Programs | The Cookie Cart

The Cookie Cart contributes to the economic development of North Minneapolis while providing quality employment opportunities for neighborhood teens. Cookie Cart teaches valuable work and life skills through four distinct trainings. They are:

Bakery Program

The Bakery Program offers a first, paid job experience for North Minneapolis youth ages 14-17. The program provides a creative teaching environment in which young people learn basic employment skills such as:

appropriate workplace behavior
problem solving
teamwork
time management
taking direction
seeing tasks through to completion

360 Degrees

360 is a classroom based program which teaches comprehensive workforce readiness skills such as resume writing, interview preparation, and job searching. The primary objective of the class is to prepare participants to find and keep jobs in the traditional workforce.

Customer Service

Cookie Cart's customer service training provides participants the skills and knowledge necessary to present a positive image in both their personal and professional lives. Interpersonal communication skill development are at the heart of this program.

National Career Readiness Certification

This assessment prepared by the ACT corporation measures job skills essential to success in a variety of occupations. Cookie Cart youth are supported through the certification process through enhanced training and test preparation.

Click here to learn more about the Cookie Cart experience from our youth employees.

To learn more about the success of our programs, read the Wilder Research program evaluation summary report.