Who We Serve

Youth Programs

Brian Coyle Community Center

Run by Pillsbury United Communities, the Brian Coyle Community Center serves the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis with basic needs, self-sufficiency, and youth services. The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg serves a weekly meal to the youth and staff of the Kids College program. Additionally, youth from the FANS college preparation program volunteer with the Campus Kitchen at Augsburg to deliver meals to neighborhood elderly and those with disabilities.

Picture of a Campus Kitchen volunteer hard at work.Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota Youth Program

The Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota strives to strengthen the Somali people's capacity to become contributing members in Minnesota, while preserving their culture. The Youth Program is an after-school tutoring program for Somali youth. The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg provides daily snacks for the tutoring program.

Phillips Community Television

Phillips Community Television, also known as PCTV, is a Minneapolis based non-profit youth development organization that empowers young people to engage with their communities through learning, teaching and making media. In their after school program, INDY, youth learn about different forms of media and produce independent media projects. The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg delivers snacks to this program twice a week.

Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Assocation: Kidz Café

A new program and a new partnership of the Campus Kitchen's, the Kidz Café at Powderhorn Park is run by the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association. This program offers dinner every other Friday to local youth as well as the chance for youth to connect with adult mentors.

Trinity Lutheran Safe Place: Homework Help Program

The Safe Place is a tutoring program of the Trinity Lutheran Congregation for Cedar-Riverside kids, primarily East African, to receive help with homework after school during the regular school year. Volunteers (many of them Augsburg students participating in Augsburg Reads!) work with the kids on homework, and the Campus Kitchen at Augsburg provides a hot snack once a week.

Shelters

Peace House

A day shelter that provides hospitality during the day in a peaceful and restful place, Peace House gives food, voice, and respect to homeless and low-income people in the neighborhood Franklin and Portland Avenues in Minneapolis. Every lunch is preceded by 'Meditation,' a group discussion on a rotating topic. The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg serves lunch at Peace House every Thursday.

Secure Waiting Space

Run by Catholic Charities, Secure Waiting Space is an emergency shelter for men with no permanent housing referred by counties, police, or other shelters. The shelter can hold up to 250 men each night. The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg serves dinner at Secure Waiting 2-3 Sundays each month.

Loaves and Fishes

The mission of of Loaves & Fishes is to provide nutritious meals to the hungry of the Twin City Metro area in an atmosphere of hospitality at site locations where the need is greatest. Loaves and Fishes holds the core belief that everyone is entitled to a meal with dignity. The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg prepares two meals every other month that are served by Loaves and Fishes volunteers.

Low Income and Elderly Individuals

Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly

Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) is an international non-profit volunteer-based organization committed to relieving isolation and loneliness among the elderly. With a focus on companionship and quality of life, LBFE provided friendship and transportation to isolated seniors. The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg delivers dinner to LBFE clients in the Nokomis neighborhood once a week.

Common Bond Communities - Seward West and East Towers

Elderly and disabled residents of two Common Bond Communities low-income apartment towers receive dinner once a week from the Campus Kitchen at Augsburg. Common Bond Communities manages these apartment buildings and provides services for residents.

Ebenezer Tower

A service of Ebenezer, an elderly services program of Fairview Health Services, Ebenezer Tower provides subsidized housing to elderly. Ebenezer Tower strives to provide a social and safe atmosphere for its residents. Some residents of Ebenezer Tower receive dinner once a week from the Campus Kitchen at Augsburg.

Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center: Healing Journeys

The Healing Journey Program provides late-stage chemically dependent women with case management, education on addiction and recovery, and social and cultural support services. The program utilizes the Ojibwe cultural tradition "Zhoo-way-nah-dig," meaning "take care of each other," and is a unique approach designed to improve the overall quality of life for chronic substance abusers. The Campus Kitchen at Augsburg provides lunch twice a week for the Healing Journeys program.