Minnies Food Pantry Inc.

#FeedJustOne

Mission

Minnie's Food Pantry is a 501 C3 charity that provides healthy meals and the red carpet treatment to every person we serve. We also provide training to the families to help them receive better life skills.

Ruling year info

2010

Founder

Dr. Cheryl Jackson

Main address

671 18th Street

Plano, TX 75074 USA

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EIN

27-2363211

NTEE code info

Food Banks, Food Pantries (K31)

Food Service, Free Food Distribution Programs (K30)

Philanthropy / Charity / Voluntarism Promotion (General) (T50)

IRS filing requirement

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Minnie's Food Pantry addresses the need to provide healthy meals to families that are in need. We intentionally provide them with complete meals that include fruits, vegetables, meats and non-perishable items. In addition to providing the items needed to prepare complete meals, Minnie's Food Pantry provides access to additional resources such as health and wellness tools, recipes, and more! Since inception, Minnie's Food Pantry has distributed more than 15 million meals to children and families in need, expanded into schools across the nation and makes an effort to provide for those most vulnerable including veterans and senior citizens through our Minnie's On the Go program.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Feed Just One

Distribute nutritional free meals to families in need. 
Our objective is to operate a program that feeds and educate our clientele with a proper diet, nutrition
and how to best utilize the food supply that we distribute.

Population(s) Served
Adults
Children and youth

What would Thanksgiving be like, without a turkey? Local families in need of
a thanksgiving meal receive a complete meal with a turkey and all the
trimmings. The families are people that we have served all year as well as
families referred to us by local school counselors, churches and other
organization.

Population(s) Served
Adults

Where we work

Awards

Minnie's Food Pantry Day 2009

City of Plano

Number One Charity of the Year 2011

Dallas City Voter

Cheryl Jackson Lady Godiva Fall Honoree 2012

Godiva

Congressional Recognition 2020

Sam Johnson

Presidential Volunteer Service Award 2018

White House

Page's Angels 2011

Treasure You

Top Rated Non-Profit 2020

Great Non-Profits

Best of Chairty DFW 2017

Reader's Choice

Lifetime Achievement Award 2016

President Barak Obama

Community Involvement 2009

National Society of Black Engineers

Community Playmaker of the Year 2017

Walmart

Heart of Giving 2016

KHVN 970AM

Community Service Award 2014

NANBPWC

Civic Award 2012

Plano Community Forum

Women of The Year Award 2014

ME & WE

Servant Leadership Award 2012

Alliance for Healthcare Excellence

Minority Leadership Award 2004

Walmart

Affiliations & memberships

Community Partner PISD 2020

Community Parter MISD 2020

Best of: Food Bank of the Year 2021

Walmart Community Playmaker 2021

Best of: Food Bank of the Year 2021

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of financial literacy courses conducted

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Related Program

Feed Just One

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Minnies Food Pantry partnered with Legacy Texas and Bank of America to provide free classes to the families we serve. We believe education on finances can help them begin saving for a brighter day.

Number of meals served or provided

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Adults, Children and youth, Seniors, Veterans

Related Program

Feed Just One

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Minnies Food Pantry's goal is to increase the number of meals provided to the families we serve. Our numbers are increasing yearly because of our donors.

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

Minnie's Food Pantry goal is to provide healthy meals for families in need and to educate families in the community so they can become contributors to society.

We partner with local grocery stores and markets to receive fresh fruit, vegetables and complete meals to the families we serve. We partner with banks to teach classes on financial literacy. We teach families how to cook healthier meals with the food provided to them. We periodically offer health fairs to the families we serve.

Minnies food Pantry is capable of serving thousands of families through our feeding programs. We also provide healthy snack packs for kids that come to the food pantry with their parents. We are able to do this because of our corporate and individual donors. We have trucks that pick of food six days a week from stores to make sure we get them to families that we serve. We deliver food to schools and to rural areas.

Our charity has seen a 37% increase in the number of families that we serve and we have increased the amount of food distributed to the families that we serve. We have served almost nine million meals to the community. We have increased service to our senior citizens and veterans. We also started providing 15 supplemental meals and we now distribute at least fifty meals to the families that come to our charity. We have had a huge impact delivering food to senior citizens and the day labor workers. We had our first giveaway in Los Angeles and we have locations now in New York and Pennsylvania. Minnie's also partnered with school district to help feed thousands of their students. We are putting food pantries inside of the schools to ensure no child is hungry.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We demonstrated a willingness to learn more by reviewing resources about feedback practice.
done We shared information about our current feedback practices.
  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We don’t have the right technology to collect and aggregate feedback efficiently, The people we serve tell us they find data collection burdensome

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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Minnies Food Pantry Inc.

Board of directors
as of 02/22/2022
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Cheryl Jackson

Cheryl Jackson

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Kristina Riley

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AJ Barkley

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Charles Wolford

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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  • Board orientation and education
    Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes
  • CEO oversight
    Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes
  • Ethics and transparency
    Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes
  • Board composition
    Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
  • Board performance
    Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 2/3/2021

Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.

Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
Black/African American
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender (cisgender)
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or straight
Disability status
Person without a disability

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

 

Sexual orientation

No data

Disability

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Equity strategies

Last updated: 02/03/2021

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Policies and processes
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.