Give Local York is about to return (2025)

THERE IS ONE BACKYARD FLOCK. RIGHT NOW, WE’RE JUST A LITTLE OVER ONE WEEK OUT FROM GIVE LOCAL YORK THE ANNUAL GIVE DAY FOR YORK COUNTY. THE ONE DAY EVENT FUNDRAISER HAS RAISED $25 MILLION SINCE ITS INCEPTION AND HAS HELPED HUNDREDS OF NONPROFITS. AND I’LL BE EMCEEING THE FINALE PARTY ON FRIDAY, MAY 2ND. CAN’T WAIT FOR THAT. AND I’M NOW JOINED BY LISA BARSHINGER, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WHITE ROSE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING ON IN TODAY. WE APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING US. WE’RE EXCITED TO BE HERE. WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU. SO FIRST UP, JUST TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GIVE LOCAL YORK AND TELL US ABOUT THE MISSION BEHIND THE WHOLE PROGRAM. SO GIVE LOCAL YORK IS THE LARGEST GIVING DAY OF THE YEAR. IT’S A 24 HOUR PERIOD TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY AND GET PEOPLE INVOLVED IN GIVING BACK TO THOSE NONPROFITS WHO DO SO MUCH WORK IN OUR COMMUNITY. YEAH. SO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THOSE NONPROFITS AND WHAT ORGANIZATIONS CAN PARTICIPATE IN A DAY LIKE THIS. SO ANY 500 AND 1C3 NONPROFIT CAN PARTICIPATE. THEY REGISTER THROUGH GIVE LOCAL YORK. WE CURRENTLY HAVE 328 PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS FOR 2025. YEAH. YOU KNOW, YOU HEAR SO MANY PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY, I WANT TO GIVE I WANT TO GIVE BACK. I WANT TO FIND A CHARITY. I WANT TO FIND AN ORGANIZATION. BUT THEY JUST DON’T KNOW WHERE. THEY DON’T KNOW WHEN, THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO DO IT. AND THIS GIVES PEOPLE AN OPPORTUNITY IN ONE PLACE TO BE ABLE TO GET ALL THOSE ORGANIZATIONS. IS THAT CORRECT? ABSOLUTELY, YES. BY GOING TO GIVE LOCAL YORK.ORG YOU CAN RESEARCH THE DIFFERENT NONPROFITS THAT ARE PARTICIPATING IN GIVE LOCAL YORK AND REALLY LEARN ABOUT THEIR MISSION, LEARN ABOUT WHAT THEY DO, AND COME UP WITH A PLAN FOR YOUR GIVING. FIGURE OUT WHO YOU WANT TO GIVE TO, AND BY GIVING ON THE GIVE DAY, YOUR DOLLAR REALLY DOES GO FURTHER. WE’LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GOING FURTHER, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WITH THESE SORTS OF EVENTS, THAT MONEY CAN GO STRAIGHT TO THE ORGANIZATIONS. HOW DOES THIS MONEY, THOUGH, TALK ABOUT REALLY IMPACTING THE ORGANIZATION, WHICH THEN IMPACTS THE COMMUNITY? SURE, ABSOLUTELY. SO THE DOLLARS THAT YOU’RE GIVING TO THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE UNRESTRICTED. IT ALLOWS THOSE NONPROFITS TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO HELP SUPPORT THEIR MISSION AND SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY AT THE SAME TIME. SO BY GIVING ON THE GIVE DAY, THERE ARE DIFFERENT PRIZES THAT ARE GIVEN OUT AT DIFFERENT TIMES. THERE ARE SOME RANDOM PRIZES. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE STRETCH POOL. AND THAT STRETCH POOL REALLY HELPS YOUR DOLLAR GO FURTHER. SO THAT STRETCH POOL GETS DIVIDED UP AMONGST ALL OF OUR PARTICIPATING NONPROFITS BASED ON THEIR LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION, BASED ON THEIR PERCENTAGE OF DONORS THAT WERE ENGAGED AND INVOLVED IN THE BIG GIVE DAY. REALLY GIVING THEM BACK SO MUCH MORE. AGAIN, TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEIR MISSION AND THE COMMUNITY. YEAH. AND CAN YOU REMIND PEOPLE HOW, AGAIN, THEY CAN GIVE WHAT THAT PROCESS IS LIKE AND THE TIME LIMIT IN WHICH THEY CAN DO THAT FROM START TO FINISH? ABSOLUTELY. THE GIVING PERIOD OPENS AT 9 P.M. NEXT THURSDAY. SO WE’RE ALMOST EXACTLY ONE WEEK OUT. THE PERIOD CLOSES AT 9 P.M. ON FRIDAY, SO IT’S JUST A FULL 24 HOURS FROM 9 P.M. TO 9 P.M., AND THEY CAN GO TO GIVE LOCAL YORK.ORG AGAIN TO RESEARCH THOSE ORGANIZATIONS, BUT ALSO DO THEIR GIVING THERE AS WELL. YEAH. BEFORE WE WRAP UP, JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT DO YOU THINK. AGAIN, THIS DOES TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE UNITY THAT THIS BRINGS IN THE COMMUNITY AND HELPING, AGAIN, NOT JUST 1 OR 2 ORGANIZATIONS, BUT ALL OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS TO BETTER SERVE THE AREA. YEAH, AND NOT JUST 1 OR 2, BUT BIG AND SMALL. IT’S REALLY SUPPORTING ALL OF OUR NONPROFITS. AND WE’VE SPOKEN WITH SO MANY NONPROFITS, SOME OF THOSE SMALLER NONPROFITS WHO SAY THEY WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO DO THE WORK THAT THEY DO IF IT WASN’T FOR GIVE LOCAL AND THE SUPPORT THAT OUR DONORS PROVIDE. SO GIVE LOCAL YORK REALLY IS A BIG DAY FOR OUR NONPROFIT COMMUNITY AND THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE. IT’S A GREAT WAY TO BRING EVERYONE TOGETHER AND CELEBRATE THE WORK THAT THEY’RE DOING. YEAH, TRULY THE DEFINITION OF UNITY AND COMMUNITY. ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. LISA BAR