Guild

Guild empowers Minnesotans living with serious mental illness and/or experiencing long-term homelessness by helping them build stable, fulfilling lives in their chosen community. We do this through a wide array of services tailored to each client’s unique needs, because we know mental health looks different for everyone and that all of us deserve dignity, connection, and basic stability.

From mental health crisis services to street outreach, housing, and employment resources, our holistic approach empowers nearly 1,800 Minnesotans annually to overcome challenges and build a better future. When you support Guild, you are investing in hope, healing, and belonging.

This November, your donation to Guild goes twice as far to meet basic needs and restore hope for our clients.

Meeting Basic Needs to Build Long-Term Stability

Earlier this year, Guild piloted an internal client pantry to provide shelf-stable food, personal hygiene items, household supplies, baby products, and grocery gift cards directly to individuals and families in need. When someone is facing a mental health crisis or navigating long-term homelessness, meeting immediate, tangible needs is often the first step toward recovery. 

In just eight months, Guild staff used the pantry over 500 times, delivering nearly 6,000 essential items across nine different programs—from Youth ACT to street outreach.

Beyond filling stomachs and providing diapers, this simple resource has done something even more extraordinary: It has built trust.

For clients who have experienced trauma, systemic barriers, or low engagement with healthcare systems, showing up with groceries or basic household supplies opens the door to deeper relationships. One young client on our Youth ACT team had a long history of low engagement and resistance to treatment. When our team began showing up to meet immediate, tangible food needs, trust began to grow. Today, that same young person has reached over six months of medication consistency and continues to meet regularly with their care team.

For another young man experiencing chronic homelessness, monthly pantry visits have helped bridge the gap between food shelf visits, providing easy-to-transport food and self-care items that restore his dignity.

Your Impact Doubled: $10,000 Match Opportunity

Our initial pantry funding has been fully utilized, but the need remains urgent. To keep the pantry fully stocked for an entire year across all of Guild's programs, we need to raise $20,000.

This Give to the Max Day, your gift will go twice as far. Thanks to a generous donor match, every dollar you give will be doubled up to $10,000.

• Your $25 gift becomes $50 — can provide essential personal care and hygiene products for one client.

• Your $50 gift becomes $100 — can provide warm clothing and easy-to-transport food for one individual experiencing homelessness.

• Your $100 gift becomes $200 — can stock shelf-stable meals and laundry supplies for a family.

When we meet someone’s basic physical needs, we create the safety and trust required for long-term mental health recovery and housing stability. Help us keep our pantry shelves filled for the year ahead.

Give today and double your impact!