Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization

Found us from Stand With Minnesota? Select "Cares Team-Rent Food Rides" under the designation drop-down during the donation process to donate to that specific emergency fund. 

For the fundraiser led by Modern Times providing hot meals for impacted neighbors, visit the "Impacted Neighbors Support Fund" or select that in the drop-down during the donation process.

***Please note, as of January 2nd CANDO staff have temporarily been reassigned to neighborhood response and are experiencing a higher than usual volume of communication requests. Thank you for your patience.

We have a vision for a neighborhood that heals, not harms. 

Meet CANDO: the Central Area Neighborhood Development Organization. 

Central is a historically Black neighborhood home to vibrant cultural and linguistic diversity, situated in the heart of south Minneapolis on the ancestral lands of the Dakhóta and Anishinaabe people. The Central neighborhood is defined by the borders of I-35W to the west, Chicago Ave to the east, Lake Street to the north and 38th Street to the south.

We connect neighbors and business owners to both resources, opportunities and one another!

Our primary bodies of work include grassroots food justice organizing with our program Plant-Grow-Share (PGS), renters rights education with HOME Line, and antiracist organizing through the South Central Minneapolis Antiracism Coalition (SMAC). 

In addition to organizing neighbors around food and antiracism, our staff work in deep partnership to help uplift resources that support the livability of our community (renters rights, affordable housing, safety, connectedness) and assist our neighbors with making their voice heard by elected officials.

We believe in uplifting our shared humanity - block by block, neighbor by neighbor. 

Will you join us?

***Please note, as of January 2nd CANDO staff have temporarily been reassigned to neighborhood response and are experiencing a higher than usual volume of communication requests. Thank you for your patience.

Found us from Stand With Minnesota? Select "Cares Team-Rent Food Rides" under the designation drop-down during the donation process to donate to that specific emergency fund. 

For the fundraiser led by Modern Times providing hot meals for impacted neighbors, visit the "Impacted Neighbors Support Fund." or select that in the drop-down.