CHC: Creating Healthier Communities

We build partnerships to address health inequities by fostering trusted community engagement, fundraising and offering programs and services to help support communities where everyone can thrive. Together with partners, we’ve been creating healthier communities for more than 70 years. We exist so that every person in every community has an opportunity to live their healthiest life. In Minnesota, CHC represents 50+ high-impact nonprofits’ work to address the barriers to good health and equity while powering transformative change in the communities in which we live and work. Health equity is going to take all of us—organizations, businesses, and individuals—working together in communities across the country. CHC’s role is to enhance the capacity of nonprofit organizations, connect and convene diverse stakeholders, and harness collective resources and programs to activate collaborations that address root causes and improve the health of our communities.

A gift of $1.00 a week supplies one family with a “First 100 Day Kit” that includes information about autism and resources to help deal with the news of a diagnosis. $2.00 a week will help cover almost 2/3 of the cost of one-hour physical therapy at St. Jude Children’s research hospital. Every dollar raised goes to trusted nonprofits to meet unmet needs in our communities.

Join us today! To learn more, visit chcimpact.org.

Greater Twin Cities United Way

We are inspired to act boldly in addressing profound disparities in housing, food, education and economic opportunity. When we unite as changemakers, we can fuel lasting change, unlock human potential and transform our community into a place where all people thrive, regardless of income, race or place. Every moment as a changemaker matters. Together, those moments drive positive momentum in our community. What will be your changemaker moment? No matter what form it takes — donor, volunteer, advocate — you are an important part of a unified movement that drives lasting change.

Learn more at gtcuw.org.

Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless has focused solely on ensuring that Minnesotans have their most basic needs of food, shelter, and safety met. Our guiding principle has always been to give where the need is greatest. We do that by supporting nonprofit organizations assisting Minnesotans experiencing food and housing insecurity, ensuring they have the resources, equipment, and infrastructure necessary to best serve those in need.

For nearly four decades, Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless has had a significant impact in the lives of Minnesotans and in the health of their communities. Each year we support over 200 different crisis and basic needs service agencies, collectively impacting millions of Minnesotans experiencing hardships.

Open Your Heart is unique in that our support extends to programs in communities all over Minnesota, including the Twin Cities metro, and the cities, small towns and rural areas of greater Minnesota. Recognizing that our neighbors have needs that can’t wait, we are nimble and responsive providing quarterly grant rounds and emergency support within days during crisis.

UNCF

Since 1944, UNCF—United Negro College Fund—has helped minority students live the American Dream by helping more than half a million young men and women graduate from colleges across the United States.

Today, UNCF supports more than 50,000 students attending over 1,100 colleges and universities nationwide, including 37 UNCF-member HBCUS (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), thereby providing the opportunity for a college education at an HBCU or any other college or university.

A college education changes the trajectory of students’ lives, ending generations of underachievement. Whether you give a little or give a lot, your gift is a lifeline to a talented student and an investment in better futures for us all.

Visit uncf.org/workplace to learn more.