As food and housing insecurity continues to rise, Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless ensures that crisis service providers throughout the state have the tools, infrastructure and resources necessary to serve those most in need. We listen closely to the challenges faced by the organizations we serve, supporting programs in communities large and small who rarely receive support from larger metro based or statewide funders.
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Gift Examples
- $3 per pay period can provide comforting bedding and towels for a woman seeking safety at a domestic violence shelter.
- $5 per pay period can provide fresh fruit and vegetables to help fill food shelves during the difficult summer months.
- $10 per pay period can provide winter survival gear for homeless youth who are unable to access shelter and live on the street.
- $20 per pay period can provide bed frames, mattresses, and bedding at emergency shelters welcoming families off the streets.
Designation Policy
DOES NOT ACCEPT DESIGNATIONS - Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless does not accept designations to specific agencies. By keeping funds undesignated, Open Your Heart can support agencies most in need throughout the year. This enables us to keep our administrative costs low.
Administration Fee
7% per 2023 Financial Statements
Primary Region
Northcentral, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest, Metro
Affiliates
- 180 Degrees Inc.
- 360 Communities
- A Place for Hope: Recovery and Wellness Center & Food Shelf
- Advocates Against Domestic Abuse
- Advocates Against Domestic Abuse d.b.a. HOPE - Healing Opportunity Provided Equally
- Agate Housing and Services
- Alexandra House, Inc.
- Align Minneapolis
- Anoka County Brotherhood Council (ACBC Food Shelf)
- Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency
- Avenues for Youth
- Basic Needs Inc. of South Washington County
- Breaking Free
- Bridgepointe Community Church Food Shelf
- CAER Food Shelf
- Centennial Community Food Shelf
- Community Action Partnership of Scott, Carver, and Dakota Counties
- Community Emergency Service, Inc. (CES)
- Community Pathways of Steele County
- CROSS Services
- Dakota Woodlands
- Damiano of Duluth
- Divine Konnections Inc.
- Division of Indian Work
- East African Dream Inc.
- Face to Face Health & Counseling Service, Inc.
- Family Rise Together
- Feeding Our Communities Partners (FOCP)
- FreedomWorks - Bread of Life Food Pantry
- GMCC (Founded as the Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches)
- Grace House of Itasca County
- Helping Hands 365
- Homeless Helping Homeless
- HOPE 4 Youth
- HOPE AVENUE TWIN CITIES
- HOPE Coalition
- Hospitality House of Owatonna, Inc.
- Hunger Solutions Minnesota
- Intermediate District 287
- Koochiching County Food Access
- LCM Campus Cupboard
- Life House, Inc.
- Merrick Community Services
- Mi C.A.S.A. MN
- Minneapolis College
- Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless
- Nameless Coalition for the Homeless
- Native American Community Clinic
- Neighborhood HealthSource
- Neighborhood House
- Oasis for Youth
- Open Hands Midway, Inc.
- Our Saviour's Community Services
- People Serving People
- Pillsbury United Communities
- Relationship Safety Alliance f.k.a. Mid-Minnesota Women's Center, Inc.
- Resources Justice & Management
- Rivers of Hope
- Ruth's House of Hope
- Second Harvest Northern Lakes Food Bank
- Servants of Shelter of Koochiching County
- Small Sums
- Sojourner Project
- Southern Anoka Community Assistance
- Southern MN Crisis Nursery
- Southern Valley Alliance
- St. Andrew's Community Resource Center (CRC)
- The Bridge for Youth
- The Camden Collective
- The Drawer
- The Landing MN
- The Link
- The Sanneh Foundation
- Tubman
- Two Harbors Area Food Shelf
- White Bear Area Food Shelf
- Wildflyer Coffee
- Winona Volunteer Services
- Women of Nations
- WoMen's Rural Advocacy Programs, Inc.
- wRight Choice Backpack Buddies
- YWCA Duluth
Contact
Jessica Mathias
612-338-5577
jmathias@oyh.org
