Ace is “the helpful place” and our Ace Blackhawk Hardware customers are taking that slogan to a whole new level. During the month of April, the Ace Foundation ran its inaugural Round Up for Kids donation drive in 514 participating Ace Hardware stores across the nation. We are extremely proud of our local Blackhawk Hardware customers to have raised more than the customers of each of 512 other Ace stores in the United States! You all are amazing!
During the Round Up for Kids campaign, our cashiers asked our customers if they wanted to round up their purchase total for a donation to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. We are in awe and very grateful for all of our customers for giving over $4,200, an amount surpassed only by an Ace store in Maryland. The monies raised are going directly to our local Charlotte Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, the Levine Children’s Hospital.
Adding to this generous amount, Stanley Tools is contributing their own “round up” and is rounding up the donations of the nation’s top 10 Round Up for Kids Stores to the nearest thousand dollars. That’s a total of $5,000 for Levine Children’s Hospital thanks to your generosity! Thank you Blackhawk customers and Stanley Tools!
Nationwide, over 500 Ace Hardware stores participated and more than 867,000 customers donated change to their local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. The donation total adds up to a whooping $415,000! For next year the Ace Foundation hopes to at least double the amount of involved Ace stores. We cannot wait to repeat this overwhelmingly successful campaign for our local children and their families!
