2021-05-14T13:56:25-07:00 2020-06-30 990 2019-07-01 463139547 NORTH COUNTRY FOOD ALLIANCE NORT 6125684585 2400 Blaisdell Ave Ste 2B Minneapolis MN 55404 Maria Wesserle Admin Coordinator 2316757695 2021-05-14 2019 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Alison Hoyer 2400 Blaisdell Ave Ste 2B Minneapolis MN 55404 567741 0 X www.ncfa-mn.org X 2013 MN North Country Food Alliance (NCFA) is dedicated to eliminating food waste, increasing access to fresh produce, and sharing food with people in need in the Twin Cities Metro. We rescue food (mostly fresh produce) that local businesses conventionally waste due to overstock and safely transport it to food shelves and shelters across the Metro Area. We educate and engage communities directly through our food donation gardens, in which folks from the neighborhood help tend to the plants and eat as much from the garden as they'd like for free. Any excess produce is delivered to local food shelves. We also have a community meals program, in which we partner with community kitchens to help provide hot meals to vulnerable populations. 5 4 18 42 0 0 235781 556803 0 0 0 2 0 10936 235781 567741 0 311681 0 0 202563 142205 0 0 59086 40867 33096 243430 486982 -7649 80759 36303 101240 9557 3425 26746 97815 North Country Food Alliance increases access to healthy foods and shares food with people in need. To that end, we rescue overstock food (mostly produce) and deliver it free of charge to local nonprofit organizations, build community gardens, and serve community meals. 0 0 56713 0 3436 The outreach and education program has over 40,000 conversations in the Twin Cities Metro raising awareness of commercial food waste. These conversations don't just affect people's view of the world but also drive fellow community members into action. Business owners, store managers, farmers, gardeners, and other people participate with the foodshare, community garden, and community meals program because of their contact with canvassers. In addition we find and start communication with local nonprofit workers that guide the focus of our work. Our other programs are informed by the outreach program. We educate our neighbors and they return in kind. 341727 311681 0 Foodshare: We partner with businesses metro wide including but not limited to: grocery stores, food co-ops, distributers, and food production facilities. We take the perishable food products such as fresh produce, meat, bread, dairy, that these businesses know they would have to waste without our help. Our workers ensure rapid and safe transportation of the food to be used by Twin Cities nonprofits every weekday. We give this food away completely free of charge to food shelves, shelters, and other nonprofits, allowing them to concentrate their resources where they are needed. Last year, we rescued 311,681 pounds of food and delivered it to 49 different groups that serve people who face food insecurity. 8096 0 0 Community Garden: We plant gardens in neighborhoods with restricted access to fresh produce. These gardens give people the opportunity to learn how to grow their own healthy food and provide free produce to folks in the neighborhood. This year, we broke ground at a new community garden at a public housing site in South Minneapolis. This large garden site was stewarded by Youth Farm for decades. In 2019, Youth Farm discontinued their programs in South Minneapolis, and we were pleased to partner with the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority in order to continue to ensure the flourishing of this great space. We also manage a garden in North Minneapolis, which has grown to house 16 circular raised beds and 16 rectangular ones. This is the largest it's been since its founding in 2017. 2890 0 7500 Community meals: We decided that our original plan of establishing a food truck to serve free hot meals was beyond our capacity to manage. Instead, we sold our food truck and reinvested the profits in a scaled-down community meals program. We leveraged our connections with local community centers and nonprofit organizations to collaborate with community kitchens already in existence to cook and serve free food on a regular basis. This resulted in one event cooking for the Lyndale Community Dinner, a weekly pay-what-you-can community meal in South Minneapolis. We then connected with House of Charity, a local shelter and soup kitchen, to recruit volunteers to assist with preparing and serving food. We successfully partnered with House of Charity Food Center for three community meals in February. We planned to continue this relationship, but at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak decided to pause this program. 