Four free-food nonprofits are suing the Dept. of Education. Free-food lawsuits may be Minnesota’s biggest growth industry. Last week, the always alert Lou Raguse of KARE-11 noticed that the state…
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…
Did most free-food money go to fraud in Minnesota? It sure looks like it. In Gov. Walz’ budget proposal filed this week, the Walz administration has added some details to…
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has sued an Edina-based nonprofit associated with Feeding Our Future. He filed the lawsuit yesterday in Hennepin County. The nonprofit was located at a co-working…
Mostly, the idea is to hire more bureaucrats. Hoping to avoid a repeat of the Feeding Our Future scandal, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has proposed a package of measures. Of…
On Boxing Day, the Minneapolis Star Tribune published an article documenting concerns in the state’s nonprofit sector of a backlash arising from the Feeding Our Future scandal. The paper quotes…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that 14 figures indicted in the Feeding Our Future case have operated 11 daycare centers who have collectively received $22 million from the state in…
Suspended large free-food charity moves ahead on the litigation front. The St. Paul-based Partners in Nutrition, d/b/a Partners in Quality Care, was suspended by the state Department of Education (MDE)…
Why does public education devour 40 percent of Minnesota’s state budget, and that figure is certain to climb even higher in the 2023 legislative session? American Experiment’s Catrin Wigfall recently…
Free-food nonprofit is seeking reinstatement to program. Most of the attention in Minnesota’s free-food scandal has fallen on the now-defunct nonprofit Feeding Our Future. The second-largest nonprofit in the free-food…
The third large free-food nonprofit suspended by the state Department of Education (MDE) appeared in the state Court of Appeals yesterday. Youth Leadership Academy, d/b/a Gar Gaar Family Services, is…
Eight Minnesota schools were recently recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2022. The state is allotted eight nominations based on the number of…
The number of district administrators in U.S. public schools has grown 87.6 percent between 2000 and 2019 compared to student growth at 7.6 percent and teacher growth at 8.7 percent.…
Taxpayers already pay billions to subsidize the ever-skyrocketing costs of higher education. But the Biden administration wants us to pay $400 billion more so students who took out college loans…
In the wake of the Feeding Our Future scandal, this series has been documenting the fallout among unrelated food charities. Not only was Feeding Our Future shuttered by state authorities,…
Three more unmarked packages of documents arrived at the office last week, filled with correspondence related to the Feeding Our Future scandal. If you believe the FBI, government programs operated…
A lot of nonprofits were caught in the undertow of the Feeding Our Future scandal. The nonprofit Supportive Guidance of Rochester was founded in 2017. The nonprofit never did business…
Anab Awad of the Haji’s Kitchen network also entered a guilty plea in an unrelated Medicaid fraud case yesterday. Through her efforts, $11 million was claimed through the free-food program…
This week we’ve been highlighting many of the unrelated nonprofits who were shut down in the wake of the FBI raids back in January. After the raids, the state Department…
Earlier this week, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal reported on a significant real estate transaction involving a prominent free-food nonprofit. Somali Community Resettlement Services (SCRS) purchased the historic Gale Mansion…
A lot of unrelated nonprofits were caught in the undertow of the Feeding Our Future scandal. One such example is the Addis Foundation of St. Paul, which never did business…
As we’ve mentioned many times, there were thousands of free-food distribution sites registered under the government programs caught up in the “Feeding Our Future” scandal. Each one tells a story.…
The Minnesota Reformer reports that a nonprofit operated by a prominent Bloomington entrepreneur ran free-food distribution sites under the sponsorship of both Feeding Our Future and Partners in Nutrition. Deena…
Digging deeper into the Feeding Our Future scandal.