Neighbors helping neighbors

CEAP mobilizes resources, shares abundance, and nourishes neighbors to create a healthier, stronger, and more connected community. 

  • neighbors served annually

    50,000

  • Meals on Wheels meals delivered yearly

    60,000

  • volunteer hours in 2025

    19,000

  • pounds of food distributed each year

    2,000,000

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Learn how together—with compassionate partners and generous supporters like you—we can ensure every child has the opportunity to start the school year ready to learn and ready to thrive.

Join us in supporting our neighbors this summer. Our Summer at CEAP program provides families with Farm Fresh produce boxes along with summer kits with healthy snacks and summer essentials.

CEAP’s Farm Fresh program is designed to help alleviate that stress and to share the abundance of our beautiful state. This summer, every neighbor who visits CEAP’s Food Market will receive an additional box of fresh, in-season produce with their order.

Ensuring neighbors feel safe, loved and nourished.

  • Unmatched kindness.

    "Everyone is really nice... they always find ways to help. They know that we only live one time, we've got to enjoy our life and be kind to each other."
    *–Terry, Food Market visitor

In Community, For Community

CEAP was founded in 1970 as a food shelf responding to the growing need for human services in Brooklyn Center and Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Today, CEAP is a boundaryless organization that weaves together a social safety net to support our neighbors.