Fiesta Bowl Charities Provides $1M in Emergency Relief

With the severe demands in Arizona due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Fiesta Bowl Charities is helping communities across the state meet their incredible needs. The Fiesta Bowl is providing $1 million to fill gaps for food services and youth programming that are nonprofits’ biggest shortfalls.

Fiesta Bowl Charities is extending direct funding to 18 nonprofit organizations that are struggling to match the emergent needs. These organizations serve throughout the state—in the Phoenix area, plus Tucson, Nogales, southern Arizona, Casa Grande, Prescott, Flagstaff and the Navajo Nation.

“When we started thinking about how we could best help, we picked up the phones and asked charities what their most urgent needs are,” says Patrick Barkley, chair, Fiesta Bowl Board of Directors. “Overwhelmingly, they said the biggest impact would be made in providing the increasing numbers they are now serving with enough food to eat and helping them manage the larger amounts of emergency programming for children and single-parent families.”

The $1 million will be utilized by organizations in food services, including:

• A New Leaf
• Amanda Hope Rainbow Angels
• Children’s Cancer Network
• Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona
• Desert Mission Food Bank
• Maggie’s Place
• Matthew’s Crossing
• Homeward Bound
• St. Mary’s Food Bank
• St. Vincent de Paul
• UMOM

Benefiting organizations in youth programming:

• Boys and Girls Clubs of the Valley, Casa Grande, Flagstaff, Prescott and Tucson
• Child Crisis Arizona
• YMCA Valley of the Sun