One-Time Gift

A simple gift today. A meaningful impact tomorrow.

A one-time gift is one of the most straightforward and powerful ways to support the Sleepy Eye Healthcare Foundation. These gifts immediately strengthen patient care, enhance services, and help ensure our rural community continues to have access to high-quality healthcare close to home.

Whether you choose to give in honor of someone special, to support a specific need, or simply because you believe in local healthcare, your generosity makes a difference for patients of all ages and stages of life.

How Your One-Time Gift Helps

Every one-time gift contributes to projects and programs that directly support our patients and community. Your gift may help:

• Update medical equipment and technology

• Support patient experience enhancements

• Strengthen programs for families, seniors, and future generations

• Expand services and care options close to home

• Advance wellness and community health initiatives

These immediate-use gifts allow the Foundation to respond quickly to needs as they arise, making a real impact right away.

Types of One-Time Gifts

You can make a one-time gift in a variety of meaningful ways:

• General Support – Helps where the need is greatest.

• Memorial or Tribute Gift – Honors or remembers someone special.

• Restricted Gift – Supports a specific department, program, or project (e.g., cardiac care, equipment upgrades, scholarships).

• Event or Campaign Gift – Contributes to annual fundraising efforts or capital needs.

If you’re unsure which option fits you best, we’re happy to help you explore them.

Memorials and Tributes

Memorial Gifts
A memorial gift is a special way to honor the memory of someone who has passed. These gifts carry forward their legacy by supporting community health and patient care at Sleepy Eye Medical Center.

Tribute Gifts
Tribute gifts celebrate individuals who are important to you. They can mark a birthday, retirement, anniversary, graduation, or simply say “thank you.”

Your Impact

Every memorial or tribute gift helps:

• Support high-quality local healthcare

• Enhance patient programs and technology

• Strengthen care for families, seniors, and future generations

These gifts create a lasting difference in the lives of people right here at home.

Donor Honor Wall

We are pleased to offer donors of $1,000 or more a personalized tile on our Donor Honor Wall. As total contributions from a donor increase, his or her name can be moved to another level on the wall.

Planned Giving

A meaningful way to care for your community — today and for generations to come.

Planned giving is a simple, thoughtful way to support the Sleepy Eye Healthcare Foundation while also taking care of the people and values that matter most to you. These gifts often come from your long-term financial or estate plans and allow you to make a lasting difference, sometimes in ways that aren’t possible through everyday giving.

Whether your goal is to support high-quality local healthcare, honor your family, or create a legacy that strengthens our rural community, planned giving is a powerful way to do it.

Why Planned Giving Matters

Planned gifts ensure that Sleepy Eye Medical Center can continue providing exceptional care close to home — not just today, but far into the future. These gifts help:

• Expand and improve patient care services

• Support new technologies and equipment

• Strengthen programs that care for families, seniors, and future generations

• Keep high-quality healthcare accessible in our rural region

Your generosity becomes part of a lasting foundation that supports wellness, healing, and community health for years to come.

What Is Planned Giving?

Planned giving includes a variety of charitable options made through your long-term financial or estate plans. Most planned gifts cost nothing today and are designed to fit your personal financial goals.

Common types include:

Bequests (Gifts in a Will)
One of the simplest and most popular ways to give. You can designate a specific dollar amount, a percentage of your estate, or the remainder after your loved ones are cared for.

Beneficiary Designations
You can name the Sleepy Eye Healthcare Foundation as a beneficiary of a retirement account, life insurance policy, or investment account — often just by completing a form with your provider.

Endowed Gifts
You can create or contribute to an endowment that supports patient care and community health year after year.

Gifts That Provide Income
Certain planned gifts can offer potential tax advantages or provide income to you or your loved ones while still benefiting the Foundation in the future.

How Planned Giving Benefits You

Beyond making a lasting impact, planned gifts can offer:

• Flexibility: You can change your plans at any time.

• No Immediate Cost: Many planned gifts do not affect your current finances.

• Potential Tax Advantages: Depending on the type of gift, you or your estate may receive tax benefits.

• Peace of Mind: You know your legacy will continue to support local patients and families.

We are deeply grateful for supporters who choose to make a long-term, lasting difference.

Your Legacy, Our Community

When you include the Sleepy Eye Healthcare Foundation in your plans, you help secure the future of local healthcare. Your legacy becomes a part of every patient visit, every life saved, and every family cared for at Sleepy Eye Medical Center.

Sleepy Eye Healthcare Foundation Events

Proceeds from the following events benefit the Sleepy Eye Healthcare Foundation, and, in turn, the patients and communities we serve.

• Spirit of Giving Gala (every other year)
• Sleepy Eye Healthcare Foundation Golf Tournament (annual)
• Other events as they arise

Scholarships

Dr. Murthy Medical Scholarship

This $500 scholarship, presented by Dr. Venkata Murthy of Sleepy Eye Medical Center, is for high school seniors who are residents of Sleepy Eye and/or attend high school in Sleepy Eye. Eligible applicants include those who plan to enter college or technical school in the fall in a health-related area. Applications are available in the spring and will be posted online and distributed at Sleepy Eye Schools. Two students from Sleepy Eye Public School and two students from St. Mary's Catholic School are chosen for the Dr. Murthy Medical Scholarship.

Chisey Hansen Family Memorial Medical Scholarship

This $1,000 scholarship, presented by the Chisey Hansen family, is for high school seniors who are residents of Sleepy Eye and/or attend high school in Sleepy Eye. Eligible applicants include those who plan to enter college or technical school in the fall in a health-related area. Applications are available in the spring and will be posted online and distributed at Sleepy Eye Schools. One recipient is chosen for the Chisey Hansen Family Memorial Medical Scholarship.

Give a Gift Today

Thank you for your generosity and for choosing to support the Sleepy Eye Healthcare Foundation. Every gift — large or small — helps strengthen local healthcare and makes a real difference for the patients and families we serve.

As we continue improving our giving experience, we’re updating our online donation options. Thank you for your patience while we work to make supporting the Foundation even easier.

How to Make a Gift Today

Cash or Check
We currently accept gifts by cash or check.

By Mail
Please make checks payable to:

Sleepy Eye Healthcare Foundation
400 4th Ave. NW
Sleepy Eye, MN 56085

In Person
Donations may be dropped off at the Clinic Reception Desk during regular business hours.