Website: http://oyh.org
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless (OYH), a statewide charitable organization, began helping hungry and homeless Minnesotans in 1986. They provide grants to food shelves, food banks, on-site feeding programs, shelters, transitional and permanent supportive housing programs throughout the state.
OYH also awards education grants to shelters and housing programs so they can cover school supplies, activity fees and other necessities for children without permanent homes.
OYH grants about 88 percent of all contributions to nonprofit organizations that provide these services. They operate with a small, part-time staff and a host of dedicated volunteers to keep administration expenses low.
An important part of OYH’s mission is not only to alleviate hunger and homelessness, but to also promote education about the causes and potential solutions for the problems of hunger and homelessness.