2890 0 7500 409426 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 18 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 5 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 MN X X X Catherine Menick 6125684585 2400 Blaisdell Ave Ste 2B Minneapolis MN 55404 Anja Witek Director 10 0 X 10752 0 0 James Arroyo-Miller Secretary 1 0 X X 1302 0 0 Jill Jacobson Chair 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Emmett Doyle Treasurer 1 0 X X 0 0 0 Shannon Nordby Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Vesper Perry Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 Jarrod Julius Director 1 0 X 0 0 0 12054 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47800 509003 311681 556803 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sale of expensed vehicle 900099 7500 7500 0 0 Insurance claim for totaled vehicle 900099 3436 3436 0 0 0 0 0 0 10936 567741 10936 0 2 311681 311681 0 0 0 0 0 0 11767 4397 3415 3955 0 0 0 0 119276 65506 11453 42317 0 0 0 0 118 63 14 41 11044 5891 1253 3900 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 392 208 47 137 3281 1739 394 1148 482 255 58 169 0 0 0 0 4500 2385 540 1575 8282 6449 44 1789 0 0 0 0 146 0 0 146 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3102 2854 0 248 9606 5091 1153 3362 Other Foodshare Expenses 1016 1016 0 0 Other Garden Expenses 1444 1444 0 0 Dues and Fees 821 435 99 287 Miscellaneous Expense 24 12 0 12 0 0 0 0 486982 409426 18470 59086 14589 0 750 88180 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18986 5926 20964 13060 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36303 101240 9557 3425 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9557 3425 X 5033 60488 21713 37327 26746 97815 36303 101240 80759 0 0 0 -9690 0 X 0 0 0 X 192752 204807 245618 235781 556803 1435761 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 192752 204807 245618 235781 556803 1435761 182669 1253092 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10936 10936 1446699 0 0.86617 1 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 10 Sale of expensed vehicle- $7,500; Insurance claim for totaled vehicle- $3,436 RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18986 5926 13060 0 0 0 0 13060 0 Aliveness Project 3808 Nicollet Ave S Minneapolis MN 554091304 411593900 501(C)(3) 0 13212 FMV Culled food Donation for distribution at their food shelf and through their kitchen program Groveland Food Shelf 1900 Nicollet Ave Minneapolis MN 554093746 411933266 501(C)(3) 0 57456 FMV Culled food Donated for distribution at their food shelf VEAP 9600 Aldrich Ave S Bloomington MN 554204210 416175999 501(C)(3) 0 160166 FMV Culled food Donated for distribution at their food shelf Center for Victims of Torture 2356 University Ave W 430 Saint Paul MN 551141860 363383933 501(C)(3) 0 5115 FMV Culled food Donated for distribution at their food shelf Korean Service Center (Grace Place) 630 Cedar Ave S B1 Minneapolis MN 554541259 411678348 501(C)(3) 0 17647 FMV Culled food Donated for distribution through their kitchen program Pillsbury United Communities (Waite House) 125 W Broadway Ave 130 Minneapolis MN 554112246 410916478 501(C)(3) 0 15905 FMV Culled food Donated for distribution at food shelf Bois Forte Reservation (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe) 1308 E Franklin Ave Minneapolis MN 554042924 410954784 501(C)(3) 0 8680 FMV Culled food Donated for distribution at their food shelf and through their kitchen program Brothers EMpowered 2200 N Fremont Ave Minneapolis MN 554112543 471431272 501(C)(3) 0 5400 FMV Culled food Donated for distribution at food shelf 8 0 Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 We maintain regular contact with our food recipients, usually visiting the site at least weekly X 311681 311681 FMV of $1 per lb 0 0 0 Schedule M, Part I, Line 19 311,681 is the total pounds of food donated Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 As written in our bylaws, application for voting membership shall be open to any person that has a paid position at North Country Food Alliance and supports the purpose statement in Article I, Section 2. Membership is granted when an applicant is hired by a 67% majority vote of current worker-members. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a As written in our bylaws, new directors and current directors shall be elected or re-elected annually by the current worker-members. Directors will be elected by a simple majority vote of the worker-members at a regularly-scheduled worker-meeting. The worker-meeting where the annual board election is to take place must be designated at a regularly-scheduled worker-meeting at least two weeks prior to the election. During the day a board election is scheduled, every current worker member must be notified of the details of the election either by email or telephone. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Form 990 is prepared by the administrative coordinators at North Country Food Alliance and reviewed by an accountant before it is sent to the organization's board members for their review and approval. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c This was done by all members of the governing body determining if anyone would be uneligible to vote on policy or decisions that would go against our current conflict of interest policy. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 Annual budget was approved by the board of directors, which includes employee compensation. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 There is a page on our website that hosts official documents. Additional documentation can always be made available by request. Our 990s can also be found on third-party sites, such as GuideStar.