Culture
Blankets for Kids – A Fallonthropy Project
Seven employees from Finance and Talent Resources pooled their Fallonthropy dollars together in order to purchase flannel to make tie blankets. We got together on a Friday during the holiday season and spent the day cutting and tying over $1,500 worth of fabric that ended up being on sale for $700. The … Continue reading
Fallon Kids’ Holiday Party 2011
For the past 15 years the first Saturday of December has been the Fallon Kids’ Holiday Party at the Mall of America. Santa greeted around 190 children and parents this December 3rd at the Great Room door in his snowman-patterned long-sleeved shirt and the usual beard. Leo asked, “Is that the real … Continue reading
Fallon Annual Halloween Party
Once again little Fallonites got a chance to come into the office with their parents to trick or treat in a safe, friendly environment. We started out with a breakfast in the lobby, and then let the little dinosaurs, chickens, gorillas, princesses, piggies and other costumed characters loose on our three floors … Continue reading
Red Eye Theater visits Fallon
Minneapolis’s own Red Eye Theater graced the Fallon lobby recently with a special excerpt from their currently running Hunter Gatherers. The play is a dark but comical tale of two couples who are longtime friends and who meet annually to celebrate their shared wedding anniversaries. Each struggles with finding a sense of … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Einar Johnson.
Today, our long-time Director of Party Innovation turns 73-years old. Take a moment and drop the DoPI a well-earned congratulations. He may even allow you to “friend” him on Facebook.
The AIDS Ride from a Fallonite’s view
When I signed up for the MN AIDS ride I was nervous, unprepared and drunk. But 300+ miles and three and a half days later, I was still able to walk and my (now sober) mind recemented how important this cause truly is to me. See, I don’t have AIDS, but a … Continue reading
Minnesota: A Diamond in the Rough
The Twin Cities have won an abundance of accolades in the last year: Top 10 Summer Trips, National Geographic; Healthiest City, USA Today; Gayest City, The Advocate; Best City for Finding Employment, Forbes; and most coveted of all, Most Hipster State, BuzzFeed. However, the 2011 Fallon Interns found three accolades left for … Continue reading
Fallon represents at the Warrior Dash
What is covered in mud, wears a viking helmet, and isn’t afraid of a little barbed wire? A Fallon Warrior, of course. Last weekend five Fallonites–Nick Bondeson, Joe Haight, Matt Lund, Aki Spicer, and Marty Wetherall–became Fallon Warriors by completing the mud-crawling, fire-leaping, run from Hell known as the Warrior Dash. The … Continue reading
Dreamcatchers: The Patagonia
What’s Dreamcatchers? Ask children to tell you about their dreams, and they can hardly catch their breath. But something happens along the way—dreams get swallowed by duty, or lost in life’s struggles. Since 2001, Fallon has been encouraging our own to dream through a program called Dream Catchers. The idea is simple. … Continue reading
CDF Beat the Odds Celebration Scholarship Recipients
School is out for the summer, and students are free from thoughts of homework for three full months. Of course, at the end of those three months, some students will be more excited to return to school than others. Some will look forward to beginning junior high, some will anticipate life in … Continue reading