February 17, 2017

We are FEELIN’ the LOVE!! This year’s group of Team Leaders deserves many thanks for all the time and effort they dedicated to SHARE the LOVE with the TFFT Scholars.

In this year’s challenge, we selected leaders from all across the United States and even overseas! Our Team Leaders represented North Carolina, Colorado, Washington, Florida, Illinois, Scotland, and England. We had lots of brand new faces, which brought fresh energy to this challenge. We also had some veteran Team Leaders who make this commitment to TFFT year after year.

These hard working, motivated individuals used their creativity to spread awareness about the reality that exists for our scholars. Collectively, this group achieved their fundraising goal and raised a total of $15,030. We are amazed at the outpouring of love and generosity of our Team Leaders’ friends and family and grateful to Team Leaders for using their voices to SHARE the LOVE!

Ryan deserves a special shoutout for his hard work that (quite literally) paid off. He alone raised just over $6,000 for our scholars with nearly 50 donations. WOW!! Ryan is a great example of a champion of TFFT’s work, and we are grateful for his efforts!

On top of her hard work fundraising for RIDETZ, Katy was ready to once again commit to support TFFT. In addition to fundraising, she did an awesome job spreading awareness. She gathered her friends to make heaps of valentines to send to our scholars in Tanzania. They will be delighted to receive them!

Some of our leaders gathered friends and hosted a bake sale or pizza party at school. Thank you Murphy, Blair, and Violet for organizing that! Violet also set the bar high for a first time SHARE the LOVE leader. She received the greatest number of donations out of all the new leaders, and far surpassed her $1,000 fundraising goal!

Jerry was another very impressive first-time Team Leader. He worked diligently to spread awareness with among relatives and friends. Even as the youngest team leader of the bunch, Jerry set a high bar for himself and exceeded his fundraising goal!

Jada and Mary Hill both came back strong as returning leaders this year. Each of them generously hosted a get together with friends, and they put in the time and effort that it took to beat their fundraising goals. Mary Hill brought SHARE the LOVE to Scotland!

We had a couple of sibling duos serve as Team Leaders this year. Talia returned to SHARE the LOVE for her second year. Her brother Julian joined as a leader this year, and brought fresh enthusiasm to the challenge. Our group of Team Leaders would not have been complete without sisters Macon and Miller. Macon organized a spin class to benefit her SHARE the LOVE efforts. Miller represented TFFT internationally for our Valentine’s campaign, from England.

Sydney was another returning leader that knocked it out of the park and exceeded her fundraising goal this year. She first traveled to Tanzania for safari with her family and has creatively supported throughout middle school, high school, and now college. We are always thrilled to have her back!!

We are so grateful to all of these young adults for spreading awareness to SHARE the LOVE!