Pancake Benefit Success

17th Annual Pancake Benefit:
A Record Breaking Event!

Story by Nathan Stallinga, Development Director

We would like to thank all the people who made our 17^th Annual Pancake Benefit such a huge success! It was a record-breaking event.

For the first time, we raised over $100,000 in sponsorships, in-kind advertising, ticket sales, monetary donations, and items sold the day of the event.

We were honored to have 2,960 of the 4,035 people who purchased tickets join us at the Historic Coliseum in downtown Sioux Falls on Sunday, March 29^th. This was an increase of over 300 people from last year! On average, we served over 455 people per hour!

Thanks again, for everyone who purchased tickets or made a donation towards the event. Our sponsors included:

Major sponsors: Omnicare of South Dakota, Great Western Bank, CITI, Sammons Financial - Midland National Life & First Premier Bank and Bankcard.

Event sponsors: Builders Supply Company, CNA Surety, CorTrust Bank, Mike and Vikki Wilds, Sioux Falls Firefighters, Sprenger Midwest, Inc., Thornton Carpets, Hy-Vee, SD Achieve Auxiliary & RSArchitechs.

In-Kind Sponsors: Midcontinent Communications and Results Radio.

Also, we would like to thank the 70+ volunteers who helped. Our volunteers included representatives from many different community organizations as well as staff from South Dakota Achieve. Without your help, we could have never done it!

As our radio ad stated, “Sometimes a pancake is more than a pancake…by supporting this event, you are directly supporting people to Achieve their dreams!”

We look forward to seeing you next year.