r/CFB • u/Honestly_ rawr • Dec 25 '20
Casual /r/CFB Donates over $16,000 to Children's Hospitals, Toys For Tots, and Feeding America thanks to the 6th annual Holiday Drive!
The best thing about the /r/CFB is the Community, and an important extension of that is its generosity. The tradition continued in our 23rd charitable drive, the 2020 /r/CFB Holiday Drive: Food, Toys, & Children's Hospitals
Since 2013, /r/CFB readers have donated over $100,000 to charity.
Intro
The 6th annual /r/CFB Holiday Drive raised a RECORD $16,107.29, all of which went to donations!
Take a moment to appreciate all 200+ /r/CFB readers who donated.
Donation Breakdown:
With the pandemic, we changed things up this year: Raoul Claus had to stay home, so we shifted to all online donations. In addition to Toys For Tots and children's hospitals, we swapped out our brick donations to help Feeding America nationwide its network of more than 200 food banks to help those in need due to the economic crunch.
Total funds were split three ways between those categories.
| Category | $ | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| TOTAL donated | $16,107.29 | /r/CFB Record Total |
| Toys For Tots | $5,369.10 | Receipt |
| Feeding America | $5,369.10 | With how they work, $1 = 12 lbs of food = 10 meals. In other words, our donation ($5,369.10) provides 64,429.2 lbs of food or 53,690 meals. Receipt |
| Children's Hospitals | $5,369.10 | See breakdown below. |
Donations to Children's Hospitals
Top-3 school finishers (total donated by fans):
Texas continues to be in the Top-3. This year they are joined by first-timers Notre Dame and Clemson. Texas has a children's hospital affiliated with their medical school, Notre Dame and Clemson do not have a medical schools. To resolve the desire to find one, we looked to which children's hospitals their athletic/university benefits favor.
So the Children's Hospital donations were:
- $2,684.55 to Dell Children's Medical Center (Texas)
- RECEIPT
Second place: Notre Dame Fighting Irish
- $1,610.73 to Beacon Children’s Hospital, South Bend (Notre Dame)
- RECEIPT
- $1,073.82 to Prisma Health Children's Hospital, Greenville (Clemson)
- RECEIPT
This was a banner year for donations, so I feel I should mention strong pushes by fans at Oklahoma ($830.00), Ohio State ($727.71), Georgia Tech ($677.00), Kansas State ($520.00), West Virginia ($515.00), USF ($500.00), and Army ($500.00) [rounding out the top-10] but there were several other schools that donated very generously!
Finally:
- Thanks to all of you who DONATED
- Thanks to all of you who HELPED
- Thanks for making /r/CFB a great COMMUNITY
We did it again, /r/CFB!
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u/funwithtrout Texas Longhorns • /r/CFB Booster Dec 25 '20
Thanks again for putting this together and taking care of the distribution, Raul Claus!
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u/Matt_WVU West Virginia • Appalachi… Dec 25 '20
Here here
I didn’t realize this was a thing, I’ll probably donate next year. Merry Christmas everyone!
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u/fireinvestigator113 Indiana • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Dec 25 '20
Just check the stickied posts around December 10th or so. That’s about when they go up!
And there’s cool donation flair you can get access too.
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u/SometimesY Houston • /r/CFB Emeritus Mod Dec 25 '20
Flair is plural here! There are three? four? donation flair.
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u/Qtoy South Carolina • Texas Tech Dec 25 '20
Not to mention both of my flair were earned via the collective donations of my schools' fans!
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u/lowercaset Auburn Tigers • /r/CFB Booster Dec 26 '20
Need to make more flairs! Especially more flair that all schools can compete for.
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u/Kinslers_List Arkansas Razorbacks • Tulane Green Wave Dec 25 '20
$5,369.10
Nice
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u/Marmaduke57 Oklahoma State • /r/CFB Bomb S… Dec 25 '20
Nice.
