Loudoun Foundation Picks Groups For 'Giving Tuesday' Challenge

LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA — The Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties has chosen four nonprofit organizations to participate in a fundraising challenge on Dec. 1, or "Giving Tuesday."

As part of the foundation's inaugural Giving Tuesday Matching Challenge, each nonprofit group is challenged to raise $5,000 on Giving Tuesday. If the groups meet the challenge, the foundation's COVID Community Emergency Relief Fund will match with an additional $5,000.

Loudoun County-based human services nonprofit organizations applied earlier in the fall to participate in the Giving Tuesday Matching Challenge. The Community Foundation will match up to $5,000 of donations made to the participating organizations on Giving Tuesday, as well as the week before and the week after Dec. 1.

“We know our community and the nonprofits chosen to participate are up for this challenge,” Nicole Acosta, director of grants and nonprofit programs at the Community Foundation, said in a statement. “The donations made by our generous community and matched by the Community Emergency Relief Fund will go a long way to supporting these organizations helping Loudoun residents.”

The four nonprofits chosen to participate in the challenge are ECHO, Loudoun Abused Women’s Shelter, StoryBook Treasures and Women Giving Back.

Matching grants will be provided by the Community Emergency Relief Fund, which was established by the Community Foundation in March to collect and disburse donations to address the impacts of coronavirus crisis in Loudoun County.

Since March, the Community Relief Fund has disbursed more than $210,000 to nonprofit groups in Loudoun providing rental assistance and other services to Loudoun residents in need due to the health and financial impacts of the pandemic.

To help them meet their fundraising goals, donations can be made to the four participating nonprofit groups until Dec. 8:

• ECHO: https://echoworks.org/donors/
• Loudoun Abused Women’s Shelter: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/lcsjlaws
• StoryBook Treasures: https://www.storybooktreasures.org/donate/
• Women Giving Back: https://womengivingback.org/donate-sponsor/