Thank you to everyone who gave time and money to the Northside Benefit. Through your generosity we were able to raise $26,600.00 for eight community organizations working on the tornado recovery effort in North Minneapolis.

The nonprofit organizations chosen have a stated mission to provide shelter, food, medical services, counseling, child care, utility assistance, youth mentoring and employment opportunities to the residents of North Minneapolis.

• North Community YMCA for opening up their facility to tornado victims and giving free memberships to those hardest hit by the tornado. The North Community YMCA is known for working with and not simply doing for those in their community.
• Elim Transitional Housing for answering the call of giving transitional housing to displaced renters and homeowners.
• Urban Homeworks for their faith-based and practical innovative community development that works in partnership with low income families to produce dignified housing through developing a strategic network of good neighbors.
• EMERGE— on behalf of the Northside Community Response Team (NCRT)— to specifically employ over 150 North Minneapolis youth and 13 adults to work on north side community beautification crews for 4-7 weeks during the summer of 2011.
• God’s Prayer Center for giving food, shelter, and counseling to the hardest hit on the North Side.
• Sweetie Pie Urban Farming for creating organic community gardens with North Minneapolis youth.
• At Home Group for their willingness to establish a Northside Relief Transportation Fund to buy month long bus passes for tornado victims in need of getting to work, visiting family, or traveling to and from the North Community YMCA.
• iRelief (aka mplstornado.info) for effectively keeping the entire Minneapolis community informed on how to be of help to those directly hit by the tornado through their Facebook site: Mpls Tornado. Plus, for directly organizing large food drives and benefits for the victims.