Ecumen Welcomes Nine Super Summer Interns
Ecumen is thrilled to have nine talented interns join us this summer.
Ecumen Considers Operating Skyway Senior Center in Minneapolis
Ecumen is exploring the possiblitity of assuming operation of the financially strapped downtown Minneapolis Skyway Senior Center.
Revisiting the Rescued Ecumen Coyote
If you’re wondering how the rescued Ecumen coyote is doing, here’s your update.
85-Year-Old Woman Celebrates Her Birthday with Snow Angels
One woman's joy while making a snow angel has put smiles on the faces of over one million viewers. 85-year-old Betty Ritchie's family filmed her experiencing joy that only a child-like activity, like playing in the snow can bring. Ritchie's daughter stated, "She was the kind of mom who always went sled riding with us, she always went swimming with us. She wasn't the kind of mom who just sat around. And every time it would snow she'd say 'Come on, we'll make snow angels.' That's just what we always did. We still do, even us big kids." View the video that is sure spread joy here.
Photo: Sherry Proper Spangler / Facebook
An Emergency Home and Life-Affirming Rescue at the Ecumen Home Office
You will find nothing in Ecumen’s mission statement about coyotes. But Ecumen employees are empowered to make judgment calls — especially compassionate ones.
Ecumen Holiday Giving Campaign
The Ecumen Home Office conducted its annual Holiday Giving Campaign to collect gifts for Ecumen residents. Tags with items residents want are placed on the lobby Christmas tree, and employees buy those gifts for the residents.
This year, gifts were delivered to Ecumen Prairie Lodge in Brooklyn Center and Ecumen Lakeview Commons in Maplewood by the Sales & Marketing and Business Development team, pictured here. (From left to right Mark Lucas, Jacque Milm, Angi Moore, Matt McNeill, Anne Stanfield, Julie Murray and Glory Hill, Housing Director at Ecumen Lakeview Commons.)
Below, Julie Murray, Chief Business Development Officer and SVP of Sales and Marketing, chats with Prairie Lodge residents Dorothy and Patty.
97-Year-Old Receives Honorary Diploma
Margaret Bekema was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1936, but life had other plans.
Last Week's Top 5 Blog Posts - April 28
In case you missed them, here are the blog posts our online visitors found most intereesting last week:
Ecumen's Corporate HR Team Takes Big Lessons from an Afternoon at Feed My Starving Children
Ecumen Job Openings Now on Twitter
Honor: Seven Teachings on a Life Well-Lived from Sen. Nancy Brataas and Her Daughter Anne
Thankful Family Honors Grand Village Caregivers
Ecumen Prairie Lodge: Anisah's Rich, Full Life (Video)
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