St. Baldrick’s brings in $170,000+
Basin Electric's event is currently the 22nd highest grossing event worldwide this year for St. Baldrick’s, which funds children’s cancer research and fellowships.
Dakota Gasification Company
- April 23, 2011
It’s been a record setting year for Basin Electric's fourth annual St. Baldrick's event held March 17.
"We didn't just meet our fundraising goal, we surpassed it by more than $20,000," said Emily McKay, Basin Electric's event planner/charitable giving coordinator. As of April 21, the event has raised more than $170,600. It's currently the 22nd highest grossing event worldwide this year for St. Baldrick’s, which funds children’s cancer research and fellowships.
"It was a community effort," McKay said. "The success of the event can be attributed to the dedicated volunteers and partnering businesses who put the time, energy and dollars into it." This year, Basin Electric along with MDU Resources Group, National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC), Medcenter One, Kadrmas Lee & Jackson, the Bismarck-Mandan YP Network and Spa D’Athena jointly hosted the event at Bismarck State College’s National Energy Center of Excellence. Tandem events were also held at other facilities.
More than 150 volunteers either shaved their head or cut their hair for Locks of Love or Pantene's Beautiful Lengths. In the four years Basin Electric has hosted the event, more than 600 volunteers have lost their locks raising more than half a million dollars for children’s cancer research.
Dakota Gasification Company, a major subsidiary of Basin Electric Power Cooperative, held a "Shave a Life" event at the Great Plains Synfuels Plant near Beulah, ND, on March 11. Six Synfuels Plant employees and an employee’s son have raised more than $5,250 for childhood cancer research this year.
Headquarters
1600 E. Interstate Ave.
PO Box 5540
Bismarck, ND 58506-5540 USA
701.221.4400
Great Plains Synfuels Plant
420 County Road 26
Beulah, ND 58523-9400 USA
701.873.2100
