DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

Standard Process Donates Additional $750,000 to Northwestern
Donation Enables Development of Nutrition Program

Standard Process, a whole foods supplement company located in Palmyra, Wis. donated $750,000 to Northwestern Health Sciences University in the fall of 2006.

The gift was used to establish an endowed faculty chair position and provide funding to a new master’s degree program in clinical nutrition. The donation for the nutrition program comes in addition to the $250,000 donation previously given by Standard Process for Northwestern’s Standard Process Healing Garden. The donations from the company now total more than $1 million.

“Charles DuBois, president and CEO of Standard Process, is committed to nutrition and higher education, natural health care information and the chiropractic profession,” says Mark Zeigler, DC, president of Northwestern. “He is eager to enhance and support nutritional education in our institution, especially whole foods supplementation.”

“Standard Process is pleased to support Northwestern as they build their nutrition program,” explains DuBois. “Incorporating nutrition into the other natural health programs offered at the University - chiropractic, Oriental medicine, massage therapy and acupuncture – will benefit the students as well as the patients they treat in years to come,”he adds.

Chiropractic care has utilized nutritional science for a long time. “Nutrition was taught in chiropractic schools long before it was taught in medical schools,” explains Charles Sawyer, DC, senior vice president at Northwestern. “The disciplines have a long-standing relationship.”

The deep connection between Standard Process and the chiropractic profession led to a relationship between the company and Northwestern. DuBois wanted to support chiropractic education, and had an interest in supporting a clinical master’s nutrition program in a chiropractic school. According to Dr. Zeigler, “Northwestern’s proven leadership in the chiropractic profession, the success of our alumni, our work ethic, commitment, and our common Midwestern values, all added up to be an institution that Standard Process was interested in supporting.”

“With the endowed nutrition chair at Northwestern, a lasting relationship between institutions has been established,” says DuBois. “This is the foundation of an educational program that will reinforce the value of nutrition and whole food supplements. We are pleased to be part of this as it will shape the expectations of nutritional education and the future of wellness practitioners in the health care field.”

Classes in the clinical master’s nutrition program began January 2009. “We are privileged to partner with such dedicated people in the industry,” says Dr. Zeigler. “Standard Process has been very generous to the chiropractic profession and to Northwestern in particular. We are lucky to work with Mr. Dubois.”

The Greenawalt Legacy: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Kent Greenawalt, president and CEO of Foot Levelers, Inc., announced recently that Foot Levelers will extend a $500,000 challenge grant to the Northwestern community in addition to his recent $1 million donation. He announced at the Stars Among Us Gala in November 2008 that, “Foot Levelers is going to put forth a $500,000 challenge. For every dollar you give Northwestern, we will match it up to $500,000.” He went on to say, “Isn’t it the right thing to do to support an institution? What better investment can you make than in the mind of a young person?”

Greenawalt has a long history of giving to Northwestern. In 1989, his company, Foot Levelers, founded by Kent’s father Monte Greenawalt, donated $450,000 to fund Northwestern’s Greenawalt Research Chair. Six years later, Foot Levelers provided another $410,000 grant to fund the Greenawalt Library. The Monte Greenawalt Foundation also donated $1 million to Northwestern in 2007, including a $500,000 gift and a $500,000 challenge grant which helped fund the Wolfe-Harris Center for Excellence.

Greenawalt takes pride in the institution that he has supported so passionately. “I can think back 25-30 years and say, ‘Wow, have we done something great!’” says Greenawalt. “Personally,” he says, “I am most proud of the people here, because the people make it happen.”

The people at Northwestern have been able to “make it happen” partly because of the generous donations Greenawalt has given to the University over the years. According to Mark Zeigler, DC, president of Northwestern, “Greenawalt’s support has been significant in our ability to sustain program quality based on excellence.”

The funds for the current challenge grant will go toward the Capital Campaign. Dr. Zeigler says, “This donation will help us to continue to provide students with the best possible education in a marketplace that demands successful students.”