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IMAGE: Delivering the Novelty Check with Gasparilla Bowl executive director Scott Glaser and representatives of the 5 charitable organizations.
Huge shoutout to @RedditCFB Community for raising $10K for hurricane relief in #TampaBay! 🙌 r/CFB’s Bobak Ha’eri delivered the donation to #GasparillaBowlGivesBack partners @ChiChiFoundation, @FeedingTampaBay , @TBWaterkeeper , @jia83foundation & @bfftampa . Thanks, Reddit CFB! 🏴☠️
[Since the Gasparilla Bowl is a pirate-themed event, and I already look and dress like an aging musician, I hired a make-up artist to just close that gap between pirate and Alice Cooper.]
Background
As part of that we had comments from the game thread put on the Raymond James Stadium video board in the 4th quarter. There were five of us on the ground in Tampa helping run their social, capturing the field-level activity, doing reporting, and handing out the money raised by users, along with help from the rest of the /r/CFB team in sorting through a lot of activity that just needed to get done.
In addition to the above, we had a charitable community drive to donate $10,000 to the charities associated with Gasparilla Bowl Gives Back, benefiting the local community and specifically Feeding Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay Waterkeepers, Bullard Family Foundation, Chi Chi Rodriguez Foundation, and Jackson in Action 83 Foundation. Because Gasparilla Bowl wants it to be about the organizations, they asked us to actually directly depositing into each of their accounts and not through them.
I’m proud to say /r/CFB donated as much to the charities as the bowl’s title sponsor (which paid many times more to become the title sponsor).
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- Thanks to all of you who DONATED
- Thanks to all of you who HELPED
- Thanks for making /r/CFB a great COMMUNITY
Join the us in giving to the ongoing 2024 Holiday Drive!
100% of money received is given out: half to Toys For Tots, the other half distributed to 3 Children’s Hospitals representing the 3 most generous fanbases! You can earn your own unique awards flair!