Our 16th Annual December Backpack Campaign!
Your support of 88.5 WFDD means everything to us. Your generosity allows us to provide award-winning local news coverage, national and international news, youth education initiatives, special events that help us all stay connected, and so much more.
Each December, we come together with you to do something extraordinary:
Ensure that the most vulnerable children in our community have the food they need, while also providing essential funding for WFDD.
When you make a gift in any amount to support everything you value about WFDD, our partner Kaplan Early Learning Company will donate a backpack full of nutritious, kid-friendly food to Second Harvest Food Bank's BackPack Program. The goal is 1,300 gifts of support for WFDD, which means 1,300 backpacks of food!
Over the last 15 years, this very special fund drive has filled 15,700 backpacks of food for children in our region who are at risk of hunger. And none of that would have happened without the support of listeners and our amazing community. Together, we'll add 1,300 more backpacks to that total. Your gift now means more outstanding programming in the year to come, and it helps feed a child in need in our community.
According to Second Harvest Food Bank, our state ranks among the worst in the nation for the percentage of children living at risk of hunger. Currently, 1 in 5 children in our community suffers from food insecurity. That means many kids don't know where their next meal may come from. Click here to learn more about childhood hunger in Northwest North Carolina. And click here to check out Feeding America's interactive "Map the Meal Gap" map.
1 in 5
Currently, 1 in 5 children in our community suffers from food insecurity.
Love Month is right around the corner!
February is Love Month, and we want you to stay cozy with our newly hand thrown pottery Love Mugs designed by local artist Pam Taylor. That's right! She's back with new mugs this year and they are gorgeous! We'll post some photos of them soon but for now check out the dates and get them added to your calendar! We hope to see you soon. Join us at a Love Mug stop and if you donate a gift in any amount you'll receive a drip coffee or hot tea on the house thanks to our partner cafes! If you donate $180 or more you'll get to take home your very own Love Mug!
