Who We Are
Our Mission
Our unrelenting focus is to provide nutritious food to our neighbors in a respectful manner while engaging our community in the fight against hunger.
Our Values
We believe that access to nutritious food is a basic human right. We are committed to responding to the needs of our community by providing food distribution and support services with dignity and respect.
Our History
Open Cupboard was established in 1983 as the Christian Cupboard Emergency Food Shelf or CCEFS, and initially started as a food closet in the basement of Woodbury Lutheran Church. During the first year of operation, CCEFS served about five families per week, at a time when Woodbury’s population was around 6,000 people. Over the years, the organization grew along with the needs of the community, eventually adding paid staff who worked alongside an army of dedicated volunteers.
During the mid 2010s it had become clear that the organization’s work could no longer be sustained in the basement of the church, and in 2017 CCEFS launched a capital campaign to raise funds to move from Woodbury Lutheran Church to a new building on the grounds of Guardian Angels Church. In January 2018 CCEFS opened its doors in its new home. This shift created enormous opportunity to grow our service to the community. In May 2021, CCEFS added a second site, called Today’s Harvest, in Oakdale near the intersection of 694 and Century Avenue. In March 2022, CCEFS opened a Today’s Harvest at our Guardian Angels location, allowing for both inside shopping and drive-up service. In May of 2022, CCEFS became Open Cupboard.
What We Do
Open Cupboard (formerly known as CCEFS) is a food shelf located in Oakdale. Currently, we provide food to more than 4,000 families each week through our regular Drive-Up food shelf visits, Today's Harvest Market, Delivery Program, and our Mobile Food Shelf.
During these difficult times, we know that there are many in our community who may be looking for help from Open Cupboard for the first time, or may have relied on us in the past and need us now more than ever.
Our primary service area is Oakdale, Woodbury, Landfall, and South Maplewood. However, our services are available to anyone who needs them, regardless of where they live.
To meet the ever-growing need in the community, we are in need of more volunteers! We are serving more families than ever, and we need YOUR help to keep going! There is a lot to do every day, and we wouldn't be able to keep up without our incredible volunteers.
If you have any questions on getting involved, contact Shannon at (651) 413-2685 or email Shannon@opencupboard.org.
Details
| (651) 413-2685 | |
| shannon@opencupboard.org | |
| Shannon Hollanitsch | |
| Volunteer and Operations Director | |
| https://opencupboard.org/ |
