Dear Friends, As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I’m reflecting upon the many blessings we’ve experienced over the past year at MATTER. We have so much to be thankful for – beginning with YOU, our faithful partners, donors and volunteers. Together, we impacted nearly three million lives this year with improved healthcare, nutrition, education, and […]
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Yesterday, MATTER held its first annual Companies That MATTER Awards Ceremony, recognizing the 71 organizations that partnered with us in 2024 to pack MATTERbox Snack Packs and Hope Kits, bringing help and support to people in their communities. Among the companies receiving recognition for their community impact in 2024 were: Aveda – Largest Gift in
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As part of Austin High School’s homecoming week this year, students celebrated their school spirit by gathering on the school’s front lawn to pack beneficial food for their community. In what was MATTER’s largest packing event to date, more than 1,600 students in grades 9-12 assembled 24,000 MATTERbox snack packs totaling 9,000 pounds of food!
On March 7th, more than one-hundred people descended on the Mall of America® to compete in MATTER’s tenth annual MATTERbox Madness. Held in the Huntington® Bank Rotunda, sixteen teams of employees from companies across the Twin Cities, all with amazing team spirit, raced against each other in a bracket-style competition to assemble boxes of beneficial
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The tenth annual MATTERbox Madness is right around the corner! On March 7th, sixteen companies will once again meet at the Mall of America® for a friendly competition to pack 10,000 MATTERbox snack packs for hungry children this summer. MATTERbox Madness 2024 brings teams of employees together from some of Minnesota’s most generous companies to
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Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do at MATTER. Our mission of helping people launch projects that improve communities moves forward only as we join hearts and hands in partnership with other like-minded individuals and organizations. Recently, MATTER collaborated with Treasure Island Resort and Casino, Prairie Island Indian Community, and The Minnesota Timberwolves
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As the crisp air of the holiday season begins to envelop us, the spirit of giving and unity gently nudges at our hearts. Participating in a food packing event like the MATTERbox Pack-A-Thon becomes a heartwarming and impactful way to spread joy and meals for families and children within our communities, ensuring that the essence
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Have you asked yourself, “Where has the summer gone?” I have! It went so quickly this year. But as the saying goes, “Time flies when you are having fun!” And that’s exactly what the MATTERbox team has been doing. With 16 packing events in just the last two months, our partners provided thousands of summer snack packs for
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Meeting Amanda Escen for the first time, you’d never guess she’s the mover and shaker behind one of MATTER’s most successful initiatives of the last decade. Humble and unassuming, she shies away from the spotlight, preferring instead to make her mark behind the scenes. And she surely has made her mark here in Minnesota and
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MATTERbox Update – June 2023 Summer is almost officially here! For many kids in Minnesota, that means long, sunny days of playing outside, swimming in lakes, going to camps, and doing all the things that make summer so fun. Sadly, though, there are tens of thousands of kids in Minnesota that won’t enjoy these summer
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