ABOUT IOCP

About Interfaith Outreach

Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners (IOCP) is a human service nonprofit that strengthens our community by meeting basic needs and equipping individuals and families for ongoing stability.

IOCP delivers integrated services that address the basic needs for food, shelter, and clothing, while also connecting individuals and families to strengthening services such as affordable housing, quality childcare, employment.

Interfaith lives out the values of collaboration, inclusion, and integrity.


Our Story

Volunteers helps stock the first IOCP food shelf near downtown Wayzata.
Volunteers helps stock the first IOCP food shelf near downtown Wayzata.

From a food shelf to a best in class human services organization

What started as a small food shelf has delivered on a community promise for 45 years: We will build a community where everyone counts, where all children are cherished and protected, and where individual and family life is valued and supported by all. Since 1979, this community has been doing just that: leading, rallying and igniting the power of people to meet basic needs and provide strengthening services for those living here, our neighbors.

Our name, Interfaith Outreach & Community Partners (IOCP), is a nod to our history because many faith communities joined efforts to address local need. They knew they could be more effective working in collaboration with each other. Here we practice inclusion. We want people to show up authentically and that may mean identifying as part of a faith tradition or not. We are not religious in our work.

We are deeply rooted in our commitment to community, inclusion, and shared values with all who engage in our work. We are honored to maintain and carry forward the cross-stakeholder approach established so many years ago. We are an organization with deep ties to all who live, work and play in our community.

Learn more about current Executive Director Kevin Ward.

LaDonna Hoy Founder and Executive Director Emerita led the organization from 1979-2020.  Her important community building work continues with Outreach Development Corporation, a separate 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a 20-year history of successfully mobilizing cross-sector housing partners and communities to preserve, acquire, and develop a continuum of affordable housing options.

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