Since its inception, the Golden Valley Community Services Commission (CSC) has allocated $2,097,002 to various agencies that help Golden Valley residents in times of need. For 2026, the CSC allocated $50,000 to eight local human service organizations. 

These organizations include: 

• CEAP—Northwest Suburban Dinner At Your Door ($10,000): CEAP delivers hot, nourishing lunches to seniors and individuals who cannot easily prepare meals or leave their homes. They serve more than 68 Golden Valley seniors with five hot meals per week to help them maintain independence, dignity, and health.
• Damascus Way ($3,000): For more than 45 years, Damascus Way has served substance use recovery and prison re-entry populations with housing and meals, peer-to-peer training and recovery support services, employment coaching, personal advocacy, community engagement, and community integration support.
• Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery ($3,000): The Crisis Nursery focuses on prevention by offering free, voluntary services for parents who face barriers such as unemployment, homelessness, medical or mental health concerns, poverty, domestic violence, or other situations.
• HUG ($3,000): HUG (Helping Us Grow) empowers families with young children by providing personalized home visits, parenting education, and community resources. Their goal is to strengthen early childhood development and foster resilient families. HUG partners with The Diaper Bank, MN, a non-profit organization, to collect new diapers, pull-ups, and wipes for families struggling with this daily need.
• PRISM ($20,000): PRISM (People Responding In Social Ministry) is a community-funded social service agency that provides families in need with food, financial assistance, and other services in times of financial hardship.
• Senior Community Services Outreach ($5,000): Senior Community Services coordinates with more than 300 community partners to provide older Golden Valley residents and their families with service coordination, individual and group counseling, accessing assistance, and information and education that help them remain independent.
• Sojourner Project ($3,000): Sojourner provides emergency shelter, legal advocacy, and support to empower those victimized by domestic and interpersonal violence, and information and education to raise awareness and promote violence prevention.
• The Bridge for Youth ($3,000): The Bridge for Youth provides basic needs and intervention/prevention services for youth currently or at risk of experiencing homelessness. This includes food, shelter, gender-affirming clothing, personal care items, resources for harm reduction and safety planning, assessments and referrals, case management, and connection through both 1:1 in-person and virtual support.