Fall 2025 Food Assistance: What You Can Do to Support the Community
Nonprofits, community partners and food shelves are working swiftly to provide resources to fill in the gap as best they can.
SNAP Benefits Loss
440,000 Minnesotans use SNAP or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to put food on their tables each month. Amid the government shutdown, states’ monthly SNAP budget from the federal government will not be distributed, leaving thousands without this month’s food.
Nonprofits, community partners and food shelves are working swiftly to provide resources to fill in the gap as best they can.
Those impacted include:
- 152,000 children
- 72,000 seniors
- 52,000 people with disabilities
Read more about the loss in SNAP benefits in a recent MPR News article.
What Can You Do?
- Donate to the Foundation’s Community Sharing Fund
- Contact your members of Congress
- Share food resources
- Donate to or volunteer with Food Access nonprofits
Community Sharing Fund
Every year, donors, businesses and other foundations contribute to the Community Sharing Fund (CSF). CSF then grants 100% of donations to support families in need experiencing urgent and emergency financial hardship. This season we’re moving additional resources to our neighbors experiencing food access challenges due to SNAP losses.
Learn more about the Fund's impact.
To donate to Community Sharing Fund, visit its GiveMN page, give online now, or if you are a fundholder contact your philanthropic advisor.
Contact Your Member of Congress
The USDA has a contingency fund it can use to fund SNAP during a shutdown – join us in encouraging Congress and the USDA to use the contingency fund. Take action via The Food Group.
Food Support Resources
Interactive Map of Food Support Resources in Minnesota
Meal and Grocery Resources Compiled by Model Cities
Resource Listings by County
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