Official
2024 Charity Partners
*If you are a charity looking to register for 2025, stay tuned for information coming this winter!
The Brave Like Gabe Foundation is an organization in memorial of Gabrielle “Gabe” Grunewald and her battle with an incurable salivary gland cancer. Their mission is to support rare cancer research and empower all cancer survivors through physical activity. They value hope, joy, kindness, bravery, equity, community, and integrity.
Brave Like Gabe
Children’s Minnesota champions the health needs of children and families. They are committed to improving children’s health by providing the highest-quality, family-centered care, advanced through research and education.
Children's Minnesota
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the cause of poverty and injustice. They pursue their mission with a commitment to transformational development, emergency relief, promotion of justice, and more.
World Vision
YMCA of the North believes everyone deserves a chance to succeed – no matter their background or income. Their Camping & Adventure Team ensures a camp for everybody – kids, teens, adults, families, and other groups.
YMCA of the North (Camping & Adventure Team)
2024 Premier Charities
The ALS Association has a mission to discover treatments and a cure for ALS, and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by ALS to live their lives to the fullest. The organization focuses primarily on providing services to assist people living with ALS and their families.
ALS Association – MN/ND/SD Chapter
Can Do Canines is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for people with disabilities by creating mutually beneficial partnerships with specially trained dogs. They envision a world where people with disabilities live free and independent lives.
Can Do Canines
Children’s Surgery International provides free pediatric medical and surgical services, along with professional education and training, to communities in need around the world. They make a difference by spreading a message of hope.
Children's Surgery International
Crescent Cove offers care and support to children and young adults with a
shortened life-expectancy, and their families who love them. Around the United States, there are over 4,700 hospice homes for adults; the Crescent Cove Respite & Hospice Home for Kids is Minnesota's first and only home designed just for children and their unique needs, and just the third of its kind in the United States.
Crescent Cove
Firefly Sisterhood’s mission is to foster one-to-one connections between women who are impacted by a breast cancer diagnosis and inspirational survivors. Their goal is a future where no woman faces breast cancer alone.
Firefly Sisterhood
M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital has a purpose to bring hope and healing to the children and families we serve by caring for one child at a time, while advancing education, research, and care on behalf of all children. By working as one seamless healthcare team centered around our patients, M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital provides exceptional, family-centered care for children and their families in Minnesota and around the world. Consistently ranked among the best in the nation, M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital provides comprehensive, world-class care to each patient every day.
M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital
Mile in My Shoes (MiMS) uses the power of running to bring people together from diverse backgrounds to build connections, boost wellness, spark social change, and center people traditionally excluded from running spaces. MiMS is based in homeless shelters, addiction recovery programs and re-entry centers for people exiting incarceration.
Mile in My Shoes
The SUDC Foundation is the only organization worldwide whose purpose is to raise awareness, fund research, and serve those affected by sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC). The organization provides all services at no cost to the people it serves.
The SUDC Foundation
Vail Communities is a community resource center for adults with serious mental illnesses. Their mission is to help these people avoid crisis, achieve stability, and pursue active, fulfilling lives based on their individual abilities.
Vail Communities
Venture focuses their efforts on marginalized communities to address systemic injustices. They work to address immediate needs while simultaneously developing long-term programs that will break cycles of starvation, lack of education, human trafficking, and more.
Venture
2024 Major Charities
The Saint Paul Conservatory of Music provides high-quality, innovative music education and performance experiences to students of all ages, abilities, cultures, backgrounds, and income levels, for the enrichment of our entire community.
Saint Paul Conservatory of Music
Wildflyer Coffee has a mission to create employment opportunities for youth experiencing homelessness and housing instability through the cultivation of life skills and personal empowerment.
Wildflyer Coffee
2024 Associate Charities
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans (MAC-V) aims to end Veteran homelessness in Minnesota.
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans
Parkinson’s Foundation makes life better for people with Parkinson’s disease by improving care and advancing research toward a cure.
Parkinson’s Foundation
The Bond Between wakes up every morning saying YES to connection people and animals, caring for them, and helping them fill each other’s heart.
The Bond Between
Unite 2 Fight Paralysis unites and empowers the international spinal cord injury community to cure paralysis through advocacy, education, and support for research.
Unite 2 Fight Paralysis
2024 Partnering Charities
American Cancer Society strives to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
American Cancer Society
Bolder Options provides wellness-based mentoring for middle school youth, who focus on holistic personal development through weekly activities hosted by staff.
Bolder Options
Brain Injury Recovery Foundation has a mission to support those who have suffered Brain or Spinal Cord Injuries as well as their family, friends, and caregivers by providing programs built to meet their specific needs so that they can achieve their goals.
Brain Injury Recovery Foundation
Breast Cancer Research Foundation aims to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world’s most promising research.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
The Danny Did Epilepsy Foundation works to urgently advance public awareness and education about epilepsy - a condition that impacts 1 in 26 Americans - and to improve communication about the risk of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy, or SUDEP. Danny Did was founded by Chicago parents after the death of their four-year-old son Danny.
