St. Cloud, Minn. – Let’s waltz into this exciting news together! The Women’s Fund of the Central Minnesota Community Foundation has finalized this year’s Dancing With Our Stars line-up!
Dancing With Our Stars is a competition through the Women’s Fund Presents that brings together community leaders with dancing pros to showcase their skills in order to raise funds for their chosen charity. Each charity is centered around supporting a wide variety of programs that benefit girls, women in transition and elder women.
Dances will range from the tango and cha-cha to swing and salsa. Dance couples will practice their routines beginning months before the competition. Final scoring for the competition will be based upon a combination of judges’ scoring and dollars raised for the nonprofits – 40 percent Judges’ score, 60 percent dollars raised.
The 7th annual fundraising competition will feature six community star dancers, paired with a professional partner for a chance to win up to $15,000 for the nonprofit of their choice. This year’s Dancing With Our Stars will be an in-person event at the College of Saint Benedict on June 13, 2022. See the line-up below and in the video here: https://youtu.be/LTyuVk4lwFg
- Community Star, Hannah Mikels from St. Cloud State University, will dance with pro Matthias Meyer to benefit SCSU’s Gender Violence Prevention Program.
- Community Star, Helga Bauerly, a community advocate, will dance with pro Jerome Akubue to benefit GREAT Theatre’s ‘Girl Power via the Arts!’ Program.
- Community Star, Mandi Moon, Founder of The Good People, will dance with pro Steve Streng to benefit the Jugaad Leadership Program.
- Community Star, Chip Martin-Chaffee from CentraCare, will dance with pro David Deblieck to benefit The Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls.
- Community Star, Jeremy Salzburn from H&S Heating and Air Conditioning, will dance with pro Lisa Lawson to benefit The Beautiful Mind Project – MOSAIC.
- Community Star, Daniel Larson from St. Cloud Technical and Community College Foundation, will dance with pro Janell Missler to benefit SCTCC Women in Stem & Trades.
View pictures of each dancing couple by clicking here.
Sponsorships are also available. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact Carrie Abfalter at 320-257-9737 or [email protected] for more information.
For up-to-date information on the event, such as how to view the event, please visit the Women’s Fund Presents website at www.communitygiving.org/wfp22 and follow the Women’s Fund on Facebook @CMCFWOMENSFUND.
The Women’s Fund is an initiative of the Central Minnesota Community Foundation which is supported by CommunityGiving.
Since 2002, the Women’s Fund of the Central Minnesota Community Foundation has been dedicated to strengthening the community by improving the lives of women and girls. The Women’s Fund has granted over $1.6 million to support local programs in three core focus areas: girls age 10-18, women in transition and elder women.
The Central Minnesota Community Foundation (CMCF) attracts and administers charitable funds for the benefit of the local community. Since 1985, CMCF has grown to over $147.6 million in assets and awarded over $134.5 million in grants to non-profits. The CMCF is governed by a local board of directors and is a partner of CommunityGiving, which is a collaborative of community foundations united under a single framework to create efficiencies that maximize the impact of our donors. Collectively, CommunityGiving administers over 900 funds totaling nearly $201 million. Learn more at CommunityGiving.org/CentralMN.
