Sponsoring Organizations & Contacts
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Southeast Minnesota Chapter
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The American Red Cross
The Red Cross provides relief to victims of disasters and
helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. Programs
include 24-hour emergency assistance to victims of disasters, 24-hour
emergency communications between military personnel and their families,
collecting blood, and teaching health and safety courses such as CPR,
first aid, swimming lessons, life-guarding, and babysitter’s training.
The Southeast Minnesota Chapter serves the residents of Dodge, Fillmore,
Olmsted, Steele and Wabasha Counties.
Click here to donate to the American Red Cross of SE Minnesota
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Arc Southeastern Minnesota
Arc SE's mission is to build inclusive
communities for all by providing support, education, and advocacy to
persons with developmental disabilities and their families.
Arc improves the quality of life for persons with developmental
disabilities and assists them in obtaining the full range of civil
rights, including the right to equal education, housing, and employment.
Arc supports and advocates to secure and enhance opportunities for
people with developmental disabilities and their families to choose
how they live, learn, work and play in their communities.
Arc Southeastern Minnesota serves the counties of Dodge, Fillmore,
Goodhue, Rice, Olmsted, Houston, Wabasha and Winona.
Click here to donate to Arc of S.E. Minnesota
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Bear Creek Services
Bear Creek Services provides
group homes and other support services for individuals with
developmental disabilities and traumatic brain injury. Bear
Creek Services also provides an after-school program for children
with disabilities.
These programs will allow families a safe and fun place to
take their special-needs child when other specialized
caregivers are unavailable.
Donations to Bear Creek Services
help us to fund scholarships to many families who cannot afford this
service - so your donations are much appreciated!
Click here to donate to Bear Creek Services
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http://www.bolderoptions.org | Bolder Options
Teaching
youth to succeed in ALL of life's races. Bolder Options is an
activity-based, one-to-one youth mentoring program. We use
running, academic goal setting, and volunteerism to build self-esteem
and encourage healthy habits in 10-14 year old youth.
Bolder
Options comprehensive intervention program coordinates family,
community, school and government resources in a united effort to combat
truancy and juvenile delinquency. Our program offers more than
just an opportunity for a youth to form a relationship with an adult -
it focuses on forming healthy habits, building confidence, instilling
trust, and improving the quality of life for youth and their families.
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The Boys Scouts of America
The outdoors is our workshop to fulfill our mission to serve others
by instilling values in young people and, in other ways, to prepare
them to make ethical choices over their lifetime in achieving their
full potential. These values are found in the Scout Oath and Law.
The curriculums facilitate meaningful mentoring and communications
between youth, parents, and community leaders to help youth adopt
these values and life skills.
Scouting provides program for Scouting Troops in Olmsted, Dodge,
Steele, Goodhue, Wabasha, Winona and Fillmore counties.
Preparing Youth to Succeed by Building Life and Leadership Skills
Click here to donate to the Boy Scouts of America
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http://www.diversitycouncil.org | Diversity Council
The Diversity Council's mission is to educate people to embrace
diversity as a foundation for building a healthy, inclusive and
prosperous community. We visit almost every K-12 classroom in
Olmsted County each year, helping students learn to accept those who
are different from themselves and to take a stand against prejudice.
We also offer adult education for businesses and community groups
and partner with the Rochester Civic Theatre to present our message
through the arts.
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http://www.goodshepherd
church.net/dorothyday.html | Dorothy Day House
Since 1984, the Dorothy Day Hospitality House has provided a short-term
live-in situation for people who are homeless or in a personal crisis;
people who are in need of food, shelter and clothing.
Guests
may stay up to 14 days as they look for jobs or seek help from various
social service organizations. The house is run entirely by
volunteers with many skill sets, and the board of
directors is made up of volunteers as well. The
Dorothy Day House receives no government funds and can continue
only with the generous donations of individuals, churches and other
organizations.
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| Gift of Life Transplant House
Since
1984, Gift of Life Transplant House has been called "a home away from
home" by transplant patients of Mayo Clinic Rochester. During one
of life's most unknown journeys, coping with physical and emotional
hardships that transplantations cause can bring incredible challenges.
At Gift of Life, patients develop supportive friendships with
others confronting similar challenges. Our
mission is to provide transplant patients and their caregivers with
high quality, affordable accomodations in a supportive, home-like
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www.pawsandclaws.org | Paws & Claws
Paws &
Claws Humane Society (PCHS) is a non-profit, mostly volunteer organization that
rescues and shelters homeless cats and dogs until they can be adopted into
their “forever” homes. We teach our
clients that adopting an animal is a lifetime responsibility and commitment to
that animal.
