Clair, Madison county non-profits

Louis Community Foundation.

Bond said organizations who used social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, to promote the campaign would do well in this one-day online fundraiser.

“They can have a direct impact on the dollars raised,” Bond said.

She added the community foundation even held sessions in the fall on using social media.

Bond said this type of fundraising doesn’t cost that much and is highly efficient for non-profits.

“(It) allows them to do what they do best, which is their mission and promoting their cause,” Bond said.

She said the community foundation even had periods during the day where it matched donations.

The event helped give smaller organizations public exposure, Bond said.

“All boats rise in an event like this,” Bond said.

To find out more visit www.givestlday.org.

Contact reporter Joseph Bustos at jbustos@bnd.com or 618-239-2451.

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The Union Pacific Foundation gave a total of $65,000 in 11 grants to Oklahoma nonprofit organizations this year.

The railroad foundation says some of that grant money went to organizations in Claremore, McAlester and Tulsa.

“These important organizations play a vital role in their respective communities,” said Robert W. The McAlester Regional Health Center Foundation was awarded a grant and in Tulsa, the Oklahoma Caring Foundation and Tulsa Historical Society were given grants.

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Groups vie for Share the Dream prizes
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Representing some of the finalist groups in the 2015 Share the Dream competition are Larry Tippin, North Putnam High School Alumni Association; Elaine Peck, Putnam County Community Foundation, the sponsoring agency; Dick Thompson, Bainbridge High School Alumni Association; and Jerry Williams, Purdue Club of Putnam County and First Baptist Church, Greencastle.

Bainbridge High School Alumni Scholarship, Greencastle High School Alumni Scholarship, Purdue Club of Putnam County Scholarship and the Putnam County Fairgrounds are returning champions.

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Hallsville ISD honors teachers, students at annual awards ceremony May 6, 2015 at 4 a.m.

Hallsville High School physics teacher Rob Robins said Tuesday that his students are what has kept him going during his 29 years of teaching.

“If it weren’t for them, this wouldn’t be that much fun,” Robins said. “If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t keep coming.”

Some of his students took the opportunity during Tuesday night’s sixth annual Academic Recognition and Donors Reception by the Hallsville ISD Education Foundation to let Robins know just how much he has influenced their lives.

More than 200 people attended the district’s awards ceremony Tuesday. Roberts not only taught me how to be an intuitive student and writer in and out of school, but she has also shown me, as she battled cancer, that we must take life one step at a time and endure whatever complications the world may throw at us.”

The foundation also took the time to honor its donors, who make it possible for the organization to fund its dual credit scholarships, grants to teachers program and mini grants to teachers program.

NEW MILFORD — When farmland preservation activist Vivian Harris died in 2008, her family requested donations be sent to New Milford’s Farmland Preservation in lieu of flowers.

The $5,700 received is now being used to establish a scholarship for New Milford students going into secondary education in the agriculture field. It manages about 120 scholarship funds.

“This a great way to honor a leader in the farm community in New Milford,” Loughran said.

The first $1,000 scholarship will be awarded next year through the Harris Family Agricultural Scholarship Fund.

“The whole family is very pleased that this is happening,” said Susan Harris Bailey, Vivian Harris’ daughter.

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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.