Sanford Health Foundation West

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010

Signed

Oct 27, 2011

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$1,134,460

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

The medcenter one children's hospital: amber's dreamamber desroches was just 15 years old when leukemia took her life in the days preceding christmas, 2007. In time, and despite unbearable grief and sorrow, amber's family couldn't help but remember how the teenager often talked about transforming the children's hospital here at medcenter one. When she wasn't telling someone what she envisioned for the children who would be hospitalized after her, she penciled her thoughts in her journal. In the aftermath of her death, amber's dream was given life.amber envisioned a children's hospital where everything was possible and nothing was impossible. Amber wanted sick and injured children to have a place of their own, a place that looked and felt different from the rest of the hospital. Amber yearned for an environment that was warm, inviting and nurturing, a place where children's fears could be eliminated and their pain diminished. Amber was particularly enthralled with the adventures the children depicted within peter pan took each and every night. The magical journeys the children took---journeys that led them to pirates, mermaids, indians, fairies and tree people---captivated her attention---and she felt, would capture the imagination of children who would become patients long after she left. This was the essence of amber's dream.while amber was envisioning a magical place, the leadership of medcenter one, inc. Was planning a long overdue expansion and renovation of the children's hospital. Everyone agreed---this expansion and renovation project was deemed critically important.amber's dream of transformation was skillfully blended with the hospital's plans for expansion and renovation. The project would be known as "amber's dream" and would become a reality upon the successful completion of a $695,000 major gifts campaign. At the conclusion of 2009, a total of $531,573 had been paid, pledged and promised to the foundation for amber's dream. An additional $417,797 had been paid or pledged in 2010 creating a two-year total of $949,370.

Activity 3

In june of 2009, the medcenter one college of nursing (in partnership with the foundation) launched their centennial campaign, to be known as "building for the next century." the campaign set a goal of raising $100,000 in recognition of 100 years of excellence in educating the nurses of tomorrow. Campaign dollars would support the long overdue remodeling, refurbishing and upgrading of technology for the college. At the conclusion of 2009, the foundation/college had raised $82,359 in cash and pledges of cash. 2010 cash received and pledges equalled $51,355 creating a two-year total of $133,714.

Filer

EIN

45-0397196