Neighbors, Inc., South St. Paul, Minn. – $10,000
Neighbors is committed to helping those in need by activating a robust volunteer community to provide support for families and seniors. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will help provide healthy food to more than 600 households a month through food programs, including a food shelf and food delivery.

Regional Food Bank – $5,000
The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, a member of the Feeding America network of food banks, is the largest private domestic hunger-relief charity in the state — providing enough food to feed more than 136,000 hungry Oklahomans every week, 37 percent of whom are children.

Robeson County Church and Community Center – $5,000
The Robeson County Church and Community Center in Lumberton, N.C., seeks to involve people across cultural, racial, class and denominational barriers in partnership with each other to address social needs and move toward solutions.

San Antonio Food Bank – $5,000
The San Antonio Food Bank provides food and grocery products to more than 500 partner agencies in 16 counties throughout Southwest Texas, providing more than 74 million meals annually. The mission of the San Antonio Food Bank is to fight hunger in Southwest Texas through food distribution, programs, education and advocacy.

Second Helpings – $5,000
Since 1998, Second Helpings has accepted donated perishable and overstocked food to prepare nutritious meals for thousands of hungry children and adults every day, and distributes them free of charge through local social service agencies in Greater Indianapolis. Second Helpings also trains unemployed and underemployed adults for meaningful careers in the culinary industry.

West Ohio Food Bank – $5,000
The West Ohio Food Bank in Lima, Ohio, will deliver about six and a half million pounds of food this year to more than 100 agencies, shelters, soup kitchens and pantries in their 11-county service area.

Securing shelter

Casa de Esperanza, St. Paul, Minn. – $10,000
Casa de Esperanza’s mission is to mobilize Latinas and Latina communities to end domestic violence. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation will support Family Advocacy programs for Latinas and their families living in domestic violence who are at risk of becoming homeless. The organization offers a variety of critical, culturally appropriate services including El Refugio (24-hour crisis shelter), a 24-hour bilingual crisis line, transitional housing support and mobile advocacy programs. In 2019, Casa de Esperanza served 693 survivors and children through Family Advocacy initiatives.

Guiding Light, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $20,000
Guiding Light provides support in the form of food, shelter and counseling to men while they are in recovery and preparing for productive futures. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards three critical programs focusing on recovery, rehabilitation and reentry into the workforce: Back to Work, Recovery and Iron House.

Inner City Christian Federation, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $10,000
Since 1974, ICCF has been serving the West Michigan community through education, affordable housing and related services to community members, homeowners and tenants. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards Family Haven emergency shelter, a five-apartment emergency shelter, which provides emergency housing and services designed to take clients from homelessness to stable housing. In 2019, Family Haven served approximately 32 families, with 78 percent moving into permanent housing.

New Life Center, Fargo, N.D. – $5,000
New Life Center is committed to helping those experiencing homelessness in the Fargo community. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards financing emergency shelter needs, including staffing, utilities, security and meals to meet the basic needs of more than 900 clients annually.

Open Door Mission, Omaha, Neb. – $10,000
Open Door Mission strives to feed, provide shelter and medically treat the homeless and impoverished in the Omaha community. Open Door Mission serves nearly 25,000 individuals a month in the Omaha community, including veterans who utilize the free services of the mission.

Perspectives, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn. – $10,000
Perspectives’ mission is to break the cycle for at-risk women and children for total family recovery. The SpartanNash Foundation’s grant will support their two-generation model, which provides supportive housing and chemical/mental health services for mothers combined with social-emotional and nutritional enrichment for children. The model supports the whole family in addressing the root causes of poverty and homelessness.

Rebuilding Together Fargo-Moorhead Area, Fargo, N.D. — $5,000
Rebuilding Together serves the Fargo-Moorhead area by repairing homes to create safe and healthy places for struggling seniors, veterans and those living with a disability. In partnership with the SpartanNash Foundation, Rebuilding Together impacts the Fargo-Moorhead area by making needed repairs — such as roofing repairs and accessibility requirements — on homes for those in need, revitalizing communities through repairs to community spaces and other nonprofits and rebuilding lives by helping seniors to age in place; giving homeowners back pride in ownership; and maintaining affordable housing for families in the future.

Sojourner Project, Hopkins, Minn. – $10,000
Sojourner Shelter is a free, confidential safe haven for survivors of domestic violence and their children, with services that promote healing, increased safety and stability. They provide emergency safe haven, basic needs, legal advocacy and support programs and services. The Foundation grant supports Sojourner’s capacity to provide victim-oriented services that help them reclaim their immediate and long-term safety and stability.

Supporting our military heroes

The Ecumenical Center, San Antonio – $10,000
The SpartanNash Foundation’s grant will help provide counseling for 100 homeless veterans living at Haven for Hope shelter. Counseling will be provided by licensed clergy, who are also psychologists, with sessions coming from the perspective that veteran homelessness is a result of moral and soul injury caused by combat or military circumstances.

Mental Health Association of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City – $5,000
The mission of MHAOK is to promote mental health, prevent mental disorders and achieve victory over mental illness through advocacy, education, research, service and housing. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards Veteran Outreach Services program in Oklahoma City.

Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans, St. Paul, Minn. – $10,000
MAC-V provides comprehensive services to address veteran homelessness in the Twin Cities region by offering case management, employment support, legal services and management of housing units throughout the area. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will empower veterans to live stable, dignified lives in housing suited to their unique needs.

Semper Fi and America’s Fund, Norfolk, Va. – $10,000
Semper Fi is committed to supporting combat wounded, critically ill and catastrophically injured active duty and veterans, delivering the resources they need during recovery and transition back to their communities. SpartanNash Foundation grant funds will provide immediate financial assistance and lifetime support to Norfolk, Va.-based servicemembers, veterans and their families through three program areas — Service Member and Family Support, Transition, and Integrative Wellness.

