Twenty-four organizations from around the Chattanooga area received more than $34,000 raised through BI-LO Charities’ boostersplus® program.
For participating members of boostersplus®, BI-LO donates 1% of their grocery purchases to the charity of their choice by connecting customers’ BI-LO BONUSCARDs to the boostersplus® program.
At a check presentation event held today at the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library Downtown, the following organizations received funding from the boostersplus program:
Gilbert Elementary School ($1,347.84), Soddy Daisy Food Bank ($1,500), Soddy Daisy High School Basketball Cheerleaders ($1,500), Soddy Daisy High School Football Cheerleaders ($1,500), The Care Mission ($1,500), Flat Rock Community Center ($1,500), Tri-State Food Pantry ($1,500), Trenton United Methodist Church ($1,500), Friends of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Library ($1,500), Red Bank High School JROTC ($1,500), Chattanooga Community Kitchen ($1,212.93), Brown Middle School ($1,500), Loftis Middle School Cheerleaders ($1,500), Hixson Middle School Cheerleaders ($1,500), Hixson High School Cheerleaders ($1,500), Bethel Bible Village ($1,500), Hixson High School ($1,500), Habitat for Humanity of Town and Union Counties ($1,500), Union General Hospital Auxiliary ($1,021.50), Ooltewah High School Band Boosters ($1.500), Missing Children’s Foundation ($1,500), Etowah Area Senior Citizens Center ($1,500), Polk County High School Science Club ($1,043.17), Boyd Buchanan School ($1,500).
“The boostersplus® program is one way BI-LO partners with our customers to support schools and charitable organizations in the Chattanooga area,” said BI-LO Charities executive director Carol Browning. “Our customers tell us which local organizations they want to support and BI-LO provides funding based on a percent of our customer’s purchases. We are proud to have donated to schools, churches and other charities through boostersplus®. ”