Dollars raised total more than $71,000
Willmar, Minn. – The Willmar Area Women’s Fund (WAWF), an initiative of the Willmar Area Community Foundation (WACF), announces it has exceeded its fundraising goal to help support prevention and intervention activities aimed at youth homelessness and human trafficking efforts in Kandiyohi County.
Through generous community donations and the efforts of 39 campaigners, the Fund exceeded its fundraising goal of $50,000 and raised a total of $71,384. This annual campaign began on June 11, 2018, and the final total was revealed at the Caring for Women Campaign Luncheon on September 27, 2018.
The Willmar Area Women’s Fund raises funds that fuel the work of their partner organizations: Safe Avenues, Lutheran Social Services and the Kandiyohi County Human Trafficking Task Force. These organizations work to stop trafficking, assist victims and prevent the occurrence of trafficking locally. The goal of the Women’s Fund is to raise funds, broaden awareness and fuel the direct work of our partner organizations so they can continue to make an even bigger impact on human trafficking in Kandiyohi County.
“With the generous community donations for our campaign the Willmar Area Women’s Fund is able to complete our financial commitments to Safe Avenues, LSS and the Kandiyohi County Human Trafficking Task Force Coordinator to increase awareness of and prevent trafficking. In addition, we are excited to announce that with campaign dollars, we are granting Safe Avenues dollars for an additional Safe Dates Curriculum presenter and educator to provide healthy relationship awareness for children in classrooms across the county,” states WAWF Chair, Jodi Wambeke.
More information about the Willmar Area Women’s Fund can be found at www.NotHereNotOurKids.com or by calling the Willmar Area Community Foundation at 320-235-4380.
The Willmar Area Community Foundation (WACF), in affiliation with CommunityGiving, is a public charity that attracts and administers charitable funds for the benefit of the local community. Since 1998, WACF has grown to over $18 million in assets and awarded $7.7 million in grants to local nonprofits. CommunityGiving is a collaboration of community foundations united under a single framework to create efficiencies that maximize the impact of our donors. The core foundations working with CommunityGiving include the Alexandria Area Community Foundation, the Brainerd Lakes Area Community Foundation, the Central Minnesota Community Foundation and the Willmar Area Community Foundation. Collectively, CommunityGiving administers more than 700 funds totaling more than $140 million. Learn more at CommunityGiving.org/Willmar.