Align Minneapolis is an interfaith collaboration of seventeen Minneapolis churches, synagogues, mosques, and people who have experienced homelessness working together to address homelessness and poverty.
Beacon interfaith is a collaborative of congregations united to create homes and advocate for equitable housing at the local and statewide level.
Central Lutheran Restoration Center
Central Lutheran Restoration Center, an integral part of our sister congregation’s ministry, provides a welcoming place for people experiencing homelessness and economic insecurity. Emergency rental assistance, employment services, clothing, meals, free-use computers, and basic health care services are available.
Community Emergency Services (CES)
Community Emergency Service, or CES, works to alleviate hunger and food insecurity through an on-site food shelf, food delivery programs, a partnership with Meals on Wheels, and its unique Ani-Meals program, which provides food for pets and service animals.
Every Meal (formerly Sheridan Story) coordinates the delivery of food to families struggling with food insecurity through partnership schools throughout Minnesota. It provides food for weekends, winter breaks, and summer breaks, times when children do not have access to free and reduced-cost meals at school.
Prior to COVID, Mount Olive volunteers partnered with the staff at Jefferson Community School to distribute food to children every Friday afternoon. Every Meal leaders and volunteers are currently assessing the program’s design and volunteers’ involvement.
The Lake Street Council is a nonprofit organization that champions the diverse community of Lake Street residents and businesses. It supports entrepreneurs starting new businesses and offers grants to help existing businesses thrive. The council also beautifies the streetscape, engages local businesses in policy work that affects the corridor, and encourages new development that aligns with goals of the street and community.
Lutheran Social Services operates more than twenty programs throughout the state of Minnesota. Services address housing, personal finances, counseling, senior care, refugee resettlement, disaster recovery, and the needs of those with disabilities.
LSS is the lead agency for the resettlement of the Afghan family Mount Olive has been sponsoring through our Global Ministry.
Minnesota Council of Churches seeks to build communities where people have meaningful relationships guided by members’ faith. It supports refugee services programs, social justice efforts, and justice advocacy, and it fosters interfaith connections. In addition, through its Respectful Conversations program, MCC brings together people of varying backgrounds and trains leaders for these conversations.
Our Saviour’s Community Services
Our Saviour’s Community Services, a nonprofit founded by our sister congregation, operates a shelter that in the past year has provided housing for those experiencing homelessness who have recently been released from the hospital. In addition, it provides transitional housing for women who have experienced domestic abuse and offers permanent supportive housing for men and women who live with a mental illness, physical disability, and/or substance use disorders.
Mount Olive volunteers provide meals once a month at the Our Saviour’s shelter.
Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association
The Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association enhances our neighborhood through special events, community-based publications, and advocacy on issues such as housing, economic equity, safety, and security.
Restorative Justice Community Action
Restorative Justice Community Action (RJCA) provides a community-based alternative to criminal prosecution, fostering individual growth while strengthening relationships and communities through restorative justice practices. By building on its indigenous roots and embracing a race-equity lens, RJCA leverages the voice of community particularly to transform the criminal legal system, ensure public safety, eliminate racial disparities, humanize conflict, and support communities to find shared solutions.
Sabathani Community Center is one of Minnesota’s oldest African American–founded nonprofits. It helps equip approximately 32,000 South Minneapolis residents annually through its food shelf, clothes closet, seniors programs, workforce initiatives, support for school-age children, and more.
Simpson Housing is a multifaceted organization, providing emergency shelter, single adult–supportive housing, and family-supportive housing across the Twin Cities. It offers developmental and educational services for children in its family shelter program and partners with metro-area landlords and developers to find sustainable housing. In addition, Simpson operates the Adult Shelter Connect program for Hennepin County, providing a single point of contact for those seeking shelter throughout the county.
The Tubman website articulates its mission and purpose: “For more than 45 years, Tubman has helped people of all ages, all genders, and all cultural backgrounds struggling with relationship violence, substance abuse, mental health, and other forms of trauma. Throughout the Twin Cities, Tubman provides safe shelter, legal services, counseling, youth programming, and community education. In 2022, we helped about 17,700 people in Hennepin, Ramsey, and Washington counties and the surrounding area get the support and information they need to experience safety, hope, and healing.”
Walk-In Counseling Center provides free, easily accessible mental health counseling to people with urgent needs and few service options. Counselors work with people struggling with depression, anxiety, chemical dependency, domestic violence, and many other emotional and interpersonal concerns.
