These very generous gifts from your heart and wallet help many brain injured survivors in southern Minnesota including your local brain injured veterans.
Please thank the following generous business establishments when you visit them in the future. They have shown that they care and want to support brain injury survivors including our local brain injured USA veterans.
2012 Donations
George’s Breakfast Fundraiser Donations 10/06/2012
Thank you George, Karen and Erin Cottom for preparing and providing the food for the breakfast fund raiser!
Donations and door prizes also came from:
- Cub Foods (Hilltop) – Mankato
- TCF – Mankato
- Culver’s – Mankato
- Nature Blessed Cherry Concentrate – Coloma, Michigan
- Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) – Minneapolis
- George’s City Meat Market – Nicollet
- CIA of Lafayette
- Daves Place of Lafayette
- Southpoint Federal Credit Union (Sleepy Eye and NewUlm)
- R & R Gieseke Farm – New Ulm
- B & B Concessions – (Kettle Korn) – New Ulm
- Happy Joe’s – New Ulm
- Beacon Promotions – New Ulm
- Alliance Bank – New Ulm
- United Prairie Bank – New Ulm
Please support these area merchants who opened their doors to sell the tickets: Daves Place of Lafayette – Schutz Foods of Sleepy Eye. Southpoint Federal Credit Union – United Prairie Bank and SSL Service Center all of New Ulm.
A special thank you goes to Larry Mages (for the music) and all the wonderful volunteers who show they have big hearts. 🙂
Back to School Brain Boosting Bash Donations 08/23/2012
Minnesota Brain Injury Force Inc. would like to thank these contributors to the “Back to School Brain Boosting Bash”. Please join us in thanking the following generous donors.
- Manitoba Harvest – Hemp Hearts, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
- Nature Blessed Cherry Concentrate, Coloma, Michigan
- Nordic Naturals, Watsonville CA
- Wyndmere Naturals Inc., Minnetonka MN
- Veriditas Botanicals, Edina MN
- Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), Minneapolis MN
- Culver’s, Mankato
- Pub 500, Mankato
- Palmer Bus Service, North Mankato
- Nicollet Bike Shop, Mankato
- St. Peter Food Coop, St. Peter
*Places listed below are from the town of New Ulm MN
- Georges Fine Steaks & Spirits
- 3 M
- R&R Gieseke Farm
- Burger King
- Hy Vee
- Cashwise
- Auto Value
- Lamplighter
- Jake’s Pizza
- Happy Joe’s Pizza
- Pizza Ranch
- Domino’s Pizza
- Subway
- Family Video
- Lola’s Larkspur Market
- The Country Loft
“Back to School Brain Boosting Bash” held on August 23rd 2012 was sponsored by a grant from Allina Neighborhood Health Connection.
Additional 2012 Donations
- BENCO Electric of Mankato made a donation
- Walmart Foundation donated a cyber grant through Sam’s Club in Mankato
- Walmart in Mankato donated a gift card
- United Praire Bank ( New Ulm ): Provide great bank services.
- Abdo, Eick and Meyers LLP ( Accounting Firm, Edina & Mankato ) Jack and Seth: Provided free tax advice, free e-filing of federal corp. tax return and reviewed the IRS form 1023 – 501 (c)3.
- Brown County Rural Electical Association ( Sleepy Eye ): Funds to our “Brain Book Mobile”
- CIA (Community Insurance Agency) of ( Lafayette ): Funds and their CIA promotional gifts
- Civitan Group of Mankato: Gas gift cards, copy paper and office supplies
- TCF (Mankato)
- Herbergers ( New Ulm ): Funds from the Community Day coupon sales
- Veriditas Botanicals, LLC. ( Edina ): Shipped free -samples of their wonderful bug spray, samples of their organic mental clarity formula.
- Nature Blessed Cherry Juice: Shipped lots of free cherry juice that helps reduce inflammation in your body and brain.
- HCMC: Shipped free brain wheels that explain how the brain functions
- Brain Injury Association of America: Mailed brain injury information to us
- Hy-Vee ( New Ulm ): Supplied free apples for our apple taste testing at our support group
- Cashwise ( New Ulm ): Funds for food at the support groups
- Burger King ( New Ulm): Fund raiser September 11th
- Jake’s Pizza ( New Ulm, Mankato & St. Peter )
- Gary’s Pizza ( Mankato )
- George’s Fine Steaks & Spirits ( New Ulm ): Fund raiser October 6th
- Lamp Lighter ( New Ulm)
- Pub 500 ( Mankato )
- Culver’s ( North Mankato & Mankato locations )
- Wyndmere Naturals Inc., www.wyndmerenaturals.com: Shipped lots of free samples and literature.
- Wyndmere Naturals is a Minnesota-based aromotherapy company for over 16 years. They service hospitals, clinics, pharmaces, spas and health food stores.
- Grant received from: Allina Health ( Neighborhood Health Connection )
- Grant funds will be used to promote brain health in the New Ulm area while promoting media attention to MNBIF.
- These grant funds will be used for the Back-to-School “Brain Boosting Bash” event held on August 23rd at Vogel Arena, New Ulm (for more information please click on the “Events” tab). Funds were also used to purchase Minnesota Brain Injury Force T-shirts. If the public would like to purchase one contact MNBIF.org.