Solid Ground, White Bear Lake, Minn. – $10,000
The SpartanNash Foundation’s grant supports Solid Ground’s HomeFront, a supportive housing program for 35 homeless veterans and their families. Foundation funds will help provide needed services, including case management, health services, educational and employment support and food and transportation.

United Through Reading, San Diego, Calif. — $10,000
Since it was founded in 1989, UTR has kept our nation’s heroes connected with their families through video-recorded story time. These story times keep veterans, military members, children and caregivers connected during periods of physical separation through shared video-recorded story time while supporting the educational development of at-risk military-connected children. UTR operates a multi-channel delivery model to provide safe and secure methods for military personnel to record videos of story time for their children during deployment. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards the operation of story stations on board U.S. Naval ships currently deployed as well as the purchase of supplies like books, camcorders and SD cards.

2019

Ending hunger

Catholic Charities St. Cloud – $5,000
Catholic Charities in St. Cloud, Minn., provides a 5 to 7 day supply of healthy food to households in the St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Sartell, St. Augusta and Wait Park communities. They connect people able and willing to help with those facing challenges in meeting their own or their family’s basic needs.

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia – $5,000
Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia distributes emergency food to more than 400 partner agencies and programs throughout their 4,745 square-mile service area, including the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Franklin and Virginia Beach, as well as the counties of Southampton, Northampton, Sussex, Isle of Wight and Accomack.

Loaves and Fishes, Minneapolis – $10,000
The SpartanNash Foundation grant supports Loaves and Fishes’ meal programs and initiatives, including public dining, student meals, street outreach and The HUB, as well as food sourcing (food rescue, local farm/gardens, partners and donors) and nutrition program.

N Street Village, Washington, D.C. – $5,000
Over the last 45 years, N Street Village has grown to be the largest provider of supportive services for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards providing meals to nearly 2,000 women experiencing homelessness at Bethany Women’s Center.

Neighbors, Inc., South St. Paul, Minn. – $10,000
Neighbors provides families and seniors with emergency and supportive services through quality food, clothing and individual support. In 2018, more than 1 million pounds of food were distributed to more than 6,000 families.

United Church Outreach Ministry, Wyoming, Mich. — $5,000
UCOM values individuals and builds community in Southwest Kent County by providing material and education assistance to meet basic needs, improve quality of life and promote self-sufficiency. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation supports UCOM’s multi-program-spanning Eat Healthy Be Healthy initiatives: Culture of Health and Financial Sustainability. UCOM serves more than 5,000 individuals annually.

Valley Rescue Mission – $5,000
For more than 50 years, Valley Rescue Mission in Columbus, Ga., has worked to affect a change in the quality of life for the homeless, the needy and the addicted, helping people reenter society as productive, contributing citizens upon completion of the programs.

VEAP, Bloomington, Minn. — $5,000
VEAP is working to create pathways to stronger, more hopeful communities through access to healthy food, housing stability and supportive services, impacting the communities of Bloomington, Edina, Richfield and South Minneapolis and serving more than 20,000 individuals annually. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation supports basic needs and social services programs, including: food pantry services, nutritional programs, financial and transportation assistance and case management.

Securing shelter

The Bridge for Youth, Minneapolis – $15,000
Support from the SpartanNash Foundation increases the safety, well-being and self-sufficiency of youth in crisis, working to help end youth homelessness and restore families after trauma. Grant funds support the opening of Marlene’s Place for homeless pregnant or parenting youth and their children. This critically needed program will prevent homelessness across two generations, helping pregnant and parenting teens become thriving, independent young families. More than 700 youth are served through The Bridge for Youth, with 80 percent exiting to safe living situations.

Casa de Esperanza, St. Paul, Minn.– $30,000
Casa de Esperanza is a national Latina Network which operates family advocacy programs, including El Refugio, a 24-hour emergency shelter for victims and their children. Their family advocacy programs provides direct services and support each year for approximately 370 Latinas and their families who are living in domestic violence in the Twin Cities metro area and are at risk of experiencing homelessness.

Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minn. – $30,000
A grant from the SpartanNash Foundation supports program operations of the new Higher Ground Facility (formerly the Dorothy Day Center). The facility provides a safe, hospitable environment, basic needs support and transition resources for individuals who are homeless or living in poverty while promoting hope, dignity and positive change within a caring community. The Higher Ground Facility prepares and serves more than 900 meals per day and offers access to overnight shelter, veterans services, showers, laundry, health care, employment and housing services.

ForKids, Norfolk, Va. – $10,000
ForKids’ mission is to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty for families and children at risk. ForKids provides housing, education and support services to families experiencing homelessness in Norfolk, Va. and the surrounding area. They also operate the Regional Housing Crisis Hotline to link families to more than 400 housing-related resources in the region.

HQ, Grand Rapids, Mich. — $10,000
HQ disrupts the cycle of youth homelessness by meeting basic needs during a time of crisis and then creating meaningful relationships and connection points to begin the journey past trauma and into new pathways of hope and healing. Since its founding in 2014, HQ has served more than 1,100 youth. A grant from the SpartanNash Foundation ensures youth have a safe place to belong, where they can move from crisis to stability, reimagining their future and meeting their goals.

Inner City Christian Federation, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $10,000
Since 1974, ICCF has been serving the West Michigan community through education, affordable housing and related services to community members, homeowners and tenants. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards Family Haven emergency shelter, a five apartment emergency shelter. Family Haven serves approximately 40 families per year with emergency housing and services designed to take them from homelessness to stable housing.

Jeremiah Program, Fargo, N.D. — $5,000
Jeremiah Program provides safe, affordable housing for low-income single mother families from the Fargo-Moorhead area, so single mothers can excel in their post-secondary programs and obtain living-wage employment. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation goes toward Jeremiah Program’s new campus, which houses 20 furnished apartments designed to support single mother families while both mother and child attend school. The campus also includes a Child Development Center which can serve up to 52 children.

