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PROJECT SWEETIE PIE
Project Sweetie Pie is a nonprofit organization in North Minneapolis working since 2011 with individuals and partner organizations to achieve justice in food, climate, economics, and the environment.
A place to inform, infuse, inspire, and instruct
Project Sweetie Pie primarily works with volunteers to activate community assets and to energize and create neighborhood joy.
Examples of our work include:
- Mentoring and empowering youth at North High School and the Step Up program to teach agriculture and entrepreneurship skills
- Establishing urban farms and gardens throughout the metro area to grow and strengthen the urban agriculture movement
- Distributing fresh produce to the Northside Minneapolis community
- Scouting out and marshaling resources to fuel a variety of neighborhood nonprofits working within the food access, food justice, and food sovereignty space
- Writing and advocating for groundbreaking urban agriculture legislature at the city, county, regional and state levels
- Partnering with Pillsbury United Communities - Oak Park Center to grow and manage our garden behind the building, and provide produce used to support free community meals served every Tuesday - Thursday
“North Minneapolis is going green. Give us a call and learn what we mean. Where once lay urban blight. Now sits luscious garden sites. Gardens without borders, Classrooms without walls. Architects of our own destinies. Access to food justice for all.”
A One Piece of a Larger Investment
Project Sweetie Pie is proudly a community-led piece of a larger committment that has been made to North Minneapolis by several levels of government.
The City of Minneapolis has designated much of North Minneapolis as a
Green Zone. Created in 2016,
the City
introduced
this initiative with the goal of
“improving health and supporting economic development using environmentally conscious efforts in communities that face the cumulative effects of environmental pollution, as well as social, political and economic vulnerability”.
Our founder, Michael Chaney, currently serves as a member on the
Northside Green Zone Task Force.
Much of North Minneapolis has also been designated by the State of Minnesota as an Opportunity Zone. Additionally, a significant portion of North Minneapolis has been recognized by HUD as a Promise Zone, selected in the program's second round of designations, in 2015.
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Planting The Seeds of Change
Project Sweetie Pie is a nonprofit organization in North Minneapolis working since 2011 with individuals and partner organizations to achieve justice in food, climate, economics, and the environment.
