Jack’s donates $178,684 to Kids to Love
Christy Gravitt, Brand Manager for Jack’s Family Restaurants, and Lee Marshall, Kids to Love Foundation Founder/CEO, hold the $178,684 check. CONTRIBUTED
MADISON – The Kids to Love Foundation has received a ‘super-sized’ donation from Jack’s Family Restaurants.
Jack’s invited customers in all of its 136 stores across four states to support Kids to Love through monetary donations during the months of June and July. The “Show Some Love” campaign raised $178,684.
“It’s more money than we’ve ever raised from a philanthropic effort in the company’s history,” Christy Gravitt, Brand Manager for Jack’s, said. “It just shows how invested our people were.”
The money raised will support Kids to Love’s 16 programs, which meet the needs of children living in foster care.
Gravitt presented the $178,684 check to Lee Marshall, Kids to Love Foundation Founder/CEO, at the foundation’s center, 140 Castle Drive in Madison, on Aug. 10.
Kids to Love will reciprocate Jack’s generosity by dedicating the kitchen at the Kids to Love Center in honor of Jack’s restaurants. A plaque outside the kitchen will recognize Jack’s continued commitment to help Kids to Love meet the needs of foster children.
Jack’s is a longtime partner of Kids to Love. In addition to promotions involving the general public, Jack’s has supported Kids to Love by providing meals to Kids to Love volunteers, as well as students of KTECH, the foundation’s workforce initiative.
In addition, Jack’s managers in North Alabama recently donated backpacks for students who live in foster care and expanded their outreach to Mississippi and Georgia. This year’s campaign served 5,159 students.
“We spoke to a social worker in Mississippi to ask if school supplies were something foster children there needed and you could almost hear her tears of relief over the phone as she said, ‘Yes,’” Marshall said. “It’s so much more than just a backpack. It has the potential to change a child’s life.”
Kids to Love is a 501(c)3 approved non-profit organization and was incorporated in 2004. Kids to Love has impacted more than 200,000 foster children.
For more information, call 256-880-3455, email info@kidstolove.org or visit kidstolove.org.
