The 2007-08 Post-News Season to Share campaign showed that the spirit of giving is alive and well, raising a record $2,197,500 for distribution to local nonprofit agencies.
“It is thanks to the incredible generosity of our community that Season to Share is able to distribute more than $2 million this year,” said Harry Whipple, president and chief executive of the Denver Newspaper Agency.
This is the first year Season to Share has exceeded the $2 million mark.
Campaign organizers attribute the record figure to a 13.6 percent increase in local giving as well as a change in the matching-fund program by the McCormick Tribune Foundation. Previously, McCormick would match 50 cents per dollar raised, up to $1 million. That cap was lifted for this year’s campaign.
Grants will be made in April to local agencies that serve the homeless, hungry, children and medically indigent.
Post-News Season to Share is a charitable program of Post-News Community, the community-relations arm of the Denver Newspaper Agency. The Denver Newspaper Agency and the McCormick Tribune Foundation pay the administrative costs of the campaign so that 100 percent of donations goes to grant recipients.
Jenel Stelton-Holtmeier: 303-954-1661 or jsteltonholtmeier@denverpost.com
