1K Challenge Met
The recent 1K Anonymous Challenge featured in the October Sturbridge Times Magazine has been matched as donors quickly flooded the REAS Foundation with 1K Challenge checks.
Donations ranging from the challenge minimum of $25 up to $250 have been streaming in quickly matching the 1K Challenge. In order to ensure that checks received were in fact “challenge” inspired, only those checks that specifically stated 1K in the memo line or were verbally qualified by the donor as a 1K Challenge donation, were credited against the challenge.
It was an incredibly inspiring experience to witness donations being generated so quickly in response to the 1K Challenge and surely, the anonymous challenger must be excited and quite grateful about the response.
We at the REAS Foundation would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the 1K donor who issued this challenge, and certainly to each of you who stepped up to meet that challenge.
The most exciting aspect of this challenge is that once received, the 1K Challenge Check will bring us just over the top of our goal, which will equate to enough funds to provide meaningful energy assistance to approximately 45 seniors right here in Sturbridge. That’s 45 of our neighbors, 45 of our friends, 45 members of our community who have sacrificed so much during their lives and now find themselves teetering on the edge.
You have thrown them a lifeline, and one that is surely a difference-maker in their lives.
Thomas R. Creamer - Executive Director