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Fox21Online CHUM Looking to Capitalize on Minnesota’s Annual FoodShare Month The organizations are partnering with the greater Minnesota Council of Churches to match the donations coming through their doors. March 3, 2021 DULUTH, Minn. – CHUM is looking to capitalize on Minnesota’s annual FoodShare month. Because it is typically a slow time for the CHUM food shelf and over 300 other food shelves across the state, the organizations are partnering with the greater Minnesota Council of Churches to match the donations coming through their doors. They are also partnering with local farms whi...

Fox21Online CHUM Food Shelf Sees Record Demand in 2020, Year Ahead Looks No Better The food shelf served more than 16,000 people in 2020, and staff expects the need to go up as much as 20% in 2021. January 10, 2021 DULUTH, Minn.- The effects of the Coronavirus pandemic left more than 15,000 people in the Twin Ports to rely on CHUM’s Food Shelf to put food on the table — an increased demand they haven’t seen in more than a decade. “In my tenure it was a pretty big record setting year on my terms,” Distributive Services Director Scott Van Daele said. The COVID-marked 2020 brought som...