Southwest Initiative Foundation

we do good work to help great people succeed.

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Invest in the Future of Southwest Minnesota

When you support Southwest Initiative Foundation, you’re creating opportunities for businesses, families and neighbors in your community to thrive. Will you join us with a gift in support of our mission?

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Gifts

Gifts from generous donors like you help us:

Connect People

The Growing Local: Emerging Leaders program is designed to help up-and-coming leaders in our communities discover and build on their strengths so they can make a difference through local boards, commissions and elected positions. Your gift helps bolster neighbors to become leaders in your community.

Invest in Ideas

More than 75 of our loan clients have completed Business Reinvention or Startup Bootcamp, game-changing programs that provide customized technical assistance to help them succeed as small business owners. Your gift helps fuel innovative ideas that help our region’s business environment thrive.

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TESTIMONIALS

What Our Donors Are Saying…

“SWIF supports people who need it and is also an economic engine. SWIF strives to pour good in the southwest part of the state and serves that need to stimulate growth.”

Dan & Marie LaRock, Growing Home Circle Members (Hills)

“It’s so fun to enhance the school and make a difference. SWIF helped us do that by supplying the 501(c)(3) side of it, which was very important. It’s a very good partnership.”

John Bornhoft, RTR Educational Foundation (Russell, Tyler, Ruthton)