Florida Disaster Fund has raised $45M for Hurricane Ian victims – Action News Jax

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis gave an replace on Hurricane Ian fundraising aid efforts in Jacksonville on Monday afternoon.

DeSantis was at Adamec Harley-Davidson of Baymeadows, alongside Volunteer Florida CEO Josie Tamayo, to speak in regards to the Florida Disaster Fund and volunteer alternatives.

The First Lady mentioned that up to now, the Florida Disaster Fund has raised $45 million with 62,000 completely different donors. She mentioned state officers requested a number of bank card firms to waive their processing charges, they usually agreed, so 100% of the funds raised will go to those that want them.

“Our work has only begun,” DeSantis mentioned.

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DeSantis additionally highlighted inventive fundraising efforts by native companies equivalent to Adamec Harley-Davidson, which has designed a particular T-shirt that’s free with a $10 donation and 100% of these proceeds will go to the Florida Disaster Fund. Businesses which are taken with discovering inventive methods to help the Florida Disaster Fund are inspired to name 850-414-7400.

Tamayo mentioned the $45 million is what has been raised since Sept. 27. She additionally mentioned the fund has had contributions from 80 company sponsors, together with Florida Blue and CSX.

“This is a storm like no other,” Tamayo mentioned.

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Volunteer Florida is engaged on the bottom with native nonprofits in Southwest Florida to distribute the monies within the Florida Disaster Fund to Ian victims, and the company additionally has volunteer alternatives accessible for those that need to assist on its website.

DeSantis additionally talked about that she and her husband, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and their children went to see Jacksonville’s personal Lynyrd Skynyrd in live performance on Sunday night time on the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood and the Van Zant brothers donated $100,000 to the Florida Disaster Fund. She mentioned the Seminole Tribe additionally matched that donation, making for a complete of $200,000 going to the fund.

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