Care and Share Food Bank and Ting Internet try to raise 625,000 meals for “Colorado Gives Day”
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Today is Colorado's 14th annual Colorado Gives Day, the largest day of giving for nonprofit organizations.
Care and Share Food Bank is partnering with Match Sponsor Ting Internet this year. Together, they are challenging neighbors across southern Colorado to help raise more than 125 thousand dollars or 625 thousand meals.
The food bank CEO Nate Springer plans to spend the entire day in a forklift, thirty feet in the air, until that goal is reached.
Match Sponsor Ting Internet will match donations for up to twenty thousand dollars. By donating just one dollar, you can provide five meals.
Suppose Care and Share gets ten percent of Colorado Gives Day donations. In that case, they will receive ten percent of the one million dollar incentive helping fund provided by the Colorado Gives Foundation.
“We have an unbelievably kind and generous community who want to care for neighbors in need. So it’s a neat place to be. It's an easy place to live, as everyone knows. But this kind of campaign always amazes me with the kindness and generosity people have," said CEO of Care and Share Nate Springer.
The Colorado Gives Day is a 24-hour period of online giving. It's a movement to celebrate and encourage philanthropy throughout the state. The foundation has over thirty-four hundred non-profit organizations part of Colorado Gives Day.
If you want to give today and help Care and Share reach their goal, you can donate at this link.
“At Care and Share Food Bank, our mission is to make sure everyone in our Southern Colorado community has access to the nutritious food they need to thrive. Through your support, we were able to provide more than 19 million meals to our neighbors in need across 29 counties last year. Thanks to our friends at Ting Internet – every dollar donated will be matched up $20,000.”
Nate Springer, Care and Share Food Bank CEO.
