Open Your Heart believes that every Minnesotan should be free from hunger and homelessness. We provide emergency shelters, domestic violence shelters, and food shelfs in Minnesota with the tangible things they need to serve more people in crisis and serve them better.

Our small staff and dedicated volunteer board of directors accepts grant requests from any shelter or food shelf in Minnesota and vets each agency for impact before carefully awarding funds.

Open Your Heart has been directing funds to where they are needed most for hungry and homeless people in Minnesota for over 30 years. We are lucky to have a very dedicated and experienced staff, an amazing board of directors, and very generous donors.

We believe that any time someone has a safe bed to sleep in or nutritious food to eat because of our work, we have achieved success.

We have helped, and will continue to help, hundreds of emergency shelters, domestic violence shelters and food shelves serve more people and serve them better. We also create special programs as needs arise. For example, when hearing that over 40% of homeless people in Greater Minnesota were unsheltered, we created a special program that added over 200 beds to shelters across the state.