Join us to
Nourish the Northland

More than 63,900 neighbors, including 1 in 6 children, are experiencing hunger in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin today.

You can increase access to healthy and nutritious food in the years ahead with your investment in our new facility construction and renovation project.  Your support will strengthen our capacity to enhance impact for over 70,000 neighbors and 300 agency and community partners (food shelves, on-site meal programs, tribal organizations) throughout our 15-county region.

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Adorable baby girl eating cottage cheese from spoon, healthy milk snack. Cute healthy toddler child, daughter with spoon sitting in highchair and learning to eat by itself in kitchen or nursery.

Unprecedented Demand

Second Harvest Northland continues to respond to unprecedented demand following high inflation and the end of pandemic benefits for our neighbors experiencing hunger.

Our Solution

Second Harvest Northland identified the need for a larger facility in 2019.  Our new facility and its enhanced capacity will now have critical impact at this important time.

Increase the variety, quality and number of meals distributed to 16 million (by 2032)

Increase access to nutritious food with 75% meeting USDA MyPlate standards (by 2032)

Increase equitable and dignified food access through a new, innovative and replicable “market” – a grocery store style food shelf

Phase 1
$16.5 million

  • Facility Purchase (60,000+ sq. ft.)
  • Freezer/Cooler (13,600 sq. ft.)
  • Program Drive-Through
  • Volunteer “Clean Room”
  • Operations Offices
  • Parking, Landscaping
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Phase 2
$3.5 million

  • Market (grocery store style food shelf)
  • Volunteer and Community Engagement Center
  • Program Offices
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Small girl eating vegetables in kitchen

“I know you love me because you give me food”

“The fresh produce is a blessing to our family”

“I’m able to cook meals for my grandchildren”

Our Investors

Amazon
Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation
Essentia Health
Hanft Fride P.A.
Lahti Family Charitable Foundation
Lloyd K. Johnson
Mardag Foundation
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Minnesota Power Foundation
North Shore Bank
Northland Foundation
Ordean Foundation
Otto Bremer Trust
St. Louis County
Super One Foods/Miner Family
Wildey H. Mitchell Foundation

Join us to Nourish the Northland

I’m honored to serve in this important role as we strengthen our capacity for food access to ensure Northland children grow up healthy, seniors receive essential nutrients for their good health and adults experience stability, vitality and a sense of well-being.

Kate Dean
Capital Campaign Chair

Committee Members

Karen Alworth Chris James
Courtney Benson John Kelly
Mike Graves Michael McParlan
Jim Hoolihan Tom Seidelmann

Learn More

To learn more contact Trisha Zimmerman, Director of Philanthropy, by phone at (218) 999-4135 or by email at tzimmerman@secondharvestnorthland.org