Thrifty Foods stores is currently running the Help out One Buck at a Time campaign; when customers in any of their stores by a four-pound bag of Buck Brand organic navel oranges, $1 is donated to 13 hospital foundations in Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. The campaign began on February 13 and will continue until March 13. Thrifty Foods also holds similar fund raising campaigns such as their Pumpkins for Charity in October in which $1 from every pumpkin purchased at their stores is given to local hospital foundations.
Among the hospital foundations that will benefit from the campaign is the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation in Delta. The foundation is currently raising money for several projects including hospital expansion, a digital imaging machine for breast cancer, ventilator equipment and the Anne Stendal Renal Education Fund.
All companies in the Delta area can also hold similar events to raise money for the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation. The foundation is important to the area and helping will help raise their standing in the community. A company’s fund raising campaign need not include customers and can be an internal one. Local printing companies can help to motivate your employees to take part in such a campaign. Creating a flyer to either hand to your employees or to fold in with their pay slip can inform them of the campaign. Those who take part can then compete with one another to see who can raise the most amount of money; the winner can be given a paid day off work or a gift card.
