Open Your Heart provided funding to the the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC) to provide emergency access to gift cards for food and two to three night hotel stays across Street Outreach and Drop-In Center programs. The MIWRC is a non-profit...
Open Your Heart provided Tubman with funding to help provide items and support to homeless students living in Tubman’s emergency shelter and transitional housing programs to fully participate in school and improve academic success. Tubman opened the third...
Open Your Heart provided The Bridge with funding to help provide youth participating in their emergency shelter and housing programs with necessary items for them to be successful in school and to help reduce the educational disparities affecting homeless youth, and...
Happy Monday! Today’s Grantee Monday highlight is about one of our 2020 Education grantees, the Sanneh Foundation! Open Your Heart provided funding to the Sanneh Foundation to provide students identified as at-risk and homeless in St. Paul and St. Cloud public...
Happy Monday & Happy Back to School Month! Today’s Grantee Monday highlight is about one of our 2020 Education grantees, Hired! Open Your Heart provided funding to Hired to help provide laptop computers and other resources so homeless Hired participants can...
Open Your Heart provided Small Sums with funding for Rush Hour and Express monthly bus passes for their Twin Cities homeless clients, who have found jobs, but need a reliable way to get to work in their first months at their new job. Small Sums’ mission is to...
Open Your Heart provided funding to Valley Outreach for an expanded cooler on-site to help provide more nutritious fresh food options to those in need. Valley Outreach’s mission is to help people move their lives forward through basic needs services and personalized...
Open Your Heart provided funding to Grace House for motel vouchers to provide better isolation and private restrooms for each individual experiencing homelessness instead of the cubicles and communal restrooms at the shelter. Grace House was established in 2006...
Open Your Heart provided funding to Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans (MACV) for hotel vouchers to help serve single Veterans who are currently experiencing homeless and are in need of a hotel stay in the event they are coming from shelter on their way into...
Open Your Heart provided funding to Al-Maa’uun for a commercial freezer to be able to safely store perishable food items and continue their home meal and food box delivery program to youth, seniors, and people with disabilities in north Minneapolis. Inspired by the...
