Give A Hoot Launch
Today, the Park County Community Foundation launches its fourth annual Give A Hoot community giving challenge.
During the month-long challenge, all donations to PCEC will be partially matched by the Park County Community Foundation. This makes right now a great time to donate.
It’s been a tough few weeks for our community. At PCEC, we have helped organize more than 120 volunteers working to help their neighbors clean up. In the first 72 hours of the crisis PCEC staff and AmeriCorps members helped organize sandbagging, served in the command center helping with the communication outreach for our County, and then went door-to-door to check in with impacted neighbors.
We wouldn’t be able to do this work if it weren’t for the generosity of people like you. Thank you. We have a strong and dedicated team. We are boots on the ground and we are committed to helping our community recover and rebuild for as long as it takes.
Your support today means a lot.
Our fundraising goal for Give A Hoot is $75,000. Last year, more than 200 people donated to PCEC, another goal we hope to achieve this year. It makes us exceptionally proud to have received the most individual donations of any organization because it shows the wide-ranging impact and local support for our work.
PCEC has grown a lot in the past seven years. Since I was hired in 2015 at 10 hours a week, our staff has increased to eight employees. During that time, our budget has grown from $78,187 in FY2015 to more than $660,000 in FY22.
Dollar for dollar, your support goes a long way with PCEC, with 100% of your funds staying here in our community. At PCEC, we rely heavily on individual donations. In 2021, half of our annual budget came from donations from our more than 600 members.
Knowing that the same people we run into on the trail, at the grocery store, at school drop offs, soccer games and at the Farmers Market are the same people that invest in our work, inspires us to be a more effective community organization. We can’t do it without you.
And as always, your investment in PCEC supports an environmental vanguard in Park County with the ability to swiftly respond to environmental issues in the northern gateway to Yellowstone – everything from stopping a slaughter of Yellowstone’s wolves, to resolving access issues in the Crazy Mountains, to helping ensure that industrial developments like gravel pits don’t harm our family, friends and neighbors.
In Community,
Michelle