Residential Mortgage Group donates $100 to local charities for every referral-generated loan. Since 2007, these donations have totaled over $750,000. In the first six months that Second Harvest Heartland was included as a designee charity, 274 clients chose to donate to them, providing 101,380 meals to those in need. RMG employees toured Second Harvest Heartland's facility and learned about the organization's efforts to distribute food to those missing meals each month across Minnesota and Wisconsin.
2. Since 2007, Residential Mortgage Group, a division of Alerus
Financial, has made a commitment to invest in the communities
that we all call home. After every referral-generated loan closes,
RMG donates $100 — in honor of that customer — to a school,
police or fire department of their choice. And in late 2010,
in response to the growing issue of hunger in our communities,
we added Second Harvest Heartland to the list of organizations
customers could select.
During the four years “Refer a friend. Build your community. ”
TM
has been in place, RMG’s referral-generated donations
have surpassed:
$750,000!
3. In just the first six months that Second Harvest Heartland
was included as a designee organization, 274 clients chose to give
their referral gift to Second Harvest Heartland, which is the Upper
Midwest’s largest hunger relief organization.
Those 274 referral donations equal $27,400, which in turn
translates to:
101,380 meals!
On June 9, 2011, eleven RMG employees took a tour of
Second Harvest Heartland’s facility in St. Paul to get a
first-hand look at the warehouse and fulfillment operations.
4. Second Harvest
Heartland is on
track to distribute
68 million pounds
of food in 2011
through 1,000 member
agencies and programs
such as food shelves,
shelters and community
meal programs.
5. Our tour was led
by Second Harvest
Heartland COO,
Bob Chatmas.
6. We learned
that families in
Minnesota miss
out on 125 million
meals each year;
this is the equivalent
to missing dinner
10 times per month.
7. Second Harvest
Heartland provides
emergency food for
an estimated 468,400
different people
annually in 59 counties
across Minnesota and
western Wisconsin.
8. 40% of the members
of households served
by Second Harvest
Heartland are children
under 18 years old.
9. Our tour included
visits to Second
Harvest Heartland’s
massive refrigerator and
freezer storage areas.
10. On the day
of our tour,
volunteers from
Blue Cross Blue Shield
were assembling
boxes that will be
distributed across
Minnesota through the
Commodity Supplemental
Food Program.
11. Our group, along
with Second Harvest
Heartland COO Bob
Chatmas and Campaigns
Coordinator Sara Ibis
12. RMG simply couldn’t make these donations without you —
thank you for your trust and support. We appreciate that you
continue to send your friends, family members and co-workers
to RMG when they are in need of a home loan; we appreciate
the business, and we appreciate what your referrals have done
for local organizations like Second Harvest Heartland!
Supporting communities and
families: it’s the right thing to do,
and it’s what RMG and
Alerus Financial are all about.
13. Want to learn more?
Visit rmgmn.com and search for
“Build your community.”
Data on number of people served and statistics about hunger in Minnesota provided by Second Harvest Heartland.
