Column: Founders gather to celebrate 25 years of giving
Saint Michael's Foundation has invested over $3 million to assist with health care needs.
Column: Founders gather to celebrate 25 years of giving Saint Michael's Foundation has invested over $3 million to assist with health care needs. Check out this story on stevenspointjournal.com: http://spjour.nl/1xhy8H4
Wisconsin Published 10:47 a.m. CT Oct. 6, 2014 | Updated 11:44 a.m. CT Oct. 6, 2014
Saint Michael's Foundation founders, past and present board members and donors gathered Sept. 24 to celebrate the Foundation's 25th anniversary.(Photo: Contributed photo)
The story is simple. It's community helping community. On Sept. 24 our community, including original Saint Michael's Foundation founders, past and present board members, and donors gathered to celebrate the lives that have been impacted by Saint Michael's Foundation at our 25th anniversary founders' event.
Our story started in 1989 when our founders — a group of dedicated community leaders — came together with a vision of a brighter future. Together, they formed Saint Michael's Foundation designed to help meet the health care needs of our community; a foundation they hoped would inspire philanthropy for generations to come.
The work that our founders began more than 25 years ago continues with the help of more than 10,000 generous donors today. Since its beginning, Saint Michael's Foundation has invested more than $3 million to provide programs to assist with health care needs of individuals, families and community members served by Ministry Saint Michael's Hospital and Ministry Medical Group. Together, our generous donors are making ordinary miracles happen. Every single day.
The critical support the Foundation has provided to programs and initiatives has improved the health and health care of hundreds of patients and their families who live right here in our community. The lives that have been impacted by compassion is simply remarkable.
Throughout this year we have shared our belief that every act of philanthropy begins with a vision for a brighter future. We have shared the lives impacted in stories and through photography. But, in both instances, it is quite simple — it is about community helping community.
More than 100 years ago, our community, along with local physicians and the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother raised funds to build our community hospital to care for our neighbors. Seventy-five years later, the founders of Saint Michael's Foundation had a vision to continue that legacy, as a promise to continue to support a healthy community for generations to come.
On behalf of Saint Michael's Foundation, we invite you to be a part of what's next. Check out our upcoming events, including our Stories in Photography and Stories in Print series; highlighting the lives impacted over the last 25 years of Saint Michael's Foundation at ministryhealth.org/SMH/Foundation.nws. Be a part of making ordinary miracles happen. It is about community helping community.
Angie Heuck is director for Saint Michael's Foundation.
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