17th
Annual Pancake Benefit: A Record
Breaking Event!
Story by Nathan Stallinga, Development
Director
We would like to thank all the people
who made our 17th Annual
Pancake Benefit such a huge success! It
was a record-breaking event.
For the
first time, we raised over $100,000 in sponsorships, in-kind
advertising, ticket sales, monetary donations, and items sold the day of
the event.
We were
honored to have 2,960 of the 4,035 people who purchased tickets join us
at the Historic Coliseum in downtown Sioux Falls on Sunday, March 29th.
This was an increase of over 300 people from last year! On
average, we served over 455 people per hour!
Thanks
again, for everyone who purchased tickets or made a donation towards the
event. Our sponsors included:
Major
sponsors:
Omnicare of South Dakota, Great Western Bank, CITI, Sammons Financial -
Midland National Life & First Premier Bank and Bankcard.
Event
sponsors:
Builders Supply Company, CNA Surety, CorTrust Bank, Mike and Vikki
Wilds, Sioux Falls Firefighters, Sprenger Midwest, Inc., Thornton
Carpets, Hy-Vee, SD Achieve Auxiliary & RSArchitechs.
In-Kind
Sponsors:
Midcontinent Communications and Results Radio.
Also, we would like to thank the 70+ volunteers who helped. Our
volunteers included representatives from many different
community organizations as well as staff from South Dakota
Achieve. Without your help, we could have never done it!
As our radio ad stated,
“Sometimes a pancake is more than a pancake…by supporting this
event, you are directly supporting people to Achieve their
dreams!”
