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PRISM Receives Hunger-Free Minnesota Grant

The grant is part of an effort to create the 'Food Shelf of the Future.'

Hunger-Free Minnesota named Golden Valley’s PRISM as one of the recipients of more than $600,000 total in new Community Close-Up grants that it announced Friday.

The grants will help organizations work toward creating the “Food Shelf of the Future”—including strengthening the food shelf supply chain to provide more effective distribution through mobile programs and to reach underserved communities or populations including children and seniors.

Grants ranged from $2,000 to $5,000 for initial planning grants to as much as $50,000 for implementation grants. PRISM received a planning grant, but the Hunger-Free Minnesota release did not specify the size of the grant. 

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Hunger-Free Minnesota is a data-driven effort that uses Census tract-level information to identify the number of missing meals and the available resources in a community.

“A key benefit of the Community Close-Up analysis is that it allows us to identify communities and even neighborhoods with the highest concentration of missing meals statewide,” the release quoted Ellie Lucas, Hunger-Free Minnesota’s chief campaign officer. “50 percent of Minnesota’s missing meals are in the Twin Cities Metro area, but they are distributed unevenly in both the urban core and the suburbs. Meanwhile, about 40 percent of Minnesota’s missing meals are missed by rural residents. Our grants reflect a mix of local programs and community initiatives that taken together will improve the overall effectiveness of the state’s hunger relief system now and in the future.”

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