SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Adirondack Trust Company Community Fund launched its month long Autumn of Giving Match Campaign: a community-wide initiative to raise funds and awareness, share the Community Fund’s story and engage the community as champions for local causes. To double its impact, the Adirondack Trust Company will match all donations made during the campaign and 100 percent of the funds raised will benefit local charities through its “Lend-A-Hand Grants” program.
“We have been excited and touched by the grants we have been able to distribute over the past two years,” said Joan Taylor, volunteer chairperson speaking on behalf of the ATC Advisory Committee. “This past June, Lend-A-Hand Grant recipient, After The Fire, was there to assist 32 Saratoga Springs residents left homeless due to a devastating row house fire. In addition to helping the fire survivors, other examples of ATC Funds at work include providing nutritious meals for area families in need, empowering children through photography and assisting a program to help talented, underprivileged students stay in school and excel. This campaign, the first of its kind, brings the ATC Community Fund, The Adirondack Trust Company, local business partners and our community’s nonprofits together to work to extend our ability to help others in our community. The Matching Campaign’s goal is to raise a minimum of $10,000 through individual donations, as well as our 18 business partner’s generous promotions.”
The Matching Campaign provides three easy ways the community can get involved:
DONATE
October 1 through October 31:
Online via the Adirondack Trust Company Community Fund Facebook Make the Match App, or at the website page (atccf.org).
On site at the Apple Bushel Basket display at bank branches and many business partners.
Via mail at ATC Community Fund, Attention K. Gallo, 31 Church Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 or call (518) 584-5844.
PARTICIPATE in Business Partner’s Campaign Promotions and Special Events. Eighteen local businesses have partnered with the Autumn of Giving Match Campaign and are offering special promotions, which in turn, generate a donation to the ATC General Community Fund that will be matched by The Adirondack Trust Company. Visit www.atccf.org/autumn-of-giving for more information.
VOTE FOR A CAUSE: Vote for your favorite, previous Lend-A –Hand Grant recipients by using the app on the Fund’s Facebook page and help steer ATC Community Fund’s future charitable giving. The local charity with the most votes in each cause of three categories will be the winner of a $500 grant.