Mel Trotter, Grand Rapids, Mich. — $5,000
Mel Trotter Ministries continues to partner with the community to rescue people from the streets and provide programs that seek restoration of the whole person, including financial, spiritual, mental and physical wellbeing. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation supports rescue and restoration services for adults, youth and children in West Michigan, including veterans who are experiencing homelessness in our community. Eighty-eight percent of those who have completed programs at Mel Trotter never return to the streets.

Perspectives, Inc., Minneapolis – $10,000
Perspectives’ goal is to empower homeless, recovering mothers and their children as they build healthy and sustainable families through supportive housing, case management, mental health and recovery services, and child enrichment programming. In 2017, 84 percent of families moved to permanent housing at final exit.

Resilience: Advocates to End Violence, Holland, Mich. – $10,000
The only comprehensive domestic violence organization in a two-county services area on West Michigan’s lakeshore, Resilience provide more than 3,000 individuals and their families with critical support and services annually. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards Ginny’s Place, an emergency shelter for adults and children fleeing domestic violence.

Women’s Resource Center for the Grand Traverse Area, Traverse City, Mich. – $10,000
The Women’s Resource Center is the only organization in a four-county service area providing direct services and emergency shelter dedicated to people impacted by domestic violence. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards advocacy and emergency shelter services for individuals affected by domestic violence in Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska and Leelanau counties.

Supporting our military heroes

Fisher House Foundation, Rockville, Md. – $10,000
Fisher House Foundation provides comfortable housing for military and veterans’ families to stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. They are located near major military and VA medical centers and hospitals. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation underwrites scholarships for the children of active duty, reserve/guard or retired military personnel.

Solid Ground, White Bear Lake, Minn. – $10,000
SpartanNash Foundation grant funds support Solid Ground’s HomeFront supportive housing program for veterans who have experienced long-term homelessness. HomeFront provides 10 units of supportive housing to two single veterans and eight veteran families at Frost-English Village, a 50-unit apartment building in Maplewood, Minn. In 2018, HomeFront provided housing to 30 adults and children in 10 families.

Vetshouse Inc., Chesapeake, Va. – $30,000
Vetshouse is a unique nonprofit organization serving homeless veterans in Hampton Roads, Va. The SpartanNash Foundation is proud to support Vetshouse and their mission to provide housing, food, clothing, counseling and other assistance to homeless veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces in order to facilitate their return to gainful, independent, responsible and productive lifestyles. Their 12-month program provides contemporary living quarters in a group environment, assisting in job hunting, transportation, personal skills and development guidance.

2018

Ending hunger

Caritas Emergency Services – $5,000
Caritas Emergency Services in St. Cloud, Minn., provides a 5-7 day supply of healthy food to households in the St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Sartell, St. Augusta and Wait Park Communities. They connect people able and willing to help with those facing challenges in meeting their own or their family’s basic needs.

Dégagé Ministries, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $10,000
Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation supports Dégagé’s Dining Room, which serves well-balanced meals to individuals experiencing homelessness and other hardships. Meals are offered at a low cost, and patrons are given the opportunity to choose what meal they would like to purchase and how they would like it prepared. In 2017, 56,818 meals were served. On a daily basis, 400-500 homeless men and women receive support from Dégagé.

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia – $5,000
Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia distributes emergency food to more than 400 partner agencies and programs throughout their 4,745 square-mile service area, including the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Franklin, and Virginia Beach, as well as the counties of Southampton, Northampton, Sussex, Isle of Wight, and Accomack.

Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana – $5,000
Gleaners is leading the fight against hunger in Indiana by distributing food to more than 250 partner agencies, including food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters. They also provide direct services to those struggling with hunger, through programs such as BackSacks: Weekend Food for Kids, School-Based Pantry, C.A.R.E. Mobile Pantry and Community Cupboard.

Greater Lansing Food Bank, Lansing, Mich. – $10,000
GLFB services the counties of Ingham, Eaton, Clinton, Shiawassee, Gratiot, Clare and Isabella in central Michigan. They partner with a network of more than 140 member agencies to alleviate hunger one meal at a time and to create a future where everyone has access to nourishing food. GLFB distributes approximately 8 million pounds of nutritious food to nearly 100,000 people in need annually.

Hidden Harvest, Saginaw, Mich. – $5,000
Hidden Harvest’s mission is to alleviate hunger and reduce food waste in the Great Lakes Bay Region of Michigan (Saginaw, Bay and Midland counties). The SpartanNash Foundation grant supports the transportation of healthy foods, including the purchasing of food-handling supplies and keeping trucks on the road. Hidden Harvest supports 176 community feeding programs in the Great Lakes Bay Region and provided food to more than 82,000 families in 2017.

kidsPACK – $5,000
kidsPACK in Lakeland, Fla. is a nonprofit organization supported by community leaders, corporate sponsors, churches and concerned citizens joined with a core of volunteers throughout the county dedicated to improving the lives and opportunities of children.

Loaves and Fishes, Minneapolis – $10,000
The SpartanNash Foundation grant supports Loaves and Fishes’ meal programs and initiatives, including street outreach, nutrition programs and free produce markets. In 2017, Loaves and Fishes served 695,706 free, healthy meals, reached nearly 50,000 individuals through programming and operated 28 sites open to the public.

Neighbors, Inc., South St. Paul, Minn. – $10,000
Neighbors provides families and seniors with emergency and supportive services through quality food, clothing and individual support. In 2017, nearly 1 million pounds of food were distributed to at least 5,640 families, and 181 families received emergency financial grants to alleviate immediate crisis and help regain stability.

Our Lady of Grace Food Pantry – $5,000
Our Lady of Grace Food Pantry is a ministry of Our Lady of Grace Church and works through Community Action in Minot, N.D.

