Mission: Successful

For Rich Couch, COO and general manager,  Reay's Ranch Investors, and his employees at the company's Super Stop and Minit Market convenience stores and Gordon’s IGA Markets nothing is impossible.  The team made a Mission:  Impossible goal Mission: Successful in their 2009 fundraising drive for Arizona's Children Association.  The goal of the drive was $100,000.

First, they sold $1.00 placards at their stores, which raised $53,217.  Next was the first annual Reay's Ranch Golf Tournament at The Preserve Golf Club at SaddleBrooke, which raised $37,000.

With only $10,000 to go to their goal, the Reay's Ranch Investors team placed canisters in their Super Stop, Minit Market and Gordon’s IGA stores for three weekends, and asked customers to donate their "change for children."  The stores raised $33,742.

Amazingly, having topped their $100,000 goal by more than $23,000, the team took on a new mission.   Employees made weekly donations through a new payroll deduction program. More than 72% of the employees signed up and raised $17,674.

At the completion of the mission, Reay's Ranch employees had raised more than $141,000 to benefit Arizona's Children Association.

 To learn more about how you can conduct a "change for children' drive, contact Miguel Quezada at mquezada@arizonaschildren.org.