Food-scandal-linked nonprofit gets city grant
The City of Minneapolis announced yesterday the awarding of $1 million in grants for “recovery of local businesses” after Operation Metro Surge. Of course, none of the money went to actual businesses; all of it was awarded to nonprofits, mostly neighborhood associations.
Curiously, one recipient receiving a taxpayer-funded grant of $35,000 was the Minneapolis Foundation, a charity that holds more than $1 billion (with a “b”) in net assets. The money seems to be flowing in the wrong direction in this instance.
Another grantee is a nonprofit named the New American Development Center (NADC), who received $18,000 from the City. If that name sounds familiar, you may have seen this March KARE-11 report under the headline,
Meal site sponsor who billed taxpayers $7.8 million received another $1 million even after the state ordered money paid back.
During the Covid period, NADC operated an independent free-food distribution site, under that same program once utilized by Feeding Our Future, and overseen by the state Dept. of Education (MDE).
NADC billed the food program $7.8 million, of which MDE determined that $1.1 million was overbilled. KARE-11 reports that NADC is in the process of paying the money back.
KARE-11 also notes that since then, the state legislature (then-all-Democrat-controlled) gave NADC an additional $1 million in grant money. Now the City of Minneapolis has thrown another $18,000 onto the pile.
Your tax dollars at work.
Raguse himself put out a video on the subject this evening,