Wildflyer Coffee

Our community came together for our annual fundraising event, Brewing Brighter Futures, last month and we sure felt the love. Thank you so much to everyone who attended or showed up for us in other ways! It was a great event and we are excited to plan Brewing Brighter Futures 2025!

Please join us tomorrow/Tuesday, July 23 for our quarterly Community Coffee Hour! We’ll gather at Wildflyer Headquarters (3258 Minnehaha Ave) from 8-10 a.m. for free drip coffee, pastries, and listening and learning from Ryan Berg, local author of No House to Call My Home: Love, Family and Other Transgressions. We invite you to bring a friend–and if you want a fancy drink, feel free to purchase one next door at Wildflyer before we gather. Register at https://lnkd.in/gJa8eGwz.

We still have space available in our quarterly book club, Pages of Change. And, we have extended our registration date through July 28–if you have signed up already, we encourage you to invite a friend to join you! This quarter’s book is Matthew Desmond’s, Evicted. Through our reading, we learn about and discuss the tough topics of homelessness, poverty, and housing instability. We create a safe space to learn and grow together, and to see if we can come up with solutions. We will be meeting on the following dates: August 27 (online), September 24 (online), and October 29 (in-person). Your quarterly membership costs $75 and includes a hard copy of the book, an End Youth Homelessness mug, a bag of Wildflyer coffee, plus a $25 tax-deductible donation to our employment training program for young people experiencing homelessness. Register at bit.ly/wfcbookclub. . . . . #wildflyercoffee #wildflyer#endyouthhomelessness #readabook#summerreading #evicted #bookclub#wildflyerbookclub #pagesofchange

We are excited to host our community on Tuesday, July 23 from 8-10 a.m.—you're invited! We’ll have free drip coffee, free pastries, and listening and learning together. This time we’ll be hearing from local author, activist, and teaching artist, Ryan Berg. Please register at https://lnkd.in/gJa8eGwz.

The month of July is Disability Pride Month. This month is about celebrating all community members, celebrating each other, and creating spaces that are accessible and inclusive for all. We recommend learning more about the experiences of individuals with disabilities through the Minnesota Council on Disability. You can visit their website at disability.state.mn.us. We’d like to open comments up to you all–our community! How can we, as Wildflyer, do better in creating accessible and inclusive spaces? Are there things you would like to see in our cafes or in our communications to better support you? Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments here, via DM, or via email to chelsea@wildflyercoffee.com.

Wildflyer’s Founder and Executive Director, Carley Kammerer, will be speaking on Wednesday, July 24 at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Fundraising Conference. Carley will speak about fundraising disruption, our model of community centric fundraising, and what it means to fundraise for a social enterprise, like Wildflyer Coffee. For those attending, don't miss out on Carley’s breakout session, Unlocking Impact: Harnessing the Power of Social Enterprise. If you’d like to attend this event, there are member rates, non-member rates, and pay-what-you-can rates. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/daM3dirK

We are hiring! We're in search of a Communications & Marketing Coordinator, who will work alongside our Director of Development to manage the external image and brand of Wildflyer Coffee. For more information and to apply, check out our listing below! https://lnkd.in/ehmCfRMS

Do you love reading powerful, thought-provoking books? Are you interested in understanding the broader systems that contribute to youth homelessness? Do you want to understand how to help within the context of a passionate community? If so, you're invited to join our inaugural book club, led by Founder and CEO Carley Kammerer! Youth homelessness is a symptom of many other complicated situations, and this club will create a space where community members can come together, learn, and actively address this critical issue. We'll be choosing a new book every quarter that focuses on poverty, housing instability, personal stories, and methods of solving homelessness. We will meet on the last Tuesday of the month from 7 to 9 p.m. (a combination of virtual and in-person gatherings). We're thrilled to announce that our first book will be the powerful "No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions" by local author Ryan Berg. This is a unique opportunity as Ryan will join us for the final discussion, adding depth and insight to our understanding of youth homelessness. Interested in joining Pages of Change: A Wildflyer Book Club? Click below to learn more and sign up! We can't wait to read with you! https://ow.ly/qh9i50QMVkb

We believe that all young people deserve a family and a home. At Wildflyer, we strive to be that safe and supportive family and home for youth who haven't always had stability in the past. Through Wildflyer's programming, young people don't just learn how to make coffee and write a resume (although those are important skills!), they learn that they are worthy of love and care and a supportive community. Young people like Lala. Lala says that her life before Wildflyer was really rough and dark and that Wildflyer was the light to her tunnel. During her time at Wildflyer, Lala truly thrived. We are proud of her success and feel lucky we got to journey alongside her. We need your support as we end 2023 so we can continue to ensure that all young people can experience a sense of home and have the opportunity to exit homelessness for good.  We have a goal to raise $40,000 by year-end, and each gift is matched dollar-for-dollar by our friends at the Kind World Foundation. Donate today and show the youth in our community that they're not alone: https://lnkd.in/gNBSw3E2

Thank you Charlie Peters for this great feature about Wildflyer Coffee and the work we are doing to end youth homelessness!