Ways to support our mission

Each time you support Mental Health Resources, you touch the life of someone living with mental illness. Our clients are grateful, our staff members are grateful and our board members are grateful for your involvement.

While we are able to bill for most of the services we offer, we need additional funds to help clients with financial emergencies, develop more supportive housing, furnish their apartments, find meaningful work, provide activities at the Seward Community Support Program and develop new programs.

There are many different ways to support our work including:

• Cash Gifts — Gifts may be made by check or credit card. Mail a check payable to:
  Mental Health Resources Attn: Development Director,
  1821 University Ave., Suite N464,
  St. Paul, MN 55104.
  
  Or you may use a credit card to make a gift online.
  Click here to make a donation.
  
  
• Matching Gifts –Your employer may match your gift. Contact your human resources department to ask if your employer has a matching gift program or ask if they would consider starting one.
• In-Kind Gifts –We welcome gift cards and new household supplies for client's homes including bed and bath linens, dishes and cooking utensils. Unfortunately, due to space limitations we cannot accept furniture or household appliances. For other ideas, please see our wish list.
• Gifts of Securities –If you give a gift of appreciated securities, you're able to take a charitable deduction on your income tax and avoid capital gains tax.
• Planned Giving –Please consider leaving a gift to Mental Health Resources in your will. Advantages include reducing or avoiding inheritance taxes while helping to ensure that our work continues into the future. Or consider designating MHR as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy, a qualified retirement plan, or as the payable on death beneficiary of a savings account or Certificate of Deposit.
• Charitable Gift Annuities can be arranged for gifts of $5,000 or more.
• Special Gifts –If you would like to honor someone who has had firsthand experience with mental illness or who has made a difference in the field of mental health, consider making a donation in honor of or in memory of that person. A donation in honor of someone special also makes a great gift for a birthday, a special anniversary or a holiday.

For further information on in-kind gifts, planned giving, or special gifts, please call Helen Raleigh, Development Director, at 651-659-2923.

Everyone knows someone who lives with mental illness.

Mental illness affects someone close to you: Is your neighbor stressed because her son can't hold a job and struggles with schizophrenia?

Do you know someone who served in Iraq who now has trouble sleeping and feels suicidal? He may have post traumatic stress disorder.

Is a co-worker depressed about her divorce, not sleeping well and not eating right?

Persons helped by Mental Health Resources are just like other individuals in your life. Each of our clients is someone's child, sibling, cousin, neighbor or friend.

People affected by mental illness need people to show that they care and deserve quality medical care and to never be homeless.

You can help by educating yourself, inviting someone with mental illness to spend time with you, encouraging them to seek professional help, and by giving to organizations that provide effective, compassionate care...which is what we offer at Mental Health Resources.