MATTERhouse: Building A Home That Gives Back

MATTERhouse: Building A Home That Gives Back

MATTER is excited to introduce the newest member of our team, Vicki Bachmann. Vicki comes to MATTER with extensive experience in corporate and nonprofit organizations. As Vice-President of Business Partnerships, Vicki will advance our corporate partnerships and oversee the expansion of MATTERhouse, an exciting initiative for tradespersons, subcontractors, and suppliers to partner with MATTER to […]

MATTERhouse: Building A Home That Gives Back Read More »

Join teamMATTER

Join teamMATTER: Help Kickstart Amazing Projects & Improve Communities

It’s easy to feel discouraged about our world these days. The challenges we face seem to grow greater by the day. But here’s the good news. Where there are great challenges, there are great opportunities. And these opportunities lie in our own hands.   MATTER is built on the simple belief that you matter. When you believe

Join teamMATTER: Help Kickstart Amazing Projects & Improve Communities Read More »

Minnesota Timberwolves Family: MATTER 2020 Community Assist Award Winner

Minnesota Timberwolves Family: MATTER 2020 Community Assist Award Winner

“We had cars lined up literally for blocks…Imagine parents and kids in their cars, not knowing where they are getting their next meal. Then having Crunch, Lynx players and staff from MATTER and the Timberwolves working alongside the Urban Ventures team to hand them meal kits for the next several days.”  Dave Hawn, President and CEO

Minnesota Timberwolves Family: MATTER 2020 Community Assist Award Winner Read More »

MATTERhouse: Building More Than A Home

MATTERhouse: Building More Than A Home

More than 20 years ago, MATTER’s founders, Megan and Dennis Doyle asked themselves this simple yet profound question: “What do we have in our own two hands that can change the world?” As commercial real estate developers, they looked around and found their answer: empty warehouse space. Launching their own non-profit organization, Hope for the City, they began filling the empty space with life-saving medical equipment

MATTERhouse: Building More Than A Home Read More »

Telemedicine Kenya

Telemedicine In Kenya: Big Idea Creating Access To Healthcare

One of the many ways COVID has changed our world since its recent arrival is how it’s altered our practice of healthcare. With the necessity to restrict in-person visits, clinics and hospitals turned to telemedicine, offering patients virtual medical visits with their doctors.  Though not a new technology, telemedicine is becoming more and more popular in the U.S.

Telemedicine In Kenya: Big Idea Creating Access To Healthcare Read More »

Medical Equipment & Supplies Deliver Hope To Zimbabwe

Medical Equipment & Supplies Deliver Hope To Zimbabwe

On a beautiful summer day in 2018, a container load of medical equipment and supplies from MATTER was being unloaded at Victoria Falls Hospital in Zimbabwe. Winnie, one of the hospital’s nurses, stood watching from a distance hardly believing what she was seeing. “I feel like we go to war every day. We get people in accidents that need x-rays, pregnant

Medical Equipment & Supplies Deliver Hope To Zimbabwe Read More »

Regenerate Senegal

Regenerate Senegal: Farming, Friendships and a Bright Future

For small chicken farmers in Senegal, the proverbial question is not, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” It’s “What will come first to kill our chickens?” Tragically, Senegalese farmers lose half of their flock to disease, stress, heat and a myriad of other conditions every year. As an important source of nutrition and income, it’s essential small farmers learn a better way to farm their chickens that is more productive

Regenerate Senegal: Farming, Friendships and a Bright Future Read More »