Kingfield Neighborhood Association

Grocery Distribution Event for All Households In-Need

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38th & Pleasant (SW corner), Sunday May 17th, 10:30 AM- 12:30 PM

If you are experiencing, or anticipating, a shortage of grocery staples in the coming week, please know you are invited to participate in the Incarnation/Sagrado de Corazon Grocery Distribution Event this coming Sunday. Intended for low-income households, or those that have difficulties accessing food, there is no cost to participate in this event. Enough groceries will be available to provide food-security for the coming week to 1100 families.

Participants are asked to arrive by car, if possible. Four lanes will be formed and be directed to enter the parking lot from Pleasant Avenue. Boxes of groceries will be placed in your car by volunteers. Each box contains enough calories of food to feed a family of four for an entire week. Much of the food is dried or canned so will be shelf-stable.

Please know that you are welcome to share this information with others in our broader community. Zip codes will be collected at the event to allow for increased food distribution at this location in the coming weeks.

If you are interested in supporting this outreach you can make direct financial donations to the Incarnation COVID-19 Food Shelf at this link: http://bit.ly/IncarnationFoodShelf

Organized by Incarnation Church/Sagrado de Corazon

Still Sewing Masks? Help the Boomerang Sewists Help Local Healthcare Workers!

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Still sewing? We are still collecting completed masks (and delivering sewing supplies!) for health care sites and essential workers. In fact since yesterday we had requests for over 1400 ADDITIONAL masks. Please help us help Hennepin Healthcare, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Emerge Community Services, Minneapolis Public Schools, and Presbyterian Homes & Services of Bloomington.

Sign up be a Sewist today! (and share the link for masks too.)

Clinics Sign Up Here!
https://bit.ly/MasksforHealthClinics
If your clinic (not for individuals) needs homemade masks, please let our volunteer sewists know here: https://bit.ly/MasksforHealthClinics. We can now also accept mask orders from essential work sites including grocery stores, farmers markets, and other workplace locations that want to provide these to their employees.
Sewists Sign Up Here!
https://bit.ly/MaskPickUps
If you are sewing masks, please use this link to arrange for a volunteer to pick up your completed masks and deliver them to a clinic. Please place masks in a plastic bag and write the number of masks on the bag in Sharpie (so they don’t have to be recounted). You can also request more supplies to be dropped off.

DEED begins making Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) payments to self-employed & independent contractors

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The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) announced on Friday, April 24 the agency began making Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) payments to people who are self-employed, independent contractors, and other eligible recipients who are not eligible for regular unemployment benefits.

Here’s what you need to know about applying for PUA:

  • If you have already applied for regular unemployment benefits, you do not need to do anything extra to qualify for PUA. DEED will automatically establish a PUA benefit account for you if you are eligible.
  • If you have not applied for unemployment benefits yet, special instructions for self-employed and 1099 workers are available here. These instructions include steps you can take to make your account easily identifiable as potentially eligible for PUA.
    • If you applied for unemployment benefits without following those instructions, don’t worry – you don’t need to change anything. Your account will still be reviewed for PUA eligibility.
  • If you have not heard from DEED yet, don’t worry. We expect to be in touch with most people who are eligible for benefits under PUA by the end of April. There is no need to call or follow-up; you will hear from us proactively if we need additional information to determine eligibility.
  • You will receive information about PUA benefits in your online account, by email, and by mail.
  • Applicants who receive PUA benefits will also receive the $600/week additional payment.
  • PUA benefits will be backdated to whenever you first became eligible due to COVID-19.

Additional information, including answers to many commonly asked questions, can be found here: COVID-19 information for self-employed people and independent contractors

Boomerang Bag Sewists have delivered 1720 masks to local clinics

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Also, as of 4/28/20, we have expanded capacity and that means that more essential service sites can sign up to receive masks, and scrub caps!

Kingfield Boomerang Bags and Boomerang Bags Minneapolis have set two online forms:  One for Clinics, grocers  markets,  and other essential service providers to request masks, and one for Sewists (Sewing+Activists) to request supplies and arrange for the pick-up of completed masks to the clinics. 

Clinics (and essential service providers) Sign Up Here!

If your clinic (not for individuals) needs homemade masks, please let our volunteer sewists know here: https://bit.ly/MasksforHealthClinics. We can now also accept mask orders from essential work sites including grocery stores, farmers markets, and other workplace locations that want to provide these to their employees.

Sewists Sign Up Here!

If you are sewing masks, please use this link to arrange for a volunteer to pick up your completed masks and deliver them to a clinic. Please place masks in a plastic bag and write the number of masks on the bag in Sharpie (so they don’t have to be recounted). You can also request more supplies to be dropped off. 

2020 Census

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The 2020 Census is well underway. The massive undertaking of counting everyone living in the United States and five U.S. territories requires everyone’s participation. Over 75 million households have responded already. If your household has not responded, now is the time. Even if you received a paper questionnaire in the mail, you can still respond online at 2020census.gov.

Part of Kingfield has a up to 69% response rate, but the rest of the neighborhood is closer to 50%. Regardless, if YOU haven’t filled out the form for your household yet you need to do so. You Count!

Are you interested in how we got these numbers? Are you a Census Geek?! (Hint you are a Census Geek if you want to look at this map created by Kingfield neighbor, Jeff Matson as part of his work at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, U of M!) AND we need your help to make sure that EVERYONE gets counted! To volunteer on the Kingfield Complete Count Committee email sarah@kingfield.org

Kingfield Restaurants

currently open for take-out
(more info available here)

  • Tap Society
  • Sunstreet Breads
  • Royal Grounds
  • Rincon 38
  • Revival
  • Patisserie 46
  • Nighthawks
  • The Lowbrow
  • Hola Arepa
  • Grand Cafe
  • Good Times Pizza
  • Five Watt Coffee
  • Young Man
  • Dave The Pie Guy
  • Curran's
  • Cocina Latina
  • Cafe Ena
  • Butter Bakery Cafe
  • Boludo Empanadas
  • Apoy