2021 MATTERbox Madness: Tradition Capital Bank Champion | Trimble Wins Team Spirit Award
MATTER's seventh annual MATTERbox Madness is in the books! With twelve generous companies participating in the virtual competition this year, nearly 12,000 MATTERbox snack packs were packed, launching us toward our goal of providing 50,000 [...]
National Volunteer Month: Thanking Doers For Making The World Better!
MATTER is a group of problem solvers, innovators, dreamers, and above all, Doers. We're not content to sit around wishing the world was a better place, we work to make it one. And we do [...]
Healthy Snack Packs Build Relationships In Brooklyn Park
“The families I come into contact with were struggling to put food on the table when the economy was good. With COVID now, things are so much harder for them. Many of the parents are [...]
MATTERbox Madness Sponsor Spotlight: Buddy Fruits Donates 50,000 Fruit Pouches
Traditionally, the summer months are hard on families suffering from food insecurity. Relying upon school meal programs for their children during the school year, they often struggle to feed their kids once the school year [...]
Virtual Volunteering: What Is It and How Can I Volunteer?
What Is Virtual Volunteering? The idea of 'virtual volunteering' has become more popular with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Also called 'digital volunteering', 'online volunteering' or 'cyber volunteering', volunteering this way is [...]
Healthy Food: Corporate Partners Come Alongside Community With MATTERbox
Food insecurity has been a growing problem for many Minnesota families in recent years but with the economic fallout from the pandemic, the crisis is now greater than ever. According to a report from 2020, [...]
Student-Centered Learning: Malayaka House + Innovation Hub
Like most teenagers, Danny and Bobo live busy lives filled with school, sports, friends and family. At fifteen and seventeen, they're beginning to think about their futures and what they want to do when they [...]
Medical Supplies Bring Hope & Opportunity: Partnering With GoodJustice
GoodJustice is dedicated to bringing hope and opportunity to marginalized communities around the world. Started by Jeff Ryal over 12 years ago, it was a life-changing mission trip to Peru eight years earlier that planted [...]
Making Sustainability Sustainable: MATTER 360 Saved 1.5 Million Pounds From Landfills In 2020
The MATTER 360 Initiative was born out of MATTER's dual commitment to help people and be good stewards of our environment. By repurposing medical equipment and supplies for use in hospitals and clinics around the [...]
Get To Know Amanda Escen, MATTER’s New Board Chair
Earlier this month, MATTER's board of directors elected Amanda Escen as board chair. Amanda assumes the position from Casey Carl, who will continue to serve on the MATTER board. As MATTER's first female board chair, [...]