Gundersen St. Elizabeth’s Community Development Foundation

Memorials provide lasting recognition of friends and loved ones who’ve gone before us. Memorials can also be established so that others may donate in your loved one’s name. Gifts made in honor of others are a way to celebrate life, recognize a special person or life event, or express good wishes. These gifts are thoughtful ways to mark marriages, anniversaries, birthdays, or say thank you to volunteers, doctors or nurses. 

Our annual appeal mailing is delivered in November and provides a strong base of revenue for project funding for the following year. Please contact us to make sure that you are on our mailing list. 

Our foundation enjoys hosting events that bring friends together to support a need or cause. We invite you to get involved in our golf benefits, concerts and bazaars, which help expand our donor family and financial capacity.

St. Elizabeth's Auxiliary is a 100+ member nonprofit organization that supports the mission and services of Gundersen St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Clinics. Auxiliary members raise financial support, host events, gather for meetings and serve as volunteers and ambassadors for our organization. 

They say money doesn't grow on trees, but we can confirm it grows in corn and soybean fields. Our Field of Dreams surrounds our medical campus and has become an iconic fundraising effort grown out of the generous hearts of area farmers. After each growing season, proceeds from the harvest are transplanted into programs and services to meet important healthcare needs of our communities. 

Planned gifts offer several benefits to donors, including providing an ongoing income stream, easing your current tax liability, and reducing capital gains tax or future estate tax. Deferred gifts can support our Foundation without impacting your current income or lifestyle. As a donor, you can designate the Foundation as a beneficiary of retirement plan assets or life insurance policies. Planned gifts also include gifts through your will, charitable gift annuities, charitable remainder trusts, life estate contracts, charitable lead trusts and pooled income funds. For more information, please contact Tom Crowley at (651) 565-5559.