Thank you to the Edina branches for your sponsorship donation for our materials to create our stall to sell the produce in August at the Mill City Farmers Market.

Thank you General manager, Chris Whitehill for the wood mulch donation!

Thank you Luverne Verhoecen for helping us with a compost donation!

Thank you so much to Edina Hardware Store’s awesome owner, Dave Conkey, who donated almost all the materials the kids needed for their Chowen Youth Garden. We really appreciate it! Go visit Dave at his store. This trustworthy hardware store’s motto is: “We speak fluent doohickey & whatchamacalit!”

Cristo Rey’s goal is to maximize the students’ potential to prepare them to assume leadership roles in civic, business, and cultural life.

The Minnesota Internship Center partners with communities and learners to achieve academic, career, and life success. The Minnesota Internship Center Charter School is open to all, but seeks to enroll students who have not fared well in traditional high schools and alternative settings.

PPL’s mission is to work with lower-income individuals and families to achieve greater self-sufficiency through housing, employment training, support services, and education. The agency is guided in this work by the philosophy of “Helping people help themselves.”

An attraction for all ages, Mill City Museum chronicles the flour milling industry that dominated world flour production for roughly a half-century and fueled the growth of Minneapolis, recognized across the nation and around the world as “Mill City.”

The Mill City Farmers Market started in June, 2006. Their mission is to offer experiential learning about and access to healthy local foods, and build a vibrant gathering place for Minneapolis residents and visitors. It features locally grown organic products by local vendors. The Market is open on Saturdays from 8:00 am - 1:00 pm, May 9 through Oct. 18.

Nutritious and delicious food, made by Chipotle, will be served to our youth while working hard on their projects.

YEA Corps is partnering with Dunn Brothers and their new Community Giving Program.

The Minnesota Youth Community Learning (MYCL) Initiative, funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, partners Konopka Institute staff at the University of Minnesota and seven Minnesota community coalitions. Their collaboration re-engages students who are disconnected from learning and school through skill-based mentoring, parental support education and assistance, fostering school connectedness, and community capacity building.