MEMBER NEWS
High 5 Hospitality Plunges Down
and Whoops It Up!
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2015 Issue 2 |
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igh 5 Hospitality’s Buffalo Wild Wings® stores participate in
multiple fundraisers throughout the year. Two recent events
were the Whoop It Up! Fundraiser and the Polar Bear Plunge.
BWW hosted the third annual Whoop It Up! Fundraiser
for the Cancer Support Community March 18. The organization’s mission is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer
are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action and
sustained by community. The Buffalo Wild Wings® of Rehoboth
Beach, Delaware, donates a buffet of delicious food and restaurant space for this ticketed event each year. BWW first became
involved with the fundraiser through a contact of High 5 Hospitality’s marketing manager, Alison MacKenzie. The two sat
down and discussed a couple ideas for how BWW could partner
with the Cancer Support Community. This meeting ended up
bringing about the creation of Whoop It Up!
This year’s fundraiser included activities such as a silent
auction, games and fellowship. Among the items up for auction
were a surf board, gift packages from local businesses and a
bicycle. More than 75 people attended the 2015 event and
raised more than $2,500 for the Cancer Support
Community. Since its inception in 2012, Whoop
It Up! has raised more than $11,600 to support
its community-based initiatives and over 300
people have attended the event throughout the
past three years.
“Whoop It Up! is such a wonderful event,”
says Morgan Fabber, special event coordinator
for the Cancer Support Community in Sussex
County. “It brings people together for great
food, fellowship and a lot of fun. We consider
Whoop It Up! not only a fundraiser to support
our free programs and resources for people who
are coping with cancer; it’s also a friend-raiser.
The event helps us create awareness for the
importance of emotional support during cancer.
We appreciate the kindness and generosity
of Buffalo Wild Wings® in being such a strong
community partner!”
A month before the Whoop It Up! event, staff from High 5
Hospitality’s Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, location participated
in a completely different type of fundraiser. Staff members from
the restaurant took part in the Lewes Polar Bear Plunge, the
Special Olympics of Delaware’s most significant fundraiser.
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