Serving Hamel, Long Lake, Medicine Lake, Medina, Minnetonka Beach,
Orono, Plymouth, and Wayzata
IOCP's monthly online newsletter
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LaDonna Hoy
Executive Director
No matter a recession. We and our community partners are committed to staying on mission. If anything, now more than ever.
At IOCP we've girded ourselves for the challenge, trimmed an already lean budget of $200,000, frozen salaries, and are pursuing new and old funding sources with a passion. What we simply can't afford to do is become discouraged worshippers of a crisis. Not now. Not when families and kids of our community need us more than ever.
Picasso had the right idea. Reflecting on what to do in hard times, he said, "When you run out of red, use blue." You just create new ways of doing what's important. You don't cave.
On April 30, we celebrated with partners, volunteers, donors, friends the power of a community that has discovered what it cares about. This community. We celebrated how far we've come together over the past 30 years.
To ensure a safe place to call home for every family, a strong start in life for every child, educational opportunity for every youth, a chance for every breadwinner to make a living, a way for every senior to live in dignity, a welcome to a new home for every immigrant, health and healing for the most vulnerable in our midst, and the shelter of each other in the storms of life.
Together is the operative word in all this. It does take the whole village. And what a village we've become!
Stay with us, friends, hard times notwithstanding, as we create a new and hopeful future for the people God has placed in our path.
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Get your garden growing
The 10th annual plant sale has something for everyone! A perennial favorite, the May 13-16 event is organized by community volunteers. Plants are donated by area gardeners and landscapers. Come early for best selection. Exceptional quality and prices.
Location: 17400 12th Ave. North, Plymouth.
Times: May 13-15: 7 a.m.-5 p.m.; May 16: 7 a.m.- 1 p.m.
We need perennials (except yellow daylilies) by May 10.
To donate plants, call Gary at 763-473-7990.
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 Funding critical for
CfKI to reach its goal
The Caring for Kids Initiative's goal this year is to raise $250,000 for its scholarship program.
The Grotto Foundation
(Foundation Executive Director Ellis F. Bullock, left, with CfKI Advisory Board Co-chair Brenda Heim and CfKI Director Nancy Johnson) has awarded CfKI $25,000 to support the scholarship program. The CfKI breakfast, held April 23, raised nearly $30,000 for the program. |
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Minnesota FoodShare boosts inventory
At a critical time for food shelves, this community stepped up. Total food and in-kind donations for the March Minnesota FoodShare drive were 39,700 lbs. of food and $23,960. Thank you for your generous response!
We're especially proud of two of our own--Charlie Cook and Greg Dubay--who were named Outstanding Food Shelf Volunteers by Minnesota FoodShare for 2009.
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Be a VISTA volunteer, help youth succeed
 Looking for a life-changing experience right in your own backyard? IOCP will host two Americorps VISTA volunteers late summer 2009. Questions? Contact Anne Taylor. To apply, click here.
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Our mission is to identify and respond to the basic unmet needs of people in our community, and to assist them in moving toward self-sufficiency through the creative action of an inclusive partnership of communities of faith, schools, government, businesses, community groups, foundations, health systems, and individuals.
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