The Consolidated Communications Community Fund of the Mankato Area Foundation awards $141,000 in grants to 20 local non-profit organizations across the company’s southern Minnesota service area. Consolidated’s Community Fund focuses its support [...]
MANKATO - While many have the option to stay home and protect themselves amid the COVID-19 pandemic, right now people experiencing homelessness are among the most vulnerable. Locally, The Salvation [...]
Advocates wanting to help the Twin Cities homeless are taking their demands for more shelter beds to the state capitol, Jeff Wagner reports (0:51). WCCO 4 News At 5 – [...]
MANKATO - Affordable housing remains a critical issue, which continues to pose a threat to the growing homeless population in the state of Minnesota. In a 2018 Minnesota Study of 4,279 interviews [...]
Event Winners: Most Team Spirit: Wellcome Manor Most Spirited Individual: Duane Olson Overall Most Miles Biked (team): Sliding Fridays Most Team Money Raised (day of): Holy Spokes! It's the Cycling [...]
MANKATO — Homelessness is an issue most if not all states and communities have to deal with. Often referred to as the “invisible population,” they want to be a part [...]
MANKATO - Energy was high inside the Mankato Family YMCA. Back for the eighth year, Partners for Affordable Housing held its’ Pedal Past Poverty Event. “They were very desperate for [...]
MANKATO - Kirsten Becker from Partners for Affordable Housing joined KEYC News Now Morning to talk about their upcoming fundraiser, the Pedal Past Poverty stationary bike race. The 8th Pedal [...]
ST. PETER - For young couple Joaquim and Jessica, being homeless was no longer an option. To keep their young daughter, Journey, safe and healthy, they needed stable housing. That’s [...]
Fighting hunger. Reducing homelessness. Supporting mental health. Providing opportunities for children. As our region continues to address these and other important issues, Greater Mankato Area United Way aims to be [...]