In addition,
to being a shelter, PCHS advocates for universal spaying/neutering of all
companion animals, and for the humane treatment and care of animals. We educate our adopters and the general
public about proper pet care and animal welfare laws. Click here to donate to Paws & Claws
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www.rochestermnarts.com | Rochester Arts Council
Rochester
has a vibrant, rich arts and cultural community
which promotes a sense of well-being through exposure to the arts, contributes
to our strong quality of life and strengthens our economic development. Our
mission is to showcase Rochester arts and cultural organizations and southeast Minnesota artists, and promote Rochester as
an arts destination through collaboration, marketing and advocacy.
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www.rochesterbetterchance.org | Rochester Better Chance
Rochester A
Better Chance (RBC) provides bright, talented and aspiring minority candidates
with a mentoring and nurturing home environment, optimizing their
opportunities to excel in school and community settings. This prepares
them for an excellent college education and future leadership opportunities. Donate now to Rochester Better Chance
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www.rtautismawareness.org
| RT Autism Awareness Foundation
The
RT Autism Awareness Foundation is an organization devoted to making
people aware of Autism and the effects it has on the individual and
their families. It is the organization's desire and
dedication to Advocate, Educate and Promote events for Autism Awareness
so that present and future individuals, along with their families who
face this diagnosis, will have strong support.
RTAAF has also
lead the campaign in assisting and implementing PROJECT LIFESAVER
in several Minnesota counties, but it's primary focus has been SE
Minnesota where it has coordinated efforts and raised funding to
impletement Project Lifesaver in
Omsted-Rice-Wabasha-Dodge-Goodhue-Freeborn-Fillmore-Mower and Houston
Counties. Project Lifesaver, "Bringing Loved One's Home".
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www.rochesterseniorcenter.org
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Rochester Senior Center
Supporting Life Enrichment and Wellness Programs, Advocacy and Support Services and the Dining
Program will provide over 6,000 older adults with the services and programs they need to maintain
their independence.
Since it’s inception in 1961 the Rochester Senior Center has been a critical
link to the coordination and delivery of comprehensive services for the elderly in our community
which enables seniors to live active, healthy and independent for as long as possible. Living
independently for as long as possible reduces the need for other services and costly specialized
health care.
The Senior Center strives to combat depression and loneliness, poor eating habits
and lack of assistance with medical issues, governmental programs, tax issues, housing questions,
and emotional support in order to keep older adults from having to move in to costly assisted
living or skilled care centers and thus keep costs to the public tax-payer lower.
Click here to donate to the Rochester Senior Center
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Rochester Women’s Shelter Inc.
The Rochester Women's Shelter has been providing safe housing for battered women and their children
through a variety of programs since 1978.
Our oldest programs are a
24-hour Crisis line and emergency shelter.
In addition to physical safety, Women’s Shelter provides personal
advocacy, information and referral, support groups, children’s
programming, classroom education, domestic assault intervention,
and transitional housing.
Women’s Shelter works in partnership with the community to promote
positive social change.
Click here to donate to the Rochester Women's Shelter
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| Samaritan Bethany Since
1922, Samaritan Bethany has provided quality health care to thousands
of senior citizens in the greater Rochester area. Our combined
resources of Samaritan Bethany Heights, along with Home on 8th, can
accommodate 182 people in need of care. In
addition, our short / long term rehabilitation center provides
occupational, physical and speech therapy to strengthen the mind and
body. Independent, assisted living and memory care represent the
full continuum of care we provide the residents who call Samaritan
Bethany home. The residents of Samaritan Bethany don't live in our facility. We, the employees, work in their home. | | | 
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Seasons
Hospice Seasons Hospice is a community based, non-profit organization providing specialized
care to persons living with terminal illness, while giving support to their loved ones.
Serving Rochester and communities
within a 30 mile radius, Seasons Hospice has been caring for residents of Southeastern Minnesota for over a decade with its home
hospice care services and residential hospice facility.
The mission
of Seasons Hospice is to provide individualized, comprehensive and
compassionate care, education and support
for the dying, their loved ones and others who have experienced loss. Hospice is a philosophy of care that takes
place wherever the patient calls home.
Seasons Hospice believes that dying can be accepted as a unique part of
life, respecting the right of each individual to actively participate in
planning for how and where hospice care will be delivered.
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| Team 25 - Shjon Podein Foundation
The mission of the Shjon Podein Children’s Foundation is to
improve the quality of life and create an environment of caring and community
support for children facing extraordinary difficulties in their lives. The
children, their families, our board and volunteers, sponsors, and celebrities
all work together in our efforts to accomplish this mission and together we are
TEAM 25.
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http://www.winghouse.org | Wing House
Since
1997, we have dedicated ourselves to providing a home-like environment
for individuals with traumatic brain injuries. Our 22-bed
facility in Rochester, MN, offers a supportive residential environment
with occupational, phyiscal and speech therapy available to all
residents. Wing House exists to promote the physical, emotional
and spiritual well-being of individuals who have survived a traumatic
brain injury.
Donation page to Wing House is coming soon! |
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