Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners
Igniting the power of community
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners (IOCP) is a human service nonprofit that strengthens our community by meeting basic needs and equipping individuals and families for ongoing stability. IOCP delivers integrated services that address the basic needs for food, shelter, and clothing, while also connecting individuals and families to strengthening services such as affordable housing, quality childcare, employment. Interfaith lives out the values of collaboration, inclusion, and integrity.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Discover Community Needs and Opportunities
Interfaith Outreach and our community partners stay in touch with the community's changing needs, trends, aspirations and opportunities. We review and analyze what we learn to position the organization and the community for timely and effective short- and long-term response. The community values Interfaith Outreach's leadership and community needs analysis and responds generously to opportunities for meaningful engagement. In FY19 our key insights were: 1) The attrition of affordable family rental housing has created a local and regional crisis for growing numbers of low-income families. 2) Unmet mental health needs has been identified by Interfaith and cross-sector partners as a priority community health issue.
Engage Stakeholders and Partners
Interfaith Outreach engages community partners, stakeholders, volunteers, and program participants in addressing complex socio-economic community issues, leveraging resources (money, tangible goods, time and expertise), building mutually beneficial relationships, creating a welcoming and inclusive community experience, and enhancing overall service delivery and impact. In FY19, 1,941 volunteers contributed an equivalent of 61,497 service hours. The total value of the volunteer service hours contributed was $1,563,869. We partnered for impact with faith communities, foundations, public/private education systems, corporations, local businesses, health systems, government entities, civic/community groups and other family service organizations.
Deliver Services
Interfaith Outreach delivers individualized and comprehensive services to help families stabilize, strengthen and thrive. Interfaith Outreach resolves financial crises to help people move out of poverty. In FY19, 1,943 families worked with us to resolve their immediate crisis, meet basic needs, and stabilize. 54% of these families moved forward with fewer emergency needs, navigated barriers more successfully, and created plans and pursued opportunities to achieve short- and long-term goals. We work in these six impact areas: food, family support, housing and neighborhoods, education and youth, employment, and transportation.
Where we work
Awards
Outstanding Achievement in Ending Long-Term Homelessness Award 2008
Minnesota Housing - the state's housing agency
Meets Accountability Standards 2013
Minnesota Charities Review Council
Certified Service Enterprise 2024
Points of Light
Four Star Charity 2021
Charity Navigator
2021 Top-Rated 2021
Great Nonprofits
2022 Top-Rated 2022
Great Nonprofits
Meets Accountability Standards 2019
Minnesota Charities Review Council
Affiliations & memberships
United Way Member Agency 1992
External reviews
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Average number of service recipients per month
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
Deliver Services
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This number reflects the average of active households served per month. This includes all program areas including Food Shelf, Resale Select store and all other service offerings.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Interfaith Outreach is driven by a vision of the community it works to build an attentive, responsive, inclusive community where all are welcome, where everyone counts, where family life is valued and supported by all, and where all children are cherished and provided opportunities to become all they can be. A comprehensive strategic plan guides our way.
A suburban human service nonprofit serving families and individuals living in eight west Hennepin County communities, Interfaith Outreach addresses barriers people experience: lack of affordable housing, low-wage employment, food insecurity, costly early childhood education, unreliable transportation, and limited access to community resources. The Interfaith Outreach mission is to strengthen our community by meeting basic needs and equipping individuals and families for ongoing stability.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Engage and convene community thought leaders, program participants, partners and stakeholders around key community issues. Strengthen and leverage community partnerships to improve community-wide capacity for effective collaboration. Equip volunteers for strong representation and ownership of our values and services. Provide timely and compelling updates on community need and opportunities.
Address the needs of 2,000 families each year in the areas of family support, food, housing and neighborhoods, education and youth, employment and transportation. Maintain emphasis on stability services while increasing opportunities for families to move out of poverty. Advance efforts for authentic engagement/voice of program participants to inform service delivery and utilize data aligned with goals to evaluate and improve service impact.
Strengthen organizational capacity to enhance cultural connections and advancing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts. Expand revenue to maintain the financial health of the organization. Support staff through talent development and fair compensation while completing organizational succession planning. Complete a board shift toward strategic governance. Maximize the potential of our brand.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Interfaith Outreach is driven by a vision of the community it works to build an attentive, responsive, inclusive community where all are welcome and where everyone counts. We envision a healthy community that cares for itself. We have the experience and a 45-year history of tackling major efforts, sustaining community support, catalyzing partners to action, and achieving real results.
Interfaith Outreach and its community partners mobilize resources and ignite the power of community to help residents move past crises, overcome barriers to independent living, and connect with services and opportunities to build strong futures.
We are the designated safety-net services provider in our geographically-defined area (8 communities in suburban west Hennepin County), and have been actively remediating the harmful effects of poverty on our neighbors for 45 years. Interfaith Outreach is the go-to resource for help for struggling families. Last year, together with our partners, volunteers and donors, we addressed the emergency needs of 1,545 households.
We deliver services based on these core values:
Collaboration: Nurturing mutually beneficial relationships.
Inclusion: Celebrating differences because they matter.
Integrity: Keeping our word through our actions, transparency and honesty.
Our stakeholders include everyone who lives and works in our service area, thus we must be prepared to support a wide range of needs. Beyond client support, we offer a channel for citizens to give back to their community, and opportunities to learn about and engage across cultures. As a hub of support, we learn of changing community needs and swiftly work with partners to address them.
Our work is not possible without active engagement of our partners in the public and private sectors, and across all systems that impact.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners (IOCP) is a human service nonprofit that strengthens our community by meeting basic needs and equipping individuals and families for ongoing stability. Interfaith lives out the values of collaboration, inclusion, and integrity.
We continue to assess programs and strengthen what we do to be even more effective – building Interfaith Outreach to be the place of the most potential for all. We will focus on those activities that most meet a client’s urgent and strengthening needs – applying all we have learned over the past four decades.
We want all of our partners to be open to new ways of meeting community needs. Keep doing what you are doing! Living into the work requires everyone to keep finding their role. Whether you access services, volunteer, donate gifts in-kind or give financial support or perhaps many of these things – every action helps carry out our mission, together.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners
Board of directorsas of 02/20/2024
Jessica Markkula
Vice President, BMO Harris Bank
Term: 2022 - 2025
Ben Johnson
Remax Results
Susan MacHolda
VP HR
Robin Ritter
Chief HR Officer
Tom Vanderheyden
Corporate Executive
Jessica Markkula
VP Banking
Sarah Borchers
Director Education
Carol Bergenstal
Community Leader
Joe Delgado
Chief Financial Officer
Joyce Hayden
Achievement Specialist Education
Welde Dubar
Parent Educator & Cultural Laison
Jason McAthie
Finance & Ops Executive
Reuben Mjaanes
Sr. Legal Director
Kay Ness
Community Leader
Jodi Olson
Community Leader
Kevin Ward
Exec. Director (Ex-Officio)
Rick Witucki
Deacon, St. Barts
Nancy Hughes
Wealth Manager
Meghan Bassett
Finance Manager
Kate Knight
Merchandising
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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