(Gettysburg, PA: 10/31/2019)  — The Adams County Community Foundation announced today that the Giving Spree, Adams County’s Annual Day of Giving, will kick off November 7 at the Gettysburg Area Middle School with at least $100,000 in Stretch Pool gifts.  The Stretch Pool provides an incentive for donors to help raise $1 million dollars for Adams County in a single day. Last year’s stretch pools totaled $57,000 when donors raised more than $733,000.

Leading the way this year in stretch pool contributions is the LeCompte Family, whose gift is in honor of their ancestor, Lydia Ziegler, and acknowledges her fortitude at the age of 13 when she cared for wounded and dying soldiers following the Battle of Gettysburg at Seminary Ridge.

The J. William Warehime Foundation Fund will support the stretch pool with a gift to benefit all nonprofits. Mr. Warehime, a graduate of Eichelberger High School, class of 1945 and Gettysburg College, class of 1950, had been active in many community organizations and gave generously to local charities. He died in 2008.

Other significant donations to the Stretch Pool come from the Thomas E. & Florence B. Metz Fund for Adams County, the Adams County Community Foundation Board of Directors, Knouse Food Fund and Gettysburg College Alumni and Friends of Adam County. In addition, an anonymous donor has provided $10,000 to match special gold coins available to the first 1,000 people who attend the Spree.  

Anyone can help the Stretch Pool continue to grow, prior to or during the Giving Spree, by adding their own gift to the Stretch Pool by using code #99 on the Donor Form. Participating nonprofits will receive a percentage of the Stretch Pool based on the amount they raise on November 7, 2019. For information on the 2019 Giving Spree, please visit adamscountycf.org