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Community Foundation CEO Karen DuBois-Walton kicking off radiothon: "Urgent" $4M call.
New Haven is meeting a “moment of urgency” — and you can play a part.
You can do it by participating in a current 36-hour “Great Give” communal fundraising drive.
Around 500 nonprofits are jointly raising money and competing for prizes during that period as part of an annual communal fundraiser organized by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. It runs through 9 p.m. Thursday. Click here to learn about the different organizations’ work and to donate money.
WNHH FM is participating by holding a radiothon in which organization members come on air to read a poem or sing a song, then make their pitch for money. You can watch it here or here.
Community Foundation President and CEO Karen DuBois-Walton kicked off the radiothon Wednesday morning with an overview of this year’s Great Give, her first since becoming the foundation’s leader.
She said the goal is to raise $4 million overall to meet the current “moment of urgency” in New Haven and America: A moment in which already hard-working and cash-strapped nonprofits face new federal funding and policy threats to our ability to keep people housed, healthy, protected, fed, and clothed.
“This is a moment our nonprofits need us more than ever to be digging deep, and this is a community that has proven its ability to do that,” DuBois-Walton said, referencing an outpouring of support for the Great Give at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“This is another one of those moments where we’re feeling the pressure. We’re feeling greater need in community. Nonprofits are feeling constrained and limited in how they can respond based upon funding cuts. It’s a moment to really lift up. We bring some fun to it; we bring some healthy competition. In spirit, it’s about how we come together.”
Karen DuBois-Walton kicks off the radiothon.