Cookie Cart Growing for Good: A Campaign for Sustainability
From the humble beginnings of Sister Jean’s home to the Emerson storefront to our current home on West Broadway Avenue, evolution has always been a part of our culture. 2018 marked the 30th year of Cookie Cart, and we celebrated by launching our second bakery on Saint Paul’s East Side. In total, we will employ 300 teens between both bakeries, a 275% increase in youth employment over the last 5 years. Together, we are positioning Cookie Cart as a sustainable contributor to youth development in our communities. By growing our business model to support increased cookie sales, we will generate increased employment for our community’s future leaders. We invite you to invest in our sustainability as we continue to grow for good.
From the humble beginnings of Sister Jean’s home to the Emerson storefront to our current home on West Broadway Avenue, evolution has always been a part of our culture. 2018 marked the 30th year of Cookie Cart, and we celebrated by launching our second bakery on Saint Paul’s East Side. In total, we will employ 300 teens between both bakeries, a 275% increase in youth employment over the last 5 years.
Together, we are positioning Cookie Cart as a sustainable contributor to youth development in our communities. By growing our business model to support increased cookie sales, we will generate increased employment for our community’s future leaders.
We invite you to invest in our sustainability
as we continue to grow for good.
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It’s More Than Just a <strong>Cookie</strong>...<br />
Sixteen-year-old Yee is a <strong>Cart</strong> Captain at our Minneapolis bakery. When asked why she<br />
applied to work at <strong>Cookie</strong> <strong>Cart</strong>, on top of an already busy school, extracurricular, and social<br />
schedule, Yee says, “I heard <strong>Cookie</strong> <strong>Cart</strong> gave employees experiences and opportunities that<br />
we wouldn’t get anywhere else at our age. I knew it was the first job I needed to set myself up<br />
<strong>for</strong> success.”<br />
In North Minneapolis and Saint Paul’s East Side, where <strong>Cookie</strong> <strong>Cart</strong> teens live, there is a<br />
decline of jobs that stretches back decades. This shortage of jobs has created a serious lack<br />
of entry-level and employment opportunities <strong>for</strong> young people, on top of additional wideranging<br />
problems including housing, education, crime, and racial disparities.<br />
<strong>Cookie</strong> <strong>Cart</strong> utilizes a strength-based approach that draws upon the opportunities and<br />
possibilities that youth have to offer in programming, in operations and in navigating<br />
towards their own bright futures. Our programming addresses the widening racial and<br />
economic disparities experienced in North Minneapolis and Saint Paul’s East Side. <strong>Cookie</strong><br />
<strong>Cart</strong> provides a tandem education and employment model to address these disparities, and<br />
cultivates an economic, <strong>for</strong>ward-thinking, goal-oriented environment <strong>for</strong> low-income teens<br />
to learn and grow.<br />
Employmentsuccess of <strong>Cookie</strong> <strong>Cart</strong> graduates<br />
79%<br />
<strong>Cookie</strong> <strong>Cart</strong><br />
alumni<br />
64%<br />
Adults in Near<br />
North Minneapolis<br />
According to Wilder Research, 79%<br />
of <strong>Cookie</strong> <strong>Cart</strong> alumni are employed<br />
in the third year after graduating<br />
from our program. For comparison,<br />
overall employment <strong>for</strong> workingage<br />
adults in the Near North<br />
community of Minneapolis is 64%.
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