We are ready for the 2023 edition of one of our community’s greatest annual events and we need your help. For more than a dozen years, the Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree has been Adams County’s day of giving: the day when everyone in the community comes together to learn about local nonprofits and give them a financial boost.
The Giving Spree works because of donors like you who give now and give big.
In each of the last two years our Giving Spree earned the distinction of being the largest per capita giving day in the USA. Adams Countians gave more than $3 million to support 100 nonprofits in 2021 and again in 2022. Let’s break records again in 2023!
We’re keeping the special Giving Spree features of the last two years: the giving options to “drop it off, mail it in, or give online.” Plus, we’ll once again host a live Giving Spree event on November 9 from 3 pm to 7pm at the Gettysburg Area Middle School, where you can meet up with 100 the nonprofits you love best and discover some new favorites or use our convenient drop off lane for quick curb-side giving.
We make it easy for you to give to multiple nonprofits with one gift by check, credit card, or securities. If you choose to give with a qualified charitable distribution from your IRA, please be sure your IRA administrator knows the gift is made to the Adams County Community Foundation and allow time for your gift to arrive.
Past donors received their Giving Spree Donation Form in the mail, but anyone can download the Donor Guide and Donation Form here or through participating nonprofits.
Donors decide how each gift they make is used by the nonprofits they support with a checkbox on the Donation Form. A “today” gift goes directly to the organization for its immediate use. A “forever” gift is added to your favorite nonprofits’ endowment, to provide an annual grant to the nonprofit for years and decades to come. This year we’re offering an additional $12,000 in endowment prizes to the nonprofits that see the biggest percentage increases in their forever gifts through this year’s Giving Spree.
Nonprofits pay nothing to participate, and we increase donor gifts by providing an incentive match with each gift. Click here to download our Donor Guide to see if your favorite nonprofits are participating or learn more about the nonprofits who are.
How can we help you be a part of this year’s event? We’d like to know. Contact me at rserpe@adamscountycf.org or 717-337-0060.
Ralph Serpe is president & CEO of the Adams County Community Foundation, the producers of the Adams County Community Foundation Giving Spree. Learn more at www. ACCFGivingSpree.org