The 24-hour fundraising event uses social media to help local nonprofits raise funds and continue to support the community.
This is the second year that Alleghany Highlands is hosting this fundraiser. Last year, the event was extremely successful and organizers hope to have the same success this year.
Every organization has the chance to win big with $35,000 in prizes. Each donation that is made helps nonprofits have a greater chance of winning those prizes.
Early giving started on May 24 and all donations made will go toward the overall fundraising prizes for Give Local.
“We’ve got quite a few different types of prizes being offered during the event because we really wanted to design the prizes in a way that every organization that is participating can get a little bit of money out of the event, at least from us and also to make it that so it is really engaging for the donors,” said Daniel Grizzard, the Program Coordinator for Give Local Alleghany Highlands.
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An example of one of the ways nonprofits can win extra prizes is through a computer system. It will randomly select a donation every hour and boost it with an additional $200.
There are 35 organizations participating in the fundraiser. Daniel said this is not only a great fundraising opportunity but a great chance for the public to learn about all the nonprofits available and the work that they do in the community.
A similar fundraiser is happening in the New River Valley in just a couple of weeks. On June 22, you can take part in a full day of giving.
“We have organizations small and large participating, but I would say something that they all could use is just more capacity with more people power and not every budget can accommodate that,” said Lindsey Gleason, the Assistant Director for the Community Foundation of the New River Valley. “So, I think something like this is a great way to raise more money, which is also really needed.”
Last year, more than $519,000 was raised as part of Give Local NRV.
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Eddie Marsan talks about John Darwin role and makes veiled jab at Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson will “have his say” on partygate in Parliament this week, a minister said today, as Labour tore into fresh revelations that a gathering at Downing Street turned into a leaving party only after the prime minister allegedly started pouring drinks.
The Sunday Times reported the prime minister’s official photographer had captured Mr Johnson holding a beer at the gathering, and chancellor Rishi Sunak with a soft drink, at the event on 13 November 2020.
“He said he wanted to say a few words for Lee [Cain] and started pouring drinks for people and drinking himself,” a source told the newspaper.
Energy minister Greg Hands confirmed Mr Johnson will be speaking to Parliament this week about the scandal and “will outline his version of events and face questions from MPs.”
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner said: “While the British public was making huge sacrifices, Boris Johnson was breaking the law.”
“If the latest reports are true, it would mean that not only did the prime minister attend parties, but he had a hand in instigating at least one of them. He has deliberately misled the British people at every turn,” she added.
It is ‘madness’ to expect migrants to stay in Rwanda after they try to reach the UK, says Labour MP
Shadow policing minister Sarah Jones has said it is “madness” to expect migrants to stay in Rwanda after they try to reach the UK.
The Labour MP claimed the government is merely “moving” the people smuggling problem, rather than “fixing” it.
Speaking to Times Radio, she said: “The Government hasn’t even said how much this is going to cost – the £120 million is just an upfront payment to the Rwandan government. The actual admin of the scheme, they don’t even know how much that’s going to cost.
“Sending people 4,000 miles before they’ve made a claim and expecting them to stay in a country they don’t want to be in is madness.
“We are just moving the people smuggling problem, we are not fixing it, which is what the Government claims to try and do.”
Minister ‘shares frustration’ over delayed Sue Gray Partygate report
Greg Hands said he shares the “frustration” over the wait for the Sue Gray report into the Partygate saga.
Put to him that the senior civil servant is “a little cross” about the delay to the publication of her full report while the police conduct their enquiries, Mr Hands told LBC: “Well, I share the frustration, but I think it’s right that we wait for the police investigation to reach its conclusion.
“Then Sue Gray will have a look at what’s come out of the police investigation before doing her final report.”
Boris Johnson will ‘outline his version of events’ in the Commons, says minister
Energy minister Greg Hands said Boris Johnson will “have his say” on partygate in Parliament this week.
He told Sky News: “The Prime Minister will be speaking to Parliament … this week.
“Parliament returns tomorrow and the Prime Minister will have his say in Parliament, and will outline his version of events and face questions from MPs.”
Put to him that this was “not exactly a full-throated backing” of Mr Johnson, and asked if it would be right for the PM to resign if pictures of him “pouring drinks” at a party were to emerge in the coming days, Mr Hands said: “I do strongly back the Prime Minister.