Danny Did Epilepsy Foundation
Rise and Remember exists to conserve stories of resistance to racial injustice and to curate spaces for all people to grieve, pay respect, and be a voice for justice.
Rise and Remember
Herren Project provides free resources and support for the treatment, recovery and prevention of substance use disorder.
Herren Project
Metro Meals on Wheels leads the effort to make sure people in the Twin Cities metro area community receive the nutritious meals and the human connection they need to help them live independently.
Metro Meals on Wheels
Minnesota Milk Bank for Babies strives to improve infant health outcomes by ensuring that medically vulnerable babies in Minnesota and the Upper Midwest have access to safely pasteurized life-giving donor human milk when mother’s milk is unavailable or in low supply.
Minnesota Milk Bank for Babies
National Brain Tumor Society unrelentingly invests in, mobilizes, and unites the brain tumor community to discover a cure, deliver effective treatments, and advocate for patients and caregivers.
National Brain Tumor Society
OneVillage Partners aims to enhance collective wellbeing across Sierra Leone by investing in people and communities through partnerships.
OneVillage Partners
Open Arms of Minnesota nourishes their clients and builds community by providing food as medicine.
Open Arms of Minnesota
Project Purple was created to raise awareness, support patients and families affected by the disease, and fund research efforts to defeat pancreatic cancer.
Project Purple
QUEERSPACE Collective creates space for LGBTQ+ youth to feel safe and empowered to their true selves.
QUEERSPACE Collective
Ruff Start Rescue is dedicated to saving the lives of animals in need. They improve animal welfare in communities through adoption, education, and providing resources for people and pets.
Ruff Start Rescue
Special Olympics Minnesota has a mission to create a new world of inclusion and acceptance for people with intellectual disabilities by providing year-round sports training and athletic competitions, inclusive healthcare programs, leadership and advocacy training, and inclusive school programs.
Special Olympics Minnesota
Strong Girls United has a mission to empower girls to be strong, confident, and resilient through sport and physical activity alongside mental heath and well-being activities.
Strong Girls United
TEAM TO END AIDS (T2) aims to improve the lives of those who are living with or vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, by raising critical funds to support the programs of AIDS Foundation Chicago.
TEAM TO END AIDS (T2)
USTA is the national governing body for the sport of tennis and the recognized leader in promoting and developing the sport’s grown on every level in the U.S.
USTA Northern
Way to Grow Minneapolis provides free, year-round family support and educational programming for families in Minneapolis and the surrounding suburbs.
Way to Grow Minneapolis
2024 Contributing Charities
Girls on the Run Minnesota inspires girls in the 3rd to 5th grades to be joyful, healthy and confident by combining training for a 3.1 mile race with important lessons about body image, healthy living, friendship and more. It takes an entire community to empower young girls to live to their potential.
Girls on the Run Minnesota
Minnesota Distance Elite is based in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. The Distance Training Center is a coordinated effort to bring local resources together to improve post-collegiate American distance running and develop Olympians. It was formed in January 2001 and began selecting athletes - primarily from Minnesota and the Upper Midwest - in April of that year. The Minnesota Distance Elite Training Center builds on the state's long and proud history of producing talented runners and Olympians.
Minnesota Distance Elite
2024 TCM Community Partners
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation empowers current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health, through philanthropy.
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation
Achieving Cures Together has a mission to save lives by advancing microbiome research.
Achieving Cures Together
Breakthrough T1D strives to improve the lives of every person affected by Type 1 Diabetes by accelerating progress on the most promising opportunities for curing, better treating, and preventing the disease.
Breakthrough T1D
debra of America’s mission is to improve the quality of life for people living with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).
debra of America
Folds of Honor provides educational scholarships to the spouses and children of military members who have fallen or been disable while serving in the United States Armed Forces, as well as first responders.
Folds of Honor Minnesota
Jack’s Basket celebrates babies with Down syndrome. They strive to ensure that every new and expectant parent is provided resources and avenues of support within the community.
Jack's Basket
Mental Health Minnesota works to advance mental health and well-being for all, increase access to mental health treatment and services, and provide education, resources and support across Minnesota.
Mental Health Minnesota
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society exists because there are people with MS. Their vision is a world free of MS.
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
NMDP
Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault (PAVSA) is a nonprofit rape crisis center in southern St. Louis that helps area residents cope with the aftermath of sexual violence.
Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault
Save the Boundary Waters is leading the effort to ensure permanent protection for the Wilderness from toxic sulfide-ore copper mining.
Save the Boundary Waters
Urban Roots has a mission to cultivate and empower youth through nature, healthy food, and community.
Urban Roots
USO (United Service Organizations) works to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in America’s military and their families.
USO
Youth Frontiers has a mission to provide experiences that inspire character, civility, and community.