May 30, 2023

Give Me The Mike

Exploring Minnesota and Beyond

Serve Our Society

Give Me The Mike’s Serve Our Society series shines the spotlight on amazing Minnesota-based nonprofits.

If you would like to nominate an organization to be featured, please contact mike@givemethemike.com.


Photo courtesy Rainbow Health. 

80% of LGBTQ elders fear their healthcare providers will discriminate against them


Photo courtesy The Naming Project.

Northern Minnesota camp reassures LGBTQ+ teens they are ‘made in love’


Don’t cut your hair during quarantine. Let it grow…and donate it


Cannon Falls nonprofit repairing cars of veterans


Photo courtesy Tretter Collection/University of Minnesota.

The Upper Midwest’s largest collection of LGBTQ material is in Minneapolis


Photo courtesy Pride Institute.

The country’s first LGBTQIA-specific program for addiction is in Minnesota


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Photo courtesy PFund Foundation.

A Minneapolis nonprofit is giving away $250,000 in grants to LGBT individuals


keep National Anthem at Target Field May 2015

Driving 8 hours one-way to rehearsal: the power of One Voice Mixed Chorus


Photo courtesy Amy Anderson/Open Arms of Minnesota.

Minneapolis nonprofit expected to deliver 600,000 free meals every year to those with life-threatening illnesses


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Photo by edwin josu00e9 vega ramos on Pexels.com.

Organizations providing food to Minneapolis and Saint Paul residents, plus ways you can help


A list of programs and restaurants offering food to families Minnesota


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Photo courtesy One Heartland.

Minnesota camp dedicated to youth living with or affected by HIV/AIDS


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