Community Shares of Minnesota

Charity is good - but change is better. What if we could create a community where food shelves were less necessary? It’s happening right now, thanks to our member groups who demonstrate the kind of thinking that’s lighting a fire under the status quo.

For more than 33 years, this is the work we have been doing at Community Shares of Minnesota — funding the organizations working at the root of the problems rather than just treating the symptoms. These groups are changing the assumptions that some issues won’t ever go away. With your help, we are ending poverty, reducing violence, building affordable housing, providing health care, fighting discrimination, winning peace and meeting urgent needs.

We understand that no one wants to be labeled. But we’ve developed five core action areas that explain the diverse work of our members to make their social justice focus easier to understand. Each of our 49 member groups work in at least one of our core action areas:
• quality education • access to healthcare • safe and affordable housing • promoting human rights • uniting communities.

Supporting Community Shares of Minnesota directly with a gift allows us to leverage your gift and provide access for our members to reach an even wider audience of donors and supporters through workplace giving.

To do this work well, we need the support of people like you — and even a few dollars every few weeks makes a significant difference. Bottom line, if you share our passion for making permanent, positive changes, there is no better place to change the future. Because charity is good. But change is better.