“I think the Prime Minister is getting on with the job, he’s delivered, and the Government has delivered, in anything from the vaccination programme through (to) the strong support for Ukraine.
“There is a police investigation going on and we’ll have to see what develops, but as I say the Prime Minister will be in Parliament this week, explaining and facing questions from MPs about what has happened.”
Rwanda plan critics need to reveal what their solution would be, says minister
Energy minister Greg Hands has denied that the UK is outsourcing its responsibilities by sending migrants to Rwanda, after religious leaders criticised the move.
Put to him that this is the case, he told Sky News: “No, we’re not. This is an agreement between two sovereign countries: the UK and Rwanda.”
Mr Hands also echoed home secretary Priti Patel’s challenge for critics of the plan to come up with a better idea to tackle small boat crossings.
Asked if the Archbishop of Canterbury was wrong to call the plan “ungodly”, he said: “I think what others, the critics of this plan, need to do is to show what their solution would be.”
New polling reveals most commonly used word about Boris Johnson is ‘liar’
A new poll commissioned by The Times has revealed what the public think about Boris Johnson, amid the partygate scandal.
Researchers asked 2,000 people to give their views on the beleagured prime minister and the results will not make happy reading in No10.
Comments from 72 per cent of people were negative, with only 16 per cent positive. The most commonly used word to describe the prime minister was “liar”.
The survey was undertaken by J L Partners, co-founded by James Johnson, Theresa May’s former pollster.
In a tweet, Mr Johnson concluded: “Overall, partygate dominates views of Boris over Ukraine. Fury has not receded. Many negative comments are by people who liked him previously but have now changed their minds.
“When Johnson first took power, only Labour voters would call him a liar. It is now widespread.”
Brexit has ‘brought problems’ for Falkland Islands’ fishing industry, former Labour MP claims
Brexit has “brought problems” for the Falkland Islands’ fishing industry, a Labour former defence minister has warned.
Derek Twigg, chairman of the Falkland Islands All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), said there had “been a lot of concern” over the impact of the UK’s exit from the EU on Falkland Islands fishing exports, such as squid.
Speaking to PA as parliamentarians mark 40 years since the Falklands War, the MP for Halton said: “Brexit has brought problems for the islands in terms of the fisheries, because their fishery… is a very much large part of their economy, particularly squid, particularly the type of squid they have which is exported to Europe.
“Work is going on with the Falklands government and countries like Spain and the EU to try and ease those challenges around that because it’s such a big exporter.”
His comments were echoed by Falkland Islands government representative to the United Kingdom and Europe Richard Hyslop, who said: “When it comes to Brexit, as things stand, there are no obvious benefits to the Falkland Islands. There are however a number of challenges.”
Mr Hyslop said the EU is the main market for the Falkland Islands’ fishery exports, with exports accounting for “more than 50% of our GDP”, and “was an important market for meat exports”.
However since the end of the transition period in January 2021 the Falkland Islands’ exports to the EU have been subject to tariffs, he added, with an average of 42% for meat and between 6% and 18% for fisheries exports.
The “very high tariff” on meat exports has “resulted in the loss of the market as it is just not viable to export to the EU any more” while exports of fishery products to the EU are “now less profitable”.
Mr Hyslop said the Falkland Islands government was “exploring a wide range of options” looking at “how we have these tariffs removed”.
Genocide orphans ‘told to leave hostel to make room for UK asylum seekers’
Those orphaned by the 1994 Rwandan genocide have reportedly been told to leave a hostel they lived in for years to make way for asylum seekers in the UK to stay.
Some said that they don’t know where next they will go after being issued eviction notices.
One woman who has lived at the shelter for eight years told the Sunday Mirror: “I barely know any other home. I was only told about moving out a few days ago. I have not figured out where I will go.”
Home Office staff could walkout in protest over Rwanda plan, warns union
Home secretary Priti Patel could face a mutiny from Home Office civil servants protesting plans to send asylum seekers thousands of miles away to Rwanda.
Home Office staff who oppose the policy on legal or ethical grounds could stage mass walk-outs, request transfers, or leave the civil service entirely, a union has warned.Ms Patel had to issue a ministerial direction – a formal instruction from ministers to proceed with a spending proposal, despite facing opposition.
The Rwandan government will be paid an initial cost of £120m as part of the deal, with reports suggesting each person sent to Rwanda is expected to cost British taxpayers between £20,000 to £30,000.
