Rotary Foundation nets over $16,000 in Old Bill's Fun Run
This year's Old Bill's Fun Run for Charities raised over $16,000 for the Rotary Foundation by participants in the run and other generous community members. Large donors who have made the Fun Run possible and beneficial to area non-profits over the last eight years will match a percentage of the $16,000.
Every year a match percentage is determined based on how many donors give toward the Fun Run without specifying to which non-profit the donation should go. The match percentage has traditionally been between 30 and 50 percent.
The $16,000 raised for the Foundation came from donors who specified that their gift should be attributed to that specific non-profit. Some of the money given to the Foundation specified what Foundation cause (for example, rebuilding the elk antler arches) the money should go toward. The majority of the funds, however, will be used for scholarship programs sponsored by the Foundation.
This year, 2605 donors gave $5,854,999 to over 150 non-profits through Old Bill's Fun Run. That figure exceeded last year's total by over a quarter million dollars. Since the Run started in 1997, the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole has collected $38,898,080 in Fun Run donations that have been spread among the area's non-profit organizations.