The annual 36-hour “Great Give” exceeded its goal and raised over $3.8 million for over 500 nonprofits.
The “Foundationettes” took a momentary break Wednesday from running New Haven’s annual “Great Give” fundraising marathon to lift their voices in harmony — to try to lift the event to its goal in the home stretch. The Foundationettes are hard-working employees of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, which sponsors the annual Great Give. They came on air to sing a plea for donations, on WNHH FM’s “Great Give” radiothon.
Click on the video at the top of this story to watch their performance, and to hear about the event’s planning.
The song worked: The Great Give exceeded its $3.5 million goal. Click here to view all the Great Give results.
Click here to make a post-event donation.
WNHH FM runs the radiothon each year to help out. Members of nonprofits take turns coming into the studio to sing a song or recite a poem, then make a pitch for why you should support them.
