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The Piqua Community Foundation encourages charitable giving to benefit the citizens of Piqua, and provides a variety of methods for donors to help fulfill their charitable giving wishes. |
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CAKES FOR A CAUSE - 2007 The second annual “Cakes for a Cause” filled the Miami Valley Centre Mall on April 26 and 27 with a dazzling array of colorful and delicious cakes, all for a great cause. The Piqua Community Foundation sponsored the event - a community event and cake auction to benefit the Foundation’s Piqua Community Fund. This fund makes grants twice each year to charitable organizations that provide programs or projects that will help improve life for residents of Piqua and the surrounding area. More than $60,000 in grants will go back into the community from the Foundation’s grant making funds, and more than $300,000 in grants has been given since the first grants were made in 1995. Eighty-nine cakes were displayed at the mall on Thursday, April 26. These creatively designed cakes were donated to the cause by local businesses, individuals, schools and not-for-profit organizations. Most cakes were accompanied by “incentives” – added by the donors – that significantly increased the values of the cakes. Incentives ranged from a “Girls Night Out” spa package to a 72” walnut propeller, from fresh flowers every month for a year to an afternoon of free yard work, and many included gift certificates to local merchants and businesses. Silent bids were taken at the mall Thursday evening and Friday during the day. From noon Friday until 5:00 PM, the auction was broadcast live on W.P.T.W. radio. Each twenty-minute time slot included the auctioning of 6 cakes, with cakes and incentives going to the highest bidder at the end of the time slot. John Leese and Joe Neves of W.P.T.W. facilitated the radio broadcast which featured Foundation Board president Jim Brown III, vice-president John Brown, and Karen Kelly Brown, local store marketing representative for area McDonald’s.
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The Piqua Community Foundation -126 W. High Street
- P.O. Box 226 - Piqua, Ohio 45356 |
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