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Big Give 2020 now underway
The Voice of Seguin Today
Residents encouraged to give to favorite non-profits By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- Get ready to give! Today marks the Big Give 2020. The online day for giving is in support of all the nonprofit organizations who even throughout this pandemic have worked 24/7 to still provide services to all of our families. Leading the effort for the San Antonio region is Scott McAninch, the CEO of The NonProfit Council. McAninch says the day of giving, which began at midnight, will continue today until 11:59 p.m. He says over the last six years, over $25 million has been given to area non-profits including many of those here in Guadalupe County. McAninch says only those IRSapproved and compliant 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations located within SA’s 15 county service area can participate in today’s Big Give. “And, what it is it’s just a day to celebrate non-profits and show awareness of all the work that they do and we have over 500 of them on the BigGiveSA.org website to
choose from and search and look our site to the non-profit of their choice and lands for and it’s also a fundraiser,” said in their bank account within seven days and those McAninch. funds are critical because they are able to use those immediately for whatever needs are most pressing at McAninch says 2020, no doubt, the time. They are unrestrictive dollars and those are has been tough on many of the really really critical for non-profits,” said McAninch. non-profits that operate in the community. He says if there was ever a time to give, it would be now. “Now, more than ever, this year is so much of a greater need for the non-profits. We originally had our day scheduled in March and had to postpone it due to the closures in the community and all non-profit fundraising events in person were cancelled at that time so we have surveyed our local non-profits of just over 200 members of the Council and they have told us that many of them have reported between 20 and 40 percent losses in individual giving so far this year and that is all tied to those in person fundraisers that were cancelled. So, this is an opportunity for those donors who have not given or maybe want to continue to support non-profits to come to the website virtually and give any amount of donation they can to their favorite non-profit and that’s as little as $10 on up can be given out and those funds go directly through
Joining Guadalupe in the list of counties are Bexar, Comal, Wilson, Karnes, Medina, Kendall, Kerr, Uvalde, Real, Atascosa, Gonzales, Gillespie, Bandera and Frio. See BIG GIVE, page 2
TruLight127 Ministries is among the non-profit agencies who will be seeking donations during today’s Big Give SA 2020 event. The foster group home, The Village, located in Seguin will be seeking contributions for its current operation as well as for two brand new homes and a long-range plan for the construction of a new recreation center. Its goal will be to raise $25,000 during today’s online event.
Warren Zerr 830-214-3219