Benefactor Stories

Penny and Bill George learned the importance of caring for the mind, body and spirit firsthand. Penny’s experience inspired a gift to Mayo Clinic that[...]

Stephen and Barbara Slaggie are pillars of their communities in Minnesota and in Florida.

Bill and his wife, Carolyn, are enthusiastic supporters of access to education and have focused their philanthropy on higher learning. The Franke family’s transformative gift[...]

Rajeev Chaudhry, M.B.B.S., is focused on creating new solutions for patient care through technological innovations. When one of his projects that helps care teams catch[...]

The Baan family unexpectedly needed to separate one winter when traveling on vacation. Their party was so large — parents, brothers, sisters, spouses, kids —[...]

Long before they met, Susan and Tom Gus listened — and were shaped — by their fathers’ advice. For Susan, it was the importance of[...]

Editor's Note: Sylvan C. Herman, whose visionary philanthropy established the John E. Herman Home and Treatment Facility at Mayo Clinic, passed away on October 21,[...]

As the door opens into Lou and Laurie Appignani’s home, Miami seems a world away. Most striking is a precisely arranged collection of ceremonial masks from their visits to Papua New Guinea in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Each mask has its own story — stories that Lou happily shares.

There’s no place quite like home, and as Mark Deyo-Svendsen, M.D., and his spouse, Beverly, have found, there are no people quite like those at[...]

Shrill screams caused Berneice Baumann to stop what she was doing and rush into the kitchen. She found her 1-year-old son, Duane, sitting on the[...]

In a few special places in the world, time slows to a standstill. The Haub family has found one of these places: a working ranch[...]

As business leaders, Russ and Kathy Van Cleve understand the importance of timing. As patients, they appreciate the Mayo Clinic Model of Care. As philanthropists,[...]