At their meeting last week, the Community Foundation for Crawford County Board of Trustees decided to INCREASE the amount being donated towards the #Giving2sday event from $25,000 to $35,000! That means that for every donation received, the second gift generated by the Foundation will be even larger! The more money raised for a fund, the larger piece of the $35,000 pie that fund will receive!
Every year The Community Foundation for Crawford County joins #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving held annually on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving (in the U.S.). This year’s event will occur on Tuesday, November 28th.
Crawford County residents are encouraged to go to https://tcf4cc.networkforgood.com. From that site, you can easily create your own fundraising page and use the templates provided to email or text contacts for donations, or post requests on Facebook. Participants are especially encouraged to send their fundraising requests to old friends and classmates who are from here and would have a vested interest in helping Crawford County. Any donations made on that website between now and November 28th will count towards the event, but checks must be dated November 28th to count.
And thanks to a $1,500 gift to the Foundation from OneIT, an additional $500 will be added to the top earning fund in one of each of three categories: agency funds, scholarship funds and the school funds. In addition to social media, collection sites for checks and cash will be set up all day at the Foundation’s office at 254 E. Mansfield St. in Bucyrus, and from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Cranberry Hills Grill & Pub in New Washington, Kroger’s in Bucyrus, Geyer’s in Galion and the public library in Crestline.
In 2016, The Community Foundation for Crawford County contributed over $600,000 in gifts, grants and scholarships right here in Crawford County. That was also the fifth year of the #GivingTuesday movement, and it raised nearly $168 million worldwide.
