Mark Ritchie

Feeding Our Future update: Gar Gaar appeal denied, former MN SOS Mark Ritchie banned from food program

February 17, 2023 by Bill Glahn

The nonprofit Youth Leadership Academy, d/b/a Gar Gaar Family Services, had been the third largest Minnesota participant in the Federal Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), one of two child nutrition…

February 17, 2023 by Bill Glahn

Spending & Taxes

In the alleged Feeding Our Future scandal, the sudden rise and fall of Youth Leadership Academy

March 10, 2022 by Bill Glahn

The state Department of Education (MDE) has shut down a third nonprofit network in the free-food scandal. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has reported that MDE shut off the nonprofit network…

March 10, 2022 by Bill Glahn