Give to the Max Day: Hey Stillwater Nonprofits, We Want to Help You Raise Money

This is a notice for all Stillwater-area nonprofit leaders: Share your story with us.

With Give to the Max Day coming up on Nov. 15—where hundreds of thousands of dollars will flow to our local nonprofits Stillwater Patch wants to give you an opportunity to share your organization's story and why people should offer it a gift.

FamilyMeans Strengthens Communities by Strengthening Families

Youth Advantage Competes in Give to the Max Day "Youth Video Contest" & More

Washington County Historical Society - Give to the Max Day!

Give to the Max and Save Bernie's Bog

Valley Preschool Participating in Give to the Max Day!

Give to the Max Day! Support Dads Make a Difference - Building Youth Capacity for Responsible Future Parenting

Oak-Land Junior High PTA partners with GiveMN.org

This is the first year GiveMN is allowing K-12 public schools to fundraise on the site, and we've heard several parent groups in the Stillwater Area School District will be actively fundraising for their schools.

During Give to the Max Day, 2012 public schools will be eligible for prize grants in the form of hourly “Golden Tickets” – an hourly drawing to add $1,000 to a person’s donation - randomly selected from donors who gave during each hour of the event. At the end of the event, one public schools donor will be drawn to receive a Super-sized Golden Ticket, adding $10,000 to their donation!

We want to help you raise money.

Last year, $13.6 million was raised in Minnesota on Give To the Max Day, with GiveMN.org, the group behind the annual giving day, handing out another $4,161,929 in incentives for groups that met benchmarks for individual donations and dollars raised.

Click here for a full list of nonprofits in the 55082 zip code participating in Give to the Max Day.

Blogging on Patch and sharing your story is as easy as clicking here. In case you missed that, you can try again by clicking here. Seriously, we want to help you raise money next Thursday. You can also email me at shawn.hogendorf@patch.com for help or if you have any questions.

In addition to getting great visibility on the frontpage of our site, being promoted to our followers on Facebook and Twitter, we'll also include a list of those who blogged on Patch in our preview story of Give to the Max Day next week.

Seriously, what's not to love about all that?

There's one day left, so we hope you take advantage of our platform to reach out to the community. We'd also welcome you to continue to share your news and stories with the community through Patch. We're a tool for you to use—please do.

Happy fundraising!