SHAPING OUR COMMUNITY. FOR GOOD.
50 YEARS OF DOING GOOD
CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF GIVING
The Mankato Area Foundation is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2024! Over the past five decades, we’ve witnessed the spirit of giving in this community and have had the privilege to help individuals with their philanthropic goals. To mark this milestone, we are sharing 50 years of significant events, contributions and donors who have made an impact with their generosity and commitment to doing good. We look forward to what the future will bring.
Mankato Area Foundation
Since 1974, the Mankato Area Foundation has been dedicated to building a community of individuals that believe in the strength of giving. We continue today to shape Greater Mankato through connecting acts of giving with our community’s needs. As a permanent, trusted resource, donors look to the Mankato Area Foundation to help them make their charitable giving more effective. The Mankato Area Foundation is impacting the individuals in our community now and for generations to come by providing the expertise donors need to help donors nurture their philanthropic dreams and shape their legacy.
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Philanthropy Review 2023
This 2023 edition of our Philanthropy Review provides a glimpse into the connections we’re fortunate to make daily. You’ll read about the creative connections made between The REACH and 410 Project to provide hope and healing to at-risk youth. Also inside is a story of community connections and support experienced at an unlikely place—Blingo Bingo. Finally, you’ll read stories of family connections that honor loved ones by creating a philanthropic legacy that gives back to this community for generations. See Philanthropy Review 2023
TELLING OUR STORY
A DONOR ADVISED FUND
Time-honored Connections
For the Richards family, the words “home” and “Mankato” are interchangeable. “My dad was a proud Welshman who had a strong sense of ‘home’ or ‘hiraeth’ in Welsh, and that was the Greater Mankato area,” said Marcia Richards, daughter to Cecil Jones. The family’s legacy starts with Cecil. Read More
News & Press
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08 Jul
Maureen Gustafson from Mankato Area Foundation comes in to talk about “Blingo Bingo”
Read moreKTOE (July 8, 2024) — This event is taking place to honor people with cancer and cancer survivors; all proceeds will go to the Jonathan
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24 Jun
Essential nonprofits can be trusted
Read moreMankato Free Press (June 24, 2024)—As the CEO of the Mankato Area Foundation, part of my responsibility is to speak up, share, and support the
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15 May
Shared Spaces at Emy Frentz targets arts nonprofits
Read moreMankato Free Press (May 15, 2024)—The new Shared Spaces Emy Frentz builds not only on the success of the original Shared Spaces building a few
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13 May
Rita Rassbach with Mankato Area Foundation along with partners – have completed the Inclusivity study. Today we talk about the process and some results.
Read moreKTOE (May 13, 2024) — Rita Rassbach with Mankato Area Foundation along with partners - have completed the Inclusivity study. Today we talk about the