Give to the Max Day sets new records despite glitches

Posted at 12:05 AM on November 16, 2012 by Marianne Combs (4 Comments)
Filed under: Funding

In its fourth year, Give to the Max Day set new records for fundraising, despite technical glitches which plagued the website for much of the day.

At midnight, GiveMN.org's ticker showed that 53,339 donors raised $16,391,905 for 4,381 Minnesota nonprofits.

Those are new records across the board.

In past years revised totals have been issued the following day - it remains to be seen whether site crashes experienced by donors throughout the day had a significant impact on the accuracy of the tally.

Some of the increase can be attributed to the addition of several public schools to the pool of participating organizations.

Past years' totals were:

2009: 38,000 donors raised $14 million for 3,141 MN nonprofits

2010: 42,596 donors raised $10 million for 3,663 MN nonprofits

2011: 47,537 donors raised $13,559,530 for 3,978 MN nonprofits

Additional cash prizes went to the top three fundraisers in each of four categories. They are:

MAIN LEADERBOARD (all nonprofits except colleges and universities)

1 Cretin-Derham Hall
2 Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners
3 Second Harvest Heartland

MEDIUM NONPROFITS

1 Shir Tikvah Congregation
2 Wildcat Sanctuary
3 LISTENING HOUSE OF ST PAUL INC

SMALL NONPROFITS

1 WHITE DOVE FOUNDATION
2 MINNESOTA SHELTIE RESCUE
3 A Rotta Love Plus

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

1 St. Olaf College
2 CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION
3 College of Saint Benedict

According to tonight's tally, people gave an average of $11,383 a minute to Minnesota nonprofits and schools over the past 24 hours.

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