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Thanks to you and Newman’s Own Foundation: we’re all winners!

by Beth

Honoring those who serve logoWow — supporters like you are amazing! Thank you so much for helping Dixon Center at Easter Seals win the Honoring Those who Serve Challenge!

And a huge thank you also goes out to Newman’s Own Foundation for choosing Dixon Center at Easter Seals as one of a select group of military service nonprofit organizations that competed in its Honoring Those Who Serve Challenge this year. The challenge started September 30 and ended on Veteran’s Day. The challenge worked like this: the charity that raised the most during the past six-plus weeks would win a $75,000 grant from Newman’s Own Foundation. Thanks to your support with a grand total of $135,599 contributed during the challenge, we won! Dixon Center for Military and Veterans Community Services at Easter Seals is the grand prize winner of the Newman’s Own Challenge! We’ll be receiving the $75,000 bonus from the Foundation, and with additional weekly bonuses, the grand total raised and won is over $220,000.

Easter Seals has been serving veterans since WWII, and over the past decade, as tens of thousands of service members have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with new and unmet needs, the demand for the services Easter Seals and Dixon Center provide has increased dramatically. You can learn more about Easter Seals & Dixon Center by linking to a couple stories that came out about us over Veterans Day weekend this year:

  • On Friday, Easter Seals, Dixon Center and Colonel David Sutherland, the co-founder and Chairman of the Center, appeared in a page 3 Q&A interview article and an ad about our services for military families in a special Thanking our Troops section in USA Today.
  • On Monday, NBC’s The Today Show aired a three-minute-piece with COL Sutherland about how Dixon Center at Easter Seals was inspired by Donnie Dixon to impact communities and support veterans in new ways.

The investment and encouragement from Newman’s Own Foundation and you supporters out there allows Easter Seals and Dixon Center to continue helping returning veterans to thrive where they live. Thank you.


 

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  1. Robert Metzger Says:

    November 13th, 2013 at 9:37 am

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  2. Robert Metzger Says:

    November 13th, 2013 at 9:35 am

    Please remove Robert Metzger from your mailing list.
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