But other Sandy Hook victims' funds do make public the total amount of monetary donations they've received. Those donations are in MILLIONS of dollars.
Below is
a list of the total amounts received by some Sandy Hook victims' funds. These are only the funds I was able to find:
* More than $1,000 was raised "in just over 3 hours" by Newtown High School's Peer Leadership
group for The Sandy Hook School Support Fund. The group did it by
enlisting seven NHS faculty members to stand in as servers at
Pizza Palace Restaurant
on February 12, with the restaurant's customers -- many of them
students of the teachers -- encouraged to tip generously during the
special event.
* $1,620 raised by Cathy Canfield on YouCaring.com, $1000 of which she said would go to the town of Newtown.
* $2,500 raised by Isabel Linzer, a high school student at Yorktown High School in Virginia, who collected donations at her school, in her community, and from businesses.
*
$10,000 raised by Andrew Ernest, a senior at Oswego East High School in
Oswego, Ill., for the Newtown Memorial Fund. On February 18, 2013, the
teenager traveled to Newtown to deliver in person the $10,000 he had
raised over one month through efforts made at his high school. The
Newtown Memorial Fund has a Facebook page and a website.
* $200,000 raised by the United Way of Western Connecticut as a fund to be used "for youth programs and for
mental health services for those affected by the shootings" on Dec. 14.
*
$1 million raised thus far by the Newtown Memorial Fund, 'to provide
for the immediate and ongoing needs of those affected by the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy."
* $1.3 million raised by the My Sandy Hook
Family Fund, started by a group of Newtown parents. According to the
Newtown Bee, the $1.3 million 'is already being distributed directly to
the 26 victims" families, with each receiving approximately $47,000.
Since the $1.3 million represents only half of the fund's goal of $2.6
million, when/if the fund reaches its total, that means each Sandy Hook victim family will get $100,000 from just this fund alone.
* $8.5 million raised by the Sandy Hook School Support Fund, as of January 18, 2013.
* $9 million raised by a United Way/Newtown Savings
Bank fund, from which a foundation "the Newtown-Sandy Hook
Community Foundation Inc. " was created to disperse the funds. The
Foundation is headed by a panel of local and state leaders who are in
charge of reviewing requests for distributions from the fund. The panel
includes Monsignor Robert Weiss of Newtown's St Rose of Lima parish,
former Newtown
Finance Director
Ben Spragg, Danbury Hospital's chair of psychiatry Dr Charles R.
Herrick, Newtown attorney Anne Ragusa, and former finance committee
chair of the Legislative Council Joe DeCandido. Meanwhile, the fund will
continue to receive donations.
By my count, the above comes to a total of $19,015,120 -- over $19 million.
The $19+ million represent just the donations
I was able to find, most of them from the Newtown Bee, Newtown's local
newspaper. Curiously, when I click on the URLs for the individual news
articles I had retrieved just a few days ago, I now get this
message: "Page not found: The requested page could not be found."
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
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(PHOTO: Community Giveaway at Newtown's Reed Intermediate School)
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