2025, At a time when individuals and households throughout Minnesota are experiencing hardships in numbers never seen before, the Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless Foundation is working hard to ensure their funding reaches those in need in every corner of the state.
In their most recent funding cycle, Open Your Heart funding provided sturdy gondola shelving units for Hastings Family Service’s Market Food Shelf. The new shelving will improve efficiency and safety for volunteers as well as increase choice for neighbors while shopping. Hastings Family Service’s Market Food Shelf is a place for neighbors’ experiencing food insecurity to turn to in Hastings and Dakota County. Whatever the challenge, the goal of Hastings Family Services remains the same: ensuring the basic needs of neighbors are being met. Open Your Heart is a proud partner of Hastings Family Service.
Since 1986, the Open Your Heart Foundation has ensured that emergency shelters, food shelves and domestic violence shelters throughout Minnesota have the tools, equipment, and infrastructure necessary to best serve those in need. Open Your Heart awards funds every three months and provides emergency support within days during a crisis. They support programs in communities where many traditional funders do not reach – food shelves, domestic violence shelters, and homeless programs in small communities and sparsely served remote corners of the state. Through this direct support, Open Your Heart helps these organizations provide safe and dignified environments for people experiencing food and housing housing insecurity across Minnesota.