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Mission Statement:
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless is a statewide charitable organization that works to alleviate hunger and homelessness by distributing donations to Minnesota’s food and shelter providers as well as promoting education about the causes and potential solutions for the problems of hunger and homelessness.
History:
Since 1986, Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless (OYH) has helped hungry and homeless people throughout Minnesota. As a statewide charitable organization, we primarily assist food shelves, food banks, on-site feeding programs, shelters, transitional and permanent supportive housing programs by providing grants so that life’s most basic needs can be served. Individuals throughout Minnesota donate to Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless through payroll deduction at their workplace and by direct contributions. Open Your Heart grants approximately 88 percent of all contributions received to nonprofit organizations that provide food, shelter, or transitional housing in Minnesota. We passionately carry out this work with a small part-time staff and many great volunteers. Only 11.9 percent of undesignated contributions are spent each year on administration and fundraising.
The money raised by Open Your Heart is given to food shelves, food banks, on-site feeding programs, shelters, transitional and permanent supportive housing programs throughout Minnesota. Applications for funding are reviewed and funded throughout the year. Open Your Heart also provides Education Grants to shelters and housing programs so that they can provide school supplies, activity fees and other necessities to children who have no permanent home. Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless often funds emergency requests.
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