Category Archives: Charities

Amount Awarded: $21,125 ($15,775 member donations + $5,350 Schulze matching donation) and a $600 donation to the Volunteer Lawyer Network

Project Stealth is re-engineering cancer therapy. Research being conducted by Dr. Daniel A. Saltzman at the University of Minnesota is focusing on a new and potentially breakthrough therapy in the fight against cancer. This therapy uses altered or “attenuated” salmonella bacteria to deliver anti-cancer drugs directly to tumor cells. The early phases of this research have been highly successful, but before this therapy can be used to treat cancer patients, more work and research need to be done.

Learn more about this research at: projectstealth.org

University of MN Foundation – Project Stealth is the selected charity for June, 2015.

Amount Awarded:  $ 12,970.00

Our mission is to help the families of children who have been hospitalized with a life threatening illness due to pediatric Cancer, pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant or pediatric Blood Disorder.

Learn more this organization at www.BlairsTreeOfHope.org

Amount Awarded:  $ 13,450.00

One Heartland was the selected charity at the March meeting. One  Heartland’s mission is to “Improve the lives of children, youth and families facing significant health challenges or social isolation.” Their vision is for a “world where everyone feels appreciated, celebrated and free of stigma and discrimination. We want a community where individuals have the opportunity to learn and grow so that they may lead healthier and more productive lives.”

Learn more about this organization at: www.oneheartland.org

Amount Awarded: $ 12,000.00

Youthlink was the selected charity at December’s meeting.   Youthlinks vision is “empowering youth to shape their futures by providing a safe, supportive, respectful and responsive community of excellence. YouthLink is the place where the END of homelessness and the END of poverty begin for youth served.”

Their Mission is to “Build healthy relationships with youth and the community to address youths’ urgent needs so that doors of opportunity are opened to futures of empowerment, connectedness, and self-reliance”

Learn more about this organization at: http://www.youthlinkmn.org

Amount Awarded: $ 10,500

“Spare Key helps Minnesota, North Dakota, Souh Dakota and Wisconsin families with housing grant assistance while their seriously ill or critically injured child is in the hospital.  For 16 years, Spare Key has helped families “Bounce and not Break” with the gift of time.  Our program seeks to ensure parents remain a  critical part of their child’s care and recovery team, dramatically improving the quality of life and care for a seriously ill or critically injured child.”

Learn more about this organization at: http://www.sparekey.org

Amount Awarded:   $ 10,000.00

“At DAP our mission is simple, we work to stop domestic violence.  We do this one man at a time, one woman at a time and one child at a time, using our proven counseling and educational programs.  To stop domestic violence we also work to prevent it.  We do this with individuals, but also by working closely with partner organizations throughout our community.  DAP’s partnerships with community and policy leaders, with higher education, with law enforcement and court systems, and with human service organizations, have helped strengthen the community’s response to domestic violence on a daily basis.”

Learn more about this organization at: http://www.domesticabuseproject.com