IT PAYS TO GIVE BACK! You could win one of this year’s fantastic prizes by:
1. Giving
2. Volunteering
3. Donating Goods
Choose from nearly 550 charities to support at GivingHeartsDay.org. Follow
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givingheartsday.org *All entries must be submitted one hour prior to the posted prize drawing schedule to be eligible. Winners will be announced the week of Giving Hearts Day, February 7- 10! Scheduled gifts and pledges dating back to Jan. 3, 2022, will also be entered into the sweepstakes.
5 Reasons Giving Is Good for You Here are some great conversation starters to talk about the joy of giving with your friends and family:
1. Giving improves your health.
2. Giving elevates your mood.
3. Giving is contagious.
4. Giving helps you live longer.
5. Giving promotes self-worth.
For more ideas on how to become a Giving Heart or for more info, visit GivingHeartsDay.org or email GHDInfo@dakmed.org.
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What is Giving Hearts Day? Giving Hearts Day is co-hosted by Dakota Medical Foundation (DMF), Impact Foundation, and the Alex Stem Family Foundation based in Fargo, ND. Giving Hearts Day is a 24-hour fundraising event for charities in North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. This year is year 15! Holy buckets, 15 years of giving is pretty great! On Thursday, February 10th, 2022 Giving Hearts Day will raise support for nearly 550 regional charities through gifts of time, talent, financial support, and goods at GivingHeartsDay.org. Looking Back In 2008 the simple and unique idea for Giving Hearts Day (GHD) was born. Over the last fifteen years the event has grown into one of the largest and longest running days of giving in the country and raising over $112 million for charities across North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. THAT’S INCREDIBLE…DON’T YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF THAT KIND OF IMPACT? “Giving Hearts Day is much more than a day. It’s a year-round effort. Using skills taught by the Giving Hearts Day team, charities build a fundraising system that they put to use year round and on Giving Hearts Day, the “Super Bowl” of giving in the Upper Midwest. It has become the region’s day to feed the hungry, nurture the elderly, educate tomorrow’s leaders, and impact many more important causes,” explains Amber DeKrey, Director of Giving Hearts Day.
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Goals for Year 15 Every year Giving Hearts Day looks to grow not only by increasing their financial donations, but their Giving Hearts numbers. Each and every one of those who donate their time, money, and goods is a giving heart. Looking back on 2021 and the previous years, GHD looks to always grow involvement in every way. “The overall mission of Giving Hearts Day is to inspire every community member to join a contagious giving hearts movement through regional nonprofits, and improve health and quality of life across the region,” shares Pat Traynor, executive director of Dakota Medical and Impact Foundations. Giving Hearts Day continues to expand their giving of volunteers, goods, and monetary gifts. The foundation strives to provide an exceptional platform for fundraising in order to help nonprofits across the region. “We look to inspire individuals, businesses, and schools to share in the joy of giving through gifts of time, talents, and treasure,” summarizes Traynor. This year’s goal is 75,000 giving hearts! “We want to invite everyone in the region to join in the movement of generosity to nonprofits regardless of the amount donors can give,” says Traynor. Giving Hearts Day is all about making a difference and helping the local community. By the year 2025, Giving Hearts Day hopes to make North Dakota the number one volunteering state in the country with the number one day of giving, and we are going to help!
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HOW TO GIVE There are many ways to give back to your community and charities that you love. Many of us have more time than money and others more money than time. Giving Hearts Day is for EVERYONE! Let’s give back!
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Step 1: Jump online and visit www.GivingHeartsDay.org Step 2: Hover your cursor on the “Ways to Give” tab (second tab)
Click on the Donate Dollars tab. Now you can search for all the charities you love based on city, county, and organization type. Click on each charity to find out more! Once you click on your specific charity there will be a space to click a dollar amount or enter a custom dollar amount. Once you decide on the amount you’d like to donate click the “Add to Cart” button on the right side of your screen. After you fill your cart, hit the cart icon in the top right corner to check out. Simply hit the “Continue to Payment” button to enter your information and complete your donation.
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Give Time
Give Goods
Click on the Volunteer Tab. Now you can search for all the charities you love based on city, county, and organization type. Click on each charity to find out more! Once you click on your specific charity look to the right UNDER Donate Dollars and see Volunteering. Click the "Sign Me Up" button. You will see a sign up form pop up. Fill it out and your charity will be in touch for your help.
