Get Involved

What You Can Do to Help End Homelessness in Minneapolis and Hennepin County  

Educate Yourself, Your Family, and Your Community


Visit websites that supply helpful information about homelessness and how to end it:


Read Our Ten-Year Plan to End Homelessness

 

Advocate

  • Generate and support healthy conversations about welcoming housing opportunities for people who are homeless into your neighborhood.
  • Monitor important legislation and write letters, call, or visit public officials at the city, county, state and federal levels. Advocate for changes that support homeless service agencies and the plan to end homelessness.
  • Use the Minnesota State Legislature district finder to retrieve contact information for your representatives: http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/districtfinder.asp

 

Volunteer

  • Contact a local shelter or agency; offer your time and energy. Visit www.handsontwincities.org to find an opportunity.
  • Volunteer at Project Homeless Connect, an all day one-stop-shop service event for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Click here for more information.



Donate

  • Donate directly to an agency or program that is working to end homelessness.
  • Donate to the Give Real Change campaign, a new initiative that focuses on preventing and ending panhandling in downtown Minneapolis by promoting giving to local agencies that work to end homelessness and keep people off of the streets.
  • Support Project Homeless Connect at www.homelessconnectminneapolis.org
  • Donate to our plan to end homelessness through Heading Home Minnesota; click here.
  • Organize a fundraiser for an organization or an in-kind donation event through your business, neighborhood group, school, or faith community.