Kid Pan Alley, WCDS, Food Pantry top recipients of Give Local
The 37 non-profits organizations in Rappahannock County that participated in last week’s Give Local Piedmont 2019 are certainly appreciative to its host Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, which has helped them raise an impressive unofficial sum of $222,428.
NPCF Executive Director Jane Bowling-Wilson, who resides here in Rappahannock, said the sixth annual 24-hour Day of Giving raised more than $893,00 for 177 participating regional nonprofits in this county, as well as Madison, Culpeper and Fauquier counties. 2019 has turned out to be a record year in both donations and number of nonprofit organizations participating. The highest single personal donation was $12,000.
Included in the $893,000 is a $100,000 donation from the PATH Foundation that is distributed proportionately among all participating nonprofits. Additionally, high school seniors in 8 different public and independent schools in Rappahannock, Culpeper and Fauquier counties also donated to nonprofits through a program that introduces young people to philanthropy, supported by the PATH Foundation.
While the official numbers are still two or more weeks away, here’s what was raised by our Rappahannock County non-profits: ▶ Kid Pan Alley: $36,333 ▶ Wakefield Country Day School: $25,554 ▶ Rappahannock Food Pantry: $20,152 ▶ RappCats: $14,142 ▶ Sperryville Volunteer Rescue Squad: $13,523 ▶ Rappahannock Animal Welfare League: $11,888 ▶ Child Care & Learning Center: $8,837 ▶ For the Cats’ Sake: $8,063 ▶ Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection: $7,219 ▶ Belle Meade Montessori School: $6,764 ▶ Rappahannock Benevolent Fund: $6,089 ▶ Rappahannock County High School Band Boosters: $5,889 ▶ The Shenandoah National Park Trust: $,5,665 ▶ Rapp at Home: $5,250 ▶ Front Royal Christian School: $4,504 ▶ Rapp Nature Camp: $4,082 ▶ Friends of the Rappahannock County Library: $3,671 ▶ Headwaters: $3,510 ▶ Rappahannock Association for Arts and Community: $3,502 ▶ Washington Volunteer Fire and Rescue: $3,340 ▶ Rappahannock Historical Society: $3,320 ▶ RappU: $2,816 ▶ Virginia Working Landscape: $2,646 ▶ Foothills Forum: $2,515 ▶ Hearthstone School: $2,069 ▶ Native Wildlife Rescue: $1,848 ▶ Rappahannock County Farm Tour: $1,626 ▶ Rappahannock County Garden Club: $1,591 ▶ Scrabble School Preservation Foundation: $1,347 ▶ RappFLOW: $1,195 ▶ Castleton Community Fire Company: $991 ▶ Rappahannock County Lions Club Foundation: $726 ▶ DOGS-East: $616 ▶ Living Sky Foundation: $403 ▶ Rappahannock County 4-H/ Virginia Tech Foundation: $328 ▶ Rappahannock Citizens for Community Empowerment: $206 ▶ Rappahannock Culpeper Baseball: $137
“We still need to reconcile and finalize all credit card totals, then distribute the PATH $100k,” notes Dede McClure, community services manager for the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation. “We also have $2,000 in prizes left to award and the deadline for entry for those prizes is May 17.”
NPCF serves Rappahannock, Culpeper, Fauquier, and Madison counties. Established in 2000, it joins over 800 other U.S. community foundations as one of the fastest growing sectors of American philanthropy.