Charity Bowl Final: $1.76M Raised for Refugees

A good thing happened on the internet last week.

My personal hope is that you were aware and contributed to the fun: The EDSBS Charity Bowl. Also, popularly known as the Charitibundi Bowl.

A week-long fundraising drive that’s gone on for 20 years now, where proceeds go to New American Pathway sin Georgia, which helps benefit refugees who enter America. The week-long charity ended up raises a whopping $1,763,317! This charity bowl has busted the ceiling of $1 million raised in each of the last three years, a true testament to the type of community they — Holly Anderson and Spencer Hall — have wanted to foster online and around their work as writers and podcasters.

As fans were able to choose which school they’d like to claim on the Money Cannon leaderboards, Eastern Michigan fans, supporters, and random choosers raised $777 — 10th in the MAC, and 128th in the nation. Michigan, as always, walked away with the top spot on the overall leaderboard with $293,789! Second place was Protect Trans Kids University at $257,663! Go Sharks!

The MAC’s top-donating school ended up being Miami OH at $3,827, followed by Western Michigan at $3,685, and Buffalo at $2,210 to highlight the top 3. Five more MAC schools donated their ways into the four-digit club: UMass ($1,708), Bowling Green ($1,684), Ohio ($1,087), Ball State ($1,081), and Kent State ($1,006).

EMU ended up in 10th at $777, just below CMU’s $878 but above Akron ($748), Toledo ($742), and new MAC mates Sacramento State ($533).

Of course, raising $777 as a group effort to benefit brave refugees entering this country is nothing to feel discouraged or bad about. If you’re feeling sour about EMU’s finish here, I suggest you start saving up for next year’s drive.

IT’S A VOLUME GAME

Speaking of saving up for next year’s drive: consider that it doesn’t always take big-sized checks to make a huge difference.

The Charity Bowl’s website says that 5,624 donors contributed to the $1.7 million total. Obviously, not everybody gave the average donation of $313.53. Roughly half of the donations this drive raised were in the $20-100 range.