3 months ago
9
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - An after-hours contention astatine a java store successful Fresno brought the city's champion Scrabble players unneurotic to rise wealth for a bully cause.
Kuppa Joy's determination adjacent North Echo Avenue and East Normal Avenue opened up for a Scrabble Tournament Game Night that gave each proceeds to charity.
Kuppa Joy's non-profit, Kuppa Cares, hosted the event. Kuppa Cares' Director McKenna Gilman says a barista astatine the store pushed for the tourney to hap aft a palmy chess tourney astatine different Kuppa Joy location.
"She is an worker of Kuppa Joy but that does not disqualify her due to the fact that this is simply a Kuppa Cares fundraiser," Gilman said. "Kuppa Joy started 12 years ago, astir 3 years agone we started our ain nonprofit Kuppa Cares."
Dozens filled the java store arsenic the competitors faced disconnected for a $100 worth Kuppa Joy merch box,
Gilman says the outreach programme was a occurrence due to the fact that it allowed Kuppa Cares to fto the assemblage cognize they privation to connect.
"We're trying to conscionable beryllium good established successful our community," Gilman said. "We don't privation to beryllium known for bully java oregon conscionable loving the radical that travel successful our shops - we privation to beryllium known for loving the radical each astir our community," Gilman said.
Gilman says the much Kuppa Cares tin get the connection retired astir their services and unpaid work, the much they tin travel done with their committedness of "loving the community."
"Some radical cognize that Kuppa Joy is simply a brand, but they person not heard that we person a nonprofit Kuppa Cares," Gilman said. "We truly emotion to physique our unpaid base, truthful radical are funny successful learning more. I would emotion to share."
