5,000 Happy 50th Birthday gifts for CCEF and Blessings
5,000 Happy 50th Birthday gifts for CCEF and Blessings
On February 26, 2019, I got a message from Citrus County Education Foundation Executive Director Shaunda Burdett saying, “My heart is overflowing with your birthday (donation) posts!!!! You past your goal!” That was our second goal of $750, the first was $500. This birthday I happen to be in a School Board meeting, at the break I heard from a dear friend who said they wanted to make a donation but as a challenge. They challenge me and those in social media if we could raise a total of $1,000, they would round up to $5,000. I posted the challenge and with in about two hours we exceeded the challenge, thereby securing the moneys and collectively raising over $5,000 for Citrus County Education Foundation and Citrus Blessings.
CCEF and Blessings informed me they received the $4,000 check and Facebook will issue the remainder, in addition to some individual checks I received. In the end we raised a total of $5,110.00!!
Thank you to all the many people that donated, shared, and supported this endeavor.
Thomas
Learn more about CCEF & Blessings
Citrus Blessings – http://citruscountyblessings.org/
Our “Blessings” program is dedicated to silencing the weekend hunger of local children in need. Each week during the school year participants in the program receive a bag of food to take home for the weekend. Every Friday 1,650 local students go home with a backpack full of “Blessings” food to fill the gap over the weekend and school breaks.
Citrus County Education Foundation – https://www.citruseducation.org/
The mission of the Citrus County Education Foundation is to provide resources to support Citrus County Schools to enhance the quality for present and future generations. “Funding Our Future” is hardly just our newest tagline. Diminishing budgets and the times we live in have called for greater grassroots support and more extensive community involvement. We must advocate, and provide, for children in our public schools!
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