Open Your Heart's Harvesting Hope Event

Proceeds from this auction will directly benefit Open Your Heart as we provide financial and technical support to homeless shelters, food shelves, and domestic violence shelters throughout Minnesota. Our grant partners provide essential resources like nutritious meals, safe housing, and supportive services to those in need. Your participation will help ensure that no one in our community has to worry about where their next meal will come from or where they will sleep at night.

Open Your Heart has been targeting donations to help Minnesotans experiencing hunger and homelessness since 1986.

We fill specific, unmet needs: We help food and shelter providers of all sizes get the things they must have to serve more people.

We help emergency shelters, supportive housing programs, and domestic violence shelters purchase necessities such as mattresses, security cameras, and repair heating units for our cold winters.

We help food shelves purchase items needed to carry more fresh foods, such as freezers and shelving, and fix structural damage to serve clients in a safer space, such as roof repair.

We help children and youth who are experiencing homelessness get their GEDs, purchase school supplies and winter clothing, pay for activity fees, and much more so they can participate fully in school.

Providing tangible resources such as these is vital to serving the growing number of people in need and ensures that food and shelter organizations are able to focus their attention on helping people in crisis get back on their feet. We also work to raise awareness of the issues impacting people facing hunger and homelessness and support initiatives that address these complex challenges.