Your Growing Home Circle gift is about the future. It’s about our mission to connect people, invest in ideas and build communities. It’s about building a place where all people thrive. And you can help. Our Growing Home Circle is a way to recognize visionary donors elevating their support with an annual gift of $1,000 or more to our permanent endowment fund. That endowment fund provides dependent, perpetual income that makes our work possible each and every year, regardless of challenging times we may face. This endowment fund is a cornerstone of who we are and what we can accomplish. We have been building it for 35 years. Together. And, it has allowed us to put more than $81.6 million to work in southwest Minnesota, while maintaining a bottom-line balance that secures our work into the future. To that end, our Growing Home Circle members have been critical partners bringing our mission to life. Please join today and invest in southwest. “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 IslandInvest in southwest
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Growing Home Circle honors individuals, organizations and businesses that pledge to give an annual contribution of $1,000 or more.
How it all began
The Growing Home Circle was launched on July 1, 2004, over a two-year period. It was a new strategy to build our financial resilience, and we called it our charter phase and charter membership. As we faced a challenge grant opportunity from the McKnight Foundation, individuals, businesses and organizations stepped in to help, with gifts of $1,000 or more. They helped us secure that full match, which grew our capacity to serve the mission in bigger ways. We remain deeply grateful to our Charter Members to this day.
