Thu, Nov 17th, 2022 - 2:42pm
December 20, 2022 - 1:05pm | By Tom Tucker
(Fargo, ND) -- The Fargo Moorhead Salvation Army is running short on Red Kettle volunteers and falling short of their annual fundraising goal.
"I think inflation is a factor into all of our incomes and abilities to spend that. The sensitivity that I want to bring to that though is that the people we serve have the minimal resources. So inflation directly affects that. It also affects us as an organization in that inflated costs cost us more money to go to provide the services to the least of those in need," said Major Abe Tamayo.
Tamayo says the local fundraising goal for the Salvation Army this year is $1 million, but so far, they've collected a little more than half that amount. They also are calling for volunteers to help staff the 29 Red Kettle sites around the metro.
Volunteer sign-ups are happening online at RegistertoRing.com.
Tamayo says the donations they've collected so far includes gold coins.
"We've had three gold coins given to us, and so that is about $1,800 apiece, rate of gold right now per ounce, so three coins about $1,800 each," said Tamayo.
