<div>Dearest friends.



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<div>My name is Scott Frisch. A little bit about myself. I live in St. Paul, MN and in Minneapolis prior to the past 7 years since 2010. I’ve been a longtime employee at Whole Foods Market for over 28 years and I’m a local musician in the vibrant Twin Cities community.



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<div>My fiancé Danielle is an elementary English Second Language school teacher in Rosemount, and together we have a 6-year old son, Rowan, who attends Adams Spanish Immersion School.



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<div>For the past couple months, we’ve been working in tandem with a Latino-based church. Danielle has been delivering to families on Saturdays. On Fridays, I’ve been organizing quite a successful weekly food relief effort.



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<div>The benefactors are families of schoolchildren who have been robbed of the basic dignity of providing for their own children as a result of being unable to leave their homes under the ongoing I.C.E. occupation to our home here in the Twin Cities.



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<div>The following is a bit about how this operation works, how it started, where it is now, and where we hope to be in the near future with it.



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<div>The model I’ve come up with, which I continually evolve and refine, is very simple:



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<div>•HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN I POSSIBLY FEED ON A GIVEN BUDGET• - and-



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<div>•HOW CAN i MAXIMIZE THE EFFICIENCY OF ASSEMBLY, PURCHASE, TRANSPORT AND DELIVERY OF OUR CONVOYS.•



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<div>Regarding the first point.



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<div>It’s bulk staple foods. And a lot of them.



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<div>I’ve extensively studied the math and metrics behind food cost, sourcing, weekly sales etc. With this, I’ve been able to establish a solid template containing a variety of healthy foods that cover many vital food groups while simultaneously being as affordable as possible.



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<div>This template focuses on the following items:



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<div>Dark meat bone-in chicken (thighs, leg quarters and drumsticks), white long grain rice, pinto and black beans, white corn tortillas, bananas, oranges, red and yukon gold potatoes, and 2% milk.



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<div>I base everything specifically on a per pound/ounce/unit price to maximize the yield of product the dollar.



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<div>Again. How many mouths can we possibly feed on the dollar.



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<div>Bottom line.



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<div>To the second point, and how I started:



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<div>While at work, and early in the ICE occupation, I received a text from my fiancé Danielle that contained a volunteer form from a Latino-based church in Burnsville. She said that she was going to volunteer with delivering groceries to families who were afraid to leave their homes and asked if I was interested as well.



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<div>This led me to the ‘lightbulb’ moment.



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<div>I thought, “I work for Whole Foods!”



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<div>Surely this can help serve this purpose. After a couple of polite donations from friends at work coupled with my own trip to Costco, I put together about 400 pounds of relief that first week on my off day on Friday.



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<div>Then I did it again. More donations, with myself matching 10% of all of them.



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<div>2 carloads in my trusty Rav4 with a -28° windchill that week. I was so moved by others doing the same as thing as well.



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<div>Then again the next week. This time with Danielle, and a second vehicle.



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<div>Fast forward a month..



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<div>Through many donations by people who want to help us and these families, and my network of friends, we’ve been able to build a growing system that provides steady relief to these families.



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<div>It has grown into multiple wave convoys and we’ve now eclipsed the 20,000 POUND mark of food delivered.



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<div>How it works:



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<div>I allocate the funds to drivers a day prior to avoid fees to insure that every penny goes to the cause. We make efficient well-organized separate purchases according to the template with a large team, we transport it, and then we drop it. The church has a large team of volunteers, it is then sorted and delivered to homes THE. NEXT. DAY.



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<div>We do this every Friday.



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<div>This week was the first time a run was made on a Monday.



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<div>The church deliveries to the families are made on Saturdays, Mondays, and Tuesdays.



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<div>My hope is to increase the reach in order to be able to deliver to the maximum on all of these days to these families during this crucial time.



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<div>The reference I keep referring to, and to put it simply:



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<div>a $20 donation buys a 50-pound bag of white rice or beans. That cooks into 140-150 pounds of solid hot food.



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<div>$100 turns into 650-750 pounds.



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<div>Please try to internalize exactly how many people that can feed.



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<div>And lastly, please consider helping us to make hope and gratitude the prevailing feelings in this season of darkness for these families, who are all of our neighbors.



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<div>Thank you.



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<div>❤️‍❤️



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