BridgeLink

Our Service Providers rely on BridgeLink to help facilitate their mission through collaborative relationships with Supporting Organizations. As these Service Providers seek to meet the needs of others in Anoka County they benefit from the donation of volunteers, funding, products, and services.

BridgeLink creates collaborative relationships between Supporting Organizations from the Business Community and Faith Community and its Service Providers. It does this by helping to plan service events, communicating resource needs, and coordinating the programming and scheduling of the resources necessary to make these service events successful. BridgeLink seeks to find the best fit for a Supporting Organization so that the collaborative effort becomes a win-win for both the supporting business or faith community and the Service Provider.

The following Supporting Organizations have collaborative relationships with BridgeLink and they make our Service Providers more successful. Click here to see some of their Collaboration Stories. For most of the following, if you click on the name of the organization in the description this will take you to their website for further information.

 

The Collaborative Supporting Organizations of BridgeLink Are:

 

Supporting Businesses

Solbrekk 

Solbrekk provides business technology solutions throughout the Twin Cities area. Several members of their executive team came to an event sponsored by Business Leadership Forum and heard a story of a creative collaboration between a local non profit Service Provider and a local for profit business. They then came to BridgeLink with the idea of mobilizing used computers from their clients for use by the collaborating Service Providers of BridgeLink. BridgeLink has since found volunteers to refurbish these computers for use at Alexandra House and other non profits.

 

Marketplace Home Mortgage

Marketplace Home Mortgage is an outstanding mortgage banker firm serving the lending needs of real estate professionals, builders and individual homebuyers throughout Minnesota. Through her relationship with Business Leadership Forum, one of Marketplace's mortgage bankers got a vision for how her office could serve theme dinners at Alexandra House. It wasn't long before she was able to assemble a team. After the first event, her manager replied, "When can we do that again?"

 

 

Chambers of Commerce

 

Anoka Area Chamber of Commerce

The Anoka Area Chamber of Commerce is an organization for the purpose of advancing the commercial, industrial, civic and general interest of the Cities of Andover, Anoka, Champlin, Dayton, Ramsey and St. Francis. BridgeLink is pleased to work cooperatively with this Chamber.

Metro North Chamber of Commerce

 

MetroNorth Chamber of Commerce advocates and promotes business in the northern metropolitan trade area, strengthening our community. BridgeLink is also pleased to work cooperatively with this Chamber.

 

 

Supporting Faith Communities

 

Constance Free Church

 

Constance Free Church in Andover, is the faith community that launched BridgeLink as a separate entity in 2005. Click here to read more about Our History. Through several donated staff members and other annual funding, Constance is making a significant financial investment in the operation and future of BridgeLink. In addition, over 250 individuals, or about one third of the active adults of Constance have volunteered outside the walls of the church in various events and service projects of all of our Service Providers. The vision of Constance to be a Church of Influence in Anoka County is facilitated in part by the collaborative efforts of BridgeLink.

 

Horizons Community Church

Horizons Community Church is a very strategic, growing faith community in Ham Lake. It has supported the efforts of BridgeLink through its involvement with Business Leadership Forum (BLF) over the past couple of years. A member of the Horizons Management Team has served on the BLF planning team and a number of business leaders from the Horizons faith community have attended our BLF breakfasts. Other possibilities for collaboration are part of an ongoing dialogue between the leadership of both organizations.