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
As the nation’s leading provider of catastrophic and complex case management, Paradigm achieves 5x better medical outcomes and lowers total costs by 40%. Paradigm accomplishes this by bringing together nationally recognized doctors, expert clinical staff, the best network of care facilities in the country, and more than 25 years of clinical data to guide decisions.
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.
The 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.
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.
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
Your business faces many threats — from natural disasters to data breaches, to other risks specific to your industry or company. Our mission is to make you aware of coverage every business needs, plus additional protection specific to your circumstances.
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.
Silver sponsors
$1,250-2,999
Advanced Capital Group
Dave and Jean Kaiser
Deloitte Consulting
Dyste Williams
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
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
Arch Reinsurance Company
Bell Bank
Bob Mars
Brown & Carlson, P.A.
Brown & Joseph
Chad Hagedorn
Christensen Group
Clarity Coverdale Fury
Dick Marshik
Heacox, Hartman, Koshmrl, Cosgriff, Johnson, Lane & Feenstra, P.A.
Heartman Agency, Inc.
Kent D. Dixon
Mahowald Insurance Agency, LLC
Minnesota Occupational Health / Summit Orthopedics
Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Insurers Association Inc. (MWCIA)
NuQuest
Orchid Medical
Physicians’ Diagnostics & Rehabilitation Clinics (PDR Clinics)
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)
Bob Acosta
Brad Tracy
Claire Muselman
Cody Allen
Dennis Logstrom
Kathy Bray
Ken Johnson
Mark Johnston
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
