giving for good bismarck

In partnership with supporters across the Bismarck region, we are fueling leading-edge technology, enhancing care and accelerating new breakthroughs. Along with patient programs and facilities like our NICU, our BeHEARD program and the Sanford Cancer Center in Bismarck.

Last year, we put $1.5 million in philanthropic gifts to work across the Bismarck region. Read more in the 2024 annual report.

Give for the Bismarck Region

Local Priorities

Philanthropy is an integral part of the care provided at Sanford Health. The Sanford Health Foundation in the Bismarck region plays a crucial role in supporting specific programming for patients and staff, upgrading essential equipment, and funding special projects tailored to meet the needs of our communities.

Children

The Sanford Children’s Hospital Bismarck supports local infants, kids and teens everyday through Child Life services to help kids cope with the fear and uncertainties of hospitalization, financial assistance to help families with costs not covered by insurance, lifesaving pediatric equipment like ventilators and monitors, and so much more.

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Pediatric Behavioral Health

We support children affected by mental illness by developing school-based curriculum and expanding behavioral health clinician support in schools, like this program at Simle Middle School, funding scholarships, internships and sponsorship opportunities in high-demand fields including social work and counseling, and so much more.

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Cancer

This year, hundreds of local patients count on the Sanford Cancer Center in Bismarck. Through philanthropy, we provide travel assistance for qualifying patients who drive significant distances for care, offer complimentary wigs and head coverings, upgrade equipment to offer access to lifesaving MRIs and 3D mammograms, and so much more.

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Leadership Connection

A monthly Bismarck region update from Todd Schaffer, MD, president & CEO of Sanford Bismarck.

April 29, 2025

Right now, our specialists at the Sanford Cancer Center in Bismarck are actively treating hundreds of local cancer patients, including 19 kids like Madelyn who are navigating a childhood cancer journey. A cancer diagnosis like Madelyn’s is scary for any family, but thanks to support from friends like you, we can continue to surround every cancer patient with comfort, hope and healing on their road to remission.

As the area’s largest, comprehensive nonprofit cancer center, philanthropy is at the center of everything we do. Here, the generosity of donors like you surround our patients and their families from the moment they walk through our doors by powering everything they need to get better, including:

Lifesaving equipment;
Patient care and family support programs like Nurse Navigation and complimentary wigs and head coverings; and
Leading-edge research and clinical trials

Thanks to your generosity, the Sanford Cancer Center has brought hope and healing to thousands of patients who are endlessly grateful. We’ve done so much together; yet there is still much to do. So in the coming months, we’ll share more about the growing cancer-related needs as well as our vision to further transform cancer care across our region.

Suffice it to say, there’s a lot of good things ahead.

Todd Schaffer, MD

Bismarck’s Signature Events

Below are a few of the signature events we host in the Bismarck region. To see more events in Bismarck, visit our calendar.

The Blueway GalaLearn More

The Great American Bike RaceLearn More

Blueway InvitationalLearn More

Get Involved through Fundraising

At Sanford Health, our doctors, researchers and caregivers are working to bring health, hope and healing to more than 1.2 million people across the Upper Midwest. With you on our team, we can accelerate our race to uncover new breakthroughs, develop new treatments and create meaningful programs that support patients and their families.

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