Giving Tuesday: Change Lives For Students Like Marissa
Marissa Taylor, a sixth grader at Victoria Falls Primary School in Zimbabwe. Meet Marissa, a sixth-grader at Victoria Falls Primary School in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Marissa’s always liked school. She’s smart, curious and [...]
Victoria Falls Hospital’s Nutrition Garden: Giving Thanks for the Harvest!
Here in the Midwest the growing season is definitely over. The fields have been harvested and are now sitting barren and brown, waiting for the cover of snow to blanket them until spring. But it’s another story [...]
YOU MATTER Cooking: Kids Learn To Prepare Healthy Food!
"Nutrition and healthy eating look different for every family, but with the support of MATTERbox, it will help introduce new foods for my students and their families to try." - Teacher Melinda Weiss, Henry Sibley High School [...]
MATTER Innovation Hub: Sponsor A Student, Fulfill A Dream
It’s every teacher’s dream for their students to come to class happy to be there and eager to learn. For Aubrey Chiwandura, the facilitator for the first MATTER Innovation Hub (MIH) Program in Zimbabwe, that’s [...]
MATTER Partner Gorgui Dieng Awarded Offseason NBA Cares Community Assist Award
Growing up in Senegal and seeing so much needless suffering made a deep impression on the young Gorgui Dieng. Kids wandering the streets barefoot and aimless, mothers with small children begging desperately for food, people [...]
Connecting Health & Innovation: Dr. Peter Melchert
Imagine you’re a young child waking up one day to find a lump developing in your abdomen. Over the next several weeks, the lump gets larger and becomes more uncomfortable. As it grows, you start experiencing nausea, [...]
MATTERbox Partners: Feeding Healthier Lives
“When I first started doing this, I was focused on sports and education. Food was the last thing on my mind. But kids would be tired, and some were literally hurting because they were hungry. [...]
Solving Global Health Challenges: Turning Dreams into Realities
“Half of the world is unable to access essential health services. Think about that. One out of two people in the world do not have the healthcare they need. One out of two babies born [...]
2019 YOU MATTER GALA: 588,330+ LIVES CHANGED!
It was a magical night. At the YOU MATTER Gala on October 3rd, hundreds of MATTER’s sponsors, donors, partners, suppliers and volunteers, came together to do something bigger than we’ve ever done before. The goal [...]
YOU MATTER Gala Happening October 3, 2019!
Excitement is building for October 3, 2019, when MATTER holds its 2019 YOU MATTER Gala at the McNamara Alumni Center in Minneapolis! It promises to be an engaging evening celebrating the collaborative work of MATTER with [...]