Organizations Filed Purposes:
Nourishing young people's appetites to discover new possibilities and pathways for success through unique opportunities.
Build youth leadership & business skills and a personal/community interest in healthy foods.
Roots for the Home Team is an innovative, youth driven leadership and entrepreneurial program that's mission is to nourish young people's appetites to discover new possibilities and pathways for success through unique opportunities. We partner with local youth garden programs, buy produce the teens grow as ingredients, partner the teens with local chefs to create innovative salad recipes, and employ the youth to run a food business at MLB games. Over our past nine years, Roots has grown to be significantly more than a salad enterprise. Through these challenging experiences and our new University of Minnesota-created leadership curriculum, BIPOC teen participants gain valuable business and entrepreneurial skills, learn more about who they are and what they care about, then, because of that, discover new pathways to the future they desire.Without a baseball season in 2020 we were committed to finding new opportunities for our youth and their salads. Our new scope of work included our youth serving communities in need. We employed our youth to work weekly at a program that prepares food for chronically ill people living independently. The program selected 4 of the youths' salads created for 2020. The youth came weekly to help prepare and pack their salads for delivery to patients. Salads were also prepared by our youth in a separate restaurant kitchen for delivery to essential workers. 1,200 of the youths' salads were made for a COVID dedicated hospital's essential workers. 100% of our youth voted to continue doing this community work even when we can return to selling salads at Target Field. They say it gave them a sense of fulfillment and contribution giving back to others, preparing and sharing their creations, and seeing them go to those in need. Therefore, we are adjusting programming to ensure the youths' interests are honored. We employed 40 youth participants - 30 teens participated in intensive programming.We welcomed a new garden partner (Green Garden Bakery) and their young people. Eight new recipes were created by the youth. More than 15,000 salads were prepared and served to the community. 100% of participants learned how to set goals for themselves; 95% feel they are able to recognize opportunities for personal growth; 95% know of skills they can acquire to help prepare themselves for the future and career they want; 85% have a vision of what they want their future to be and know actions to bring it to life and 90% of those youth feel they have new opportunities to influence their future and community. Youth demographics, 62% Black; 13% Latinx, 13% Native American; 6% Hmong, 6% Somali.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Susan Moores | Executive Director | 50 | $70,000 |
| Saba Andualum | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Bertrand Weber | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Dana Provus | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Mary Cavanaugh | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Megan Wolle | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Michelle Dyer | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Vanessa Gill | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Angie Andresen | Director | 1 | $0 |
| Randy Larson | Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Marshall Lehman | Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Tom Tefft | Vice Chair | 1 | $0 |
| Brian Garshelis | Chair | 1 | $0 |
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