Starting Tuesday, July 25, at 8 a.m. through Wednesday, July 26, at 8 p.m., The Community Foundation for Crawford County will kick off the CrawfordForGood initiative, an effort to assist local nonprofits in raising money for operational and other expenses.

For this two-day, online-only fundraising event, the foundation will provide the fundraising platform, and any nonprofit can register and use the site for free. In addition, the foundation will be matching donations raised online on a prorated basis from a pool of $8,000 being offered by the combined generosity of the Board of Trustees and Park National Bank. The foundation encourages any companies or individuals that would like to add to this $8,000 pool to contact them as soon as possible as this adds to the fundraising incentive.

Any nonprofit organization located in Crawford County that would like to participate in CrawfordForGood must register at the foundation’s website, www.cfcrawford.org, by Friday, July 21. As usual, the foundation will be using the NetworkForGood platform, where individuals are encouraged to create their own fundraising page to advocate and raise money on behalf of one of the participating organizations. Creating a fundraising page can be done in less than five minutes and can be easily shared on social media, emailed, and/or texted during the days of the event.

The platform website is already available for those ready to build their fundraising pages and can be found at cfcrawford.networkforgood.com.

“This is the fourth year the foundation has facilitated a fundraiser on behalf of the nonprofits in Crawford County who register to participate with us,” said Lisa Workman, the foundation’s president. “The foundation will not be keeping any of the money raised – it is all going back out directly into the hands of the nonprofits that raise it.”

Submitted by The Community Foundation for Crawford County.