Huge kudos to our amazing volunteer team for all their hard work this weekend. Our booth staff give a lot of themselves to attend the Calgary Expo each year. They pay their own way (gas, food, lodging) and take vacations days from work to make our booth an amazing place to complete all your “guilt free” shopping . Next time you see them give them a big thumbs up for their dedication to our organisation year after year.
Thanks to the phenomenal support of Calgary Expo attendees, we raised a record $5575 CAD for charity! Pat yourselves on the backs; you deserve it!
The breakdown for the funds raised this past weekend are:
- G.R.I.T Calgary Society: $2794
- Youth Empowerment and Support Services: $1184.50
- Kids Need to Read: $1122.70
- Equality Now: $473.80
*Funds were distributed to G.R.I.T Calgary on April 28th. As YESS, KNTR and EN are all beneficiaries of our on-line auction, we will be completing our donations to these organizations later in May.
Thanks also go out to Matt Stevens (Geekographs) and the South Eastern Browncoats for their donations to our table raffles this weekend.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to Kyla Richards (Kyla Richards Sculpture Studio), Matthew Bryan, Felicia Day, Nathan Fillion and Jason Palmer (Jason Palmer Studios) for their amazing donations to our next charity auction scheduled for this fall!