Regional Food Bank – $5,000
The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, a member of the Feeding America network of food banks, is the largest private domestic hunger-relief charity in the state — providing enough food to feed more than 116,000 hungry Oklahomans every week, 37 percent of whom are children.

San Antonio Food Bank – $5,000
The San Antonio Food Bank provides food and grocery products to more than 500 partner agencies in 16 counties throughout Southwest Texas. In fiscal year 2013, the San Antonio Food Bank provided nearly 50 million pounds of food. The mission of the San Antonio Food Bank is to fight hunger in Southwest Texas through food distribution, programs, education and advocacy.

Valley Rescue Mission – $5,000
For 50 years, Valley Rescue Mission in Columbus, Ga., has worked to affect a change in the quality of life for the homeless, the needy and the addicted, helping people reenter society as productive, contributing citizens upon completion of the programs.

Securing shelter

The Bridge for Youth, Minneapolis – $10,000
Support from the SpartanNash Foundation increases the safety, well-being and self-sufficiency of youth in crisis, working to help end youth homelessness and restore families after trauma. Grant funds support around-the-clock services including crisis intervention, safe shelter, supportive housing, counseling and case management for runaway, abandoned or homeless youth. More than 800 youth are served through The Bridge for Youth, with 85 percent exiting to safe living situations.

Casa de Esperanza, St. Paul, Minn.– $30,000
Casa de Esperanza is a national Latina Network that operates El Refugio, a 24-hour emergency shelter for victims and their children. In 2017, they directly supported more than 1,100 in El Refugio, throughout the community and in partnership with the Domestic Abuse Service Center and Minneapolis Police Department.

Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minn. – $10,000
A grant from the SpartanNash Foundation supports program operations of the new Higher Ground Facility (formerly the Dorothy Day Center). The facility provides a safe, hospitable environment, basic needs support and transition resources for individuals who are homeless or living in poverty while promoting hope, dignity and positive change within a caring community. The Higher Ground Facility prepares and serves more than 900 meals per day and offers access to overnight shelter, veterans services, showers, laundry, health care, employment and housing services.

Family Promise of Hendricks County, Avon, Ind. – $5,000
Family Promise of Hendricks County provides housing and supportive services for families experiencing homelessness in Central Indiana. The Foundation grant enables Family Promise to serve additional families and provide expanded services to overcome three main barriers of homelessness – lack of transportation, childcare and affordable housing. In 2017, Family Promise provided housing and support services for 39 families, of which 65 percent served were children.

Guiding Light, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $20,000
The Foundation grant provides support in the form of food, shelter and counseling to men while they are in recovery and preparing for productive futures. Of the 266 men served in 2017, 96 percent of the men assisted by the Guiding Light Mission left the organization with employment. Ten percent of men served at Guiding Light are veterans.

House of Charity, Minneapolis – $5,000
House of Charity’s mission is to feed those in need, house those experiencing homelessness and empower individuals to achieve independence. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation helps struggling individuals meet their basic human needs of food and shelter and reduce barriers to their long-term self-sufficiency, so they can become engaged members of the community. In 2017, 123,828 free public meals were provided, and 291 individuals were served through the transitional housing program.

N Street Village, Washington, D.C. – $5,000
Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation supports Patricia Handy Place for Women (PHPW). PHWP provides 214 beds, transitional housing and medical respite services for women experiencing homelessness in the District of Columbia, as well as 13 individual rooms to serve elder women experiencing homelessness. N Street Village provides shelter for 500 women and serves 156,000 meals annually.

Perspectives, Inc., Minneapolis – $10,000
Perspectives’ goal is to empower homeless, recovering mothers and their children to build healthy and sustainable families through supportive housing, case management, mental health and recovery services, and child enrichment programming. In 2017, 88 percent of families moved to permanent housing at final exit.

Well House, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $5,000
Well House provides permanent, shared, low-cost housing for people experiencing homelessness. They rehabilitate vacant houses and turn them into multi-unit homes for individuals and families. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation helps cover the costs of ongoing upkeep and minor repairs to 11 occupied homes in the Grand Rapids area.

Supporting our military heroes

Fisher House Foundation, Rockville, Md. – $30,000
Fisher House Foundation provides comfortable housing for military and veterans’ families to stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. They are located near major military and VA medical centers and hospitals. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation underwrites scholarships for the children of active duty, reserve/guard or retired military personnel.

Solid Ground, White Bear Lake, Minn. – $10,000
SpartanNash Foundation grant funds support Solid Ground’s HomeFront supportive housing program for veterans who have experienced long-term homelessness. HomeFront provides 10 units of supportive housing to two single veterans and eight veteran families at Frost-English Village, a 50-unit apartment building in Maplewood, Minn. In 2017, HomeFront provided housing to 37 adults and children in 12 families.

ThanksUSA, McLean, Va. – $6,000
The SpartanNash Foundation is proud to support the children and spouses of our military heroes by underwriting two scholarships in Michigan and Virginia. Scholarship applications are accepted beginning in April and are evaluated and chosen using the following criteria, among other considerations:

They must be a spouse or dependent of an active duty servicemember (including Guard and Reserve members)
Children and spouses intend to enroll in an accredited two-year or four-year college, university, vocational school or technical school
Stated financial need on the part of individual or family

Give an Hour, Bethesda, Md. – $10,000
Give an Hour provides unlimited, confidential and free services outside the military through a network of nearly 7,000 volunteer licensed mental health professionals. Since they began providing free mental health services in 2005, their providers have donated more than 250,000 hours of care, worth more than $25 million. Through a grant from the SpartanNash Foundation, Give an Hour will increase its provider base and outreach services throughout Michigan.

Warriors at Ease, Silver Springs, Md. – $10,000
Warriors at Ease was established in 2011 to support the health and healing of our military heroes, specifically those impacted by PTSD, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injuries, chronic pain and other conditions relating to service in the military. Their growing network of more than 1,000 teachers have been specially trained to share yoga and meditation safely and effectively with more than 16,000 servicemembers, veterans and their families annually. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation provides physical training materials and on-site training to yoga instructors.

