RAPID CITY, S.D. — Two local nonprofits – the Cornerstone Women and Children’s Home and the Bella Pregnancy Center – obtained a much-needed donation Monday morning.
Black Hills Community Bank has run the annual “Diaper Drive” for the previous 12 years. Collected all through the month of June, donations come from clients, workers and the neighborhood.
The stack of packaged diapers goes a good distance in serving to Cornerstone look after local, economically-challenged households.
“I’d say a donation of this magnitude covers our wants for a yr,” mentioned Mark Harlow, President of the Cornerstone Board of Directors. “Plus, we will now hand diapers out to those that are available in briefly and have this want.”
It wasn’t simply diapers that had been introduced in; Black Hills Community Bank ran fundraisers and partnered with local organizations like The Optimists Club to buy extra diapers.
“We had a silent public sale…on-line public sale that we do in partnership with our Spearfish financial institution, after which we additionally had bake gross sales; we had bingo nights,” says Tiffany Smith, the Vice President of Marketing at Black Hills Community Bank. “We did the whole lot we might.”
They’ve been in a position to donate greater than half 1,000,000 diapers within the final 12 years, and Smith says they’re already wanting to subsequent yr’s diaper drive.
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