Caribou MY20 News at 10 2009 07 22 0

CAMPAIGN EXTENDED THRU END OF SEPTEMBER! Caribou Coffee will host Pay It 4Ward day Thursday, July 23 at 19 Metro Detroit locations to help fight unemployment in the area. The Pay It 4ward campaign centers around envelopes to be filled with dollar bills, passed from person to person, until they reach 25 people.
Every $25 dollars collected in a Pay It 4ward envelope, or online at http://www.payit4warddetroit.org, will help provide an entire day of career training for an unemployed Metro Detroiter for a job of the future
Each Metro Detroit Caribou coffee location will offer free samples Thursday of 20 new items along with giveaways for customers who participate in the campaign. Ten percent of gross sales at all 19 locations between 3 p.m. and close on Thursday will go to the Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit.
Pay It 4Ward participants can also drop off a completed envelope at any Metro Detroit Caribou location throughout July and receive a free beverage (any size). Additionally, Caribou Coffee will offer participants at each Metro Detroit location the opportunity to win a $100 gift card at the end of the initiative. For every 1,000 local people Goodwill Industries puts to work, the organization estimates up to $25 million in wages are earned and spent locally to boost the Metro Detroit economy each year they are on the job.
Goodwills effort to help this areas unemployed find jobs is extremely important to Metro Detroit right now, said Adam Stansberry, greater Detroit area district manager for Caribou Coffee. Our employees have really embraced the Goodwill program and our customers appreciate Caribou giving them a chance to support the community, not to mention the free coffee and prizes were offering to participants.
for more information: www.payit4warddetroit.org

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