2017

Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative, Saint Paul, Minn. – $30,000
Support from the SpartanNash Foundation goes towards the Families Moving Forward program. In collaboration with more than 70 local congregations, Families Moving Forward provides emergency shelter, supportive housing and individualized strengths-based services to families with children who are experiencing homelessness. In 2016, Families Moving Forward assisted 68 families on their journey home, including 173 children and 103 adults.

Bluefield Union Mission – $5,000
Bluefield Union Mission of Bluefield, W. Va., is available to meet the social, physical, and spiritual needs of people in need 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

The Bridge for Youth, Minneapolis – $30,000
Support from the SpartanNash Foundation is used to increase the safety, well-being and self-sufficiency of youth in crisis, working to help end youth homelessness and restore families after trauma. Grant funds support around-the-clock services including crisis intervention, safe shelter, supportive housing, counseling and case management for runaway, abandoned or homeless youth. More than 800 youth are served through The Bridge for Youth, with 85 percent exiting to safe living situations.

Casa de Esperanza, St. Paul, Minn.– $30,000
Casa de Esperanza is a national Latina Network that operates El Refugio, a 24-hour emergency shelter for victims and their children. El Refugio is located in the Twin Cities (Minn.) and serves a seven-county area. In 2015, 23 women and 27 children stayed at El Refugio an average of 61 days.

Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minn. – $30,000
A grant from the SpartanNash Foundation supports program operations of the new Higher Ground Facility (formerly the Dorothy Day Center). The facility provides a safe, hospitable environment, basic needs support and transition resources for individuals who are homeless or living in poverty while promoting hope, dignity and positive change within a caring community. The Higher Ground Facility prepares and serves more than 900 meals per day and offers access to overnight shelter, veterans’ services, showers, laundry, health care, employment and housing services.

Fisher House Foundation – $30,000
Fisher House Foundation provides comfortable housing for military and veterans’ families to stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. They are located near major military and VA medical centers and hospitals.

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia – $5,000
Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia distributes emergency food to more than 400 partner agencies and programs throughout their 4,745 square-mile service area, including the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Franklin, and Virginia Beach, as well as the counties of Southampton, Northampton, Sussex, Isle of Wight, and Accomack.

Guiding Light, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $5,000
The grant will provide support in the forms of food, shelter and counseling to men while they are in recovery and preparing for productive futures.

Hoosier Veterans Assistance Fund of Indiana, Inc. – $5,000
This grant will support three transitional housing beds for veterans in Indianapolis. Over the next year, 20 veterans will be served with intensive case management, employment and legal services.

House of Charity, Minneapolis – $5,000
House of Charity’s mission is to feed those in need, house those experiencing homelessness and empower individuals to achieve independence. Funding from the SpartanNash Foundation will support their daily free public meal program and transitional and permanent housing programs. Their goal is to help those struggling to reach their basic needs of food and shelter and reduce barriers to self sufficiency.

Kalkaska Area Interfaith Resources, Kalkaska, Mich. – $4,000
The grant will support the purchase of a new commercial upright freezer, allowing KAIR to continue to serve approximately 700-900 individuals each month suffering from food insecurity.

Loaves and Fishes, Minneapolis, Minn.– $15,000
Loaves and Fishes is a nonprofit meal program in Minnesota that serves hot meals to those in need. Established in 1982, they served more than a half million nutritious meals in 2016.

Neighbors, Inc., South St. Paul, Minn. – $10,000
The Neighbors model centers on having qualified volunteers and staff that provide emergency and support services through quality food, clothing, and individual support services. In 2015, Neighbors Inc. was able to provide vital help to members of the community 105,536 times.

Northwest Michigan Supportive Housing, Traverse City, Mich. – $5,000
This grant will be used to support NMSH mission to provide permanent housing paired with supportive services for individuals and families experiencing homelessness either caused or exacerbated by mental illness.

Our Daily Bread – $5,000
Our Daily Bread is located at Lutheran Community Services’ headquarters in Bellefontaine, Ohio. It is a free meal program available to the public. The program is from 4 to 6 p.m. during the week. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday, it is held at 223 Oakland Square. On Tuesday and Thursday, it is at the Eagles Annex at Indian Lake. Our Lady of Grace Food Pantry – $5,000 Our Lady of Grace Food Pantry is a ministry of Our Lady of Grace Church and works through Community Action in Minot, N.D.

Perspectives, St. Louis Park, Minn. – $10,000
Perspectives is the largest therapeutic supportive housing program in Minnesota for women and children who have experienced long-term trauma through addiction, homelessness, mental illness, and poverty. For over four decades, their programs have empowered mothers so they can begin to rebuild their lives, as well as their children. In 2015, 1,134 family members were served by Perspectives.

Regional Food Bank – $5,000
The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, a member of the Feeding America network of food banks, is the largest private domestic hunger-relief charity in the state — providing enough food to feed more than 116,000 hungry Oklahomans every week, 37 percent of whom are children.

Robeson County Church & Community Center – $5,000
The Robeson County Church and Community Center in Lumberton, N.C., seeks to involve people across cultural, racial, class and denominational barriers in partnership with each other to address social needs and move toward solutions.

Ruth Meiers Hospitality House, Bismarck, N.D. – $5,000
Support will go toward the creation and implementation of Luke’s Kitchen, where the goal is to provide a warm meal to those in need every day, and to identify individuals and families at risk of homelessness and provide programs and services before they become homeless. Luke’s Kitchen will be an open table; engaging those who are struggling, supporting those who need nourishment and providing the tools and training to impact the lives of many.

