(Arnolds Park)– July is now upon us and it’s time once again for the Okoboji Foundation to launch one of it’s annual events that helps nonprofit organizations in the lakes area build their endowments. Ali Schmitz of the Okoboji Foundation says they are once again holding their July Nonprofit Challenge…
“The nonprofit funds in our charitable giving funds can receive donations totaling up to $5,000 and whoever has the most donations of $5,000 or more will also win an additional $5,000 from the Okoboji Foundation.”
Schmitz says the challenge will continue through the end of the month…
“The whole month of July you’re able to go to Give Okoboji and make that donation to your favorite nonprofit partner and then, the whole month of July, and then at the end of the month we’ll announce who the winner is and award them with that $5,000.”
Participating nonprofit partners in the challenge include the Bedell Family YMCA/Camp Foster; the Dickinson County Endowment Fund; Dickinson County Nature Center; the Dickinson County Trails Board; First Lutheran Church of West Okoboji; the First Presbyterian Church in Spirit Lake; Friends of Lakeside Lab; Historic Arnolds Park Endow Iowa; Imagine Iowa Great Lakes; Iowa Lakes Corridor Entrepreneurial Development; Lakes Regional Healthcare Foundation; Mini-Wakan Shelter and Gull Point Lodge; Okoboji Community School Foundation; Okoboji Summer Theatre; Okoboji Yacht Club Sailing School; Pearson Lakes Art Center; Spirit Lake Community Schools Foundation; and Youth In Philanthropy.
