Community Raises $365,064 in Give Back Tahoe Giving Season

Tags: Business Philanthropy, Collaborations, Giving Tuesday

For the fifth year, Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation (TTCF) facilitated the Give Back Tahoe (GBT) Giving Season to elevate the missions of our local nonprofits and inspire collective giving. Thanks to the generosity of you and other donors in our community, we leveraged $365,064 for over 60 local nonprofits!

Highlights

• $365,064 infused into North Tahoe – Truckee. That number includes:
• $27,563 leveraged in matching grants
• $15,000 awarded in Challenge Grants raised by TTCF
• 4 nonprofits raised more than $20,000 each

Through our grantmaking, capacity building, and technical assistance, TTCF has strengthened our local nonprofits for two decades. In the past five years, Give Back Tahoe has raised over $1.7 million for our region. More than raising funds, Give Back Tahoe strengthens nonprofits by exposing their missions to a broader audience and helping them develop their year-end fundraising techniques. This year, we introduced a new web platform that gave more autonomy to our nonprofits. In addition to more direct access to donors and volunteers, nonprofits were able to build out full online profiles, social media campaigns, email marketing campaigns, and could experiment with peer-to-peer fundraising techniques. Through online marketing strategies, nonprofits have created a long term engagement and conversion funnel that will build throughout the year.

TTCF also secured $15,000 in Challenge Grants from generous donors. Challenge Grants award nonprofits and their donors for exemplary fundraising efforts through specific challenges throughout the first two weeks of the Giving Season, November 27th – December 11th. See who won the Challenge Grants on the Leaderboard.

Give Back Tahoe is only possible thanks to the generosity of our Challenge Grant Donors and Business Sponsors. Thank you to our community members who drove the giving even further: Tahoe Donner Giving Fund, Auerbach Engineering Corp., The Bolam Gallery, Eagle Peak Management, Elder Group Tahoe Real Estate, Emerald Bay Wealth Management LLC, Sears Hometown Stores. Learn more about our sponsors here, and be sure to support them!

“We are so grateful for this program! It really rallies people to reach into their pocketbooks to give back to the nonprofits that are meaningful to them. What I really like about your challenge grants is how diverse they are. For people who have the money, $250 creates the opportunity to four-fold their donation. Other folks can make a BIG difference with just $25 – turning $25 into $25 + $1,250! This takes a lot of pressure off of our team financially. I was so impressed with the generosity of our families. TTCF was the catalyst to make that happen. We will now have the ability to offer financial aid scholarships to the community.” -Sandy Hynes, Truckee Tahoe Swim Team

“We are so grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Give Back Tahoe Giving Season. We have been surprised by the number of kind donations we’ve received from the community and how excited donors got about trying to help us with the challenges! Participating in this event has allowed us to not only raise additional funding to support Achieve Tahoe programs that serve children and adults with disabilities, but to reach out to the local community, thanks to the Foundation’s efforts.” – Deidre Kennelly, Achieve Tahoe