PRSA TB Donates $435 and 28 Toys
Posted on Dec. 30, 2022 / Subscribe 0
Joseph (second from left) dropping off the donations from our holiday mixer to the team at the Metropolitan Ministries holiday tent.
By Joseph Priest, APR
PRSA Tampa Bay has done it again! We wrapped up the year in a big way by helping make the holidays a little brighter for a lot of local kids. On Dec. 14, our chapter concluded the year at the Straz Center for the Performing Arts with our annual holiday mixer, and, continuing a tradition, the Public Service Committee held a toy drive to bring in donations for Metropolitan Ministries.
Additionally, this year’s drive, for the second year in a row, included an online fundraiser component through which monetary donations could be made directly to Metropolitan Ministries, and also included the participation of the American Marketing Association Tampa Bay, which co-hosted the holiday mixer with PRSA Tampa Bay this year and helped roughly double our overall donations.
Members and guests mingle at the mixer at the Straz Center.
Thanks to the generosity of our PRSA chapter, the AMA chapter and our guests, we succeeded in collecting 28 gifts, including a variety of toys, dolls, books, and games, as well as $435 in direct online contributions to Metropolitan Ministries.
Twenty-eight toys await drop-off!
We dropped off the gifts at the Metropolitan Ministries Holiday Tent shortly after the mixer, which wasn’t a moment too soon to help many needy families looking for gifts for the holiday season. Metropolitan Ministries expected to serve more than 30,000 families in need for Thanksgiving and Christmas in 2022, a yearly need that our chapter has eagerly helped serve over the past several years.
To entice even more donations for this effort, we held a prize drawing to award the contributors. To be eligible, PRSA members, AMA members, or guests had to bring a new, unwrapped gift, which was collected with other gifts for drop-off later at Metropolitan Ministries, or make a donation through the online fundraiser. Each gift or $10 donated earned the contributor one ticket entered in a drawing for prizes, which this time included four $10 Starbucks gift cards, one $20 Chick-fil-A gift card, one $40 Datz gift card, one $50 Cheesecake Factory gift card, and, for the grand prize, one $75 Ulele gift card.
Incoming 2023 PRSA Tampa Bay President Terri Durdaller selects a ticket and identifies a winner during the drawing.
Presenting one of the prizes to a winner.
The Public Service Committee thanks everyone who participated in the toy drive and online fundraiser, and everyone who helped our chapter give back to the community throughout the year. Stay tuned to the PRSA Tampa Bay website for more ways you can help us serve in 2023.
Thank you to everyone who donated a toy or cash gift to help Metropolitan Ministries make the holidays brighter for Tampa Bay area families!
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