Sojourner Project, Hopkins, Minn. – $30,000
Sojourner Shelter is a free, confidential safe haven for survivors of domestic violence and their children, with services that promote healing, increased safety and stability. They provide emergency safe haven, basic needs, legal advocacy and support, programs and services. Our partnership will support Sojourners capacity to provide victim-oriented services that help victims reclaim their immediate and long-term safety and stability. Sojourner provided emergency shelter to 317 women and children in 2016.

Solid Ground, White Bear Lake, Minn. – $10,000
Solid Ground is an award winning nonprofit organization whose proven, holistic approach helps families build the strong foundations they need to emerge from homelessness into a brighter future. Through safe, affordable housing and innovative supportive programming, Solid Ground helps families transition to a higher-level of self-sufficiency and break the cycle of homelessness and poverty. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation will go towards HomeFront, a supportive housing unit for homeless veterans and their families.

Vetshouse Incorporated – $30,000
Vetshouse is a unique nonprofit organization serving homeless veterans in Hampton Roads, Va. It is not a shelter, but a 12-month program providing contemporary living quarters in a group environment, assistance in job hunting, transportation, personal skills and development guidance.

Virginia Peninsula Food Bank, Hampton, Va. – $7,500
Virginia Peninsula Food Bank distributes food effectively through collaborative efforts that minimize hunger, promote nutrition and encourage self-reliance through education. The Foundation grant will be used to purchase food for Virginia Peninsula Food Bank’s Weekend Backpack program for students at risk of food insecurity at Bethel Manor Elementary, a school for military families located on Langley Air Force Base.

Warriors at Ease, Silver Springs, Md. – $10,000
Warriors at Ease brings the healing power of yoga and meditation to military communities around the world, especially those affected by combat-stress, PTSD and trauma. They train and deploy certified mind-body professionals to settings where they can enhance the health and well-being of active duty service members, veterans and military families. They serve more than 16,000 warriors annually.

Women’s Resource Center for the Grand Traverse Area, Traverse City, Mich. – $5,000
The mission of Women’s Resource Center is to protect, shelter and empower victims of domestic and sexual violence, acting as the primary agency providing direct services to victims in four rural counties. They provide emergency services, 24-hour crisis intervention and advocacy.

2016

Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaboration, St. Paul, Minn. – $30,000
The SpartanNash Foundation grant supports the Families Moving Forward program. In collaboration with more than 65 local congregations; Families Moving Forward provides emergency shelter, supportive housing, and individualized, strengths-based services to families with children who are experiencing homelessness.

Bluefield Union Mission – $5,000
Bluefield Union Mission of Bluefield, West Virginia, is available to meet the social, physical, and spiritual needs of people in need 24 hours a day, every day of the year.

The Bridge for Youth, Minneapolis – $30,000
The Bridge for Youth helps homeless youth in crisis in Minneapolis.

Caritas Emergency Services – $5,000
Caritas Emergency Services in St. Cloud, Minnesota, provides a 5-7 day supply of healthy food to households in the St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Sartell, St. Augusta and Wait Park Communities. They connect people able and willing to help with those facing challenges in meeting their own or their family’s basic needs.

Casa de Esperanza, St. Paul, Minn. – $30,000
Casa de Esperanza is a national Latina Network that operates El Refugio, a 24-hour emergency shelter for victims and their children. El Refugio is located in the Twin Cities (Minn.) and serves a seven-county area. In 2015, 23 women and 27 children stayed at El Refugio an average of 61 days.

Catholic Charities of St. Paul/Minneapolis – $30,000
The mission of Catholic Charities is to serve those most in need and to advocate for justice in the community. As the need for our services grows and becomes increasingly complex, Catholic Charities is working to adapt and respond. They respond in three ways – preventing poverty, meeting basic needs in times of crisis and creating pathways out of poverty. In these three areas, they focus their services in more than 35 different programs at more than 20 locations throughout the region.

Degage Ministries, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $5,000
The Foundation grant provides support for The Open Door Women’s Center which provides overnight shelter for up to 40 women in crisis per night.

DeVries Nature Conservancy, Owosso, Mich. – $3,500
A grant from the SpartanNash Foundation underwrites a mobile farm stand to feed those with food challenges in Owosso, Mich. The project is in partnership with the Shiawassee Hunger Network. The mobile truck delivers fruits and vegetables to those who do not have transportation.

he Dwelling Place, Columbia Heights, Minn. – $4,000
The Dwelling Place in Columbia Heights, Minn. provides healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe place to call home. Women and their children may stay 12-18 months to receive healing, and acquire the necessary skills to achieve independent housing, a sustaining income, and abuse-free lives.

Feeding South Dakota – $5,000
Feeding South Dakota is a hunger relief organization, fighting daily to eliminate hunger in the state. Each week, Feeding South Dakota assists in providing temporary food assistance to approximately 21,000 hungry individuals and families in the state. Their Backpack Program gives food every weekend to more than 5,000 kids who otherwise might go hungry.

Fisher House Foundation – $30,000
Fisher House Foundation provides comfortable housing for military and veterans’ families to stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment. They are located near major military and VA medical centers and hospitals.

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia – $5,000
Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia distributes emergency food to more than 400 partner agencies and programs throughout their 4,745 square-mile service area, including the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Franklin, and Virginia Beach, as well as the counties of Southampton, Northampton, Sussex, Isle of Wight, and Accomack.

Gladwin Backpack Buddies Program, Gladwin, Mich. – $4,800
A grant from the SpartanNash Foundation helps provide weekend meals for 120 food challenged children in the Gladwin, Mich. school district. The program is operated through the Food Banks of Eastern Michigan and Christ the King Lutheran Church.

Good in the ‘Hood, Bloomington, Minn. – $4,000
Good in the ‘Hood’s mission is to to influence, inspire and impact individuals, families and entire communities for good. Support from the SpartanNash Foundation supports the Weekend Pack program, which provides nutritious packs of food for school age children who are facing food insecurity.