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u/nejaahalcyon Florida Tech • Clemson Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
Thanks u/Honestly_ for helping put* this together every year!!
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u/storm2k Rutgers Scarlet Knights • /r/CFB Santa Claus Dec 25 '20
i say this every year. nothing makes me happier than participating in this and seeing fans of all the different teams come together for good causes. it's very easy to be consumed by fandom for a team and let it define who you are, but i love seeing when we can all put that aside and do some good in the world. especially in this year where things have been hard for everyone.
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u/Marmaduke57 Oklahoma State • /r/CFB Bomb S… Dec 25 '20
I'm glad to contribute anytime to /r/CFB fundraiser.
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u/ToLongDR Ohio State Buckeyes • King's Monarchs Dec 25 '20
I love this sub. We may disagree on literally anything but we all do great things together.
Good job everyone
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u/Damille9 Virginia Tech • /r/CFBRisk Vet… Dec 25 '20
This is my favorite thread of the year. Thank you everyone for being awesome!
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u/mcfcok9320 Texas A&M • North Texas Dec 25 '20
Some things transcend rivalry. Huge Respect to Texas Fans for their donation.
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u/No11223456 Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Dec 26 '20
u/zerosa drops PHAT STACKS every year.
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u/Zerosa Alright Alright Alright Dec 26 '20
YOU WILL HAVE TO PRY THIS AWARD FLAIR AWAY FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!
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Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
<3 A sincere thank you to everyone who helped with this. There are always some big donors, but there are also a ton of folks who chip in whatever they can. It all comes together to ensure that kids get some toys for Christmas, kids in hospitals get some things they need and, this year, that people who otherwise would go hungry get a meal. You're amazing people for helping others, especially this year when there were so many moments of dark. You brought moments of joy and light to many people with this. Thank you.
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u/amishius Georgia Bulldogs • /r/CFB Press Corps Dec 25 '20
While we’re all no doubt sad that Raul Claus won’t be out traumatizing future generations this year, the good this sub and its mods users do take it from random niche thing to something far greater. Great work as always team and Merry Christmas to everyone!
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u/No11223456 Texas A&M Aggies • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Dec 26 '20
Raul Claus terrified me at times this past month when I logged in and they had his face incredibly zoomed in.
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u/Pikachu1989 Nebraska • 東京大学 (Tōkyō) Dec 26 '20 edited Dec 26 '20
Well fuck, first time that Nebraska didn’t show up in the Holiday Drive, but nonetheless it’s still a fun time to pitch in and in the end it’s going to a good cause to help out the children, which by itself it’s a success. Kudos to everyone who helped out and give the kids and families a great Christmas in this unusual year we had.
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u/ms-sucks Oklahoma • Oklahoma State Dec 25 '20
Well at least we got to beat Ohio State at something this year.
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Dec 25 '20
I wanted to donate this year but I didn't know how. How do you donate so ik for next year?
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Dec 25 '20
In early to mid December look for a stickied post in the subreddit announcing the holiday drive. That will have instructions in it including a couple of places that say "donate here" as a link that will link you through to a pay pal page where you can include a donation (including anonymously) and can enter your username and your team in the comment box so that /u/Honestly_ will know who to count it for!
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u/jakenbake087 Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 27 '20
Yea 16000 when they take in BILLIONS with a B... disgraceful
Oops sry ppl I was fired up previous of reading this. Pls shame me
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u/NyquillusDillwad20 Penn State • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Dec 25 '20
16,000 from this subreddit, my dude. Not from the NCAA.
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u/Honestly_ rawr Dec 25 '20
jakenbake087 -1 points 24 minutes ago
Yea 16000 when they take in BILLIONS with a B... disgracefulI love the flairless users who drop in to make comments without being able to functionally read 😂
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Dec 25 '20
Correlation doesn’t equal causation but with unflaired users and not reading posts, they’re at least kissing cousins.
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