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MATTERbox Madness 2016

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Cargill Food Madness

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] The weather was cold and dreary outside, but inside the #teamMATTER Experience Center the competition was just beginning to heat up. Nine teams of 10-15 employees, each competing for the coveted

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Cargill Pack N’ Serve

It was a cloudy, oddly warm mid-February afternoon in St. Louis Park, when a group of motivated Cargill Global IT employees arrived to break-in the new #teamMATTER Experience Center! After an eye-opening experience in “Pathways of Hope”, which sheds light on the many different faces of poverty today, the team wasted no time getting to

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Local Organizations Expanding Health Together

This past Holiday Season, Q Health Connections collaborated with Matter and nine local health-focused organizations to impact local families through a holiday food distribution. Dedicated employees and volunteers canceled holiday plans to make this three-site distribution possible. In under four hours, 960 MATTERboxes containing over 10,000 healthy shelf meals were distributed to over 450 local families.

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On the front lines: how Hennepin County Sheriff’s deputies use the MatterBox

When the Matter team designed the MatterBox, we set out to do something about the fact that only 5% of the 100 million missing meals in Minnesota are coming from a traditional food shelf. Matter could see so many fantastic nonprofits and agencies working on the front lines of hunger and homelessness, groups who already interact

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UBS team packages thousands of healthy meals for Twin Cities community

Families from UBS work together to package dinner boxes as a team, bringing healthy food to local families facing food insecurity around the Twin Cities. The MatterBox couldn’t find its way into the hands of those who need it without the help of many, many other hands along the way. In order for hospitals, police stations,

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Simple Act: Second Quarter Report 2015

Check out the ways in which Matter is expanding access to health and food, next door and around the world in the second quarter of 2015! You’ll learn about Matter partnering with the Hennepin County Medical Center to address Diabetes with healthy food from the MATTERbox, a recent teamMATTER insight trip across Africa where they met with the Tanzanian

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The Feeding of the 5000

On August 13th, Hope For the Community Food Shelf took on the ambitious goal of tripling their weekly food distribution. The Blaine-based Hope Church typically feeds 1,800 individuals weekly, but, through inspiration from the Biblical story of the Feeding of the 5,000, Reverand Al Goracke wanted to do better to address the needs he sees

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MATTERbox Helping Kids Knock Out Summer Hunger

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