Day of Giving and Unity Fundraiser Nets Over $500,000 for Local Nonprofits.
Whitefish Community Foundation and Flathead Community Foundation awarded $1,000 matching grants to 78 different charities.
BY ANDY VIANO // MAY 11, 2020
More than 1,300 donors helped raise a total of $561,707 for 78 different Northwest Montana nonprofits during a 28-hour fundraiser on May 5-6.
Not too shabby for a first try.
The Day of Giving and Unity — an initiative launched in response to the coronavirus outbreak by the same group that organizes Giving Tuesday the week after Thanksgiving every year — was May 5, and in Northwest Montana two foundations partnered together, while adding a second day, to support local charities. The result was a resounding success, the organizers say, and the combination of the Whitefish Community Foundation (WCF) and Flathead Community Foundation helped bring far-flung nonprofits from throughout Northwest Montana together beneath one banner.
