Our team is very involved in our surrounding communities, here are a couple organizations we are passionate about:
Service. Compassion. Faith. Academics.
These are the tenets by which Kelly Phillips lived, which now guide this charitable foundation created in memory of her.
The Kelly Phillips Charitable Foundation provides funding for safe teen driving initiatives as well as financial support for youth charities in church, athletics and academics. Our aim is to serve the community and individuals alike with stewardship and participation necessary to change, much like the way Kelly inspired and taught us.
Here you can learn more about safe teen driving, as well as find out ways to become active in serving your community with compassion and faith.
Additional Link: Distracted Drivers
The Kelly Phillips Foundation and Friends of Kelly have partnered with DinoMight’s “Hockey in the Hood”. Kelly loved hockey and helping others. The involvement with DinoMight’s has been an incredible and important way to honor Kelly.
DinoMights is a youth development program featuring hockey, in Minneapolis. The philosophy of DinoMights centers around maintaining relationships with youth from their elementary years through high school graduation, and providing them with the various kinds of support they need to become self-assured, competent adults.
DinoMights began in 1995 as a collaborative effort with the Minneapolis Park Board and the Park Avenue Foundation Computer Learning Center. DinoMights’ mission is “to equip our urban youth to develop physical, academic, social and spiritual excellence.”
The philosophy of DinoMights is centered on whole life impact and long-term relationships with diverse youth possessing significant unmet needs in the Central, Powderhorn, and Phillips neighborhoods of South Minneapolis. This innovative approach engages students in the community from their early childhood/elementary years through high school graduation, and provides them with the opportunities they need to become self-assured, competent adults. DinoMights is a powerful combination of traditional enrichment through recreation and intentional strategies that respond to children’s unique developmental and academic needs.
Using hockey as an incentive, DinoMights provides academic tutoring, mentoring, computer instruction, studies, camping, community service, and various other faith based activities that help fulfill the mission.
Dan Phillips was just named to the Board of Trustees of his alma-mater Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, IA
Mahtomedi Area Education Foundation:
For over 30 years MAEF has been deeply committed to supporting Mahtomedi Public Schools. Today MAEF continues to enhance educational opportunities for students in Mahtomedi Public Schools - providing grants, scholarships and other support to ensure a brighter future for all. Over the years MAEF has given over $2.5 million back to our students and schools.
Brandon became involved with the Mahtomedi Area Education Foundation shortly after his family moved into that community in 2013. During that time he spent five years on the Grants Committee, helping guide the foundation's financial initiatives. He was then invited to join the board of trustees and served as the treasurer from 2019-2021.
Common Hope:
Common Hope promotes hope and opportunity in Guatemala by partnering with children, families and communities who want to participate in a process of development to improve their lives through education, health care, housing and family development.
As a way to promote education beyond their local community, the Navara family are ongoing sponsors for two children at the Common Hope school in Antigua, Guatemala.