Leave it better than you found it: giving away the Bank, Wisconsin

Parks & Recreation, Dec, 2003

Through a unique partnership between the Wisconsin Park & Recreation Association (WPRA) and Northwestern Mutual Life of Milwaukee, Wisc., WPRA members are going "hog wild" in the dairy state.

Through a new campaign, Giving Away The Bank, WPRA members will save their change in a piggy bank throughout all of 2004, and will then turn in their banks at the next WRPA annual conference. Members can keep the colorful banks, but must pledge a minimum of $25 to the Wisconsin Park & Recreation Association Foundation.

This partnership will help the foundation to award professional and student grants and scholarships that allow WPRA members to attend continuing education workshops or conferences. A minimum of $5,500 is expected to be turned in from the 200 banks that were donated and distributed.

The colorful piggy banks were donated by Northwestern Mutual Life of Milwaukee, Wisc., and include a creative board game for children to use in learning to save their change for future use and savings.

For more information, contact wrpa@execpc.com.