Building a shelter system around people.
Firebird is building shelters, emotional education, software, housing, policy, and transparency around one standard: care.
About Firebird Holdings
Firebird Holdings is rebuilding shelter from the inside out. The system that is supposed to catch people when their housing falls apart is broken, and not only for lack of beds. It is broken for lack of care.
Firebird exists to build the version that works: shelters designed for the clients who use them, staffed by people trained to care and expected to, funded in the open, backed by housing, and connected to the systems around them.
About Firebird →
Shelter should lead somewhere.
Firebird Holdings is designing shelter around a result the current system too often fails to deliver: a safe exit from homelessness.
That means spaces built around the people who use them, staff trained to care and accountable for doing so, funding anyone can trace, and permanent housing pathways when they are needed.
Read Our Mission →Stability is not something a bed provides on its own.
Every Firebird program is designed to teach emotional intelligence to staff and to the people who use the program. Stability also comes from learning to notice what you are feeling, understand where it comes from, and choose what to do next.
The Witness and Judge Framework is psychoeducation and coaching. It is not clinical treatment, and it does not replace it.
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Separate nonprofits. One standard of care.
Firebird Holdings will provide the shared backbone for Firebird shelters: operating standards, purpose-built software, staff training, and accountability. Each shelter is intended to be incorporated and operated as its own nonprofit in the state it serves.
Firebird Holdings is currently a Minnesota limited liability company. Each shelter nonprofit is governed by its own board, while Firebird Holdings provides standards, software, training, and accountability by agreement.
Transparency →Hearthside is taking shape. It is not open yet.
Firebird does not currently operate a shelter. Hearthside — Intermixed Adult Shelter, in Minneapolis — is still in development. As the work moves forward, we will keep distinguishing what is open, what is underway, and what remains planned.
If you need shelter tonight, Get Help connects you with services that are available now.
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A public ledger from dollar one.
Firebird intends to publish its spending from the first dollar — not just after the first shelter opens. The public ledger will show costs by category, including land, design, construction, food, facilities, personnel, direct client assistance, technology, and administration.
Corrections will remain visible, and anything not published will be listed with the reason. Every number accounted for. Every gap explained.
Explore Transparency →A clearer path forward.
Firebird is being designed so shelter, emotional education, software, housing, policy, and transparency reinforce one another instead of becoming another maze people have to navigate.
How our shelters work →
Help should feel like a door, not a maze.
Firebird began with something Danielle learned on the other side of the intake desk: when you need help, complexity becomes another barrier.
Eleven planned shelter programs are intended to have clear purposes while sharing the same standard of care, public accounting, and information written for the people who need it.
Emotional intelligence education is part of that standard because it changed her life — and because people deserve practical tools that help them move forward.
Read The Founder's Message →Firebird is not open yet. Help should not wait.
If you need shelter, crisis support, or referral information today, use the Get Help section to find services that are available now.
Help build what comes next.
Follow Firebird's development, explore the public record, ask questions, or learn about ways to participate as the work moves forward.