Rochester, Minnesota

The mission of The Landing MN is to provide assistance, guidance and support to those facing homelessness. It is built upon the premise that all are welcome and arms are open as they serve as the hands and feet of Jesus. Founded by Dan and Holly Fifield, The Landing MN is based in Rochester, Minnesota.

At Channel One Regional Food Bank, our mission is to strengthen food access and build healthy communities with a vision that every community in our region is food secure. As a member of Feeding America, we mobilize organizations, volunteers, and donors to serve the network of more than 200 nonprofit programs that provide food for children, adults, and families. We serve people experiencing hunger in 14 counties in southeastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin.

Our missions is to provide Pride events for the gender-identity and sexual-orientation minority communities and their allies; that inspire, educate, commemorate and celebrate our diverse community; in order to promote an environment for advocacy, outreach, inclusion, and equity for gender-identity and sexual-orientation minorities.

Today's youth face many challenges on their journey through adolescence and transition into adulthood. At Journie, we know that our youth are smart, creative, and curious. We see their limitless potential and aim to provide them with the skills and resources to envision and attain their ideal future. Journie is unique in its provision of high-quality, ongoing mentorship in addition to needs-based education and interactive learned experience. Our staff at Journie are culturally competent and can provide life skills based off lived experience.

Journie focuses not only on personal development, but on building a supportive, vibrant and engaged community for our young people where they can be naturally expressive in a safe, non-judgmental space.

Jeremiah Program offers one of the nation’s most successful strategies for transforming families from poverty to prosperity two generations at a time. We believe that no mother should have to make the untenable choice between investing in herself and her children. Our holistic approach allows families to dream what is possible when they are able to bring all of their identities to bear in pursuit of their goals.

the NAACP is the largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation. Our vision is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights and there is no racial hatred or racial discrimination. The Rochester Minnesota Branch of the NAACP was established October 11, 1965.

Advancing Asian American & Pacific Islander participation in democracy for an equitable & just society. Asian American Organizing Project (AAOP) is a non-partisan, nonprofit organization founded in 2014. AAOP was established from a community grassroots organizing movement that spanned at least two decades. Beginning the early 1990s with the first Asian American elected to public office, our collective AAPI community in Minnesota was suddenly thrust into the political limelight as a possible, viable voting bloc.

United Way of Olmsted County unites people and resources to improve lives in the community with a focus on education, health, and financial stability – the building blocks for a good quality of life. We do this by convening the community to address key issues, collaborating to achieve a measurable impact, and connecting human and financial resources to achieve our mission.

SCRS was formed by a volunteer network of Somali refugees to directly respond to the needs of Somali refugee and immigrants. Our mission is to promote and advance the social well-being and welfare of immigrants and refugees by providing much needed community and resettlement services, with the ultimate goal of building a vibrant community, whose members can successfully settle and effectively integrate into the wider American community

ACHLA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving Chicano, Hispanic, and Latin American families in Rochester, Minnesota. Our programs are designed to provide direct access to resources, information, and opportunities for the purpose of personal growth, and empowerment.

We are an out-of-school program open when kids need us most. Our membership is open to youth from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Club provides programs for kids and teens tailored to their specific educational and health needs.

Celebrating abilities one person at a time. Person-Centered programs and services have been created to address individual needs and desires. By wrapping services around individuals, we achieve a level of satisfaction that has been the key to their success for over 60 years.

Families First of Minnesota: Ensuring positive beginnings for all young children and their families. For over 40 years, Families First of Minnesota (formerly Child Care Resource & Referral) has been a non-profit organization in our community working as a resource for parents, child care programs, and community members in all areas of early childhood.

To support those affected by blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma while they are receiving care in Rochester, MN in order to promote healing and peace of mind.

Family Promise Rochester works to provide shelter, stability, skills and support to families facing homelessness. We collaborate with families to identify the obstacles and barriers that lead them to their current situation. We do this by building a strong relationship with the family, accessing resources, creating goals and providing skill-based trainings individualized to the family’s specific needs.

Spark's Mission is to enrich the lives of young learners by creating shared, interactive experiences that engage people of all ages in the joy of play, the power of learning, and a sense of community.

Bear Creek Services is a non-profit organization based in Rochester, MN, that provides services to individuals with developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injuries.

The Paws & Claws Mission is to promote and provide humane protection and shelter for abandoned or lost companion animals, seek adoptive homes for companion animals under our protective care, provide public education regarding the societal problem of animal overpopulation, promote the principles of responsible companion animal care, and advocate the spaying and neutering of all companion animals.

Camp Companion believes that all cats deserve a safe and loving home. Their mission is to prevent future generations of homeless animals. Their goal is to see a day when no animal is homeless. With the goals of relieving the suffering of homeless cats and reducing their staggering numbers, Camp Companion operates a free program to trap and neuter feral and stray cats, and then return them to their caretakers.

Sierra Club’s mission is to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the Earth, to practice and promote the responsible use of the Earth's ecosystems and resources, to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment, and to use all lawful means to carry out these objectives. We are working for a just, equitable, and fast transition to 100% renewable energy in Rochester!