SCM Community Transportation is pleased to announce it will be participating in the Giving Common Challenge, a statewide online fundraising effort Oct. 10 and 11 including more than 500 nonprofits from across Massachusetts.
Beginning at 8 a.m. on Oct. 10, SCM will be highlighting its work and encouraging donations through its profile on the Giving Common, an initiative of the Boston Foundation.
Giving Common nonprofits have completed extensive profiles in an effort to be more transparent about their work and raise awareness of the importance of nonprofit organizations across the state.
Donors can give money to organizations through the Giving Common portal.
You can visit SCM’s profile at http://www.givingcommon.org.
Organizations taking part in the Giving Common Challenge will raise funds and compete for a total of $150,000 in prizes during the 36-hour event.
To promote the event, SCM plans to share snappy, short videos of its ridership via email, Facebook and Twitter. It also plans a surprise event in public during the challenge.
SCM’s is Greater Boston’s oldest and most-beloved non-profit providers of transportation to senior citizens and persons with disabilities. Their Door2Door services assist more than 3,000 senior citizens and persons with disabilities in getting to doctors’ appointments, grocery shopping, adult day health facilities, meal sites and beyond!
The $10,000 it hopes to raise will underwrite six hundred trips.
“We know there are thousands of people who care deeply about helping the nonprofit organizations that do important work in their communities,” said Paul S. Grogan, president and CEO of the Boston Foundation. “Through the Giving Common Challenge, we are asking them to step up on behalf of those nonprofits — and The Boston Foundation is awarding $150,000 in prizes to help raise even more for this critical sector. I urge the people of Massachusetts to give to the nonprofits that mean the most to them and tell their friends about this exciting event.”
SCM is one of Greater Boston’s oldest and most-beloved non-profit providers of transportation. Founded by the communities of Somerville, Cambridge and Medford (SCM), the Davis Square-based agency provides 10,000 trips each month to more than 3,000 senior citizens and persons with disabilities regionally.
The Giving Common, an initiative of the Boston Foundation, is an innovative web-based resource designed to provide comprehensive and current information about nonprofit organizations across Massachusetts and to make informed, online charitable giving easy, quick and meaningful.
The Giving Common includes nonprofit information from GuideStar, the nation’s leader in providing information about nonprofits, and asks organizations to fill out enhanced profiles that include mission statements, program offerings, governance and management information and indicators of success at addressing critical issues.
Profile information can also be integrated into other sites that use the GuideStar network, saving nonprofits time and effort.
Donors can search for organizations by geographic or focus area, and make donations immediately through the Giving Common.
To learn more, visit www.givingcommon.org.