Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation Contributes $34,500 Gift to Rawhide |
October 9, 2006 |  The Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation announced a grant of $34,500 to create a database for youth records at Rawhide Boys Ranch. John Wollner, Community Relations Director for Thrivent Financial’s Appleton office, visited the students at Rawhide on Friday, October 13, and presented John Solberg, Rawhide’s Executive Director, with the gift. “The Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation is proud to support Rawhide Boys Ranch because it provides a positive environment and experience for at-risk and delinquent young men,” stated John Wollner.
The youth records project will provide for more secure storage of information to protect client privacy, accurately store and document services to placement agencies and Medicaid regulators, retrieve important outcome data that represents youth success rates, and create greater efficiencies. “Better outcome data will allow us to enhance Rawhide’s programs to achieve the objectives and effectively communicate with supporters the impact Rawhide is achieving with delinquent and at-risk youth,” stated John Solberg. He added, “The Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation recognized that every youth who experiences sustained positive behavior change is a benefit to our local communities.”
The Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation is a private foundation funded by Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. As a 501(c)(3) organization with its own board of trustees, the foundation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary and educational purposes and makes grants and gifts to 501(c)(3) exempt organizations. The foundation does not provide grants to individuals. To learn more about the foundation and its programs visit: www.thrivent.com/foundations.
Located outside of New London, Wisconsin, Rawhide Boys Ranch emphasizes a faith-based traditional family environment and serves at-risk and court-referred young men. Their mission is to inspire and equip at-risk teenage boys to become responsible young men through family-centered care, treatment, and education. Rawhide is largely supported by donations of cars, boats, campers, and financial gifts. Learn more about Rawhide by calling (920) 982-6100 or visiting the website at www.rawhide.org.
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Rawhide youth look on while John Wollner, Community Relations Director for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, presents a $34,500 check from the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Foundation to Rawhide board member Sarah Long-Radloff (far left) at Rawhide Boys Ranch, for a youth records project. |
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