UPDATE: Arizona Gives Day Raises $6.1 Million for Nonprofits

With the final numbers now in, Arizonans donated $6.1 million to the state’s nonprofit organizations during Arizona Gives Day 2020. Last year, the event raised $3.6 million.

Hosted by the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits and Arizona Grantmakers Forum and presented by FirstBank, 39,000 donations totaling $6,095,007 were made to 913 organizations.

Donors also generated $150,757 for the Emergency Relief Fund, which will be distributed equally among each of the 983 participating nonprofit organizations. Donations to the relief fund can be made until the end of April.

Additionally, 2,225 volunteers pledged 81,862 hours to the state’s nonprofit community.

Arizona Gives Day has generated more than $23 million for Arizona nonprofits over the past eight years.

“Here we are, more than ten days after the event officially ended, and we are still stunned by the astonishing response to Arizona Gives Day when hundreds of thousands of people in our state are not working because of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits CEO Kristen Merrifield. “To say we are grateful on behalf of the nonprofits across Arizona doesn’t even begin to express how we feel about the people of our state. Truly remarkable.”

Donations to the 983 nonprofit organizations can be made all year through the Arizona Gives Day website at azgives.org.