When Jared and Micayla Johnson learned about our You Matter Giveaway – MATTER’s monthly $250 giveaway to help others in the community – they knew right away what they would do with the money if they were selected. They would use it to bless a foster family in some tangible way. And that’s just what […]
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MATTER Innovation Hub Update “Creativity now is as important to education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” – Sir Ken Robins Reading, writing, and arithmetic…the starting point in any education or future career. Yet, the jobs of today, (and the high-level thinking required in a complex 21st-century world) reveal that
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MATTER’s 2022 Un-gala, Rock the Lake, Final Vol., is coming August 7th! This popular boat-in benefit concert on the shores of Lake Minnetonka will feature the exhilarating cover band, Viva Knievel. You don’t want to miss it! Hosting the concert again this year are MATTER’s dear friends Roger and Nancy McCabe. Their foundation is instrumental
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Every month, MATTER gives away $250 to someone who wants to help others in their community. Previous You Matter Giveaway winners used the money to buy winter clothing for students with special needs, books for local schools and dental hygiene kits for children at an orphanage. Our next You Matter Giveaway winner is Mandy Okonek.
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MATTERbox Update It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through 2022. The year so far has been very impactful! Partnering with some pretty incredible companies, MATTER has been able to provide more than 66,000 healthy meals to communities nationwide. It’s such an honor to work with companies that are committed to putting the “Do” in
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Our guest writer is Saree Mading, Chief of Staff for the Luol Deng Foundation, a MATTER Pro partner. The Foundation recently began a new initiative, the South Sudan Youth Camp Activity, to strengthen and develop the youth of South Sudan through the power of sport. She showed up to camp in a white skirt and
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Every month, MATTER gives $250 to someone who wants to help others in their community. So far this year, we’ve funded an art teacher who bought outdoor winter clothes for her special needs students so they could enjoy a day of winter activities, a physical therapist who bought books for her local schools depicting positive
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Welcome to our monthly update on projects that have launched or will soon be launching at MATTER. MATTER Innovation Hub A new MATTER Innovation Hub (MIH) opened last week at the Conway Community Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Our partner, The Sanneh Foundation, constructed and designed a special room specifically for MIH learning. As part
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Meet Caitlin. A student at The Blake School in Hopkins, 13-year-old Caitlin is one of MATTER’s young volunteers with an inspirational volunteer story. Back in 2020, Caitlin began participating in an optional Service Pathway program through her school that encourages students to volunteer during their free time. This inspired her whole family to volunteer. They
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MATTERbox Madness 2022 is in the books and the MATTERbox Madness Champions Crowned! The annual food packing competition, as fierce and fun as ever, resulted in corporate teams packing 10,000 healthy snack packs for Minnesota children this summer. The idea for MATTERbox Madness started at Cargill in Minneapolis almost a decade ago. Amanda Escen, now
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