Lasting Imprint

03/25/2026

Summer will be here before we know it!

We'd love for you to join us for a fun night of Mankato Moondogs baseball on June 27th! Tickets purchased also includes a meal!

Lasting Imprint will receive a portion of the ticket cost so we can continue to serve our families and advance our mission.

Thank you for supporting this fundraising campaign. Details are listed below!

03/20/2026

Lasting Imprint, along with fellow heart warriors and families, knows how important it is to advocate for, not only younger children, but also our heart warriors who are becoming adults. We are thankful for the help from Babs Freeman who came up with a very important survey. Below you can read more about her and what prompted this. In the comments you will find the survey. The more people who take the time to complete it the better!

Hi! I'm Babs Freeman. You may have read my heart story on this page before or your child received a Cuddle Bear book and bear when I did a book drive a few years ago for Lasting Imprint!

I am a CHD warrior and WomenHeart champion and through that a strong advocate for people just like me! WomenHeart is a non profit volunteer organization of all women with heart disease promoting education, prevention and advocacy for heart disease. My passion is to help those who have Congenital Heart Diseases (CHDs) I was born with Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) and struggled throughout the years, specifically my teen years, on how to cope with my CHD. I’ve been in your shoes before. I know how much it can take out of you when dealing with your CHD, physically, emotionally and mentally!

I'm working on a project through both U of M (their Launch program) and Mayo Clinic to develop a questionnaire for both teens with CHD and their parents to help them with their mental health. This short survey will help with base research for this project. Thank you for taking the time to doing this survey. Feel free to email me at bubblybabs222@yahoo.com if you want to follow up with any of the questions or message me on Facebook. I am more than happy to help!

03/07/2026

This will be an amazing event tomorrow! We wish our organization could be there, but hope everyone attending has a great time!

03/03/2026

Today is World Birth Defects Day. CHD is the #1 birth defect, affecting 1% (40,000) newborns each year. ❤️💙

02/28/2026

As heart month wraps up, Lasting Imprint is excited to announce a new partnership with Scratch Golf, a program developed by the Congenital Heart Alliance of Cincinnati!

As a new sponsor for the program, Lasting Imprint heart warriors have an opportunity to secure a registration spot with Scratch Golf.

As many of you know, finding activities that are safe for our heart warriors to participate in can be challenging. Scratch Golf was developed with pediatric heart patients in mind. This program not only teaches them how to play golf, a sport they can safely play into adulthood, but will also connect them with kids just like them. Registrants also have the chance to continue their lessons at another First Tee golf camp during the summer.

More details are included in the graphics below. Please reach out to staff@lastingimprint.org for details and information on how to register!

02/14/2026

Happy Valentine's Day! We hope on this last day of CHD Awareness Week that you all feel filled up and motivated to continue the fight for CHD. The week may end, but striving for more research and better results doesn't!

Drop a heart in the comments that matches what condition you or your child have been diagnosed with. If you don't see your diagnosis (we know there are many) comment with what it is!

02/13/2026

One of our board members got some great photos of Eide Bailly Tower lit up red and blue!

If you're in the Mankato area it will be lit through the 14th!

Thank you to CORE Business Group for going the extra mile for CHD Awareness!

02/11/2026

Lasting Imprint not only provides AEDs to businesses and organizations that need them, we also provide hospital kits for families that are in-patient at St Mary's in Rochester and at the U of M.

Our kits include a variety of items that families might find helpful and comforting during a hospital stay.

A recent grant through Consolidated Communications allowed us to purchase several new items, as well as replenish some existing things.

We wish we could have our kits available at more locations, but if you ever find yourself in need of one, don't hesitate to contact us!

Thank you Consolidated Communications for helping us support our heart families!

02/10/2026

The Mankato Clinic Foundation is proud to support Lasting Imprint, an organization committed to fighting congenital heart defects (CHD). Lasting Imprint donated an AED machine to Hillside Church, where members received CPR and AED training.

02/10/2026

We kicked off CHD Awareness week in the best way on Saturday!

Thanks to a grant from the Mankato Clinic Foundation, Lasting Imprint was able provide both an AED and training to Hillside Church in Mankato.

We are so glad we can help provide AEDs to locations in our communities that are in need of them.

Thank you Kristen Thomas for providing the training and to Mankato Clinic for the grant opportunity!

02/08/2026

02/08/2026

It's officially CHD Awareness Week! We made the trek up to Minneapolis to get a few photos of the 35W bridge.

It's incredible to see and amazing to know it's all in honor of our heart warriors and angels. Thank you MNDOT!

Here's to a great week of celebrating our warriors and remembering our angels
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