Neighborhood House

Fresh Produce Distribution (Bruce Vento Elementary)
2023-08-24 14:00 - 15:30, 2023-09-28 14:00 - 15:30, 2023-10-26 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Bruce Vento Elementary, 409 Case Avenue East, St. Paul, MN, 55130, United States
From July to October, you can come pick up a variety of free fruits and vegetables for your family and friends. The distributions are held outdoors and are farmer’s market style. Events are open to all. No documentation or identification is required to participate.
No Pre-registration required.

NeighbReads Book Club
2023-09-05 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-11-07 19:00 - 20:30 | Other
NeighbReads is a monthly book club centered around topics relevant to Neighborhood House’s work and our communities. Currently virtual, we’ll gather to share our reflections and experiences through a guided discussion about books considering themes such as food, housing, racial justice, community, and more.
NeighbReads is open to everyone. Please find more book information and dates here.
January 10 | 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library by Amanda Oliver
March 7 | 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Disability Visibility:
First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
May 2 | 7 – 8:30 p.m.
A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door:
The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
by Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider
July 11 | 7 – 8:30 p.m.
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota
by Sun Yung Shin
September 5 | 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Prison by Any Other Name:
The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms
by Maya Schenwar
November 7 | 7 – 8:30 p.m.
Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past
by Diane Wilson
Register here.

Fresh Produce Distribution (Wellstone Center)
2023-09-13 13:30 - 15:00, 2023-09-27 13:30 - 15:00, 2023-10-11 13:30 - 15:00, 2023-10-25 13:30 - 15:00 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
From July to October, you can come pick up a variety of free fruits and vegetables for your family and friends. The distributions are held outdoors and are farmer’s market style. Events are open to all. No documentation or identification is required to participate.
No Pre-registration required.
Wellstone Center
179 Robie St. E., St Paul, MN, 55107
Every 2nd and 4th Wednesday from July to October
7/12, 7/26, 8/9, 8/23, 9/13, 9/27, 10/11, 10/25
Hours: 1:30 – 3 p.m.

Fresh Produce Distribution (Dayton's Bluff Elementary)
2023-09-14 14:00 - 15:30, 2023-10-12 14:00 - 15:30 | Family Center – Dayton’s Bluff, 262 Bates Avenue, Saint Paul, MN, 55421, United States

Fresh Produce Distribution (St. Paul Music Academy)
2023-10-05 14:00 - 15:30 | Family Center – St. Paul Music Academy, 27 Geranium East, Saint Paul, MN, 55117, United States

Revel for a Cause - 2023
2023-10-05 17:30 - 20:30 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
October 5, 2023
5:30 – 8:30 p.m. | at the Wellstone Center
Join Neighborhood House on October 5, 2023 from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m, for our biggest fundraising event of the year, Revel for a Cause.
This event will be a night of celebration, where we hear impactful stories, enjoy heavy appetizers, bid on silent/live auctions, be entertained and so much more!
We hope you join us in our celebrations, as we revel for a cause.
Buy your ticket today!

Fresh Produce Distributions (Francis Basket Food Market)
2023-10-18 13:30 - 15:00 | Francis Basket, 1293 E Maynard Dr #410, Saint Paul, MN, 55116, United States

Family Fun Night for Early Childhood families
2023-10-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
Join local author Pamela Mercado Michelli for a fun storytime featuring “Daniela y Mateo Viajan a Argentina” in both Spanish and English. There will be traditional Argentine music and dancing. Families will also enjoy a festive meal after the storytime hour. This event is a part of the Hispanic Heritage Celebración program series and is brought to you by Saint Paul Public Library in partnership with Neighborhood House!

2023 Halloween Party
2023-10-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
Neighborhood House and El Rio Vista welcome everyone from the community to come to our Halloween party! This event will be hosted on Thursday, October 26th from 6:00pm until 8:00pm. There will be light food, games and tons of fun! This event is for children 12 and under. All children must be accompanied by an adult the entire time of the event. We welcome everyone to come in costume; please wear non violent and non scary costumes please.

Winter Fresh Produce Distribution - 2023
2023-11-15 14:30 - 16:00 | Metropolitan State University, 101 690 E 7th St, St Paul, MN, 55106, United States
From November through May, you are welcome to pick up a variety of free fruits and vegetables for your household at Metropolitan State University. The distributions are held indoors and are farmer’s market style. Events are open to all. No documentation or identification is required to participate. Please expect a brief check-in process when you arrive and bring your own large, reusable bags or carts if possible.

Operation Warm
2024-01-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
Operation Warm through Subaru Loves will be at Neighborhood House on Wednesday, January 17! Together we will be handing out 100+ winter coats, shoes and socks to children under the age of 18 for free!

Requirements/Things to note:
– Children must be present to receive items, adults will NOT be able to pick-up items for their children (without children present)
– Adults/parents/guardians do NOT need to be present or accompany their youth
– Items available while supplies last

More info:
Subaru and its retailers are visiting local homeless shelters and support agencies to provide more than 150,000 children with brand-new necessities like coats, shoes and socks.
This initiative is part of the Subaru Love Promise, Subaru’s commitment to improving lives in the communities where we live and work.And it’s just one of the reasons why Subaru is More Than a Car Company®

NeighbReads Book Club
2024-01-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Other
Join Neighborhood House for a public book club every other month! Please reach out to Cara Berger with any questions (cberger@neighborhoodhousemn.org)

January 23 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
A queerhijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR)

March 12 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva

A chronicle of translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States’ “immigration crisis”
In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border.

