Giving+Together: Access to Childcare and Economic Development

This event is for Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation fundholders and their guests.

2024 Round 2 Grant Information Session

The Grants team from the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation and our partner foundations — F. R. Bigelow Foundation and Mardag Foundation — hosted an information session about our second round of grantmaking for 2024. The session provided an overview of the grantmaking programs and an opportunity for a Q&A.

Fundholder Happy Hour

This event is for Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation fundholders and their guests.

What You and Your Clients Need to Know About The Changing Donor Advised Fund Landscape

Join us for an insightful educational webinar about the changing DAF landscape with Jeremy Wells, Senior Vice President of Philanthropic Services at the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, and Michael Sampson, Partner at Maslon LLP. You will walk away with a better understanding of the proposed regulatory and legislative changes, how these proposed changes may impact your clients, and how Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation is advocating on behalf of donors to ensure that philanthropy in Minnesota continues to thrive.

Annual Investment Briefing

Speaker: Shannon O'Leary, Chief Investment Officer, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

This event is for our nonprofit endowment fundholders.

Insider Briefing: Public Health in Minnesota

Former Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Jan Malcom joined the last Insider Briefing of 2023 to discuss the state of public health in Minnesota. She addressed Minnesota’s biggest current public health challenges, critical lessons learned from the pandemic, and what it means for our future.

Four Building Blocks of Planned Giving Success

This event is for our nonprofit endowment fundholders and other nonprofit employees interested in learning more about fundraising through planned giving.

Join Beth McCray, Nonprofit Strategies Manager at the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, to learn about the four building blocks of legacy gifts: knowing your tools, your assets, your donors, and your partners. In this session, you’ll get the opportunity to strengthen the tools you already possess to grow your planned gift expectancy pool so you can ensure that dollars aren’t left on the table.

Giving+Together: Care and Welfare of Animals

Like many states, Minnesota is experiencing overpopulated animal shelters at an increasingly high rate, with shelters running out of resources, space, and help for our furry friends. Join us for our next Giving+Together event, where we’ll hear from guest panelists from Secondhand Hounds, Animal Humane Society and Bitty Kitty Brigade about the latest in Minnesota’s animal welfare community.

Panelists will discuss how their organizations work in partnership to ensure the well-being of all animals, the type of work they do beyond adoption, why this work matters, and what you can do to get involved in this community at such an important time for animals in need.

Insider Briefing: Advising Business Owners on Optimizing their Philanthropic Impact

Speakers: William Blackburn, Steve McConley and Marie Ruzek, Wells Fargo

A business transition can provide business owners with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to realize a long-standing goal to help others through a philanthropic gift. In this Insider Briefing event, hear from three wealth and philanthropic management experts on best practices for advisors to navigate philanthropic goals with their clients. Topics will include tools available for business owners to direct their philanthropy, how to help your clients in planning ahead, ways to get the conversation around philanthropic goals going with clients and a real-life success story to inspire ideas.

CFP, CLE and non-board approved CPE continuing education approved

Giving+Together: Moving Our Youth Forward Through Sports & Recreation

This event was for Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation fundholders and their guests.

In this Giving+Together event, we were joined by The JK Movement, The Sanneh Foundation and Brownbody.

These three organizations are leading exciting initiatives that aim to create safe and healthy work, education, athletic and wellness pathways for the diverse young people of our region. They discussed how they’re paving the way for wellness in our youth, addressing the challenges that arise in sports and recreation, and promoting practices that best support our community’s future generations.