Your referrals do make a difference!

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Since 2007, Residential Mortgage Group, a division of Alerus Financial, has made a commitment to invest in the communities that we all call home. After every referral-generated loan closes, RMG donates $100 — in honor of that customer — to a school, police or fire department of their choice. And in late 2010, in response to the growing issue of hunger in our communities, we added Second Harvest Heartland to the list of organizations customers could select.

During the four years “Refer a friend. Build your community.TM” has been in place, RMG’s referral-generated donations have surpassed:

$750,000!

In just the first six months that Second Harvest Heartland was included as a designee organization, 274 clients chose to give their referral gift to Second Harvest Heartland, which is the Upper Midwest’s largest hunger relief organization.

Those 274 referral donations equal $27,400, which in turn translates to:

101,380 meals!On June 9, 2011, eleven RMG employees took a tour of Second Harvest Heartland’s facility in St. Paul to get a first-hand look at the warehouse and fulfillment operations.

Second Harvest Heartland is on track to distribute

68 million pounds of food in 2011

through 1,000 member agencies and programs

such as food shelves, shelters and community

meal programs.

Our tour was led by Second Harvest Heartland COO,

Bob Chatmas.

We learned that families in Minnesota miss

out on 125 million meals each year;

this is the equivalent to missing dinner

10 times per month.

Second Harvest Heartland provides emergency food for

an estimated 468,400 different people

annually in 59 counties across Minnesota and

western Wisconsin.

40% of the members of households served

by Second Harvest Heartland are children

under 18 years old.

Our tour included visits to Second

Harvest Heartland’s massive refrigerator and

freezer storage areas.

On the day of our tour, volunteers from

Blue Cross Blue Shield were assembling

boxes that will be distributed across

Minnesota through the Commodity Supplemental

Food Program.

Our group, along with Second Harvest

Heartland COO Bob Chatmas and Campaigns Coordinator Sara Ibis

RMG simply couldn’t make these donations without you — thank you for your trust and support. We appreciate that you continue to send your friends, family members and co-workers to RMG when they are in need of a home loan; we appreciate the business, and we appreciate what your referrals have done for local organizations like Second Harvest Heartland!

Supporting communities and families: it’s the right thing to do, and it’s what RMG and Alerus Financial are all about.

Want to learn more?

Visit rmgmn.com and search for

Data on number of people served and statistics about hunger in Minnesota provided by Second Harvest Heartland.

“Build your community.”