The Bethesda Foundation is pleased to announce that the $350,000 challenge put forth in February by a group of six anonymous families, to help build the new Town Center and Chapel at Bethesda, has been met! Under the terms of the challenge, the Bethesda Foundation was required to match $350,000 with new gifts and pledges […]
Past and Present: Norling Family Continues Long Giving History with Bethesda
The Norling Family, local philanthropists with strong business and personal ties to the Kandiyohi County area, has had a long historical relationship with Bethesda over the past 50 years. “My father, Albin Norling, and his brother Fred, were big supporters of Bethesda as far back as 50 years ago,” shared Rayburn Norling. “Both brothers also stayed at Bethesda Heritage Center between the early 1970s to the […]
Excuse Our Dust… Beautiful Spaces, Built for You: Building Project Update
Our residents don’t live where we work. We work where our residents live. With this mantra in mind, lived out by our staff every day, our quest to provide the finest home we possibly can for our residents is neverending. While visiting Bethesda in recent months, you’ve undoubtedly noticed our extensive construction project that’s underway. So why all […]
There’s Still Time to Make a Lasting Impact
Today is the day! There’s still time to make a lasting impact and enhance the quality of life for the residents who reside at Bethesda through your year-end donation. Thanks to community members and local organizations like you, Bethesda is closer to our goal of being able to provide new spaces for residents to enjoy in the Town […]
IRA Qualified Charitable Contributions Reinstated for 2015 and Made Permanent
There is good economic news for seniors interested in making a charitable gift to Bethesda thanks to a recent tax code amendment that included a permanent extension of the IRA charitable rollover. Donors age 70½ or older can again make tax-free charitable gifts of up to $100,000 per year directly from their Individual Retirement Accounts […]
The Town Center
Key to Bethesda’s vision for the future is a new kind of senior care community that encourages active and healthy lifestyles; a community offering both a full continuum of care and the amenities our seniors deserve. Our campus redevelopment project will make this vision a reality. Consisting of three key components, the new campus will be an asset our community […]
Why Philanthropy Makes Good Business Sense
Business philanthropists support our local non-profits, because they know that healthy, vibrant communities are essential to the long term success of our businesses. “Business philanthropy and community involvement are good things,” said Larry Knutson. Knutson is the President of Concorde Bank of Willmar and Blomkest and has been a long-time friend and supporter of Bethesda […]
Fulfilling the needs of our senior community through a neighborhood model of care
As young people, we can hardly wait to leave home. Then, in our later years, when the walls around us have embraced decades of love and laughter and any number of milestones have been marked and traditions kept – leaving home is one of the things we fear most. Those who make Bethesda the next […]
A place where you will get well, go home and stay well
On any given day, you will find up to 36 people recuperating at Bethesda’s new short-stay therapy center – a place where they will relax, rehab and recover from a surgery or acute illness while receiving round the clock nursing care and physical, occupational and/or speech therapy services. The new 36-bed short-stay therapy center at […]
Bethesda Hosts Hard Hat Celebration
The next stage in completion of the new Bethesda campus was reached on Thursday, August 13th when construction crews set in place a steel beam. With the enclosure phase of the new building underway, Willmar residents will see the design of the 88,000-square-foot building come to life over the next twelve months. The raising of […]
