Gatorade Player of the Year Meredith Haakenson donates to The Sanneh Foundation Meredith Haakenson of Maple Grove senior high school is the winner of the 2016-2017 Minnesota girls soccer Gatorade Player of the Year. Upon receiving this great honor, she decided to donate her $1,000 award to The Sanneh Foundation. “Their goals match up with my goals with targeting people that they are trying to help,” says Meredith when asked why she decided to donate…
Read MoreKick it Back Feature Part 1: Dick Mueler Meet Dick Mueller. He is a part of our Kick it Back campaign. The Sanneh Foundation fills up containers with used and unused soccer equipment, which we then distribute all across the world, through people who actually travel to these places. Dick has a unique story of his own. In 2006, his granddaughter took a trip to Uganda. She experienced so many new things that after…
Read MoreTSF Staff Volunteers at Feed My Starving Children Last month, TSF had a staff volunteer day at Feed My Starving Children in Coon Rapids. Feed My Starving Children have been the food source for our Haitian Initiative for the past 3 years. On that day, we packed 167 boxes of Manna Pack, which will provide 36,072 meals and feed 99 kids for a year!
Read More2017 Golf4Goals Was a Big Success! Thank you to all of our golfers, sponsors, volunteers, and staff that helped make Golf4Goals another great event this year! Our 8th Annual Golf4Goals was held on Monday, September 11th at Majestic Oaks Golf Course in Ham Lake, Minnesota. This year, we were able to raise $28,000 for the foundation! Dave Brown won the ever-exciting Par-Tee Cart, which included four Timberwolves tickets, two Saints tickets, beverages, snacks, and so…
Read MoreOne World Play Project & The Sanneh Foundation #PlayTogether Campaign Due to the opportunity gap in the Twin Cities, The Sanneh Foundation focuses its support efforts on diverse low-income urban and refugee and immigrant youth populations, through soccer and education. The majority of youth The Sanneh Foundation works with come from communities of color, and the populations they work with speak numerous languages, including but not limited to: English, Hmong, Spanish, Somali, Arabic, Amharic, Burmese…
Read MoreU.S. Bank & Minnesota Vikings: Places to Play The Sanneh Foundation was chosen to receive a grant from U.S. Bank and the Minnesota Vikings on behalf of their #PlacesToPlay campaign. Places to Play provides grant funding to non-profit, neighborhood-based organizations and schools in low- to moderate-income communities in Minnesota to improve the quality, safety and accessibility of local play spaces. The Sanneh Foundation was gifted this grant in order to make much needed improvements to the…
Read MoreMaiga Ibrahima Cherishes Work as a Promise Fellow; Looks Forward to Future St. Cloud, Minnesota – May 12, 2017 Maiga Ibrahima is currently in his first year in TSF’s Dreamline program. He works as a Promise Fellow at North Junior High School in St. Cloud. In addition to working full time for The Sanneh Foundation, he has been taking classes at nearby St. Cloud Tech Community College. As a Dreamline coach, multi-tasking is one of…
Read MoreSt. Cloud Dreamline Coach Kori Carter Runs Hair Drive at McKinley High April 12, 2017 – St. Cloud, Minnesota Students at McKinley High School felt as good as they looked after the hair drive put on by Dreamline coach Kori Carter on Wednesday, April 12. Kori worked for several months to put together this free event for McKinley students. After she came up with the idea for the event, Kori reached out to numerous salons…
Read MoreDreamline Staff Retreat Provides “Breath of Fresh Air” for Coaches Friday, April 14, 2017 – Maple Grove, MN The life of a Dreamline Coach is not an easy one during the school year. They come into their respective schools before seven in the morning and often don’t leave until after school activities end at 5:30 p.m. They were rewarded for their hard work this year on Friday with a full day of sports, a barbecue,…
Read MoreSt. Cloud Schools Receive $1,500 Donation for Transportation Assistance from St. Cloud Rotary Club Tuesday, February 14, 2017 – St. Cloud, MN In January, The St. Club Rotary Club invited Program Manager Kim Johnson and Program Coordinator Otis Morris to one of their meetings to do a presentation on The Sanneh Foundation’s Dreamline program. Kim and Otis shared that an important piece of the Dreamline program is the homework help/enrichment activities after school. They also…
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