A donation is made at the Mill Creek Pub’s Give More 24! event last year.
Photos courtesy of Give More 24!
Community Foundation staff and volunteers kick off last year’s Give More 24! event.
Southwest Washington’s fourth annual virtual fundraiser is set for Thursday, Sept. 21, and organizers are hoping to hit $1 million during the 24-hour period.
Give More 24! was founded by the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington. It runs for 24 hours straight on the Give More 24! website.
As usual, contributors can choose from 132 local nonprofits serving Clark, Cowlitz or Skamania counties.
The nonprofits fall into 10 categories: animals, arts and culture, community improvement, education, environment, health, housing, hunger, social services and youth development.
The money donated won’t be all the nonprofits receive, according to organizers.
When the charitable contributions are made through the Give More 24! website, they get a boost from matching money.
“Gifts will also go a little further thanks to a $30,000 stretch pool, $15,000 in nonprofit prizes and additional matching gifts for certain participating nonprofits,” the Give More 24! news release reads. “The stretch pool benefits every participating nonprofit by adding a small percentage to each dollar given while matching funds benefit a single nonprofit through a one-to-one match. More information about the prizes and what it takes to win one for a nonprofit can be found on the website.”
Along with raising $1 million, Give More 24! hopes to engage over 4,000 donors.
$920,000 was raised last year from 3,062 donors. Organizers report that gifts came from 41 different states in the U.S., and they even received a donation from Melbourne, Australia.
Organizers said that over 1,000 donors from last year have said they’ve given to a new nonprofit they discovered through Give More 24!
Jennifer Rhoads, president of the Community Foundation, said in the news release that this event introduces people to new nonprofits, which gets them excited about giving.
“This event is all about what inspires us to give and bring others along with us,” she said. “It’s relationships — in this case taking the form of social networks—that allow us to make a larger impact on our region and the causes we care about.”
