Kansas City’s Salvation Army gets a boost
A helper has come to the aid of the Kansas City area Salvation Army and will push the charity closer to its $1.5 million goal for its Christmas campaign.
Salvation Army officials announced Friday that thanks to one of its benefactors, money donated would “go twice as far.”
After an announcement Thursday that this year’s Red Kettle collections lagged thousands of dollars behind last year’s, an anonymous donor pledged to match dollar-for-dollar online and Red Kettle donations up to $200,000.
“With less than a week to go, we are still more than $500,000 away from our goal of raising $1.5 million at the kettles,” Maj. Evie Diaz, Salvation Army divisional commander, said in a prepared statement Friday.
The kettle campaign and the match for those funds end on Christmas Eve, but online donations will be matched through the end of the year, Diaz said.
Money collected in the kettles supports Salvation Army programs for homelessness, hunger and emergency assistance. It also funds disaster services and programs for youth and senior citizens.
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This story was originally published December 19, 2014 at 5:18 PM with the headline "Kansas City’s Salvation Army gets a boost."