Click on the “New and Used Goods” donation type filter option, and search for charities based on city, county, and organization type. Click on a specific charity you’d like to support, then scroll down until you reach the “New + Used Goods” section to read the charity’s listing of new and used goods that they need to support their mission. You will also see fulfillment hours for the organization, during which they are open and able to accept donations of goods. You can drop off goods to the organization, or arrange to have them shipped to the organization. Click the “Pledge to Donate” button to let the charity know that you pledge to give needed goods to their organization.
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The Banquet The Banquet is a free community meal served four times a week: two dinners and two lunches. Each week, they serve around 1,000 meals. The Banquet has been offering free meals to those in need in our community for 16 years. “There is no restriction to who is welcome because you never know what is going on in someone’s life… it might be a more social need… There’s a lot of lonely people in this community who don’t have anyone,” explains Theresa McKendrick, head of marketing for The Banquet. In order to serve more people, The Banquet will become the hub of the new Dream Center coming to Bismarck in 2022. The Dream Center will not only serve free meals seven times a week, it will also have free services like health and dental checks, addiction groups, budgeting classes, and more. The Dream Center is set to open April 1st. Last year was the first time The Banquet participated in Giving Hearts Day. “Anything we can do to raise awareness for both people that need meals, as well as the community to be able to help support, is something we want to be a part of,” explains Karla Eisenbeisz, executive director of The Banquet. Funds raised last year went to buying the to-go containers and paper products needed to keep it operational even in the midst of a pandemic. This year, any funds raised will be put towards building the Dream Center’s kitchen. “The really cool thing about Giving Hearts Day is that it draws attention to charitable entities,” says Jim Barnhardt, board chair for The Banquet. “It’s really tough for non-profits to generate funding… The Banquet really relies on the generosity of the community.”
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Tracy's Sanctuary House As Kelsey Zottnick, the executive director at Tracy’s Sanctuary House put it, this non-profit is a “medical Airbnb” meant to provide temporary sanctuary for out-of-town families if their loved one is in a life-threatening crisis. Staying in hotels is expensive, and the purpose of Tracy’s Sanctuary House is to provide a private place for families to wait near their loved one without it draining all their resources. If you stay at the house for a week or less, the cost of staying there is a free-will donation. If your need is longer, they work with you to determine a long-term solution. Most people pay only $15 a night to stay, but if you cannot pay that either, other solutions are determined based on each specific circumstance. This is Tracy’s Sanctuary House’s fifth year participating in Giving Hearts Day. Kelsey looks forward to Giving Hearts Day every year. “It’s a statewide movement, and I feel like it’s a great way to be involved in the community,” she says. “It’s kind of a one-stop shop for a lot of people that day to gift and give, so it’s kind of a fun thing to be a part of. But on top of that, it raises a ton of money for the state of North Dakota and all the non-profits.” All the money raised on Giving Hearts Day this year will go towards the maintenance and running of the physical house which has five bedrooms and two kitchens and costs over $115,000 a year to run.
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Central Dakota Humane Society The Central Dakota Humane Society or CDHS is a no-kill shelter located three miles north of Mandan which has been around since 1994, although the organization was started back in 1960. When the facility was built, there were no other animal shelters in the area. Sue Buchholz, the shelter’s current director, was the first employee hired at the shelter. She fell in love with the animals she cared for and never left. On average, the facility has 100-125 animals on site, while another 30 animals are usually in foster care. Animals in foster care are in need of unique one one-on-one care. Often this includes puppies or kittens who need to be bottle fed, pregnant animals in need of a quiet space, or animals with behavioral issues. Once the animals’ needs have been cared for, they are brought to the shelter where they are put up for adoption. CDHS has been a part of Giving Hearts Day for three years, and is excited for their fourth. “It’s just so rewarding and cool to see all the nonprofits come together,” says Cameo Skager, communications and development director at CDHS. Most of the money raised every year goes towards the animals’ medical costs. “That’s a really big part of our expenses every month,” Sue explains. “We don’t have a veterinarian on staff so we utilize local vet clinics. They’re really good to us and give us a little bit of a break, but it’s still a significant amount of our budget.” The CDHS has always felt incredibly supported by their donors and the surrounding community, and Sue says they feel honored the community trusts them to care for these animals.
