Winona Volunteer Services

05/18/2026

The Clothes Shop at Winona Volunteer Services will be closed on Saturday May 23 and all services will be closed on Monday May 25, 2026 for Memorial Day.

05/15/2026

A huge thank you to the Fanatics’ team for spending their Global Volunteer Day at Winona Volunteer Services.

Always a pleasure hosting this group of enthusiastic volunteers!

04/21/2026

Come out for a great Sunday breakfast at the Eagles Club. Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger Winona team is hosting this breakfast fundraiser for the food shelf. We would love your support.

04/03/2026

This video showing the Winona Health Team doing the grocery grab is awesome!! Thanks for sharing this wonderful memory.

04/03/2026

Dear Friends of Café Congo,

Just a reminder that tomorrow, Saturday, April 4t at 2pm at Café Congo the Bell House Band will perform a free benefit concert to raise money for the local Food Shelf (located at the First Congregational Church ...161 W. Broadway St.). Admission is by freewill donation. These talented musicians, Jim Armstrong, Connie Dretske and Bob Stuber, perform folk, Americana and original works on guitar, bass and mandolin. All the raised funds will go to Winona Volunteer Service's Food Shelf in celebration of Minnesota's Food Share Month. Refreshments will be served. Doors open at 1:45.

Hope to see you there but if you can't please consider making a donation online to:
https://www.winonavs.org/donate/ Thank you.

Winona Volunteer Services is a 501(c)3 organization, so your donations are tax deductible. For more information about your tax benefits, please contact your attorney or tax advisor. You can make a monetary donation to Winona Volunteer Services by sending a check to our main office at 402 East Second...

03/23/2026

03/06/2026

So grateful Winona Health participated in our 8th annual Grocery Grab by sending Katie and Dr. Heslinger to represent their team. Nicely done!!

You’ve seen them in Women's Health caring for patients… but have you seen them speed-running the grocery aisles? 🛒💨

Dr. Heslinger and Katie Duerr, CNM, took on this year’s WNB Financial Grocery Grab, racing the clock with just 90 seconds to collect food (mostly healthy) and personal care items for the Winona Volunteer Services.

Collectively, participating teams gathered $7,926.32 worth of groceries, totaling 1,611 pounds of food for the food shelf.

🎥 An action-packed video is coming soon—stay tuned!

03/05/2026

We kicked off Minnesota Food Share Month with the 8th running of the Grocery Grab at Midtown Foods. Ten teams competed for the coveted Golden Cart Traveling trophy including EDINA REALTY, FASTENAL (WITH 2 TEAMS), HBC, MIDWEST METAL PRODUCTS PEERLESS CHAIN, SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS, SUGAR LOAF LIVING, WINONA HEALTH, AND WNB FINANCIAL.

Collectively, these teams bought $7,926.32 worth of groceries for the food shelf, totaling 1,611 pounds of food. It was our biggest $$$ Grocery Grab yet! Hats off to all the teams for their unwavering determination and grit!

Congratulations goes out to the winning team at FASTENAL who had the highest grocery bill exceeding $1,300. And because they won, WBN Financial has to pick up their grocery tab along with their own which totaled $999.97!!

Special thank you to Alissa Gibson and her team for organizing this spirited competition on behalf of the food shelf during MN FOODSHARE month. Your partnership on this is invaluable.

And a shout out to Midtown Foods and the employees who worked last night for cheering on the teams and cleaning up the tiny messes that occurred in the aisles. Thank you for opening your store to support this event.

03/04/2026

A special THANK YOU to Jon Swanson who made magnificent mango salsa for the 2026 Salsa Rica event and took 2nd Place!!!

And thanks to everyone who purchased raffle tickets and showed up on Saturday to taste test the variety of salsas. Your contributions help fund many community organizations like ours.