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Kara Gallinger with the Bozeman Area Community Foundation helps donors fill out their donations using portable tablets at Heyday Gift Shop in Bozeman, where participants were treated to mimosas and tarts as part of the celebrations for Give Big Gallatin Valley philanthropy event Tuesday.
Volunteers help donors fill out their donations using portable tablets at Heyday Gift Shop in Bozeman, where donors were treated to mimosas and tarts as part of the celebrations for Give Big Gallatin Valley philanthropy event on Tuesday, May 5.
Volunteers help donors fill out their donations using portable tablets at Heyday Gift Shop in Bozeman, where donors were treated to mimosas and tarts as part of the celebrations for Give Big Gallatin Valley philanthropy event on Tuesday, May 5.
Volunteers help donors fill out their donations using portable tablets at Heyday Gift Shop in Bozeman, where donors were treated to mimosas and tarts as part of the celebrations for Give Big Gallatin Valley philanthropy event on Tuesday, May 5.
Volunteers help donors fill out their donations using portable tablets at Heyday Gift Shop in Bozeman, where donors were treated to mimosas and tarts as part of the celebrations for Give Big Gallatin Valley philanthropy event on Tuesday, May 5.
Kara Gallinger with the Bozeman Area Community Foundation helps donors fill out their donations using portable tablets at Heyday Gift Shop in Bozeman, where participants were treated to mimosas and tarts as part of the celebrations for Give Big Gallatin Valley philanthropy event Tuesday.
Volunteers help donors fill out their donations using portable tablets at Heyday Gift Shop in Bozeman, where donors were treated to mimosas and tarts as part of the celebrations for Give Big Gallatin Valley philanthropy event on Tuesday, May 5.
Volunteers help donors fill out their donations using portable tablets at Heyday Gift Shop in Bozeman, where donors were treated to mimosas and tarts as part of the celebrations for Give Big Gallatin Valley philanthropy event on Tuesday, May 5.
Volunteers help donors fill out their donations using portable tablets at Heyday Gift Shop in Bozeman, where donors were treated to mimosas and tarts as part of the celebrations for Give Big Gallatin Valley philanthropy event on Tuesday, May 5.
Volunteers help donors fill out their donations using portable tablets at Heyday Gift Shop in Bozeman, where donors were treated to mimosas and tarts as part of the celebrations for Give Big Gallatin Valley philanthropy event on Tuesday, May 5.
Bridget Wilkinson, the executive director of the Bozeman Area Community Foundation, thought $100,000 was a decent goal for the Gallatin Valleyas first community-wide giving day held Tuesday.
Donations made to the 24-hour campaign organized by the foundation, through its website givebiggv.org, totaled more than $213,000, provided by more than 2,300 donors to support the work of local nonprofits.
Almost as soon as the midnight-to-midnight event opened its online form, support came flooding in. Eagle Mount Bozeman ranked second as of press time, with $11,405 raised through 115 separate donations, and the Gallatin Valley Land Trust saw $10,540 donated through 116 gifts.
At least six other groups also raised $5,000 or more through the event, including The Help Center, the Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture, HRDC, Support Local Artists and Musicians (SLAM), the Traveling School and the Bozeman Area Community Foundation itself.
Ann Swann and Jenny Sheets, who both work at child and family service nonprofit Thrive, said they had been at downtownas Heyday shop to make a donation Tuesday morning when they saw a mother come in with a little boy.
aShe brought him out of school because she wanted to teach him about philanthropy,a Swann said.
The event, she said, was aa great way to bring our community together at a time when there isnat so much competing.a
Without the community coming together, Wilkinson said, the event wouldnat have been possible.
