
10th Annual Fundraising Gala
October 12th, 2025
Event Details
Location: Mayo Clinic Event Center 1 Civic Center Plaza Mankato, MN 56001
Social Hour Begins at 5:00 PM
Elegant Dinner Served at 6:00 PM
Program at 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Meet the Gala’s Featured Speaker, Katie Vidmar
Changing Lives through Knowledge and Hope
Katie E. Vidmar, MTS is former Pregnancy Center Executive Director and Body Literacy and Fertility Awareness Educator from North Dakota. Katie holds a B.S. in Pre-Medicine/Liberal Arts from the University of North Dakota and a Masters in Theological Studies in Biotechnology and Ethics from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America. She is former FOCUS missionary, a trained facilitator with ENDOW (Educating on the Nature and Dignity of Women) and is an active Fertility Awareness instructor in the Billings Ovulation Method. She speaks nationally on the future of the pregnancy center movement Post-Roe, and is passionate about equipping pregnancy centers to meet unplanned pregnancy upstream, effectively disrupting the abortion industry by raising up a generation who have no need for its services.
Through shocking truths and engaging stories, Katie casts an inspiring vision for how pregnancy centers can begin influencing the lives of young men and women away from disease, unplanned pregnancy, and abortion, and instead toward health, wholeness, an intact family and a protected future. Katie is the creator of Elevate, a training designed to provide healthcare professionals with the knowledge and actionable tools they need to provide their patients a shallow-entry to Body Literacy, Cycle Tracking, Fertility Awareness, and root-cause healing for menstrual health problems. She is also the creator of Cycle Wise, an on-demand Body Literacy series on Bright Course, the co-author of Cycle Aware, a Body Literacy classroom curriculum for middle school. She currently serves as the Director of Programs for Natural Womanhood, a non-profit dedicated to ensuring that every young woman receives the knowledge of her body that is her birthright. She lives in Bismarck ND with her husband and family.
Amira & Christian’s Story
“It’s all from the heart… they care about both us and this child that’s on the way”
At Options, we offer hope and unconditional support in times when couples may be facing one of the most difficult decisions of their lives. Amira and Christian’s story is a wonderful testament to the difference a spark of hope can make.
Real Essentials
Along with prenatal, parenting, fatherhood, coparenting and life skills education, Options Mankato teaches Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) and equips individuals with the skills they need to develop healthy relationships. Options Mankato uses an evidence based SRA curriculum called REAL Essentials with clients at the center and with groups through community outreach. See the profound impact these fun, engaging lessons have on our youth when Options Mankato teaches in the classroom.