Our sponsors
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We appreciate the generosity of our sponsors, who are the main source of funding for the scholarships we offer. SFM Foundation awards scholarships to a growing number of applicants each year. The more sponsors we have, the more students we can help.
The bottom line is without our supporters, many of these families wouldn’t get the help they need. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts, to our SFM Foundation sponsors. Your support helps change lives.
Premier sponsors $10,000 and up
Paradigm
Paradigm is an accountable care management organization focused on improving the lives of people with complex and catastrophic injuries and diagnoses. We have been a pioneer in value-based care since 1991, offering deep clinical expertise, high-value specialty networks, behavioral health support, payment integrity solutions, and robust data analytics to generate the very best outcomes for patients, payers and providers. Paradigm is headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, with offices across the U.S. For more information, please visit www.paradigmcorp.com.
Pat Johnson
Pat Johnson is a former President and CEO of SFM, Minnesota’s largest workers’ compensation insurer. Now retired, Johnson continues to serve in many capacities to reach out to those in need. Pat has a scholarship in her name and is a mentor to each recipient of this special scholarship.
SFM Mutual Insurance
SFM is the leading workers’ compensation insurer in the Midwest, serving businesses of all sizes and types for more than 30 years. We strive to be the workers’ compensation partner of choice for agents, employers, and injured workers through unrivaled service, expertise and commitment to workplace safety.
State Farm
State Farm is there for our customers and for the neighborhoods where we live and work. We’ve come a long way since opening our doors in 1922. Yet our success is built on the same foundation of shared values: quality service and relationships, mutual trust, integrity, and financial strength.
Platinum sponsors $5,000-$9,999
Associated Benefits and Risk Consulting
We simplify the complicated.
Bob Lund
Bob is the former President & CEO of SFM Mutual Insurance Company and a former SFM Foundation board member. He is a longtime supporter of the SFM Foundation.
Horton Group
The Horton Group is an insurance, employee benefits and risk advisory firm. We specialize in helping clients turn costs and risk into competitive advantage, and growing the business for tomorrow. Our business is about helping you achieve a higher level of performance. The Horton Group has the people, insight and innovation to get ahead of trends, and offer new ideas on critical challenges.
Marsh & McLennan Agency
We create peace of mind by passionately delivering exceptional employee benefits and risk management solutions, committed to:
- Providing world-class resources with local touch
- Serving our clients, colleagues, carriers and communities
- Acting with integrity and respect
Gold sponsors $3,000-$4,999
Aafedt Forde Gray, Monson & Hager, P.A.
Aafedt, Forde, Gray, Monson & Hager, P.A. provides comprehensive legal representation for insurance carriers, self-insured employers and corporate interests, and has done so for more than ninety years.
Bill Greene
Bill Greene is currently the Strategic Government Customer Manager at Dun & Bradstreet. He is a longtime supporter of the SFM Foundation.
Cousineau Waldhauser & Kieselbach
CWK is a workers’ compensation defense firm. We have 18 lawyers who practice in one area of the law and we do it well. Our attorneys represent insurance companies and employers.
EMPLOYERS
Guy Carpenter
Guy Carpenter helps its clients achieve profitable growth with a powerful combination of specialized reinsurance broking expertise, strategic advisory services and analytics.
Maguire Agency
We’ve been guiding businesses and families on insurance matters since 1928. We’ve enjoyed long-term relationships with our clients because of our progressive, knowledgeable and responsive approach, and by working collaboratively with them and the many insurance companies we represent for the best possible outcomes. We think you’ll find our approach refreshingly different and surprisingly personal.
NEAM
New England Asset Management (NEAM) strives to be integral to the success of our insurance industry clients by providing investment management solutions through a team of skilled professionals dedicated to delivering exceptional client service.
North Risk Partners
North Risk Partners specializes in strategic insurance solutions for people and business. Our team helps clients Face Risk Head On with right-fit insurance coverage and loss prevention resources. For businesses, we offer commercial insurance, surety bonds and employee benefits, as well as programming and compliance support in the areas of human resources, health and safety, and more. We are one of the largest independent insurance broker and risk advisory firms in the Midwest with over 400 employees and 30+ locations across our five-state footprint.
Ottobock
We’re a company that makes people mobile. Regardless of whether the product is a prosthesis, an orthosis, a wheelchair or an exoskeleton – our focus is always on the people we support. We help people maintain or regain their freedom of movement.
Silver sponsors
$1,250-2,999
Advanced Capital Group
Brown & Joseph
Dave and Jean Kaiser
Deloitte Consulting
Dyste Williams
Flaherty Consulting and Investigations, Inc.
Heacox, Hartman, Koshmrl, Cosgriff, Johnson, Lane & Feenstra, P.A.
Karen Holt
Kathryn and Terry Miller
Kraus-Anderson Insurance
McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, P.A. (MVP)
MIIAB
MMIC Group, Inc.
North Star Mutual Insurance Company
Peddicord Wharton
Physicians’ Diagnostics & Rehabilitation Clinics (PDR Clinics)
Rick and Joan Ahmann
Safety National Re
Sedgwick
Sit Investment Associates, Inc.
Society Insurance
Western National Mutual Insurance Company
Bronze sponsors $375-$1,249
AccessOnTime
Affinity Plus
Arch Reinsurance Company
Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis
Bell Bank
Bob Labombard
Bob Mars
Ceil Jung
Chad Hagedorn
Christensen Group
Clarity Coverdale Fury
Dick Marshik
Heartman Agency, Inc.
HomeCare Connect LLC
John Kelly
Kathy Bray
Kent D. Dixon
Mahowald Insurance Agency, LLC
Minnesota Occupational Health / Summit Orthopedics
Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Insurers Association Inc. (MWCIA)
NuQuest
One Call
Orchid Medical
Preferred Medical
Ray Smith Insurance Agency, Inc.
Stinson LLP
Strohm Ballweg, LLP
TrueNorth Companies
Union Construction Workers’ Compensation Program
Friends of the Foundation
Anderson Insurance & Investment Agency (an ABRC company)
Betsy Norman
Bob Acosta
Brad Tracy
Claire Muselman
Cody Allen
Craig Stroinski
Dennis Logstrom
Elinor Wiener
Genex Services, Inc.
Healthesystems
Hook’s Harvest Fund
Julie Veit
Kara Marine-Rietmann
Katherine Schultz
Ken Johnson
Marcia Payne
Mark Johnston
Mary O’Malley
Matt Hill
Med & Tox Consulting Services PLLC
Sara Goese
Steve Sandilla
The Dana Company
“With the help of our generous supporters, we are able to enrich the lives of young people through higher education. Many recipients pay it forward by choosing careers that give back to their communities. We encourage you to join the SFM Foundation family of individual and corporate supporters who make these dreams a reality.”
Linda Williams
President, SFM Foundation
