Growing Home Circle members support our permanent endowment. It provides dependable, perpetual income: Your gift is invested, and a portion of the earnings is distributed annually. Over 30+ years, we’ve disbursed $75 million in loans to local businesses and grants to local partners that make our region vibrant. Having a steady funding source means the difference between creativity and complacency in facing our region’s challenges. Gifts to our endowment positioned Southwest Initiative Foundation to launch Grow Our Own, lifting up kids living in poverty in southwest Minnesota and ensuring the economic vitality of our region. And whatever challenges the future brings, the endowment ensures we can boldly face them. “Because we see every day what SWIF has done in our communities, that makes it easy to give. What you’re doing at SWIF is important and we support it.” Rob Saunders, Bird IslandYour investment provides for community needs, now and forever.
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The Growing Home Circle began in 2004 for people who wanted to make a difference in every corner of southwest Minnesota. People like you. Experience the joy and lifetime fulfillment of supporting something you believe in.
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Growing Home Circle honors individuals, organizations and businesses that pledge to give an annual contribution of $1,000 or more.
Charter Members
Growing Home Circle Charter Members are those who joined between July 1, 2004, and June 30, 2006, the initial phase of the campaign that was developed in order to secure the full matching challenge grant from The McKnight Foundation for Phase V. The charter phase raised over $267,000 through 107 memberships, and those gifts were matched dollar-for-dollar by McKnight, helping us exceed our campaign goal!
We are so grateful for these charter members for their visionary and generous commitment to the Southwest Initiative Foundation during this new and exciting endeavor to build a solid base of financial support from individuals and businesses who care about the future of this region. Through the success of the charter phase, the SWIF general endowment now provides over $1 million per year for programs and projects in the 18 counties of southwest Minnesota.
