Honoring volunteer Cate Wagner

Volunteer shopper Cate Wagner was recently honored with an Invest Northwest Award, presented by the Northwest Hennepin Human Services Council. This award honors volunteers for their work in serving people in Northwest Hennepin County.

Cate has served as a volunteer shopper at the Crystal store for over 4 years. Cate has faithfully been there at 6am every week, typically multiple days a week, carefully shopping each order. Cate has gone above and beyond in helping out on extras days. More recently, we added a shopping day at the St. Anthony Cub store and Cate has been volunteering there each week in addition to 1-2 days a week serving in Crystal.

Cate is also the person responsible for some of the innovations that have streamlined the grocery shopping process for our volunteers. She developed the idea for the red and green flags we use during each shopping shift, and she handmade the flags for each store. She also came up with the idea for a new process to pick up deli items for clients that is being piloted at all five stores.

We were so pleased to be able to nominate Cate and we appreciate the Northwest Hennepin Human Services Council for recognizing Cate for her work with us!