It has been a great fall of fund-raising for the Antigonish Affordable Housing Society.
Interim Chair Colleen Cameron says a raffle and an on-line auction garnered more than $8,500.
Riverside Estates, a project of the Antigonish Affordable Housing Society. (Ken Kingston photo)
Cameron says they also had a month-long fund-raising drive. An anonymous donor agreed to match all donations to the society up to a maximum of $20,000. Contributions exceeded $30,000. That places the fund-raiser’s final total at more than $50,000. Cameron says money is still coming in.
Cameron believes there are several factors behind the success of the raffle, the on-line acution and the fund-raiser. She says with housing and homelessness as major concerns and with the approach of Christmas, people want to share what they can to help.