Wow St. Louis, way to give!!
Yesterday was the second annual #GivingTuesday, and you all made us proud.
St. Louisans rallied around our social media efforts yesterday and made @STLFoodbank the number two Twitter trend in our region!
Plus, the number of online gifts we received through our website yesterday more than doubled the number we received last year on #GivingTuesday!
Even better, the online funds donated yesterday through www.stlfoodbank.org was more than the amount of gifts we received in the previous four years combined on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving!
On our website alone, we received $5,020 in donations! That’s almost twice as much as last year! We’re grateful to Gamlin Whiskey House and Sub Zero Vodka Bar for offering up dinner for four people at their restaurants for anyone that made an online donation through our #GivingTuesday webpage.
Yesterday, 38 folks became first-time donors through the Foodbank website. That is very exciting!
Thanks to Chris Sommers, co-founder of Pi Pizzeria and Givver, for coming up with a terrific idea for fundraising on #GivingTuesday.
Every donor who made a #GivingTuesday donation of $10 or more to the Foodbank through Givver received a free Pi pizza!
Thanks to Pi, Chris, the Foodbank Social Media Avengers, and everyone who donated, tweeted and spread the word! And thanks to Cindy Levin for posting an #unselfie – a good deed version of the popular #selfie – of her acts of generosity on #GivingTuesday!
And a special thanks to St. Louis on the Air for hosting our Ryan Farmer in their segment on #GivingTuesday! Check it out: https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/st-louis-participates-givingtuesday
By Bethany Prange
Communications coordinator at the St. Louis Area Foodbank
