Business Skills

• USDA approved food preparation
• Operations, planning and scheduling
• Sales and marketing
• Quality management and customer care
• Teamwork, collaboration and problem solving skills

Interpersonal Skills

• Interpersonal Relationships
• Diversity
• Conflict Resolution
• Application of academic learning, especially in mathematics

As paid employees of the Cookie Cart, participants also learn the responsibilities and disciplines that come with employment. Practical job skills prepare them to enter the workforce. At the same time, youth are:

• Motivated to stay in school and excel
• Are introduced to a variety of future career options
• Gain economic power in a safe, fostering environment.

Cookie Cart youth employees, ages 14-17, produce and sell premium cookies throughout the Twin Cities. Our valued commercial customers number in the hundreds; our valued retail customers in the thousands. The following represents a partial list of the organizations that we are proud to call our customers.

• Accenture
  
• Allianz Life
  
• Anderson Agency
  
• Carlson Companies
  
• Cedar Cultural Center
  
• City of Minneapolis
  
• DeLaSalle
  
• Dunwoody College of Technology
  
• Edina Realty Title
  
• Fidelity Bank
  
• Gabberts Furniture & Design Studio
  
• HealthPartners
  
• Hey Man Productions
  
• Jay Rose & Phillips Family Foundation
  
• Larkin Hoffman
  
• Marsh
  
• Memorial Blood Centers
  
• Minneapolis Schools
  
• Minnesota Timberwolves & Lynx
  
• Orchestra Hall
  
• Pohlad Family Foundation
  
• RBC Dain Rauscher
  
• St. Ambrose
  
• St. Joan of Arc
  
• Shiloh Temple
  
• Target Corporation
  
• TCF
  
• Title One
  
• University of Minnesota
  
• United Properties
  
• U.S. Bank
  
• Vanguard Travel
  
• Wells Fargo
  
• Westminster Presbyterian

And, hundreds of individual customers buying weekly and monthly.