2023 Thrivent Tour
Welcome to the 2023 Thrivent Tour for Full Cycle,
Saturday, June 17th!
Over the 7 years of partnership, Thrivent and Thrivent workforce riders have contributed over $300,000 to Full Cycle. Full Cycle continues to receive thousands of dollars of support from Thrivent employees through individual donations and Thrivent Choice dollars.
There will be two routes: a longer and a shorter route. The longer route (30 miles) will run from 1pm - 7pm and the shorter route (7.5 miles) will run from 1pm - 3pm. To ride in the tour, a minimum donation of $25 dollars is required; there's no minimum for non riders looking to donate.
Please select Thrivent rider or Thrivent non-rider when registering / making your donation.
Thirvent Tour Stops
Pillsbury House or Pillsbury Creative Commons
- Launched in 1992 as a professional arts institution, PH+T remains a cultural landmark at the crossroads of four historic and diverse Minneapolis neighborhoods
- Pillsbury Early Education Center, day training and habitation for adults with disabilities, tax assistance, Chicago Avenue Project, performances, and many more cultural events
Full Cycle
- Social enterprise that offers support and connection to unhoused youth
- Outreach, bike mechanic apprenticeship, food access apprenticeship, free bike program
- Bike donations and recyclery
Waite House
- Serves over 4500 community members each year
- Free produce and groceries for individuals and families
- Delicious and nutritious hot lunches prepared Monday through Thursday
- Tutoring, cultural celebrations, paid youth internships, community garden
Brian Coyle
- Founded to serve the “Ellis Island of the Midwest”
- Among the city’s busiest social service centers with a continuum of programs designed around the neighborhood’s rapidly changing immigrant communities
- Food shelf, produce distribution, immigrant women’s support, teen tech center, cultural celebrations
- Several community organizations call Brian Coyle Center home
North Market
- Started as a conversation about access to good food in North Minneapolis
- Built with the community, for the community, North Market is a full-service grocery store, a center for wellness services, and a community gathering place
- Recognized for its unique status as a project of a nonprofit social service organization, in partnership with North Memorial Health System, that rose out of a community design process, North Market is a model that could be used in other communities
Freight Farm
- Hydroponic farm built inside a shipping container!
- Instead of soil, the plants are given water filled with nutrients to help them grow. And instead of under the sun, the plants grow under UV light.
- Grows a variety of greens and herbs to be used in community meals and packaged and sold at North Market
In addition to Full Cycle, Thrivent has also supported several other programs, enterprises, and centers across Pillsbury United Communities:
Brian Coyle
Thrivent contributed $50,000 for the Best Buy Teen Tech Center, which opened in 2017. This is a dedicated makerspace for teens age 12-18 located in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood. Each Teen Tech Center provides a creative, safe, and free out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop new skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.
Pillsbury House
Thrivent contributed $25,000 annually from 2008-2015 through the Thrivent Foundation
North Market
Thrivent contributed $25,000 through the Superbowl Legacy Committee for this innovative community asset.