Good Neighbors Food Pantry of Boyne City (Mich.) – $3,575
The SpartanNash Foundation grant enables the Northern Michigan nonprofit community food pantry to purchase a new commercial cooler which will enable 280 families to receive fresh food not available through traditional food banks.

Green Gables Haven, Hastings, Mich. – $5,000
It is the Mission of Green Gables Haven to provide a temporary, secure, nurturing environment and support to enable victims of domestic violence in Barry County to make appropriate life altering changes.

Guiding Light Mission, Grand Rapids, Mich. – $5,000
The Foundation grant provides support in the forms of food, shelter and counseling to men while they are in recovery and preparing for productive futures.

Hoosier Hills Food Bank – $5,000
Hoosier Hills Food Bank in Bloomington, Ind. provides more than 3 million pounds of food annually to nearly 100 other nonprofits serving people with low incomes and personal challenges, children and seniors. HHFB member agencies serve an estimated 7,500 people each week and 25,800 individuals annually.

Hope 4 Youth, Anoka, Minn. – $5,000
Hope 4 Youth provides pathways to end youth homelessness. The grant from the SpartanNash Foundation supports the Drop-In Resource Center, allowing them to serve the 30-40 homeless youth who come through their doors each day.

House of Charity, Minneapolis – $5,000
House of Charity’s mission is to feed those in need, house those experiencing homelessness, and empower individuals to achieve independence. The grant from the SpartanNash Foundation supports their veteran’s housing programs.

Loaves and Fishes, Minneapolis – $30,000
Loaves and Fishes is a nonprofit meal program in Minnesota that serves hot meals to those in need. Established in 1982, they served more than 467,000 nutritious meals in 2015.

Manna Food Bank – $5,000
Manna Food Pantries in Pensacola, Fla., is a local, grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting hunger in Escambia & Santa Rosa counties. Their mission is to offer emergency food assistance, service the food–related needs of vulnerable populations and engage the entire community in the fight against hunger.

Neighborhood House, St. Paul, Minn. – $30,000
Neighborhood House is a a multi-service agency, providing wrap-around services for people when they need it most. Neighborhood House helps people with basic needs, education, multiple youth programs, and health and well-being, with all programs being free to participants.

Neighbors, Inc., South St. Paul, Minn. – $30,000
The Neighbors model centers on having qualified volunteers and staff that provide emergency and support services through quality food, clothing, and individual support services. Through the signature food shelf and bakery table, in 2015 15,933 individuals received food through the food shelf and 36,972 received fresh food and bakery items.

Northwest Michigan Supportive Housing, Traverse City, Mich. – $5,000
The Foundation grant was matched $1:$1 by the Grand Traverse Community Foundation and used to support NMSH’s mission to provide permanent housing paired with supportive services for individuals and families experiencing homelessness either caused or exacerbated by mental illness.

Our Lady of Grace Food Pantry – $5,000
Our Lady of Grace Food Pantry is a ministry of Our Lady of Grace Church and works through Community Action in Minot, N.D.

Perspectives, Inc., St. Louis Park, Minn. – $30,000
Perspectives is the largest therapeutic supportive housing program in Minnesota for women and children who have experienced long-term trauma through addiction, homelessness, mental illness and poverty. For more than four decades, Perspectives has developed and implemented programs that empower mothers so they can begin to rebuild their lives, as well as their children’s.

Regional Food Bank – $5,000
The Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma, a member of the Feeding America network of Food Banks, is the largest private domestic hunger-relief charity in the state—providing enough food to feed more than 116,000 hungry Oklahomans every week, 37 percent of whom are children.

Robeson County Church & Community Center – $5,000
The Robeson County Church and Community Center in Lumberton, N.C., seeks to involve people across cultural, racial, class, and denominational barriers in partnership with each other to address social needs and to move toward solutions.

Sojourner Project, Inc., Hopkins, Minn. – $30,000
Sojourner maintains working relationships with many police departments serving the west Hennepin community in Minnesota. Their programs serve more than 1,000 battered women and children each year through their shelter and community-based services.

Solid Ground, White Bear Lake, Minn. – $5,000
Solid Ground is an award winning nonprofit organization whose proven, holistic approach helps families build the strong foundations they need to emerge from homelessness into a brighter future. Through safe, affordable housing and innovative supportive programming, Solid Ground helps families transition to a higher-level of self-sufficiency and break the cycle of homelessness and poverty for The Villages at Frost-English is located in White Bear Lake, Minn. and their 10 units reserved for long-term homeless veterans and their families.

Special Olympics Minnesota – $20,000
Special Olympics is a global organization that serves athletes with intellectual disabilities working with hundreds of thousands of volunteers and coaches each year. They transform lives through the joy of sport, every day, everywhere.

Vetshouse Incorporated – $30,000
Vetshouse is a unique nonprofit organization serving homeless veterans in Hampton Roads, Va. It is not a shelter, but a 12-month program providing contemporary living quarters in a group environment, assistance in job hunting, transportation, personal skills and development guidance.

Virginia Peninsula Food Bank, Hampton, VA – $7,500
Established in 1986, the Virginia Peninsula Food Bank has been the leading hunger relief organization in the cities of Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson and Williamsburg, and the counties of Gloucester, James City, Mathews, Surry and York. The Food Bank partners with nearly 170 member agencies across its service area, and together, they have provided nearly 137 million meals. The Foundation grant purchased food for Virginia Peninsula Food Bank’s Weekend Backpack program for students at risk of food insecurity.

Warriors at Ease, Silver Springs, Md. – $30,000
Warriors at Ease brings the healing power of yoga and meditation to military communities around the world, especially those affected by combat-stress, PTSD and trauma. They train and deploy certified mind-body professionals to settings where they can enhance the health and well-being of service members, veterans, families and healthcare staff.

West Ohio Food Bank – $5,000
The West Ohio Food Bank in Lima, Ohio, delivers about six and a half million pounds of food each year to more than 100 agencies, shelters, soup kitchens and pantries in their 11 county service area.

