Campaign Overview

With over 125 years of experience providing social service programs, Neighborhood House understands that progress is a process. It is in that spirit that the Hope in Action campaign originated – utilizing a strategic and targeted plan within a Board approved framework, focusing on elevating Neighborhood House at all service locations and at all levels of the organization.

Goal and Progress

With the support of our incredible community, we have raised $23.7M of our $25M goal.
Will you help us close the gap?

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A few years from now, a resilient and courageous family of six will move to St. Paul. The barriers they face as they navigate a new city will be significant: systemic inequities, food insecurity, unemployment, housing challenges, and language barriers, to name a few. This family could look like the millions of American families who live their entire lives with similar struggles in spite of their tenacity and desire to move forward.

But this family finds Neighborhood House. And their lives are transformed.

The Hope in Action Comprehensive Campaign will ensure Neighborhood House is ready for this family. With your support, we will secure our future by making critical updates to the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center, enhancing existing programs and creating opportunities to better serve our families. We will also sustain an over 125-year legacy of impact so future families in our neighborhoods will always have Neighborhood House for support. We will evaluate our successes and challenges, enabling us to launch future programs more effectively. And we will expand, by opening an Integrated Programming Center in the West 7th Street corridor in St. Paul, bringing the Neighborhood House approach to new families in need.

Campaign Pillars

Securing
Our Future

Flexible community spaces, efficient program offerings and upgrades to the Wellstone Center

Preserving and sustaining a 125 year-old institution by expanding legacy support

Evaluating Our Successes and Challenges

Ensuring future success by partnering with research nonprofits and community members on a program and services review

Expanding

Our Impact

 Investing in a new facility to make long-term, meaningful, and consistent impact in the West 7th community

Creating and implementing a successful service model for a new West 7th integrated programming center

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THANK YOU!

Thank you to the generous lead donors who have made an investment in our campaign!

$1,000,000+

  • Otto Bremer Trust
  • Gail and Bob Buuck
  • State of Minnesota 

$500,000 – $999,999

  • Terry and Christina Schopfer
  • Driscoll Foundation
  • Becky Garthofner and Jerry Woelfel
  • Barb and Rich Kraft
  • Eric Levinson
  • Minnesota Department of Education
  • Chip and Amy Pearson
  • Carol Weisberg

$250,000 – $499,999

  • Hugh J. Andersen  Foundation
  • Carol Tauer
  • Rosemary Kessler
  • Hardenbergh Foundation
  • Richard and Barbara Kraft
  • Eugene U. and Mary F. Frey Family Fund
  • Jean West
  • Lee Driscoll
  • Sauer Family Foundation
  • Wege Foundation
  • Gwen Williams

$100,000 – $249,999

  • Mark and Julie Ryan
  • Nancy and David Brady
  • 3M Company Foundation
  • Sarah Andersen
  • PJ Pofahl and Charlie Nauen
  • The Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation
  • James and Donna Thiher
  • Securian Financial Foundation
  • Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines
  • F. R. Bigelow Foundation
  • Ilene Undis
  • The Mortenson Family Foundation
  • Donald and Patricia Garofalo
  • Edward and Gloria McEllistrem
  • Kathleen Schubert
  • HealthPartners

$50,000 – $99,999

  • Donald Salisbury and Mari Forbush
  • Joanne and Brian Mullen
  • Eric and Celita Levinson
  • Karla and Peter Myers
  • Andersen Corporate Foundation
  • James and Wendi Kelly
  • Catherine Harvanko
  • BankCherokee – Saint Paul
  • William and Bonita Frels
  • Grotto Foundation
  • The Gordon and Jeanne Shepard Family Fund
  • Irvin Kessler and Barbara Anderson
  • River Road Foundation
  • Mary and Henry Holec
  • Judy Rein Hoffman

$25,000 – $49,999

  • Boss Foundation
  • The Gordon and Jeanne Shepard Family Fund
  • Stephen Befort and Anne Johnson
  • Nancy and Bill Jones
  • Heidi Gesell and John Edgerton
  • Gesell Family Foundation
  • Molly O’Shaughnessy and Michael Monahan
  • Mary Lou Diether Trust
  • Elizabeth Andrews
  • Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P.
  • Marilyn and Ray Riley
  • James and Julia Adams
  • Steve and Susie Fritze
  • Ed and Libby Hlavka
  • Robert Richman and Kristin Beckmann
  • Mary Nesgoda
  • Roy and JoAnn Ferber
  • Colleen and Patrick Bollom
  • Ann Adams and Sally Ehlers
  • Robert and Megan O’Leary
  • Becky Garthofner and Jerry Woelfel
  • Casey Albert T. O’Neil Foundation
  • Eileen McMahon and Steve Karbon
  • Jon White and Rosemary Quirk
  • Vivian Orey
  • William and Patricia Litchy
  • Carol and Sanford Weisberg
  • The Right Hand Foundation
  • Tom and Sally Patterson
  • John Sullivan
  • Comcast Cable
  • Communications, Inc.
  • David and Colleen Smith
  • The Alces Trust
  • John and Susie Keilholz
  • Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
  • Edwin and Jennifer Ryan
  • Judith Miller
  • Wellington Management
  • The James M. Stanton Foundation
  • Midwest Radiology Foundation
  • Luis and Inell Rosario

Gifts of $25k+ as of January 27, 2026

Campaign Ambassadors

Eric Levinson (Chair)

Nancy Brady

Cindy Carvelli-Yu

Ray Eby

Katie Fratzke

Libby Hlavka

Eileen McMahon

Brian Mullen

Joanne Mullen

Amy Pearson

Chip Pearson

Inell Rosario

Luis Rosario

Mark Ryan

Chris Sullivan

John Sullivan


Stephanie Wolkin