The Cookie Cart is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit youth employment program

  that takes the form of a retail/commercial bakery.

  Our business model provides a first, paid job experience for North

  Minneapolis youth ages 14-17, teaching employment and

  interpersonal relationship skills.

  Mission Statement:

  Through the operation of a retail/commercial bakery, Cookie Cart

  offers North Minneapolis youth the opportunity to develop life,

  leadership and employment skills.

Check out the Cookie Cart's e-mail newsletter. Click here to read the most recent issue.

The Timberwolves recently hosted      a Reading Time Out event with elementary students at the Cookie Cart.  Read all about the event by clicking here.

Read a review of our excellent cookies and the great service provided by our youth employees on Chowhound.

Click here to read a profile of the Cookie Cart in Twin Cities Luxury + Fashion magazine.

The Cookie Cart was mentioned in an article on corporate philanthropy in the New York Times on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2007. Read the article online.

The Cookie Cart is featured in the December 2007, issue of Minnesota Parent magazine.  You can read the article online.

The Second Annual Cookie Cart Summer Festival on August 27th         was a big success!  Click here to see pictures and a complete list of event sponsors.

Fourth Annual Cookie Cart Days at     the IDS Center - 2007 Presenting Sponsors.

To learn more about the success       of our programs, view the Wilder Research evaluation report of the Cookie Cart.

Around Town

  Upcoming Events :

• July 9, 2008 - TCF Bank, 801 Marquette Avenue - skyway level - 11:00 am - 1:30 pm - public sales event
• July 10, 2008 - Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, 625 Fourth Avenue South - second floor lobby - 11:00 am - 1:30 pm - public sales event
• July 22, 2008 - Land O'Lakes - 11:00 am - 1:30 pm - private sales event
• July 23, 2008, TCF Bank, 801 Marquette Avenue - skyway level - 11:00 am - 1:30 pm - public sales event
• August 5 & 6, 2008 - 5th Annual Cookie Cart Days at the IDS Center - Crystal Court - 10:00 am to 2:00 pm - public sales event
• August 26, 2008 - 3rd Annual Cookie Cart Summer Festival - 1119 West Broadway Avenue - 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

  For more information about any of these events, call Paul Seifert at

  (612) 521-0855, ext. 104.

  Click here to see photographs from recent sales events.