East Texas Giving Day raises $2.8 million for area nonprofits

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – Greater than 5,600 donors supported this 12 months’s East Texas Giving Day, elevating $2,896,721 for East Texas charities, in line with the East Texas Communities Basis, which organizes the occasion.

Fundraising for the annual 18-hour marketing campaign closed at Midnight Wednesday. The proceeds will profit practically 300 nonprofits in 32 East Texas counties.

In a single day, the ETCF additionally launched a listing of the highest benefactors of the generosity.

“Preliminary outcomes present, Northeast Texas Neighborhood Faculty Basis from Titus County with $135,000 raised,” a information launch said. “Two Smith County charities adopted with Breckenridge Village of Tyler receiving $126,211, adopted by Mentoring Alliance elevating $104,389. Good Shepherd Reformed Episcopal College acquired essentially the most total donations. Their 348 separate donations yielded a complete of $98,180 for the Smith County faculty.”

Nonprofits collaborating within the occasion serve the next counties: Anderson, Angelina, Bowie, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Delta, Franklin, Freestone, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Hopkins, Houston, Lamar, Leon, Marion, Morris, Nacogdoches, Panola, Rains, Pink River, Rusk, Sabine, San Augustine, Shelby, Smith, Titus, Trinity, Upshur, Van Zandt and Wooden.

The occasion raised $2.7 million and $2.2 million in 2021 and 2020, respectively.

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