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Mental HealthMental health care is too expensive and too scarce in most communities. Fundraise on HealthCommons and bring affordable counseling and crisis support to your community.
Whether you're starting a campaign or giving to one, you deserve to know where you stand. These three commitments make that certain.
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Mental health care often exists but stays out of reach. Cost, long waitlists, and stigma leave depression, an anxiety disorder, or constant stress untreated. With too few mental health services and providers, even a basic mental health screening can be hard to get, and small struggles grow into a crisis.
Mental health doesn't affect everyone equally. Youth and student mental health are slipping as schools run short of counselors, and family mental health is stretched thin by cost and caregiving. These gaps follow the social determinants of health, and mental health equity works to close them.
From sharing the need to funding the care that helps a mind heal, here's how a mental health fundraiser unfolds.
Explain the program or cause you're raising funds for, who it helps, and set a clear goal. Show donors the need behind the campaign.
Before a campaign goes live, our team confirms the organization behind it is real and the program it funds is legitimate.
Once approved, our Narrative Amplification Engine puts your campaign in front of people who want mental health care to reach their community.
Donations reach your verified campaign, and you can post updates that show donors the difference across the community.
From counseling and recovery to youth, crisis, and senior care, these are the mental health initiatives communities raise funds for. Each one strengthens community well-being. Open a cause to see what a campaign can fund.
Therapy stays out of reach when it costs more than people can pay. Counseling centers, free mental health clinics, FQHCs, and community mental health nonprofits can all fundraise here for sliding-scale sessions, therapy vouchers, and counseling for everyone who needs it.
Browse Therapy & counseling campaignsCreate a fundraiser that connects compassionate donors with the mental health care your community needs most on HealthCommons.
How you tell the story matters as much as the goal. These tips help you raise more while respecting the people behind it.
Six essentials
Drawn from campaigns that hit their goal.
Show the price behind the work, counselor hours or therapy sessions, so gifts feel concrete.
Never share someone's story without consent, and keep names private unless they choose to share.
Mental health giving is personal, so we hold every campaign to a clear standard: vetted before launch, transparent with funds, and careful with privacy.
Credibility guarded
Vetting keeps fraudulent campaigns off the platform, so yours never shares space with scams.
No. Nonprofits, clinics, community groups, and grassroots initiatives can all fundraise here, as long as each one is verified by our team first. You don't need charity status to start, only a genuine cause and the paperwork to prove it.
Share your organization's details, your EIN and IRS 501(c)(3) letter where it applies, and a budget for our team to review. Once that clears, your campaign earns its Verified Organization and Budget Reviewed badges and goes live for donors to support.
Funds are transferred to the verified organizer after your campaign wraps up, and you get an email confirming exactly when the money moves to your account, along with a receipt for your records, so the whole handoff stays clear and documented.
Free to start, with no subscription or listing fee. From what a campaign raises, we take a flat 5%, covering verification, fraud monitoring, secure payments, and outreach tools, so 95% of each gift reaches the cause, plus standard payment processing.
Yes. Anyone, anywhere in the world, can give to a US mental health campaign; only the organizers and the causes they run are US-based. Wherever your donors live, they can rally behind the care a community is working to fund.
Yes, you can give without your name showing publicly on the campaign, and the personal details of anyone a campaign helps always stay private. Mental health giving is deeply personal, so we protect both donors and the people being supported.
We fund only public health, never products or personal projects. Every campaign is vetted before it raises a cent, giving is donation-based, and a Donor Guarantee backs your gift if fraud is ever found so that you can give with confidence.
Communities rarely face one problem alone. Support a cause that connects to Mental Health.
When a community funds mental health care, more people get the help they need. Start a campaign, or give to one that's already raising.
On HealthCommons, a community funds the mental health care the system leaves out. One campaign can keep a free counseling clinic open, bring a counselor into an overstretched school, or stand up a local crisis line. Every vetted gift keeps care close to home, protecting the mental well-being of the whole community.
Talk about mental health like any other health condition, and focus on recovery, not crisis.
Ask for one specific thing donors can rally around, not a broad appeal.
A clinician or someone with lived experience, sharing with consent, earns trust quickly.
Share how the program is doing after they give; progress keeps donors close.
Documented payouts
Once your campaign ends, you can follow the funds from closing day to your account.
