Recent Articles
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Open Arms Receives Largest Grant in our History Open Arms has received an $800,000 Challenge Grant from The Kresge Foundation to be used towards our capital campaign to construct a new building and expand our program to serve more people living with chronic and progressive diseases.
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BREAKING NEWS: 3.11.09 | 3:21 ET President Obama today signed the omnibus appropriations bill. Included in that measure was a $285,000 earmark for the construction of Open Arms' new building and the expansion of programming to serve additional people living with chronic and progressive diseases.
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Senior Cody Thornberg from Saint Francis High School in St. Francis, MN delivered over 1,300 boxes of cereal to Open Arms on Friday afternoon. Four truckloads of cereal made it's way into the parking lot of Open Arms, where 13 of Cody's classmates then helped load the boxes into the building.Cody is 17 years old and a member of his local Boy Scout Troop out of East Bethel, MN.
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UPDATED MARCH 2009: Thank you Cities97! In January, Open Arms was announced as one of the 46 charities to receive money from the 20th Annual Cities97 Sampler. We're happy to announce that we've been awarded $18,000. Thank you Cities97! 1/7/09: Open Arms was chosen as one of the charities to receive a portion of the $1,000,000 generated by the purchase of the 20th Anniversary, Cities 97 Sampler.
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Kare11: Open Arms to deliver it's 1.5 millionth meal
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Bill Kimker was the first resident of Hope House, a 24-hour care facility for people with HIV/AIDS in Stillwater, to ever walk out of the home alive.The prospect of one day leaving Hope House was unimaginable when Bill first arrived there in March of 1996. His health was deteriorating quickly. -
Open Arms is launching the next phase of our capital campaign with a groundbreaking celebration in September on the site of our future home at 25th Street and Bloomington Avenue in Minneapolis. -
Next year marks the 40th anniversary of the first, and only, White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health. Republican President Richard M. Nixon called for the conference saying, “The moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself.
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Global Food Crisis a 'Silent Tsunami'
Exceprt from NPR
Talk of the Nation, April 28, 2008 ·
High food prices have set off protests from Haiti to Egypt, leaving aid officials struggling to cope with increasing desperation and hunger. Top development agencies within the U.N. are meeting to chart out solutions to the global food shortage, which the head of the World Food Program recently described as a "silent tsunami."<br><br>Tyler Hicks, a staff photographer for The New York Times recently returned from Haiti, where he photographed citizens affected drastically by the food shortages. He discusses what people are doing in order to feed their families.<br><br>Economist Jeffrey Sachs, author of Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet explains how the food crisis developed, and why it got so bad so quickly.
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February 4th, 2008 - Washington DC - Senator Norm Coleman todaypresented Open Arms of Minnesota, an organization focused on providingfood and medicine to people living with and affected by chronicillness, with the Congressional Victory Against Hunger Award.