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Access of West Michigan – $5,000
Access of West Michigan is a faith-based leader in linking congregational, individual and community resources to eliminate hunger and reduce the impact of poverty in Kent County, Michigan.

Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative – $30,000
Beacon is an interfaith collaborative of congregations ending homelessness through housing, shelter and advocacy. They are located in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Boys Town – $10,000
Boys Town is located near Omaha, Nebraska, and is home to more than 600 children and teens, many of whom have fled abuse or neglect in their own homes or have struggled with behavioral problems. The Foundation grant helps underwrite the Boys Town youth garden, which supports the nonprofit organization’s mission of changing young people in body, mind and spirit.

The Bridge for Youth – $30,000
The Bridge for Youth helps homeless youth in crisis in Minneapolis.

Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis – $30,000
Catholic Charities works to prevent poverty, meet basic needs in times of crisis and create pathways out of poverty. They focus their services in over 35 different programs at more than 20 locations throughout the region.

Food Bank for the Heartland – $5,000
Food Bank for the Heartland is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Omaha, Nebraska, that distributes food to 244 schools and 225 food pantries, emergency shelters and other nonprofit partners. They are the largest food bank in Nebraska and Iowa, serving 93 counties in the two-state region.

Food Bank of South Dakota – $5,000
Feeding South Dakota is a hunger relief organization, fighting daily to eliminate hunger in the state. Each week, Feeding South Dakota assists in providing temporary food assistance to approximately 21,000 hungry individuals and families in the state. Their BackPack Program gives food every weekend to over 5,000 kids who otherwise might go hungry.

Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia – $5,000
Food Bank of Southeastern Virginia distributes emergency food to over 400 partner agencies and programs throughout their 4,745 square-mile service area, including the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Suffolk, Franklin, and Virginia Beach, as well as the counties of Southampton, Northampton, Sussex, Isle of Wight, and Accomack.

Great Plains Food Bank – $5,000
The Great Plains Food Bank’s mission is to end hunger in North Dakota and western Minnesota through community partnerships. They are the largest hunger-relief organization in North Dakota and serve as its only food bank. Each year, they touch the lives of one in 9 individuals who seek emergency food assistance.

Hoosiers Hills Food Bank – $5,000
Hoosier Hills Food Bank in Bloomington, Indiana, provides over three million pounds of food annually to nearly 100 other nonprofits serving people with low incomes and personal challenges, children and seniors. HHFB member agencies serve an estimated 7,500 people each week and 25,800 individuals annually.

Loaves and Fishes – $30,000
Loaves and Fishes is a nonprofit meal program in Minnesota that serves hot meals to those in need. Established in 1982, they served over 467,000 nutritious meals in 2015.

Manna Food Bank – $5,000
Manna Food Pantries in Pensacola, Florida, is a local, grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting hunger in Escambia & Santa Rosa counties. Their mission is to offer emergency food assistance, service the food–related needs of vulnerable populations and engage the entire community in the fight against hunger.

Matter – $30,000
Originally called Hope for the City, Matter is a nonprofit on a mission to expand access to health, next door and around the world. Located in St. Louis Park, they have helped distribute more than $550 million in wholesale goods to people in need all over the world.

Neighborhood House – $30,000
Neighborhood House is a multi-service agency in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that helps people with basic needs, education, multiple youth programs, and health and well-being.

Neighbors, Inc. – $30,000
Neighbors is located in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is a non-profit, social-service agency providing emergency assistance and supportive assistance programs to low-income community members in northern Dakota County communities.

Our Lady of Grace Food Pantry – $5,000
Our Lady of Grace Food Pantry is a ministry of Our Lady of Grace Church and works through Community Action in Minot, North Dakota.

Perspectives– $30,000
Perspectives is an award winning, multi-program, human service agency located in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. They provide support for women and their children suffering from addictions, mental illness and poverty.

Robeson County Church & Community Center – $5,000
The Robeson County Church and Community Center in Lumberton, North Carolina, seeks to involve people across cultural, racial, class, and denominational barriers in partnership with each other to address social needs and to move toward solutions.

Sojourner Project – $30,000
Sojourner maintains working relationships with many police departments serving the west Hennepin Community in Minnesota. Their programs serve more than 1,000 battered women and children each year through their shelter and community-based services.

Special Olympics Minnesota – $30,000
Special Olympics Minnesota offers children and adults with intellectual disabilities year-round sports training and competition. Through Special Olympics’ athletic, health and leadership programs, people with intellectual disabilities transform themselves, their communities and the world.

Statesboro/Bulloch City Food Bank – $5,000
The Food Bank, Inc. was founded in 1998 and serves the Statesboro, GA, area.

The Michigan City Salvation Army – $5,000
The Michigan City Salvation Army in Michigan City, Indiana, offers emergency assistance and basic human services to some of the most vulnerable residents of their community.

Valley Rescue Mission – $5,000
For 50 years Valley Rescue Mission in Columbus, Georgia, has worked to affect a change in the quality of life for the homeless, the needy and the addicted, helping people reenter society as productive, contributing citizens upon completion of the programs.

Vetshouse Incorporated – $30,000
Vetshouse is a unique nonprofit organization serving homeless veterans in Hampton Roads., Virginia. It is not a shelter, but a twelve-month program providing contemporary living quarters in a group environment, assistance in job hunting, transportation, personal skills and development guidance.

Warriors at Ease, Silver Springs, MD – $30,000
Warriors at Ease brings the healing power of yoga and meditation to military communities around the world, especially those affected by combat-stress, PTSD and trauma. They train and deploy certified mind-body professionals to settings where they can enhance the health and well-being of service members, veterans, families and healthcare staff.

West Ohio Food Bank – $5,000
The West Ohio Food Bank in Lima, Ohio, will deliver about six and a half million pounds of food this year to over 100 agencies, shelters, soup kitchens and pantries in their 11 county service area.