Hope for the City uses corporate surplus as a tool to fight poverty, hunger, and disease. 

Hope for the City is a privately funded, 501(c)3 relief organization that was established by Dennis and Megan Doyle in 2000 to fight poverty, hunger and disease by utilizing corporate surplus.  The Minnesota-based, non-profit organization collects overstock products from top retailers, medical companies, and food distributors nationwide and donates the items to people in need locally, across the country and around the world.  Since its inception, Hope for the City has donated approximately $400 million in wholesale value of goods.

Locally, Hope for the City distributes corporate surplus to non-profit organizations that serve the poor in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas.  Hope for the City makes an incredible monthly impact on the non-profit organizations it serves.  Our Community Partners reach 30,000 individuals in need each month.  Because of their partnership with Hope for the City, they can now reach 40,000 individuals.  In other words, Hope for the City touches approximately 10,000 individuals in need each month.

Hope for the City helps create healthier communities by providing an easy way for corporations to move their surplus, receive a tax donation, and serve the poor.  Helping those in poverty helps make a stronger community.  A healthy community provides the basis for the economy to flourish.  It's a circle that starts at the loading dock of local business.

Internationally, Hope For The City delivers medicines, medical supplies and equipment to developing countries all over the world.  With our access to medical resources, we are able to equip a 4-5 story hospital with everything from hospital beds and exam tables, to supplies and medicines.  One new resource, which we call "A Hospital in a Box" can literally get a hospital started anywhere in the world with just one container.

By equipping doctors with much needed medical equipment and supplies, we enable them to make quicker and more accurate diagnosis and care for the sick more effectively.  Even everyday medical supplies like Band-Aids are often no where to be found in poverty stricken hospitals and clinics in the developing world.  The equipment the United States was using 15-20 years ago is what the developing world needs now.