May 14 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here

Poverty by America by Desmond Matthew
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

July 9 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces in modern American life—the humble parking spot

September 10 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of our Nation by Linda Villarosa

In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change. A foreword by Michelle Alexander situates the book in the context of criminal justice reform conversations. Finally, the book offers a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.

November 12 | 7 – 8:30 p.m. | Register here
The Southerinization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance
by Frye Gaillard and Cynthia Tucker

Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America’s long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa.

S'mores for More
2024-02-24 14:00 - 18:30 | MN State Fairgrounds, 1265 Snelling Ave N, St. Paul, Minnesota, 55108
Join us for some fiery fun and mouthwatering s’mores on February 24 at the Winter Beer Dabbler!
Neighborhood House will be at the event selling s’mores kits and 100% of each s’more kit purchase goes directly to our Food Support Program.
February 24, 2024
2 – 6:30 p.m.
Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul
(Look for us at the fire pits!)
Plus, here’s a thank-you treat: Use code ‘neighborhood‘ at checkout when you purchase your tickets for a 10% discount and a portion to support our March Food Drive fundraiser! Buy your Beer Dabbler ticket here
And that’s not all – you can reserve your S’mores Kit now to ensure there is one for you! Reserve your s’mores kit

March Food Drive
2024-02-26 - 2024-04-06 | All Neighborhood House Locations
In 2022, a staggering 5.5 million visits to food shelves marked a record-setting year. Fast forward to the close of 2023, and Minnesota witnessed an increase to a shocking 7.5 million food shelf visits, shattering the previous record.

Like other food shelves in the state, Neighborhood House’s food shelf grapples with the daunting challenge of keeping up with the need.
The gap between the escalating need and our limited budgets widens daily. On a regular basis, we find ourselves unable to stock our shelves adequately to meet the growing number of families seeking assistance. Neighborhood House is now serving over seventeen hundred unique families in a month—nearly double from this time last year.
The only way we can move forward as a community is as a community. Unite with us in our relentless efforts to combat hunger and ensure that our neighbors in St. Paul do not endure the anguish of an empty stomach. The time to act is during March Food Drive — your involvement represents a pivotal step toward alleviating the severity of this crisis and fostering a community where no one is left hungry or forgotten. Will you stand with us? Get involved now!

Literacy Night
2024-02-28 17:00 - 19:00 | Wellstone Center, 179 Robie Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55107, United States
February is Literacy Awareness Month!

Join us February 28 | 5 – 7 p.m.

Neighborhood House
179 Robie ST E
St. Paul MN 55107

Around the World Theme!
• Families will travel to different parts of the Wellstone Center and hear stories read in different languages.
• Take-Home literacy kits will be handed out to support all English learners
• Families will also have an opportunity to learn more about Neighborhood House as well as other community organizations

Brewery Events & Brewland - March Food Drive
2024-03-01 15:00 - 20:00, 2024-03-03 12:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-04 12:00 - 16:00, 2024-03-05 15:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-06 15:00 - 19:00, 2024-03-07 15:00 - 19:00 | Various
Brewery Food Drive Events
Stop by and support your favorite nonprofit – Neighborhood House – while drinking your favorite brew!
NH Staff will be collecting non-perishable food items and sharing about our Food Support Program.
3/1 – Wabasha Brewing (3 PM – 8 PM)
3/3 – Gambit Brewing (12 PM – 4 PM)
3/4 – MetroNOME Brewing (12 PM – 4 PM)
3/5 – Bad Weather Brewing (3 PM – 7 PM)
3/6 – Urban Growler Brewing (3 PM – 7 PM)
3/7 – Summit Brewing (3 PM – 7 PM)
3/14 – Dual Citizen Brewing (3 PM – 7 PM)
3/23 – Wabasha Brewing (5:30 PM – 9:30 PM)
3/20 – Can Can Wonderland (4 PM – 8 PM)
Learn more about March Food Drive here.

We will also be selling Brewland Cards!

Cost = $25
How it works:

Visit your favorite breweries listed
First drink at every brewery = Buy 1 get 1 free
Visit 10 breweries and get a bartender’s signature
Once the 10 spots are filled send us a photo of your signed board game card to fooddrive@neighborhoodhousemn.org
When you turn in your cards you get a chance to win free beer for a year!

OR
Drop off your filled in board game card at the Dabbler Depot

Wellstone Center and Francis Basket Food Markets CLOSED
2024-03-05 | Francis Basket, 1293 E Maynard Dr #410, Saint Paul, MN, 55116, United States
Food Markets closed due to a staff development/advocacy day.

March Food Drive - Grocery Store Weekends
2024-03-09 10:00 - 15:00 | Various
March 9 & 10 – Grocery Store Food Drive Events
Join us at any one of the three (or all three) grocery stores for a good time! Staff and volunteers will share about Neighborhood House and be collecting food and funds!
– Kowalskis on Grand – 1261 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN 55105
– Kowalskis Woodbury – 8505 Valley Creek Rd, Woodbury, MN 55125
– Lunds & Byerlys – Highland Bridge – 2170 Ford Pkwy, St Paul, MN 55116
10 AM – 2 PM
Want to volunteer? Sign up here!

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