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Western North Dakota Honor Flight The Western North Dakota Honor Flight (WNDHF) was established in 2019 by Kathleen Bien. “Our mission is to transport America’s veterans to Washington D.C. to visit those memorials of the services and sacrifices of themselves and their friends,” she describes. There are around 250 independent hubs across the United States that make up a national network of honor flights. Kathleen was inspired to start an honor flight in western North Dakota in 2018. “I helped with the reception at Bismarck Airport for a flight coming back from D.C. and those veterans coming down the steps had tears rolling down their faces saying 'We never got that before.' And it wasn’t just Vietnam veterans. WWII veterans came home, Korean veterans came home, but they all went back to work. They never got any sort of reception,” Kathleen explains. “It just grabbed a chunk of my heart seeing that, and I just knew that we had to do more of these.” Kathleen founded the WNDHF in 2019, and while COVID pushed back the date of its first honor flight, it is now scheduled for April 2022. The trips to D.C. are short, but packed with sightseeing. 100 veterans are able to join each Honor Flight, and they each choose an escort to travel with them. Each trip costs about $160,000, so the majority of Kathleen’s work with WNDHF is fundraising, making Giving Hearts Day the perfect fit. This will be Western ND Honor Flight’s first year with Giving Hearts Day. “I’m so excited Giving Hearts Day is giving us a chance to reach more people,” says Kathleen.
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The Welcome House The Welcome House is a faith-based housing shelter started in 2004 that offers a variety of services to families experiencing homelessness. “People fall on hard times which is part of life, so our shelter is here to actually help people get back on their feet,” explains Delbirt Heard, a case worker at the Welcome House. The priority of the Welcome House is to keep families together and protect homeless children in particular. “Of all the services in town, we do have that primary focus on children that are homeless and that’s kind of the prerequisite,” explains Jennifer Burke Jackson, board chair at the Welcome House. “Keeping the family together while they’re going through tough times is really important to us.” The atmosphere of the Welcome House is another important aspect of their work. “We show love and mercy and compassion. We give a second chance. We expect some are going to fail while they’re here… We don’t let events define who they are,” says Vincent McCloud, executive director of the Welcome House. The Welcome House recently transitioned into a new space that now allows them to serve up to six or seven families. 2022 will be the Welcome House’s eighth year with Giving Hearts Day, and the way the community unites for a good cause is one of Delbirt’s favorite parts of the day. “The community is a big part of what we do,” he explains. “They help us out tremendously and not only on Giving Hearts Day… The community really backs what we’re doing. If they didn’t, we wouldn’t still be here.” The money raised will go towards operating expenses like staffing, food, and furnishing their new space.
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Find a local charity to love! Bismarck/Mandan Charities Participating in Giving Hearts Day 2022
31:8 Project
Guardian Angels Incorporated
Northland Health Centers
Abused Adult Resource Center
Heartview Foundation
Pink It Forward
American Foundation for Suicide
Heaven's Helpers Soup Cafe
Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota
Hospice of the Red River Valley
Ronald McDonald House Charities of
Prevention North Dakota Chapter - AFSP Anne Carlsen Center AO1 Foundation
Humanities North Dakota Inspiring Minds, Center for Dyslexia and
Bismarck Salvation Army Bismarck-Mandan
Bismarck Art & Galleries Association
Literacy
Shiloh Christian School
Bismarck Cancer Center Foundation
Junior Achievement
The Banquet
Bismarck Public Schools Foundation
Keeping the Promise
The GOD'S CHILD Project
Bismarck State College Foundation
Light of Christ Catholic Schools
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation
Bismarck-Mandan Mentor Squad, formerly
Martin Luther School
Tobacco Free North Dakota
Ministry on the Margins
Tracy's Sanctuary House
Big Brothers Big Sisters Brave the Shave
Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center
Triple H Miniature Horse Rescue/Kitty
Bridging the Dental Gap
Foundation
City
Central Dakota Children's Choir
Missouri Valley Family YMCA
University of Mary
Central Dakota Humane Society
MSA United Way Emergency Homeless
Welcome House, Inc.
Christian Adoption Services Global Neighbors Cross Training Cru Northern Plains Campuses (Western,
Shelter North Dakota Dollars for Scholars North Dakota Family Alliance
North Dakota Safety Council
Cystic Fibrosis Association of North Dakota
North Dakota State University School of
Dakota Zoo Designer Genes of North Dakota Ducks Unlimited - North Dakota Furry Friends Rockin' Rescue Girl Scouts - Dakota Horizons Global Neighbors
Women's Care Center Bismarck Youthworks
North Dakota FFA Foundation
Central, and Northern ND)
Dakota Children's Advocacy Center
Western North Dakota Honor Flight
* List is subject to change
Nursing North Dakota Stockmen's Foundation North Dakota United Foundation North Dakota Veterans Cemetery Foundation North Dakota Women's Network North Dakota's Gateway to Science Northern Plains Dance
Great Plains Food Bank
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